I assume the reason that you haven't purchased a house is because you can't afford it where you currently live. If that's the case, you really need to move somewhere that has affordable housing. There's lots of places with affordable housing that have developer jobs. I recently moved from New Jersey, which is mostly horribly expensive, to Cary, North Carolina, which is a small town between Raleigh and Durham. I bought my first home at age 41 for $215K. It's an older home, but it's 2000 sqft, on 1/2 acre, with an in-ground pool. My property taxes are $1600 a year. A similar home in NJ would easily cost over twice as much and the taxes would likely be 8K or more per year if I was lucky. Here in the Raleigh/Durham/Cary "Research Triangle" area, you could probably find a job with Deutsche Bank or Credit Suisse if you really want to stay on the Financial/Banking career path.

You could always CLEP out of some of the electives... http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/clep/about.html Enroll in your local community college and take your CLEP exams there. The requirements for a "pass" on a CLEP exam are usually lower at a community college than a four-year school. Once you've taken (and passed) all the CLEP tests you can, finish out a "Liberal Arts" Associates degree at the community college. Trust me on this. A liberal arts associates degree is the easiest to transfer without losing credits. Then transfer to an in-state four-year college and take all the CS classes and whatever remaining classes you need to get your Bachelor's degree.

Fair Use Wizard is pretty decent.

It costs money, but they released a free full version 2.8 a while back that you can still find on this page...

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/FairUse_Wizard

Frankly, I really don't know why some people are fighting so hard for base-10 units on hard drive storage. Memory is still sold in base-2 units, and I believe that flash based storage in thumb drives and digital cameras is still measured and marketed in base-2. It seems like once things get above 64 "units" they want to start rounding to multiples of 5 or 10. All modern computers use data in units that are powers of two, and all data on storage media is organized the same way. This fact isn't negated by marketing tactics that misrepresent (either intentionally or unintentionally) the storage capacity of the medium. The correct solution to this problem is for the whole industry to take a step back and universally agree to use the base-2 unit/prefix combos. The only reason a consumer will ever be "confused" is when they try to compare two products using different units. If everyone is using base-2, the problem goes away. The consumer doesn't know (or care) what the units actually mean, they just want "bigger" and "more" of whatever the unit happens to be.

^ There, I said it. ^

Now I'll excuse myself from the discussion and go listen to my Zune.

I remember when SecondLife opened up the French Quarter area and had a virual mardi gras fund raiser for New Orleans disaster relief efforts. Virtual crews made virtual floats and everything. I'm sad that it's gone. Here's a screen shot from the event... http://livejournal.3feetunder.com/slmardigras.jpg

I have a Nokia 6236i phone from Verizon when I signed my 1 year contract about 3 years ago. After all fees and rebates, I ended up +$50 in the deal. Guess what? It does everything a phone should do. I can make outgoing calls and receive incoming calls. Mission accomplished. If you're the kind of dipshit who buys an iPhone for multiple hundreds of dollars just so you can show it off at Starbucks during the day and rub your penis on the touch screen at night, then you should just shut your mouth, bend over, and happily take whatever Apple and AT&T want to give you.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/hentai-game-reviews/rapelay.php