I worked about 10 years in IT and eventually got laid off due to the usual BS. I took a good 4 months to do some research and soul searching on exactly what was keeping me in IT. Nothing really other than I felt this was were I ought to be. Do yourself a favour and divorce the thing that makes you money and the things you love.

Its my love of Computers and Technology that I pursued a CS degree and got into some serious student loans and ended up working in IT as a slave to idiot masters. The layoff was the best thing that ever happed. It made me evaluate life goals, work, money and the balance I really needed.

I ended up retooling myself to become a Business Analyst in the Banking Industry and found I make a lot more money and get treated much better in an established Industry than the relatively young IT. Also I found my CS Education and IT background gave me a significant edge in performance over people coming in from other streams. Computers are pretty much a part of every high level endeavour, your IT talents will be useful. Guess what I am saying is if you love IT, but don't want to end up in the grind, aim for a double specialization and you will find you can still do IT along side your other job.

As someone working the banking industry the quick answer I can give you is that they in theory keep the price honest for securities. Same reason short sales are allowed and other such strategies that seem on the surface "damaging" but are necessary to keep the market fluid and honest. Say a security is over valued, the day traders will ensure that it gets corrected by shorting the crap out of it. Same thing if under valued, they will buy it until it reaches an equilibrium point. The role I think they play is insuring information gets factored in the market as fast as possible thus making the market efficient.

Is there nothing the Wii can't do.

Maybe he did a double major like I did, Eng Lit & CIS...actually I have lots of friends in the arts who are also on /. In terms of work, I am finally learning don't try and be an achiever (work my potential). It will make the herd look bad and they will hate you for it. Put in your 2-4 hours of honest work and get your own stuff done with the rest of the time...or read /.

All right I admit that all of the issues I have with the plot problems can be hand waved away...and some creative explanations that don't happen in movie time will get to the desired version Scott wants. My main point was the that film is a collaborative process and in the case of Blade Runner for once it came out right. It was not the vision Scott had, but so what, the final product was great. Let it be. If directors had their way, we would have 300 min films all the time. Look at Peter Jackson's King Kong, could have used a good editor. But after the success of LOR, he will have his way and no mere "editor" can cut any of his "genius" from the final print. And lets no forget the Lucas "revisionist" film making issues with director's cuts. Final print seems to mean nothing anymore. They should go with software version numbers. Guess I am just a 1.0 realse fan of Blade Runner :)