Does that 26,000 include software development type jobs? Those aren't "computer science" jobs in the strict sense, but in practice lots of people with Computer Science educational backgrounds work in software, do develop new technology and they're not all academics or working in fundamental research units of large companies.
Out of all courses of study, business is almost certainly the one that most consistently has a solid career path. Regardless of current trends or fads, business is still business. Moreover, when you can combine business administration skills with more rare skills that fill business needs like being able to program or being a lawyer, there are often some excellent niche job opportunities. However, not everybody wants to study business. It was just about the last thing I was interested in doing in college. I instead took the route of studying Computer Science and German in college while working part-time jobs alternately as a developer and teaching assistant for CS, doing graduate work in Computer Science then taking a software development job. While I see the importance of business skills every day, being able to code (which is a basic assumed requirement) and being able to interact with others are more important and rewarded as such at least in my current role. Then again, I work in a fairly generalist position (rare these days) where specific industry knowledge is not particularly important. Someday that may change, but for now it's where my focus is.
I agree that there isn't necessarily a solid career path for math or the hard sciences, but I don't find that to be the case with Computer Science or Engineering at least for those who have the actual coding/design chops. The dot bomb seems to have convinced a lot of prospective students that the industry is dead and jobs are scarce, but in my experience as a developer in the software business that couldn't be farther from the truth. Companies large and small are having just as much trouble as ever finding good people for software jobs. Part of the problem is that simply having a degree in CS is no guarantee that you have the coding chops to be a developer or the people and design skills to do something like program management. However, that's true for just about anything you can study, although the proportions vary by major I'm sure.
The larger point here I wanted to make though is that interest in subjects like Computer Science is cyclical. The dot com brought a lot of students into these majors and the dot bomb took a lot of them out. If anything, we seem to have returned to more average numbers.
Besides the obvious financial implications of this (try convincing your stockholders), this would be a huge morale killer. Who wants to work where there's a 90% chance your work will never see the light of day even if there's a 10% chance of a big payoff? Also, who decides which of the 10 is "the best"? The politics would be horrendous!
Remember, "Windows 7" is just a code name like Longhorn (Vista/Server 2008), Whistler (XP/Server 2003), Millennium (ME), Memphis (98), Chicago (95). Marketing will probably call it something else by the time it's released. Still, some speculate that the return to numeric code names signifies something larger with the recent leadership change, mainly the moving of Steven Sinofsky from Office (where code names have always been numbered) to Windows.
The Corporate Employee Purchase Program price is even less than that at $107, which means that Microsoft employees even get a better price than some students!
I started out as a Chemical Engineer and thus took Chem 4A (Chemistry for students in the College of Chemistry), although I know all about Pines' fame:)
I had some good lectures, but they were far and few between. At some point during Math 1B, I figured out that the prof was just doing the examples out of the book. From that point on, I just started sleeping in instead of sleeping through the 8am lecture.
Actually, it happened at the federal level in 1937, predating the hippies and the 60s by quite a few years. Still, it was banned largely for cultural reasons. Back in those days politicians were much more worried (even terrified) about what jazz musicians (i.e., blacks) and Mexicans might do to white people after smoking pot.
I'm all for making this kind of material publicly accessible. If someobdy wants to watch these lectures, it's great that they'll be able to do that from the comfort of anywhere there's a computer and network connection.
As a Berkeley grad though, I generally wouldn't attribute very much of the value of my education there to lectures I sat (or slept) through. Especially in Computer Science, most of the lectures probably didn't differ a whole lot in content or form from those taught at other less prestigious institutions. Most of what I learned came from being surrounded by other driven students in a unique environment and completing challenging assignments. In particular, the first of those is all but impossible to capture in an online manner.
On this, my mother-in-law commented about how the housing market influenced double incomes in the 1970s. She said that before then the wife's income was not factored in the home loans, but that this changed. That influenced women to enter the work force to afford better housing, better schools, etc.
It works the other way too. As a dual income family has become the standard, almost every family buying a home has two incomes available for making mortgage payments. The amount of house somebody can afford is directly tied to the monthly mortgage payment they can afford. After some simple supply and demand, it's not hard to see that this would apply upward pressure on housing prices.
This of course is predicated on the condition that they'd actually want to buy the land. In a damaged economy, the value of that land would be very limited if it's not profitable to own. Rent collected + value of goods/services being manufactured/grown - property taxes - other costs of owning such as maintenance would need to be positive.
Did I say everybody? I said "a lot of people" and I stand by my original assertions. Not people who disagree with her positions or simply dislike her enough not to vote for her, but absolutely *hate* her in the same way a lot of people practically slip into an apopleptic seizure of angry ranting about Bush. The subtext of "that bitch Hillary Clinton" is often (but certainly not always) there.
I got news for you--every candidate for President desperately craves the power commensurate with that office. Why else would they put up with all the bullshit to run?
I'm certainly not much of a fan of hers. I wouldn't vote for her in the primary. However, if she wins the nomination, I'll vote for her over any of the current Republican contenders, all of whom continue to revel in using me (a gay man) as their political pinata for appeasing their base.
In the end, a lot of people who absolutely detest her (as opposed to those who disagree with her positions or views) just can't stand the idea of a strong, politically connected woman in power. To them, such women are simply dismissed as domineering bitches. If anything, it shows how badly needed a woman president really is.
Actually OOXML stands for Office Open XML which is really just short for Microsoft Office Open XML.
This whole naming issue is really rather laughable being that OpenOffice.org has to include that.org in their name to avoid infringing on another existing trademark.
Back during my freshman year of high school (wow, has it been nearly 15 years already?), we had to take some sort of state tests that only counted for determining "how good" the school was. Because there was some controversy about certain tests being fair to certain students, basically anybody could opt out from taking them. I distinctly remember my geometry teacher going through and recommending each student to take the test or not. I think he said something like "if you have a B or higher in this class, you'll get x points of extra credit for taking the test and if you have a C or lower you'll get x points of extra credit for NOT taking the test". The even worse part was that once we started taking the test, he explicitly encouraged us to do the test in groups and collaborate with anybody in the classroom (except him).
The problem is that it's often hard to know whether you're in those last 60 days or not. Plenty of people blow through large medical bills and come out the other side alive and healthy enough to live years longer.
Actually, MS Office 2007 has Save as PDF functionality as well, although it's somewhat caught up a lawsuit with Adobe right now. The reason a lot of users probably love the feature is that a) it's easy to use (just click the button) and b) unless they're doing something complicated they don't need to buy Acrobat from Adobe.
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Does that 26,000 include software development type jobs? Those aren't "computer science" jobs in the strict sense, but in practice lots of people with Computer Science educational backgrounds work in software, do develop new technology and they're not all academics or working in fundamental research units of large companies.
Out of all courses of study, business is almost certainly the one that most consistently has a solid career path. Regardless of current trends or fads, business is still business. Moreover, when you can combine business administration skills with more rare skills that fill business needs like being able to program or being a lawyer, there are often some excellent niche job opportunities. However, not everybody wants to study business. It was just about the last thing I was interested in doing in college. I instead took the route of studying Computer Science and German in college while working part-time jobs alternately as a developer and teaching assistant for CS, doing graduate work in Computer Science then taking a software development job. While I see the importance of business skills every day, being able to code (which is a basic assumed requirement) and being able to interact with others are more important and rewarded as such at least in my current role. Then again, I work in a fairly generalist position (rare these days) where specific industry knowledge is not particularly important. Someday that may change, but for now it's where my focus is.
I agree that there isn't necessarily a solid career path for math or the hard sciences, but I don't find that to be the case with Computer Science or Engineering at least for those who have the actual coding/design chops. The dot bomb seems to have convinced a lot of prospective students that the industry is dead and jobs are scarce, but in my experience as a developer in the software business that couldn't be farther from the truth. Companies large and small are having just as much trouble as ever finding good people for software jobs. Part of the problem is that simply having a degree in CS is no guarantee that you have the coding chops to be a developer or the people and design skills to do something like program management. However, that's true for just about anything you can study, although the proportions vary by major I'm sure.
The larger point here I wanted to make though is that interest in subjects like Computer Science is cyclical. The dot com brought a lot of students into these majors and the dot bomb took a lot of them out. If anything, we seem to have returned to more average numbers.
Besides the obvious financial implications of this (try convincing your stockholders), this would be a huge morale killer. Who wants to work where there's a 90% chance your work will never see the light of day even if there's a 10% chance of a big payoff? Also, who decides which of the 10 is "the best"? The politics would be horrendous!
Remember, "Windows 7" is just a code name like Longhorn (Vista/Server 2008), Whistler (XP/Server 2003), Millennium (ME), Memphis (98), Chicago (95). Marketing will probably call it something else by the time it's released. Still, some speculate that the return to numeric code names signifies something larger with the recent leadership change, mainly the moving of Steven Sinofsky from Office (where code names have always been numbered) to Windows.
Have you seen the the new equation editor in Word 2007?
The Corporate Employee Purchase Program price is even less than that at $107, which means that Microsoft employees even get a better price than some students!
Of course, most of those grants are paid by the US Government though...
You obviously didn't go to UC Berkeley. We're known for many things, but not exactly for beautiful people of either sex.
I started out as a Chemical Engineer and thus took Chem 4A (Chemistry for students in the College of Chemistry), although I know all about Pines' fame :)
I had some good lectures, but they were far and few between. At some point during Math 1B, I figured out that the prof was just doing the examples out of the book. From that point on, I just started sleeping in instead of sleeping through the 8am lecture.
Actually, it happened at the federal level in 1937, predating the hippies and the 60s by quite a few years. Still, it was banned largely for cultural reasons. Back in those days politicians were much more worried (even terrified) about what jazz musicians (i.e., blacks) and Mexicans might do to white people after smoking pot.
Yikes, it's $8K/year now? When I graduated 5 years ago it was around $4K/year and it had gone down every year I was there.
At least when I was there, there technically wasn't any tuition for in-state students, just several thousand dollars in "fees".
I'm all for making this kind of material publicly accessible. If someobdy wants to watch these lectures, it's great that they'll be able to do that from the comfort of anywhere there's a computer and network connection.
As a Berkeley grad though, I generally wouldn't attribute very much of the value of my education there to lectures I sat (or slept) through. Especially in Computer Science, most of the lectures probably didn't differ a whole lot in content or form from those taught at other less prestigious institutions. Most of what I learned came from being surrounded by other driven students in a unique environment and completing challenging assignments. In particular, the first of those is all but impossible to capture in an online manner.
I agree that Google Maps does work with Safari. Last time I tried though, local.live.com did not unfortunately.
It works the other way too. As a dual income family has become the standard, almost every family buying a home has two incomes available for making mortgage payments. The amount of house somebody can afford is directly tied to the monthly mortgage payment they can afford. After some simple supply and demand, it's not hard to see that this would apply upward pressure on housing prices.
This of course is predicated on the condition that they'd actually want to buy the land. In a damaged economy, the value of that land would be very limited if it's not profitable to own. Rent collected + value of goods/services being manufactured/grown - property taxes - other costs of owning such as maintenance would need to be positive.
Actually, Word 2007 does support Save As PDF, although you do have to download an add-in from Microsoft before it works.
Did I say everybody? I said "a lot of people" and I stand by my original assertions. Not people who disagree with her positions or simply dislike her enough not to vote for her, but absolutely *hate* her in the same way a lot of people practically slip into an apopleptic seizure of angry ranting about Bush. The subtext of "that bitch Hillary Clinton" is often (but certainly not always) there.
I got news for you--every candidate for President desperately craves the power commensurate with that office. Why else would they put up with all the bullshit to run?
I'm certainly not much of a fan of hers. I wouldn't vote for her in the primary. However, if she wins the nomination, I'll vote for her over any of the current Republican contenders, all of whom continue to revel in using me (a gay man) as their political pinata for appeasing their base.
In the end, a lot of people who absolutely detest her (as opposed to those who disagree with her positions or views) just can't stand the idea of a strong, politically connected woman in power. To them, such women are simply dismissed as domineering bitches. If anything, it shows how badly needed a woman president really is.
Have you ever actually looked inside of a real OOXML file?
Didn't ODF start out as the proprietary XML format in StarOffice?
Actually OOXML stands for Office Open XML which is really just short for Microsoft Office Open XML. This whole naming issue is really rather laughable being that OpenOffice.org has to include that .org in their name to avoid infringing on another existing trademark.
Back during my freshman year of high school (wow, has it been nearly 15 years already?), we had to take some sort of state tests that only counted for determining "how good" the school was. Because there was some controversy about certain tests being fair to certain students, basically anybody could opt out from taking them. I distinctly remember my geometry teacher going through and recommending each student to take the test or not. I think he said something like "if you have a B or higher in this class, you'll get x points of extra credit for taking the test and if you have a C or lower you'll get x points of extra credit for NOT taking the test". The even worse part was that once we started taking the test, he explicitly encouraged us to do the test in groups and collaborate with anybody in the classroom (except him).
The problem is that it's often hard to know whether you're in those last 60 days or not. Plenty of people blow through large medical bills and come out the other side alive and healthy enough to live years longer.
Actually, MS Office 2007 has Save as PDF functionality as well, although it's somewhat caught up a lawsuit with Adobe right now. The reason a lot of users probably love the feature is that a) it's easy to use (just click the button) and b) unless they're doing something complicated they don't need to buy Acrobat from Adobe.