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Man....your really reaching for straws here. Im very well employed, and make a great salary. 99% of techies would kill to have my job, especially in this market. Most my tech buddies cant find jobs or contracts these days. The exceptional ones, however, can always find jobs. Pass...

Yuuuuuuuuup.... the only reason I even bothered getting a degree at all is because of the short sighted managers in corporate america. I skipped all my classes and aced them. I could code the pants off of all but one of my PHD instructors in college. It was a joke. ( The one prof was a...

"I can assure you that these systems are far beyond anything you have seen in your professional life in terms of complexity and stability ..." In a government system? LMAO :D Far beyond anything I have seen in my professional career? Now thats a wild guess and a very empty assertion. You...

Your implying that a person without a degree is not capable of coding mission critical systems. That has not been my experience. Real hard core programmers who are that way because they love it, write the best and most solid code out there. I would never determine who is capable of...

What BS. Some of the best computer geeks ive known were degree-less hacks. I did get my degree in comp sci, and im a real hack, but a degree in comp sci means nothing. Its all about track record. I cant tell you how many comp sci PHD's I have rejected in techie interviews, only...

IT is dead. India is growing IT cities at a fast pace. My company and lots of other companies are exporting the jobs like hot cakes. Its game over. No way in hell id go into IT unless you are doing it because you simply love coding day and night. Listen to Tgreg... he is right on...

Man, I sure wish I learned that lesson. Tens of thousands of lines of code later for pizza... And aaaah crap... I got screwed. peace axeman

Dont think so. You have a few months. Same deadline as an IRA contribution deadline I think. Go sign up for one with IB and it will tell you. peace axeman

IRA accounts cant be margin accounts, therefore no shorting. I plan to day trade my regular account, and swing trade my IRA accounts. peace axeman

Wonderful idea. Im in the process of rolling everything over to my IB IRA :) peace axeman

I voted for "chat during market hours" But would also like to see separate rooms for swing, day trading, futures/indexes, etc, as well as allowing guests in for live commentary during market hours. peace axeman

I could lose it all in few hours. Write a simple program that bought and sold at market in a loop, across 100 high priced stocks. The SPECS would send me free superbowl tickets. peace axeman

My linksys NAT router also allows me to configure port forwarding to a single PC on the lan. Therefore, it actually CAN recieve unsolicited inbound connections. (I have run a webserver and FTP server just fine, for example) You just have to decide which PC will "own" which ports. PS...

You are officially my HERO :D peace axeman (single for life )

The a priori probability that the prize is behind door X, P(X) = 1/3 The probability that Monty Hall opens door B if the prize were behind A, P(Monty opens B|A) = 1/2 The probability that Monty Hall opens door B if the prize were behind B, P(Monty opens B|B) = 0 The probability that...

If you dont believe Alphe, do a search on google for the Monty Hall problem. Lots of explainations out there. The posted solutions agree wtih Alphe. peace axeman

He's just pulling your chain. I used a matrix, like other people mentioned, and little logic nodes connected with arrows to show the relationships to logically solve it. ( Years ago when I first saw it ). No brute force is required with a matrix approach. Although I kinda cheated on...

The original puzzle posted at the top of this thread was the puzzle the manager sent out. IQ tests ive seen test things like: Verbal skills, spatial skills, logical reasoning, pattern recognition, short term memory, visual apprehension, classification skills, computational speed...

Another sample ... A manager at my company sent this puzzle out to a group of about 100 software developers. You know...the analytical, problem solving, logical types...day in...day out. Only 2 replied with the correct answer. Took them about 30 mins avg to solve it. So def -...

Stupidity taxes are great. We should have more of them and then lower our state taxes :) It's really more of a "hope" tax though. Funny how the Dems dont seem to have a problem with a system that targets the poor like this...heh :D peace axeman