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Submission + - What's Your College Major Worth?

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that with tuition rising and a weak job market everyone seems to be debating the value of a college degree, but Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, says talking about the bachelor's degree in general doesn't make a whole lot of sense, because its financial payoff is heavily affected by what that degree is in and which college it is from. For the first time, researchers analyzed earnings based on 171 college majors and the differences are striking: For workers whose highest degree is a bachelor's, median incomes ranged from $29,000 for counseling-psychology majors to $120,000 for petroleum-engineering majors but the data also revealed earnings differences within groups of similar majors. Within the category of business majors, for instance, business-economics majors had the highest median pay, $75,000 while business-hospitality management earned $50,000. The study concludes that while there is a lot of variation in earnings over a lifetime, all undergraduate majors are worth it, even taking into account the cost of college and lost earnings with the lifetime advantage ranging from $1,090,000 for Engineering majors to $241,000 for Education majors. “The bottom line is that getting a degree matters, but what you take matters more," (PDF) concludes Carnevale,"

Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 709

by NigelTheFrog (#32995920) Attached to: GOP Senators Move To Block FCC On Net Neutrality

The competition between Comcast and whoever else may be scant in some areas, but it does exist.

Depends on your definition of competition. There are PLENTY of areas in the US where there is essentially only one provider of high speed internet. If that single provider decides to throttle your connection, no amount of complaining is going to help when they know you have nowhere else to go.
Desktops (Apple)

New Mac Clone Maker 'Quo' To Open Retail Store 296

Posted by Soulskill from the attack-of-the-clones dept.
bughunter writes "Cnet is reporting that Mac clone maker Quo Computer plans to open its first retail location, selling Mac clones, on June 1st. To start, Quo will offer three desktop systems: the Life Q, Pro Q, and Max Q. While details of the components are not yet available, founder Rashantha De Silva said they are looking at Apple's system configurations for guidance. Pricing has also not been finalized on the desktop machines, but the company is looking to start pricing at less than $900. While Quo is starting off with the desktop machines, De Silva said it is looking at offering an Apple TV-like media server and a smaller computer similar to the Mac Mini. He acknowledges that Quo will likely face opposition from Apple, much like Psystar. 'They probably will (sue us),' De Silva said. 'There are others doing this, but we have a different attitude. There are thousands of people in the "Hackintosh" market, but many of them are creating bad products. I don't think anyone wins in that environment.'"
Medicine

Submission + - Scientists use MRI machines to read minds... kinda

Submitted by NigelTheFrog
NigelTheFrog writes: Researchers in England have used fMRI to map the activity in volunteers' hippocampi (hippocampuses?). From these scans, they could pinpoint exactly wher they were in a virtual reality landscape.

"Specific parts of each participant's hippocampus were active after that person had navigated to particular places in the room. A few practice rounds provided fodder for creating algorithms for each participant that correlated different brain activity patterns with different virtual locations. The algorithms, the team found, could in turn "predict" new virtual locations, not those used during practice rounds, based on each person's pattern of brain activity."

Comment Re:Don't mess with emusic! (Score 1) 414

by NigelTheFrog (#26569467) Attached to: Microsoft Brings Back DRM

it is just easier for me to buy from iTMS directly instead of having add files manually to my library after downloading them from emusic.

Actually, the most recent eMusic download manager (at least for OS X) automatically imports downloads into iTunes, artwork and all. I think it works with Media Player too, but I've never had opportunity/desire to find out.

And eMusic has been around long before 2003. I've been a subscriber since March 2000.

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