Reminds me of the "Find a bug, win a Bug" promotion from Hunter & Ready Systems in the 1980s for their real-time operating system kernel. Never met anyone who won a Volkswagen, though... Google: Want to pony (or beetle) up?
My son is graduating next week with a Bachelor's degree in bioengineering. I would have suggested that he go on for a Master's, except that he got a job offer with a prominent company in his field that will contribute substantially to tuition for grad school. At that point, and in these financial conditions, he agreed that he should take the job and pursue the Master's while there.
Personally, I went immediately from undergrad (physics/math) to a master's program (CS/EE) both to dig a little deeper and to optimize my chances at Member of Technical Staff jobs with my then ideal employers, Bell Labs and Hewlett-Packard. Got offers from both!
Another book in the same line is E. Joseph Billo's "Excel for Scientists and Engineers," Wiley-Interscience, 2007 ISBN 978-0-471-38734-3, including CD.
You may or may not agree with using Excel, but if you do, this book will help with roots of real and imaginary equations, ordinary and partial differential equations, matrices, and statistics.
Sometimes you just don't have the luxury of using Matlab, Spotfire, etc.
I just bought one of these for my in-laws for Christmas. Wal-Mart On-Line sent me an e-mail that the machine shipped today; it also arrived today. Up and running in ~5 minutes, works pretty well (keyboard is a p.o.s.). I'm writing this on the machine right now.
This machine will be fine for my in-laws, who have never touched a computer before. I'm happy - $200 well spent.
As a descendent of two different sets of immigrants from two different parts of Europe, my guess is that the short people, farmers and laborers (overworked and undernourished) took any opportunity they could to come to America, leaving the taller, better fed, more financially stable behind.
This is a thinking person's martial-arts movie, written by Bruce Lee shortly before his death. Stars David Carradine as a blind flute-playing zen-like traveller (seen that before!), Jeff Cooper as the aspirant, Chistopher Lee, and Eli Wallach in great supporting roles.
I'd agree that learning works better with two people, and learning works best if you teach! Perhaps you could commit to teaching your daughters some math, and stay one section ahead of her while doing so.
Some resources:
* The Schaum's Outline series are cheap, and excellent, if a bit dry. Work every exercise, and you'll soon get up to speed.
* Mary L. Boas' "Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences, 2nd ed." is great once you've completed the Schaum's Differential and Integral Calculus book. Lots of less abstract problems, and material that forms the mathematical foundation for engineering and physics.
My 14-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter insisted that we see this movie. I thought it would play well to the adolescent / pre-adolescent sense of humor, but even they were disappointed. This was indeed an extremely crude attempt at satirizing a genre.
The evening before, I saw "Tampopo," another genre satire (spaghetti western / samauri movie in this case), but subtle and sophisticated instead. Highly recommended.
A number of the diskette duplication houses also make limited-run CD-ROMs from masters or from a collection of diskettes; some prefer that you just FTP the data and art-work images to them. In very low quantities, they may burn individual "green" CDs (you could too). At these quantities, they may ink-jet print a label directly onto the CD. At higher quantities, they'll mass-produce the CD in the familiar silver, and the artwork is screen-printed. It's the usual inverse relationship between quantity and per-unit cost (probably no surprise to see just how inexpensive CD duplication is in quantity).
I've been involved with computing and Unix both before and after divestiture, and have seen both the proliferation of phone lines and the reduction in service quality mentioned by a poster on this thread. I believe that phone lines have proliferated because the stifling effect of the AT&T monopoly is no longer restricting how phones are used. In the early 1980's you could get a very expensive, very limited functionality radio telephone for your car. The opportunity to innovate, combined with a growing market demand for portable personal communications such as cell phones and pagers fed back on itself to create a huge demand for more phone lines. Also at that time, modems were limited to 300 or 1200 baud, and Hayes, with their integrated circuit-based modems, was an upstart competing against AT&T with their discrete-component modems. Until divestiture, you couldn't even use a modem at home unless you cleared it with AT&T! Since divestiture, competition has driven data rates upwards by orders of magnitude, and AT&T is out of the modem business. I hope that these two examples have illustrated that there has been a competitive and technological revolution over the last 15 years driven by the divestiture of AT&T. Sure, there have been casualties along the way, but the nimble competitors are still with us, or have evolved into the familiar companies we see around us. The dinosaurs (Western Electric, Teletype, etc.) are extinct. p.s. If you continue having service problems with your regional phone companies, call Customer Service and ask for the "Executive Recourse Line" - and don't take "no" for an answer.
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Reminds me of the "Find a bug, win a Bug" promotion from Hunter & Ready Systems in the 1980s for their real-time operating system kernel.
Never met anyone who won a Volkswagen, though...
Google: Want to pony (or beetle) up?
My son is graduating next week with a Bachelor's degree in bioengineering. I would have suggested that he go on for a Master's, except that he got a job offer with a prominent company in his field that will contribute substantially to tuition for grad school. At that point, and in these financial conditions, he agreed that he should take the job and pursue the Master's while there.
Personally, I went immediately from undergrad (physics/math) to a master's program (CS/EE) both to dig a little deeper and to optimize my chances at Member of Technical Staff jobs with my then ideal employers, Bell Labs and Hewlett-Packard. Got offers from both!
Another book in the same line is E. Joseph Billo's "Excel for Scientists and Engineers," Wiley-Interscience, 2007 ISBN 978-0-471-38734-3, including CD.
You may or may not agree with using Excel, but if you do, this book will help with roots of real and imaginary equations, ordinary and partial differential equations, matrices, and statistics.
Sometimes you just don't have the luxury of using Matlab, Spotfire, etc.
...inspired by the Venus Equilateral stories of George O. Smith in the 1940's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Equilateral
I just bought one of these for my in-laws for Christmas. Wal-Mart On-Line sent me an e-mail that the machine shipped today; it also arrived today. Up and running in ~5 minutes, works pretty well (keyboard is a p.o.s.). I'm writing this on the machine right now.
This machine will be fine for my in-laws, who have never touched a computer before. I'm happy - $200 well spent.
As a descendent of two different sets of immigrants from two different parts of Europe, my guess is that the short people, farmers and laborers (overworked and undernourished) took any opportunity they could to come to America, leaving the taller, better fed, more financially stable behind.
This is a thinking person's martial-arts movie, written by Bruce Lee shortly before his death. Stars David Carradine as a blind flute-playing zen-like traveller (seen that before!), Jeff Cooper as the aspirant, Chistopher Lee, and Eli Wallach in great supporting roles.
Only available on VHS, as far as I can tell.
I'd agree that learning works better with two people, and learning works best if you teach! Perhaps you could commit to teaching your daughters some math, and stay one section ahead of her while doing so.
Some resources:
* The Schaum's Outline series are cheap, and excellent, if a bit dry. Work every exercise, and you'll soon get up to speed.
* Mary L. Boas' "Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences, 2nd ed." is great once you've completed the Schaum's Differential and Integral Calculus book. Lots of less abstract problems, and material that forms the mathematical foundation for engineering and physics.
Good luck!
My 14-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter insisted that we see this movie. I thought it would play well to the adolescent / pre-adolescent sense of humor, but even they were disappointed. This was indeed an extremely crude attempt at satirizing a genre.
The evening before, I saw "Tampopo," another genre satire (spaghetti western / samauri movie in this case), but subtle and sophisticated instead. Highly recommended.
A number of the diskette duplication houses also make limited-run CD-ROMs from masters or from a collection of diskettes; some prefer that you just FTP the data and art-work images to them. In very low quantities, they may burn individual "green" CDs (you could too). At these quantities, they may ink-jet print a label directly onto the CD. At higher quantities, they'll mass-produce the CD in the familiar silver, and the artwork is screen-printed. It's the usual inverse relationship between quantity and per-unit cost (probably no surprise to see just how inexpensive CD duplication is in quantity).
I've been involved with computing and Unix both before and after divestiture, and have seen both the proliferation of phone lines and the reduction in service quality mentioned by a poster on this thread. I believe that phone lines have proliferated because the stifling effect of the AT&T monopoly is no longer restricting how phones are used. In the early 1980's you could get a very expensive, very limited functionality radio telephone for your car. The opportunity to innovate, combined with a growing market demand for portable personal communications such as cell phones and pagers fed back on itself to create a huge demand for more phone lines. Also at that time, modems were limited to 300 or 1200 baud, and Hayes, with their integrated circuit-based modems, was an upstart competing against AT&T with their discrete-component modems. Until divestiture, you couldn't even use a modem at home unless you cleared it with AT&T! Since divestiture, competition has driven data rates upwards by orders of magnitude, and AT&T is out of the modem business. I hope that these two examples have illustrated that there has been a competitive and technological revolution over the last 15 years driven by the divestiture of AT&T. Sure, there have been casualties along the way, but the nimble competitors are still with us, or have evolved into the familiar companies we see around us. The dinosaurs (Western Electric, Teletype, etc.) are extinct. p.s. If you continue having service problems with your regional phone companies, call Customer Service and ask for the "Executive Recourse Line" - and don't take "no" for an answer.