It was done already by one of the groups in a mathematical modeling course I took, too. And I'm sure they weren't the first to consider the problem. I suspect there's a ton of prior art here.
No kidding...that's exactly what alta was saying. Those who have to program for IE6 don't have a choice. Everyone who does, however, should do what they can to accelerate its long-overdue demise.
Plus, what if I'm a fairly laid-back guy who doesn't bust a vein when my phone is sluggish? Will it just get slower, trying in vain to piss me off? That sounds _awesome_.
There's a problem with that strategy, though: anyone who looks at your transcript will recognize a "consolation" MSc, and know that you washed out of a PhD program rather than succeeding in an MS program.
The schools make sure of this, because they HATE to get hustled for funding like you describe.
The main problems I hear, is the friction between getting retirement vs starting over in a good district, management so bad it would make a dilbert pointy haired boss blush, and the average IQ level of the "problem parents" must be single digits at best. I don't have relatives working with older kids... I guess they have a different set of problems to deal with, like drug use, pregnancies, drug dealing in school, gang problems, fights/shootouts, basically becoming the father/parents for the kids, basically they are social workers first, teachers second, and their skill area (computer guy, chemist, etc) third.
Don't forget a total lack of academic freedom as you're forced to "teach the test". That's the part that drove me from my original plan to teach HS math and into a PhD program to eventually (with luck) become a professor.
Mathematicians and mathematical results are generally indifferent to base. The mathematical properties of e, for instance, have nothing to do with its decimal expansion (other than the triviality that it never repeats because e is irrational). Mathematicians (and grad students like myself) almost never write something like "e =~ 2.71828...". It's true, but we don't care. There are far more interesting ways to characterize it, such as the base of the unique exponential function which is its own derivative.
Changing from 10 to 16 would not help (or hurt) mathematics in the slightest. Try opening up a serious math book and looking for numerical constants greater than 9 (i.e. ones that would look different in hexadecimal). You won't find very many.
Among the various bases, though, balanced ternary is kind of interesting.
Obviously they are labeled. Whether I remember the label is another issue. Was it Cauchy's Integral Theorem, Cauchy's Integral Formula (First Version), second and third versions of the same, Cauchy's Estimate, or some other similar name?
On the other hand, just a glance at the shape of the formula itself will tell me if it's the one I need.
I'd have no problem reading books on a Kindle, but for reference it won't cut it.
Yeah, but you can resell textbooks (unless the author is cynical and updates every year, and also somehow controls the course and thus makes that course require the new book).
Surely at some point there will be open source textbooks which you can use at your choice of online university that doesn't make you give money to your course lecturer.
Oh, the publisher and university conspire to achieve that. Think the bookstore can place an order for old editions? Think the university will allow the prof to require a book the bookstore cannot order?
There are exceptions, but all too often this is how they team up to soak the students.
Publishers have all sorts of schemes to prevent this from working in practice. Was either of your sons required to buy "Freshman Intro Text, 19th Edition"? Or do any of those texts have an online component?
God I hate textbook publishers. Graduate texts are much more sane, thankfully.
But the guy's boss isn't the one Asking Slashdot, speaking of missing points. I don't think what the boss *should* do is germane to this discussion.
We could talk all day about what bosses are like in Happy Land, but the submitter has a question about his real-life job, and mostly he's getting good advice: do what the boss says, and if you can't handle that, update your resume.
Doesn't help when the first question is, "who supplied that cable"? I don't know if you've been in a "root cause" meeting, but they DO get all Sherlock Holmes on that shit, I assure you.
I think you're missing my point, and from your tone, I suspect it's on purpose. I'm sure the submitter can make a good cable. But the boss doesn't know that. And should he put his own ass on the line just because the submitter CLAIMS he can make quality cables?
Look: when something goes wrong in a company, somebody gets blamed. They call it all sorts of things, like "root cause analysis" or some other jargon bullshit, but it's really sticking someone with the blame. If you're the boss, you really, really don't want the blame to land on you OR your department.
If a bought cable goes bad, the blame only goes to you if you made a bad choice of supplier, which is why you buy from ESTABLISHED companies. On the other hand, if a homemade cable goes bad, it's your subordinate's skills, and more importantly, YOUR JUDGMENT that's called into question.
You don't want that, and you know that nobody will ever question your decision to spend a little extra buying cables instead of making them. What decision would you make?
This is a CYA issue. Your boss does not want to explain to HIS boss, when a cable goes bad and the company is losing $large_number per hour until it is diagnosed and fixed, that he authorized one of his tech guys to use "homemade" cables.
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It was done already by one of the groups in a mathematical modeling course I took, too. And I'm sure they weren't the first to consider the problem. I suspect there's a ton of prior art here.
Do you hold any degree in mathematics, i.e. are you qualified to make the criticisms in your post? Or are you a crank?
Wow, you didn't read the paper very closely if you think he could produce a textbook (or a series) to implement what he's advocating.
No kidding...that's exactly what alta was saying. Those who have to program for IE6 don't have a choice. Everyone who does, however, should do what they can to accelerate its long-overdue demise.
"It's not as good as Linux, but it may be as good as their own product from eight years ago."
Yeah, that's a real effective shill.
Plus, what if I'm a fairly laid-back guy who doesn't bust a vein when my phone is sluggish? Will it just get slower, trying in vain to piss me off? That sounds _awesome_.
There's a problem with that strategy, though: anyone who looks at your transcript will recognize a "consolation" MSc, and know that you washed out of a PhD program rather than succeeding in an MS program.
The schools make sure of this, because they HATE to get hustled for funding like you describe.
The main problems I hear, is the friction between getting retirement vs starting over in a good district, management so bad it would make a dilbert pointy haired boss blush, and the average IQ level of the "problem parents" must be single digits at best. I don't have relatives working with older kids... I guess they have a different set of problems to deal with, like drug use, pregnancies, drug dealing in school, gang problems, fights/shootouts, basically becoming the father/parents for the kids, basically they are social workers first, teachers second, and their skill area (computer guy, chemist, etc) third.
Don't forget a total lack of academic freedom as you're forced to "teach the test". That's the part that drove me from my original plan to teach HS math and into a PhD program to eventually (with luck) become a professor.
Extrapolate from there...
Mathematicians and mathematical results are generally indifferent to base. The mathematical properties of e, for instance, have nothing to do with its decimal expansion (other than the triviality that it never repeats because e is irrational). Mathematicians (and grad students like myself) almost never write something like "e =~ 2.71828...". It's true, but we don't care. There are far more interesting ways to characterize it, such as the base of the unique exponential function which is its own derivative.
Changing from 10 to 16 would not help (or hurt) mathematics in the slightest. Try opening up a serious math book and looking for numerical constants greater than 9 (i.e. ones that would look different in hexadecimal). You won't find very many.
Among the various bases, though, balanced ternary is kind of interesting.
Obviously they are labeled. Whether I remember the label is another issue. Was it Cauchy's Integral Theorem, Cauchy's Integral Formula (First Version), second and third versions of the same, Cauchy's Estimate, or some other similar name?
On the other hand, just a glance at the shape of the formula itself will tell me if it's the one I need.
I'd have no problem reading books on a Kindle, but for reference it won't cut it.
What if I'm searching for a mathematical equation or a diagram?
Yeah, but you can resell textbooks (unless the author is cynical and updates every year, and also somehow controls the course and thus makes that course require the new book).
Surely at some point there will be open source textbooks which you can use at your choice of online university that doesn't make you give money to your course lecturer.
Oh, the publisher and university conspire to achieve that. Think the bookstore can place an order for old editions? Think the university will allow the prof to require a book the bookstore cannot order?
There are exceptions, but all too often this is how they team up to soak the students.
Pens, paper, notebooks used to write notes on will be in some large part replaced by the annotation capabilities of the Kindle.
I'm skeptical. Until I can write (and draw!) small and legibly, wherever in the text I like, it's not good enough.
Resolution of the digitizer, and resolution and response time of the display are limiting factors here, I think.
Publishers have all sorts of schemes to prevent this from working in practice. Was either of your sons required to buy "Freshman Intro Text, 19th Edition"? Or do any of those texts have an online component?
God I hate textbook publishers. Graduate texts are much more sane, thankfully.
Both the Rs and Ds are corporate owned, no doubt. But if you think there are no substantive differences, you're an idiot.
Reminds me of the guy in my wife's office who kept a window unit AC sitting (and running) on his shelf. His office had no windows.
But the guy's boss isn't the one Asking Slashdot, speaking of missing points. I don't think what the boss *should* do is germane to this discussion.
We could talk all day about what bosses are like in Happy Land, but the submitter has a question about his real-life job, and mostly he's getting good advice: do what the boss says, and if you can't handle that, update your resume.
Doesn't help when the first question is, "who supplied that cable"? I don't know if you've been in a "root cause" meeting, but they DO get all Sherlock Holmes on that shit, I assure you.
I think you're missing my point, and from your tone, I suspect it's on purpose. I'm sure the submitter can make a good cable. But the boss doesn't know that. And should he put his own ass on the line just because the submitter CLAIMS he can make quality cables?
Look: when something goes wrong in a company, somebody gets blamed. They call it all sorts of things, like "root cause analysis" or some other jargon bullshit, but it's really sticking someone with the blame. If you're the boss, you really, really don't want the blame to land on you OR your department.
If a bought cable goes bad, the blame only goes to you if you made a bad choice of supplier, which is why you buy from ESTABLISHED companies. On the other hand, if a homemade cable goes bad, it's your subordinate's skills, and more importantly, YOUR JUDGMENT that's called into question.
You don't want that, and you know that nobody will ever question your decision to spend a little extra buying cables instead of making them. What decision would you make?
This is a CYA issue. Your boss does not want to explain to HIS boss, when a cable goes bad and the company is losing $large_number per hour until it is diagnosed and fixed, that he authorized one of his tech guys to use "homemade" cables.
Remember when all the lady webmasters used "web diva"? Back when HTML coding was the coolest job around, 1996 or so.
He stipulated it was a fair coin...you even quoted that part. What are you going on about?
HD movies are compressed once and streamed many times. How much CPU will it take to do the compression in realtime for every client?
Isn't gravity weaker than electromagnetism by about 41 orders of magnitude? Could there be some kind of unification going on here?