"You do not need every math to be a great software architect." I disagree. You do need math. I've never met a great software architect that couldn't handle math and didn't gain some critical thinking abilities from having taken courses in math. It really helps to be able to think and argue in the same way that you do a proof in math A few internships isn't real world experience. You'll come into a job as a fresh graduate. No one's going to consider your internship, paid or not, as the equivalent of a full-time job.
Can you believe that 26.5 credits of the degree are "externships"? Is that some kind of joke? Sure you'll get a little bit of project experience but no one is going to take your little college project seriously when you're applying for jobs. 15 credits is "certification" courses in various random technologies. Most schools would consider them 1 credit courses at most for a total of 7 credits.
No it's not. Consulting firms don't want computer scientists. They need consultants. Very few businesses will hire consultants to provide anything that anything to do with the core business and requires some knowledge of their actual intellectual property.
I know of a lot of firms that actually want Computer Scientists. They won't consider anyone without at least a bachelor's degree in Computer Science unless your background is really sensational and you're not asking for much.
As far as outsourcing goes - theoretically, nearly any job could be outsourced. Financial firms pay their traders a lot of money and could concievable reduce the pay via outsourcing. But they don't - the talent is only found in pockets in the country and the traders add value to the firm by being present. I think the same thing is true with comp sci. If they can expect to throw you and someone overseas a spec and get the same result, then you're a good candidate for outsourcing. However, if by removing you, they lose something, then you're not.
I agree - I fail to see how this school is any more than marginally better than Devry. It will probably attract the same segment of the population and only the thoroughly uninformed will equate it with the total education and experience that you recieve at a four year university.
We really should be taking the fight to Penguin. Katie T has made her money. Penguin has more at stake as they have shareholders. I know I won't be buying their books anymore. I'm trying to get the email address of John Makinson, the Chairman of the Board of Penguin Putnam. I'm sure he'd love to have lots of people complaining directly to him and threatening not to buy their books.
You can't do that. Everyone would love to short the stock, but there's a blackout period and I believe it's 6 months. Besides, from whom are you going to borrow the shares?
You can't really do price arbitrage on that level. Even the NYSE has agreed to change it's pricing methods from fractions to decimals and often you can get prices down to the tenth of a cent, especially on the NASDAQ.
I believe that you get delisted if your average closing price is below $1 for 30 days on the NYSE and the NASDAQ. There's also a minimum market capitalization of your float of about $5mil and a minimum number of shares that you float. So you can't reverse split indefinitely. Eventually, you end up on the pink sheets.
ahh finally someone who understands that P/E is based on outstanding shares, not the float.
You can definitely argue that a P/E of 124 is really high. Personally, I think it's pretty huge and probably not the right price. However, I'm having some trouble finding any analysts who are willing to make a bet on its forwarding-looking P/E. It looks like the last 6 months saw a EPS of $.50 vs. $.32 previously. That's a 50% growth rate. So maybe the PEG isn't so bad...Still a bit on the high side, but it's not as huge as the P/E.
I'm still not convinced either. I think it's fake, but I guess you can rely on credit card's fraud protection if you want to take the risk. It looks like the the payment form really does go to Banque Populaire.
Of course people choose their priorities. However, cars and computers are not quite comparable. Cars tend to have much higher resale values than computers and also tend to have a much longer average life.
That's some pretty strange math. If you had 20 indian programmers doing a job and 10 leave, how will that job get done? Did you just overhire by 10 people? Or did you expect that the 10 people would do twice as much work?
I'm going to have to call shenanigans on this one. That's pretty sketchy. They don't seem to really want to let you know how to really use their new touchscreen technology to do useful things like input an address. That's the sort of thing a PDA company wants to reassure is very simple right off the bat.
The website is registered to Novinit, some company in France. I have a hard time believing that they are real since they don't seem to want to leave an address on their website, nor do they own the domain "novinit.fr" which any self-respecting french company would own. They claim that they have been doing the research for 10 years with "tens of millions" of dollars invested in research. Sort of hard to believe since they also claim to have been founded in 1999 and with a 2mil euro initial investment and $10 mil in initial capital. Strange that they keep flipping between Euros and Dollars.
If they are real, they ought to provide more information.
I agree that Sony really missed the boat. If it played MP3s, I could see them reminding parents of the Walkman and relating to kids with a nice story about some old technology. I'd bet that most kids today don't even know what a walkman is. They grew up with CDs and then MP3s. And they have a lot of disposable income. They also have a lot of influence into what their parents buy as parents generally don't know the technology and often turn to their children. So that leaves them with the 20s-30s crowd who also have a lot of MP3s...I just don't think the nostalgia factor is that strong.
Ahh it seemed that you thought my friend was doing something illegal when you said that they should go after him. The dialers are more than just the technical issue of making a modem dial a phone number - they are little pieces of malware that need to hide themselves from scanners and figure out what a good time to call is. Yes, they're definitely not good things. I don't think anyone is arguing that they are. The problem is what they are doing isn't expressly illegal in many countries. So there's no way to really go after them. Eventually, their practices are made illegal and then they just close up shop and move to another market.
As I mentioned in another thread - you're confusing a billing system with one made only for dialers. These billing systems support the run of the mill porn site but are also bought by dialer companies to track the money that they are making.
I don't think that you're reading it quite carefully enough. He doesn't run the dialer company - They are the ones that are using dialers to rip people off. You're mistaken to think that the dialer firm paid the guy $50 to write the dialer. The guy who wrote the dialer IS the dialer firm.
I'm shocked your getting modded as insightful - you're insight is really based on some erroneous assumptions.
My point is that these systems are also used by run of the mill porn sites where you enter your credit card and you get billed. I don't see anything particularly wrong with porn so I don't see anything wrong with supporting those sites.
It does suck that countries are getting reputations on the basis of some minority in their population. However, my fear is that those countries won't change. I think that the thought process of many Western companies is somewhere along the lines of:
Yes, it's true that they have to offer some sort of pay per minute phone service. I'd suspect that darn near every country's main phone service offers that though.
They'll write the code if it's economical to do so. Given how many people these companies employ and how much money they are making, I have a feeling that they will write the code...
A friend of mine works for a porn billing company. A lot of their customers use dialers. They don't hit the US because there are too many laws concerning it, but you'd be suprised at how many countries (like Australia) where their business is really booming. It sucks. It shouldn't be happening. But he makes a killing on it.
To his credit, he doesn't write the dialers themselves. He just writes generalized billing systems for porn sites which are the ones putting dialers on people systems. Usually they wait until the wee-hours of the morning or during the day to make their calls so they can stay connected for a good 2-3 hours and really rack up the charges.
I wouldn't go after the phone companies so much as I would go after the dialer producers. I think generally it's not that the phone company is in cahoots with the dialer company, it's just that they don't bother to regulate it or their government hasn't passed laws officially banning the practice. Governments usually get off their rear and do that but it takes time. Besides, there are probably legitamate reasons for calling those countries such as talking to one's family.
Could you please explain to me why my company is still using fortran77 which is now 27 years old? You really don't sound like you know what you're talking about. Big businesses keep code around for decades if there's no particular reason to change it. They are extremely unlikely to throw out a working solution for the pleasure of re-writing it in a new language.
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"You do not need every math to be a great software architect."
I disagree. You do need math. I've never met a great software architect that couldn't handle math and didn't gain some critical thinking abilities from having taken courses in math. It really helps to be able to think and argue in the same way that you do a proof in math
A few internships isn't real world experience. You'll come into a job as a fresh graduate. No one's going to consider your internship, paid or not, as the equivalent of a full-time job.
Can you believe that 26.5 credits of the degree are "externships"? Is that some kind of joke? Sure you'll get a little bit of project experience but no one is going to take your little college project seriously when you're applying for jobs.
15 credits is "certification" courses in various random technologies. Most schools would consider them 1 credit courses at most for a total of 7 credits.
Knowing how to program is easy. Most people can grasp the concept of a loop and simple data structures. Knowing what to program is much harder.
No it's not. Consulting firms don't want computer scientists. They need consultants. Very few businesses will hire consultants to provide anything that anything to do with the core business and requires some knowledge of their actual intellectual property.
I know of a lot of firms that actually want Computer Scientists. They won't consider anyone without at least a bachelor's degree in Computer Science unless your background is really sensational and you're not asking for much.
As far as outsourcing goes - theoretically, nearly any job could be outsourced. Financial firms pay their traders a lot of money and could concievable reduce the pay via outsourcing. But they don't - the talent is only found in pockets in the country and the traders add value to the firm by being present. I think the same thing is true with comp sci. If they can expect to throw you and someone overseas a spec and get the same result, then you're a good candidate for outsourcing. However, if by removing you, they lose something, then you're not.
I agree - I fail to see how this school is any more than marginally better than Devry. It will probably attract the same segment of the population and only the thoroughly uninformed will equate it with the total education and experience that you recieve at a four year university.
We really should be taking the fight to Penguin. Katie T has made her money. Penguin has more at stake as they have shareholders. I know I won't be buying their books anymore. I'm trying to get the email address of John Makinson, the Chairman of the Board of Penguin Putnam. I'm sure he'd love to have lots of people complaining directly to him and threatening not to buy their books.
You can't do that. Everyone would love to short the stock, but there's a blackout period and I believe it's 6 months. Besides, from whom are you going to borrow the shares?
You can't really do price arbitrage on that level. Even the NYSE has agreed to change it's pricing methods from fractions to decimals and often you can get prices down to the tenth of a cent, especially on the NASDAQ.
I believe that you get delisted if your average closing price is below $1 for 30 days on the NYSE and the NASDAQ. There's also a minimum market capitalization of your float of about $5mil and a minimum number of shares that you float. So you can't reverse split indefinitely. Eventually, you end up on the pink sheets.
ahh finally someone who understands that P/E is based on outstanding shares, not the float.
You can definitely argue that a P/E of 124 is really high. Personally, I think it's pretty huge and probably not the right price. However, I'm having some trouble finding any analysts who are willing to make a bet on its forwarding-looking P/E. It looks like the last 6 months saw a EPS of $.50 vs. $.32 previously. That's a 50% growth rate. So maybe the PEG isn't so bad...Still a bit on the high side, but it's not as huge as the P/E.
I'm still not convinced either. I think it's fake, but I guess you can rely on credit card's fraud protection if you want to take the risk. It looks like the the payment form really does go to Banque Populaire.
Of course people choose their priorities. However, cars and computers are not quite comparable. Cars tend to have much higher resale values than computers and also tend to have a much longer average life.
That's some pretty strange math. If you had 20 indian programmers doing a job and 10 leave, how will that job get done? Did you just overhire by 10 people? Or did you expect that the 10 people would do twice as much work?
I'm going to have to call shenanigans on this one. That's pretty sketchy. They don't seem to really want to let you know how to really use their new touchscreen technology to do useful things like input an address. That's the sort of thing a PDA company wants to reassure is very simple right off the bat.
The website is registered to Novinit, some company in France. I have a hard time believing that they are real since they don't seem to want to leave an address on their website, nor do they own the domain "novinit.fr" which any self-respecting french company would own. They claim that they have been doing the research for 10 years with "tens of millions" of dollars invested in research. Sort of hard to believe since they also claim to have been founded in 1999 and with a 2mil euro initial investment and $10 mil in initial capital. Strange that they keep flipping between Euros and Dollars.
If they are real, they ought to provide more information.
Yes, there have, but I don't think most kids think of their CD players as Walkmans.
"crappy search engine" also returned no results but at least I was still on their search page!
I agree that Sony really missed the boat. If it played MP3s, I could see them reminding parents of the Walkman and relating to kids with a nice story about some old technology. I'd bet that most kids today don't even know what a walkman is. They grew up with CDs and then MP3s. And they have a lot of disposable income. They also have a lot of influence into what their parents buy as parents generally don't know the technology and often turn to their children. So that leaves them with the 20s-30s crowd who also have a lot of MP3s...I just don't think the nostalgia factor is that strong.
Ahh it seemed that you thought my friend was doing something illegal when you said that they should go after him. The dialers are more than just the technical issue of making a modem dial a phone number - they are little pieces of malware that need to hide themselves from scanners and figure out what a good time to call is. Yes, they're definitely not good things. I don't think anyone is arguing that they are. The problem is what they are doing isn't expressly illegal in many countries. So there's no way to really go after them. Eventually, their practices are made illegal and then they just close up shop and move to another market.
As I mentioned in another thread - you're confusing a billing system with one made only for dialers. These billing systems support the run of the mill porn site but are also bought by dialer companies to track the money that they are making.
I don't think that you're reading it quite carefully enough. He doesn't run the dialer company - They are the ones that are using dialers to rip people off. You're mistaken to think that the dialer firm paid the guy $50 to write the dialer. The guy who wrote the dialer IS the dialer firm.
I'm shocked your getting modded as insightful - you're insight is really based on some erroneous assumptions.
My point is that these systems are also used by run of the mill porn sites where you enter your credit card and you get billed. I don't see anything particularly wrong with porn so I don't see anything wrong with supporting those sites.
It does suck that countries are getting reputations on the basis of some minority in their population. However, my fear is that those countries won't change. I think that the thought process of many Western companies is somewhere along the lines of:
1. Enter emerging market.
2. ???
3. Profit.
Yes, it's true that they have to offer some sort of pay per minute phone service. I'd suspect that darn near every country's main phone service offers that though.
They'll write the code if it's economical to do so. Given how many people these companies employ and how much money they are making, I have a feeling that they will write the code...
A friend of mine works for a porn billing company. A lot of their customers use dialers. They don't hit the US because there are too many laws concerning it, but you'd be suprised at how many countries (like Australia) where their business is really booming. It sucks. It shouldn't be happening. But he makes a killing on it.
To his credit, he doesn't write the dialers themselves. He just writes generalized billing systems for porn sites which are the ones putting dialers on people systems. Usually they wait until the wee-hours of the morning or during the day to make their calls so they can stay connected for a good 2-3 hours and really rack up the charges.
I wouldn't go after the phone companies so much as I would go after the dialer producers. I think generally it's not that the phone company is in cahoots with the dialer company, it's just that they don't bother to regulate it or their government hasn't passed laws officially banning the practice. Governments usually get off their rear and do that but it takes time. Besides, there are probably legitamate reasons for calling those countries such as talking to one's family.
Could you please explain to me why my company is still using fortran77 which is now 27 years old? You really don't sound like you know what you're talking about. Big businesses keep code around for decades if there's no particular reason to change it. They are extremely unlikely to throw out a working solution for the pleasure of re-writing it in a new language.
Bill gates made $865k last year. Far far below the average wall street tycoon. Of course, most of his money comes from selling stock...