Good US coders don't apply for your crapola jobs. We go on to new careers or start our own businesses.

Find x: 25=3-x -Here it is!

I'm a math teacher and what he's saying is completely true. Feedback from a student, like this, is critical to teachers. I completely agree with his ideas about internalizing math and bringing out the artistic side in people. More importantly, he gives us a clue to what and how the learner experiences modern math in a real-world context. I feel his frustration, as do many other teachers, with the standard curriculum of math and the teaching methodologies which have become common in schools. Why can't we paint in painting class? This has the connotation that students are asking: Why can't we calculate in math class? But it's true! My students are always asking why we do things this way or that, why we don't just do math like the world suggests... Instead, we are trapped inside of a regimental rigmarole of successive problem-solving skills which are never expressed in the real world until it's too late! Tomorrow dawns a new era for mathematics teaching(at least at my school).

I've looked at several MSCS degrees and they are pretty weak. I taught myself 70% of the Stanford MSCS curriculum in my basement or on-the-job and the other 30% I learned in math class. Unless you can get into a top school(Carnegie Mellon, MIT) and arrange post-grad work in advance, a Master's is a waste of time/money.

The next rung is a System Administrator. You'll need to learn a few additional OS's and a bunch of gnarly hardware. Following that, go into either Dev(programming), Sys Engr(hardware), or DB(data). After you've spent 15 years of your life working your way up the ladder, your job will be outsourced to the slums of East Beijing and the best you can hope for at that point is to start a new career in another field. Good luck! Your MS degree won't mean squat because they are easily faked(or bought) in places like India, Phillipines, Vietnam, China, etc.

I'll do it for $30 million!!

Get out while you can. IT is going to hell in a handbasket fast. Your master's and Bachelors degrees won't mean squat when they can outsource your job to someone in India with a fake degree for 1/10th the cost. It's a race to the bottom and I don't know why anyone would try to make a career in such a pathetic, cutt-throat industry. All these people who say all this crap about hiring are full of it. They always say "Well if you can code you can get a job" but they don't even define a good coder nor would they know one if they saw one. If you really want to work in IT, just lie your ass off, use a fake degree, take the money, and run. Soon you'll have an impressive resume with big name companies on it and you can sit on slashdot and brag about how you're a real hard-core coder...

Healthcare providers != Insurance companies. You need electronic records to minimize labor and materials. We also need to get rid of for-profit insurance, doctors, pharmacies, and hospitals. I have no problem paying into an insurance pool, but when 30% is taken out for profit to some rich people, it really chaps my ass.

It's no surprise. The people in charge are good 'ol boys, not computer experts.

Well I would but I can't afford the book because my job was outsourced to India.

e.) roll out multicasting, head-end cacheing, and QoS
f.) roll out DOCSIS 3
g.) roll out WiMax
h.) fire Time Warner and get someone else to run the government-sponsored monopoly
i.) people can just start running their own cat-5(or 6) from house to house and have 100/1000Mb connections for $50/100 one-time-payment.

Actually, WINE will take over from XP. It will be the only way to run your legacy apps after 2014.

I have a laboratory-grade($30) notebook in which I write down all my patentable ideas with decent ink and date/sign. It has a spot for someone else to sign upon disclosure. This is what they recommend for all inventors/researchers. It's admissible in court and they are frequently used to over-ride patents.
http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.ACCT107430/sc.23/category.56/.f

Why don't you have a Redhat sales rep come talk to them?

No they are improving by a factor of 10. The current system speeds it up 20X and next year, when it's put on a chip, it will be 200X.
So that means in 2009 it will take 3.75 seconds and in 2010, 0.5625seconds. SO roughly 2 frames/sec. cheers!