My point was that IBM (allegedly) is doing this for reasons other than changes in supply and demand. IBM isn't laying off ( again allegedly ) because the services they and others are providing are less in demand. They are doing it because they aren't making a profit. If the overall demand for the IT industry is unchanged, those workers will just end up being redeployed elsewhere in the industry.
The economics of IBM's alleged layoffs won't be long lasting, unless the industry as a whole follows suit. Put another way, as long as the demand for the services IBM was providing doesn't decrease, the demand for U.S. IT workers won't decrease. Someone will pickup those contracts and need to hire people to work on those projects. This assumes that those jobs aren't outsourced in a meaningful way, but as I understand it IT employment has grown in U.S. since the collapse of the dot-coms.
Isn't that the point with micropayments. Your buddy is suppose to have the option of declining or refunding the micropayment; but for spammers, bulk emailing would be cost-prohibitive since they most would accept the micropayment.
I signed up for a class of his on cryptography. He gave an assignment to decrypt some passage. Once decrypted, it ended up being the Canadian national anthem...in French. Needless to say, most of the class was annoyed.
I really doubt that Mr. Prechter did any research into financial economics. A great deal of effort has been spent refuting theories that link future prices to past price movements. The Elliot Wave Theory is one of the more frequently used examples.
If your just talking about what is used on the job as programmer/software engineer, then logic, as taught in an upper-level math class. It doesn't apply to any problem in particular; but it has taught me how to frame my thoughts accurately and efficiently. Math applied directly to the job would fall in the category of combinatorics, graph theory, and finite state machines.
I agree totally. I just got my BS in CS from a college of engineering. I came to the conclusion that CS belongs in the math department ( which is where I should have been ). Cs is less concerned with the physics that goes into making computing machinces and more concerned with what any computing machine ( and not just electronic digital machines ) can do. This means mathematical proofs. CE worries about the physics more. If you want to software engineering, either would be appropriate. CS would just give you a more theoretical underpinning concerning the problem you will be solving, and CE will give a better understanding of what the machine can do.
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My point was that IBM (allegedly) is doing this for reasons other than changes in supply and demand. IBM isn't laying off ( again allegedly ) because the services they and others are providing are less in demand. They are doing it because they aren't making a profit. If the overall demand for the IT industry is unchanged, those workers will just end up being redeployed elsewhere in the industry.
The economics of IBM's alleged layoffs won't be long lasting, unless the industry as a whole follows suit. Put another way, as long as the demand for the services IBM was providing doesn't decrease, the demand for U.S. IT workers won't decrease. Someone will pickup those contracts and need to hire people to work on those projects. This assumes that those jobs aren't outsourced in a meaningful way, but as I understand it IT employment has grown in U.S. since the collapse of the dot-coms.
three. The Battle of Vienna, 1683. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna
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Isn't that the point with micropayments. Your buddy is suppose to have the option of declining or refunding the micropayment; but for spammers, bulk emailing would be cost-prohibitive since they most would accept the micropayment.
I signed up for a class of his on cryptography. He gave an assignment to decrypt some passage. Once decrypted, it ended up being the Canadian national anthem...in French.
Needless to say, most of the class was annoyed.
I really doubt that Mr. Prechter did any research into financial economics. A great deal of effort has been spent refuting theories that link future prices to past price movements. The Elliot Wave Theory is one of the more frequently used examples.
If your just talking about what is used on the job as programmer/software engineer, then logic, as taught in an upper-level math class. It doesn't apply to any problem in particular; but it has taught me how to frame my thoughts accurately and efficiently. Math applied directly to the job would fall in the category of combinatorics, graph theory, and finite state machines.
I agree totally. I just got my BS in CS from a college of engineering. I came to the conclusion that CS belongs in the math department ( which is where I should have been ). Cs is less concerned with the physics that goes into making computing machinces and more concerned with what any computing machine ( and not just electronic digital machines ) can do. This means mathematical proofs. CE worries about the physics more. If you want to software engineering, either would be appropriate. CS would just give you a more theoretical underpinning concerning the problem you will be solving, and CE will give a better understanding of what the machine can do.