I'll second that. I graduated from Boise State University, where Jake Baker teaches. I was lucky enough to take a few classes from him before he became chair of the EE department. He's a hell of a professor and wrote some very good books. Appropo to nothing, he was in the Marines - the GI bill paid for his undergrad degree. You can definitely tell when you're around him.
I guess it depends upon what you're surfing. If it's nothing but text, yes, it would be about twice as fast. Add in.png or.jpg and it's most definitely slower. Add in any noise on the phone line and performance drops even more. And if the phone system is digital or if there are any coils or multiplexing systems, you're completely out of luck.
I'm not gonna get into paranoia issues. I'm just saying that you're not going to get the performance that you think you are out of a dialup compression scheme.
If I lived in such a dorm, I'd switch to dialup. V.44-compressed dialup is equivalent to a 300kbit/s uncompressed broadband line... therefore faster.
v.44 works great for easily compressed data such as text files. Not so much for already-compressed data like...mp3s. Binary data might see 50%-60% increased throughput over regular old 53Kb uncompressed speed. The only way that you're going to see 300Kb/s transfer rates is on a plain old text file. Sorry.
You're exactly right - undergrad DiffEQ is more of a "Survey of Differential Equations". It's an overview of "safe" equations - most all of the work has answers that are trivial to find. My M410 professor always joked that his job was to protect us from differential equations. That being said, 300 or 400 level DiffEQ serves as a good foundation for more advanced classes in the subject.
My area of expertise is in three-dimensional electric field modeling. It's very frustrating and enlightening at the same time. And difficult to craft mathematical models that can converge on a solution. My feeling, from a non math major (my degrees are in electrical engineering), is that a career involving differential equations will be one that requires tenacity and perseverance.
At my company, interns who are freshmen and sophomores are paid at 50% of the salary of the position that they are filling. Juniors are paid at 60% and seniors are paid at 75%. We hire interns to fill "real" engineering positions. For example, in my area, if we have an open simulation engineer req and we hire an (usually a senior) intern to fill it for the summer, that intern will actually do the job of a simulation engineer. And, if the intern is from our local university, the job will usually continue through the school year.
I started as an intern, kept interning through my senior year and continued as a full time employee after I graduated. For most of our engineers, that's almost the only way to get hired in this department - turnover is extraordinarily low. The last time somebody quit was maybe five years ago and she'd been here for ten years. We've had some internal promotions, but all the openings were filled with interns who then came back to work full time when they graduated.
As an aside (well, this whole post is almost an aside), that's a question for you to ask during your intervew: "What is the turnover rate here?" It might give you a little insight on how things are going in the company that you're considering working for.
Oh, as for my wife, when she interned in a social services job, she got paid nothing, which was typical for interns in her field of work.
The settlement for your class-action lawsuit will be $5 million for the attorneys and three free months of upgraded classmates.com for you. Outstanding!
If the original questioner's company is relying on the IT department to craft a legal document for any purpose, they're doing it wrong.
The IT department's business is implementing the remote access. The legal department's (or a lawyer that the company hires) business is creating the document covering the agreement between the company and the employees.
You don't want a bunch of lawyers configuring and maintaining your network...why should the network admins do an attorney's job?
At my job, I don't justify them, at least not the ones that I deal with. Most of them view their customers (e.g., me) as an intrusion on whatever it is that they're doing when they're not doing their job. Since our systems are locked down tighter than...well, tight, we depend on IT to install the software that we need to do our jobs. And I've heard every excuse in the book about why they miss appointment after appointment. As well as every excuse in the book for when they have to make a second or third visit to fix the problems with the installation that took many days and several missed appointments to make.
Now, I'm sure that somewhere buried deep in the vast expanse of my company's IT warren, there are some good operators, techs and engineers. Apparently, though, they aren't the ones who get to work with people. We get to see the bitter, antisocial, disorganized and, yes, often smelly IT "professionals" who give the good guys a black eye.
I'm not demanding...I'm not screaming on the phone that I have to have some piece of software installed this very minute. I'm happy to adapt my schedule to fit theirs. I even understand that things don't always go perfectly...now and then. But if I've got to reschedule an appointment to install Microsoft Office on my locked-down PC three times over the course of a week, if, after the install is done, I have to have somebody come out another two times because Outlook isn't configured correctly and I don't have sufficient privileges to fix it and if that's a common "feature" of our IT department, then something is wrong.
But I'm not bitter or anything. Who knows, maybe all the good IT workers are at HP or IBM or something. Maybe we're just unlucky.
Now maybe we can all start getting along. I didn't vote for Obama, but I'm taking a hint from McCain's concession speech and supporting him. I suspect that I won't agree with a lot of Obama's proposals, but that's just the nature of the ideological differences between a liberal and a conservative.
As one of the winners in my (extremely red) state's congressional race said, "Obama is going to be my president. There will be a lot of things that we won't agree on, so it will be my job to try to change his mind."
Everybody here should read the transcript of Senator McCain's concession speech. It was a piece of political inspiration. And you should all take it to heart.
I locked my keys in the car about 15 years ago and had to call the locksmith. He didn't bother with a slim jim or any of that crap. He just looked at the key sitting on the seat and cut a new one by hand. It worked on the first try. He said that he figured that I probably needed a spare anyway.
Presidential campaign discussion is a couple of topics up the page.
But I do get a kick out of watching the arguments between the Progressives and the Fascists. Just as much as the fights between the Patriots and the Socialists.
You all do realize that the majority of the people in the US are pretty much ever so slightly right of center, don't you? And that McCain will not drive the country into world war and a depression, nor will Obama create a new socialist order nor advance the cause of terrorists...deep down you all really know that, right?
It doesn't matter to me who wins - neither candidate has the answer to the economy's current ills because the President is only one part of many that affect the economy.
I tend to think that a monolithic Democrat government will ultimately end up raising taxes and social spending while cutting military spending, resulting in large deficits.
I also tend to think that a divided government will ultimately end up leaving taxes alone, raise social spending and leave military spending unchanged, resulting in large deficits.
Neither one will do anything for the economy, which has to just let market forces sort things out. About all the government can do is make things worse - having lived through Nixon's wage and price controls, and having studied the Great Depression and other panics, recessions and depressions, I see that the federal government can do much to create a shallower but much longer crisis at the expense of a fairly short, deep crisis.
Either way, it doesn't matter to me. My job is safe, I make a comfortable living, but not enough to get hit by Senator Obama's tax hike. I won't see any of Senator McCain's tax cuts, either. I guess I'm too average.
I think that we should all be interested in the case of Joe the Average. Which candidate is going to do the most for his browsing needs? Joe the Average doesn't want to be a victim of "spreading the porn"...oh wait...yes he does! And I support redistribution of porn! Those with vast quantities need to give it up and spread the wealth! And pledge to support Joe the Average in his quest! Because he is me!
Indeed it happened on President Bush's watch. But cherry picking the data doesn't bolster the case that the current financial madness is solely his fault.
Now, the really funny thing is that all the [insert linux distro here] recommendations are going to ignore one of his requests: maximize battery life. Unfortunately, that's one thing that no Linux...excuse me, GNU/Linux, distro has managed to achieve. We're still trying to hit the Linux on the Desktop benchmark.
They're not exactly out on the edge of "newness". The CEO of the company that I work for has owned a couple of fighter jets for several years. The appeal? They're relatively unique and they go like a bat out of hell. And, I guess, the cachet of being military hardware is a draw. But it's not like they're breaking new ground.
That someone else should be the guy who's going to use the scope. And if the original questioner is that guy, then oy vey, maybe it's time to hire an oscilloscope consultant.
That may be marginally better than the "I'm voting for the candidate that agrees with me on one relatively insignificant issue." There's a whole package, ya know.
And all of that is better than the single issue politics that we seemed to be bedeviled with. In my state, it's always abortion. The economy is going into the shitter, crime is increasing, the roads are falling apart and homeless zombies are wandering the streets. And the legislature continuously spends its entire session trying to craft an antiabortion bill that the governor won't veto or the court won't invalidate.
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I'll second that. I graduated from Boise State University, where Jake Baker teaches. I was lucky enough to take a few classes from him before he became chair of the EE department. He's a hell of a professor and wrote some very good books. Appropo to nothing, he was in the Marines - the GI bill paid for his undergrad degree. You can definitely tell when you're around him.
All we are saying is give Pease a chance.
Shampoo is for posers. I use Realpoo.
My question is, "Does it come with nutty scientific theories included?"
I guess it depends upon what you're surfing. If it's nothing but text, yes, it would be about twice as fast. Add in .png or .jpg and it's most definitely slower. Add in any noise on the phone line and performance drops even more. And if the phone system is digital or if there are any coils or multiplexing systems, you're completely out of luck.
I'm not gonna get into paranoia issues. I'm just saying that you're not going to get the performance that you think you are out of a dialup compression scheme.
If I lived in such a dorm, I'd switch to dialup. V.44-compressed dialup is equivalent to a 300kbit/s uncompressed broadband line... therefore faster.
v.44 works great for easily compressed data such as text files. Not so much for already-compressed data like...mp3s. Binary data might see 50%-60% increased throughput over regular old 53Kb uncompressed speed. The only way that you're going to see 300Kb/s transfer rates is on a plain old text file. Sorry.
You're exactly right - undergrad DiffEQ is more of a "Survey of Differential Equations". It's an overview of "safe" equations - most all of the work has answers that are trivial to find. My M410 professor always joked that his job was to protect us from differential equations. That being said, 300 or 400 level DiffEQ serves as a good foundation for more advanced classes in the subject.
My area of expertise is in three-dimensional electric field modeling. It's very frustrating and enlightening at the same time. And difficult to craft mathematical models that can converge on a solution. My feeling, from a non math major (my degrees are in electrical engineering), is that a career involving differential equations will be one that requires tenacity and perseverance.
If you have to explain the joke...
I wonder if it would be just as easy to take them out?
At my company, interns who are freshmen and sophomores are paid at 50% of the salary of the position that they are filling. Juniors are paid at 60% and seniors are paid at 75%. We hire interns to fill "real" engineering positions. For example, in my area, if we have an open simulation engineer req and we hire an (usually a senior) intern to fill it for the summer, that intern will actually do the job of a simulation engineer. And, if the intern is from our local university, the job will usually continue through the school year.
I started as an intern, kept interning through my senior year and continued as a full time employee after I graduated. For most of our engineers, that's almost the only way to get hired in this department - turnover is extraordinarily low. The last time somebody quit was maybe five years ago and she'd been here for ten years. We've had some internal promotions, but all the openings were filled with interns who then came back to work full time when they graduated.
As an aside (well, this whole post is almost an aside), that's a question for you to ask during your intervew: "What is the turnover rate here?" It might give you a little insight on how things are going in the company that you're considering working for.
Oh, as for my wife, when she interned in a social services job, she got paid nothing, which was typical for interns in her field of work.
The settlement for your class-action lawsuit will be $5 million for the attorneys and three free months of upgraded classmates.com for you. Outstanding!
If the original questioner's company is relying on the IT department to craft a legal document for any purpose, they're doing it wrong.
The IT department's business is implementing the remote access. The legal department's (or a lawyer that the company hires) business is creating the document covering the agreement between the company and the employees.
You don't want a bunch of lawyers configuring and maintaining your network...why should the network admins do an attorney's job?
At my job, I don't justify them, at least not the ones that I deal with. Most of them view their customers (e.g., me) as an intrusion on whatever it is that they're doing when they're not doing their job. Since our systems are locked down tighter than...well, tight, we depend on IT to install the software that we need to do our jobs. And I've heard every excuse in the book about why they miss appointment after appointment. As well as every excuse in the book for when they have to make a second or third visit to fix the problems with the installation that took many days and several missed appointments to make.
Now, I'm sure that somewhere buried deep in the vast expanse of my company's IT warren, there are some good operators, techs and engineers. Apparently, though, they aren't the ones who get to work with people. We get to see the bitter, antisocial, disorganized and, yes, often smelly IT "professionals" who give the good guys a black eye.
I'm not demanding...I'm not screaming on the phone that I have to have some piece of software installed this very minute. I'm happy to adapt my schedule to fit theirs. I even understand that things don't always go perfectly...now and then. But if I've got to reschedule an appointment to install Microsoft Office on my locked-down PC three times over the course of a week, if, after the install is done, I have to have somebody come out another two times because Outlook isn't configured correctly and I don't have sufficient privileges to fix it and if that's a common "feature" of our IT department, then something is wrong.
But I'm not bitter or anything. Who knows, maybe all the good IT workers are at HP or IBM or something. Maybe we're just unlucky.
Now maybe we can all start getting along. I didn't vote for Obama, but I'm taking a hint from McCain's concession speech and supporting him. I suspect that I won't agree with a lot of Obama's proposals, but that's just the nature of the ideological differences between a liberal and a conservative.
As one of the winners in my (extremely red) state's congressional race said, "Obama is going to be my president. There will be a lot of things that we won't agree on, so it will be my job to try to change his mind."
Everybody here should read the transcript of Senator McCain's concession speech. It was a piece of political inspiration. And you should all take it to heart.
I locked my keys in the car about 15 years ago and had to call the locksmith. He didn't bother with a slim jim or any of that crap. He just looked at the key sitting on the seat and cut a new one by hand. It worked on the first try. He said that he figured that I probably needed a spare anyway.
LINUX!!!!!
Presidential campaign discussion is a couple of topics up the page.
But I do get a kick out of watching the arguments between the Progressives and the Fascists. Just as much as the fights between the Patriots and the Socialists.
You all do realize that the majority of the people in the US are pretty much ever so slightly right of center, don't you? And that McCain will not drive the country into world war and a depression, nor will Obama create a new socialist order nor advance the cause of terrorists...deep down you all really know that, right?
It doesn't matter to me who wins - neither candidate has the answer to the economy's current ills because the President is only one part of many that affect the economy.
I tend to think that a monolithic Democrat government will ultimately end up raising taxes and social spending while cutting military spending, resulting in large deficits.
I also tend to think that a divided government will ultimately end up leaving taxes alone, raise social spending and leave military spending unchanged, resulting in large deficits.
Neither one will do anything for the economy, which has to just let market forces sort things out. About all the government can do is make things worse - having lived through Nixon's wage and price controls, and having studied the Great Depression and other panics, recessions and depressions, I see that the federal government can do much to create a shallower but much longer crisis at the expense of a fairly short, deep crisis.
Either way, it doesn't matter to me. My job is safe, I make a comfortable living, but not enough to get hit by Senator Obama's tax hike. I won't see any of Senator McCain's tax cuts, either. I guess I'm too average.
I think that we should all be interested in the case of Joe the Average. Which candidate is going to do the most for his browsing needs? Joe the Average doesn't want to be a victim of "spreading the porn"...oh wait...yes he does! And I support redistribution of porn! Those with vast quantities need to give it up and spread the wealth! And pledge to support Joe the Average in his quest! Because he is me!
I thought the headline was talking about "molester Mars", so I was really looking forward to some startling research.
Indeed it happened on President Bush's watch. But cherry picking the data doesn't bolster the case that the current financial madness is solely his fault.
Now, the really funny thing is that all the [insert linux distro here] recommendations are going to ignore one of his requests: maximize battery life. Unfortunately, that's one thing that no Linux...excuse me, GNU/Linux, distro has managed to achieve. We're still trying to hit the Linux on the Desktop benchmark.
They're not exactly out on the edge of "newness". The CEO of the company that I work for has owned a couple of fighter jets for several years. The appeal? They're relatively unique and they go like a bat out of hell. And, I guess, the cachet of being military hardware is a draw. But it's not like they're breaking new ground.
That someone else should be the guy who's going to use the scope. And if the original questioner is that guy, then oy vey, maybe it's time to hire an oscilloscope consultant.
That may be marginally better than the "I'm voting for the candidate that agrees with me on one relatively insignificant issue." There's a whole package, ya know.
And all of that is better than the single issue politics that we seemed to be bedeviled with. In my state, it's always abortion. The economy is going into the shitter, crime is increasing, the roads are falling apart and homeless zombies are wandering the streets. And the legislature continuously spends its entire session trying to craft an antiabortion bill that the governor won't veto or the court won't invalidate.