He's on crack. By and large the discrete math will serve you better because it's the sort of thinking that is essential to programming algorithms.
That being said, if you intend to pursue work in graphics, or writing physics simulations or engineering software, the vectors/euclidean/differentials will be a big help. But that's really only for those cases. None of that is at all useful to the average developer.
Discrete math, logical conclusion, sets, graphs, and (duh) algorithms are a must though.
FWIW, before being a CS major I took a humanities philosophy class called Intro to Logic. After being a CS major I was required to take Discrete Math. I aced the latter because it was exactly what I'd learned in the former, with different notation and namespace.
I'm not so sure stone tablets are really the superior medium. Without knowing how many stone tablets were actually ever created compared to how many still exist it's hard to run the numbers.
Stone survives fire and water fairly well, but is vulnerable to vibration and shock compared to paper.
Meanwhile, one well-heeled corporation church has their own suggestions on making data last forever.
where the hell SCO is getting the money from to pay for a decade of litigation. How has SCO managed to survive two recessions and continue to base a business model solely around endless litigation? Dear SCO: I have a great idea for a futile court case, who is your angel investor? PS: Your money would have been better spent hiring engineers and developing new products.
Copper wire is an outdated technology by at least 20-30 years and yet the telcos have not upgraded infrastructure. The public has said fuck it realizing that wireless offers greater mobility and there's rarely any point in having two phones.
In the foreseeable future, wireless Internet (via either IMT-* or 802.* methods) will make DSL obsolete as well, and the only reason for the telcos to continue to exist will be to maintain the lines
IFO keep a landline b/c it offers unlimited call minutes including long distance at all hours to an entire 4-person household at a price much less than equipping the whole household with cell phones and a comparable level of service. Not everyone is as cheap as me.
The only fear I have of people ditching the landline system is that, ultimately, right now, all our current wireless services interconnect through it. Your cell phone call ultimately feeds into a landline trunk. If that system gets neglected, your wireless service will degrade despite your belief that you are "wireless". I suppose eventually those systems will move off landline dependency, but knowing US wireless upgrade speed, it'll be slow and painful.
(And then we'll all get cancer from the massive amount of RF floating around everywhere, but that's not important.)
Seems like an increasing number of places are naming workstations after the employees whose desk they are on. This not only helps IT identify where they are, but also identify what box your coworker is talking about when he says "I've got it up and running on my machine."
Others simply give them a brief categorization a serial number, like LAP345 or WKS456.
One place I worked years ago that made digital reference books named their workstations after sequential words out of one of its dictionary products. This was a little strange as pretty much every workstation name started with A.
A few years ago there was a Korean operation in my town that was basically a big LAN farm (ok, they had a couple DDR machines too). It didn't seem to catch on (and we were fish out of water as we weren't Korean), though a new one has opened up.
North of the border they have a number of Asian arcades that are both full of those sit-down arcade boxes (all of which seem to play a Mechwarrior sort of game), and desktop gaming farms.
Despite the (young, childless) American geek's love of LAN parties, and the popularity of the PAX PC Gaming room, the commercial, always-on LAN Party business just doesn't seem to work down here.
I suppose if all your users are secretaries or CSRs then you can get away with this, but if your users are engineers then they are going to need to be installing new tools all the time to do their jobs, and waiting for you to get around to manually doing the same monkey work they are more than capable of doing, and you staying late on Friday night to do it to all their machines, each time a new tool comes along that they want to use -- or even evaluate, is not in anyone's interests.
Right. Everytime a user needed to install a piece of software, they'd have to put in a request for IT support. IT support (i.e. you) would put it in a queue, low prioritize it, and fix it next week. In the meantime the user can't do their job because they're waiting for you to come over and enter a password and then click Install. That's no way to run a railroad.
Rad Hack's flaw was giving up on being THE store for electronic, A/V, and other technical components, cutting back on things like electronics kits in favor of pre-built robots, etc. Instead of maintaining a technical focus, they veered into a confusing mash of angles like prebuilt computers, TVs and video players, and cell phones.
I am one of few people that still go to RadHack for cables and rare items that would be marked up 200% at Best Buy or impossible to find. I don't know why anyone else goes there -- and I think that's their problem.
Other things I like about RS is that the staff usually only ask if you need help once, and aren't impossible to find when you DO need help finding something, and usually there is someone there who has a clue as to the arcane thing you are looking for.
Trying to be a miniature Best Buy, and leaving more than 75% of their small floors as open space, is their problem -- not branding. DIY is becoming vogue again, and they should try returning to their DIY roots.
It ain't because people are broke, and have better things to shell out $5,000 on, it's because people are afraid of other people thinking they are nerds.
Open standards and open source are two completely different things and always has been.
Open Source means allowing people to see how programs work and be free to change them as they see fit and promote sharing and interoperability.
Open Standards means allowing software companies to ignore standards and change them as they see fit in order to generate greater lock-in (under the guise of competitiveness). See also: MS Visual Java.
'It seems like the system wasn't analyzed at all.'
Of course it wasn't. QA costs money and provides no tangible product. And QA departments are always asking for more resources with which to perform tests on. And QA always slows down release schedules by adding extra development time or to run all their little tests or their annoying little procedures and policies. In the meantime the customers are getting impatient and the balance sheet is slipping.
If you absolutely must have some sort of quality process, to sate your investors or customers or federal agencies or whoever, you can get cheap testers overseas who have never seen your product before and no nothing about your industry, and can receive your build and run some brief, but well-documented smoke tests on it overnight, and then send it back to you with the OK stamp you paid them for. The next time you want to know if your product works right, just get new overseas testers who aren't all wrapped up with knowing all the things that happened the last time or hold any of the burden of having ever seen your product before.
Nobody cares if you make a *good* product. They care if you make a product *fast*. And cheap.
Why is Wal-Mart so successful? Well, for starters, they offer lots of cheap things. You don't see Wal-Mart wasting money and holding up stock by worrying about quality. You want quality? Go to Sears -- haha, I joke, Sears is now K-Mart.
Once it's out the door, who cares? You got paid for it already. It's much cheaper to staff a call center to take customer complaints. And you can have that "done" overseas too.
I'm 33 and haven't used cursive since high school, unless you count when I sign my name.
I don't have a use for it and frankly don't see the point. And after decades of deciphering my family's various peculiar handwriting styles, I'd be more than glad to be rid of it.
It would be nice to know if this affects DD-WRT boxes that are not WAN-facing and are not in router mode.
I have three DD-WRT's in client bridge mode so as to provide wired connections throughout the house. They hop over WiFi to the WAN-facing router which still runs stock VxWorks. So I'd be inclined to think that my boxes are safe.
As for DD-WRT releasing a patch, gee thanks. I have two different (and old) versions of DD-WRT among the three devices and haven't touched them since installing, because upgrading requires lots of personal time with each device to reinstall and reconfigure and god knows what else and I simply don't have the time -- the whole point of setting up client bridges was to make life easier, not some sort of time-consuming exercise in obscure geek cred.
that seems to indicate that there are a few certain "correct" answers, which kind of throws the whole test into doubt now, doesn't it?
Only if the test-takers know the answers in the first place.
And if the test-takers are deliberately trying, for some reason, to lie to their therapist. Perhaps once upon a time they used Rorschach tests to evaluate people for acceptance (jobs, security clearances, I don't know), but I'm betting they don't now. But it is still useful in a non-defensive context e.g. willful personal therapy.
The blots and their good/bad answers were exposed in William Poundstone's Big Secrets years ago anyway. I dunno the scope of the dispute in this, the latest installment of "OMGLOLWTFPEDIA", but I don't see how the exclusionist position has merit.
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Whatever will we do when Iceland is overrun with people with the power to say whatever they want?
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could transform the humble Icelander into a legal superman, virtually untouchable abroad for comments written
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He's on crack. By and large the discrete math will serve you better because it's the sort of thinking that is essential to programming algorithms.
That being said, if you intend to pursue work in graphics, or writing physics simulations or engineering software, the vectors/euclidean/differentials will be a big help. But that's really only for those cases. None of that is at all useful to the average developer.
Discrete math, logical conclusion, sets, graphs, and (duh) algorithms are a must though.
FWIW, before being a CS major I took a humanities philosophy class called Intro to Logic. After being a CS major I was required to take Discrete Math. I aced the latter because it was exactly what I'd learned in the former, with different notation and namespace.
the wildly successful Network Computer.
some basic R&D into why conservatives hold on to the mantra that the free market cures all ills
Uh, because it makes the rich richer.
I'm not so sure stone tablets are really the superior medium. Without knowing how many stone tablets were actually ever created compared to how many still exist it's hard to run the numbers.
Stone survives fire and water fairly well, but is vulnerable to vibration and shock compared to paper.
Meanwhile, one well-heeled corporation church has their own suggestions on making data last forever.
where the hell SCO is getting the money from to pay for a decade of litigation. How has SCO managed to survive two recessions and continue to base a business model solely around endless litigation? Dear SCO: I have a great idea for a futile court case, who is your angel investor? PS: Your money would have been better spent hiring engineers and developing new products.
skyrocketing healthcare and insurance costs plus economic contraction has led to less people with health insurance year over year this decade.
Correlation may not be causality, but you tell me if you think having health insurance affects your longevity. Some think so.
Copper wire is an outdated technology by at least 20-30 years and yet the telcos have not upgraded infrastructure. The public has said fuck it realizing that wireless offers greater mobility and there's rarely any point in having two phones.
In the foreseeable future, wireless Internet (via either IMT-* or 802.* methods) will make DSL obsolete as well, and the only reason for the telcos to continue to exist will be to maintain the lines
IFO keep a landline b/c it offers unlimited call minutes including long distance at all hours to an entire 4-person household at a price much less than equipping the whole household with cell phones and a comparable level of service. Not everyone is as cheap as me.
The only fear I have of people ditching the landline system is that, ultimately, right now, all our current wireless services interconnect through it. Your cell phone call ultimately feeds into a landline trunk. If that system gets neglected, your wireless service will degrade despite your belief that you are "wireless". I suppose eventually those systems will move off landline dependency, but knowing US wireless upgrade speed, it'll be slow and painful.
(And then we'll all get cancer from the massive amount of RF floating around everywhere, but that's not important.)
Seems like an increasing number of places are naming workstations after the employees whose desk they are on. This not only helps IT identify where they are, but also identify what box your coworker is talking about when he says "I've got it up and running on my machine."
Others simply give them a brief categorization a serial number, like LAP345 or WKS456.
One place I worked years ago that made digital reference books named their workstations after sequential words out of one of its dictionary products. This was a little strange as pretty much every workstation name started with A.
A few years ago there was a Korean operation in my town that was basically a big LAN farm (ok, they had a couple DDR machines too). It didn't seem to catch on (and we were fish out of water as we weren't Korean), though a new one has opened up.
North of the border they have a number of Asian arcades that are both full of those sit-down arcade boxes (all of which seem to play a Mechwarrior sort of game), and desktop gaming farms.
Despite the (young, childless) American geek's love of LAN parties, and the popularity of the PAX PC Gaming room, the commercial, always-on LAN Party business just doesn't seem to work down here.
to take advantage of hordes of unemployed technologists than to get them to provide months of free work?
I suppose if all your users are secretaries or CSRs then you can get away with this, but if your users are engineers then they are going to need to be installing new tools all the time to do their jobs, and waiting for you to get around to manually doing the same monkey work they are more than capable of doing, and you staying late on Friday night to do it to all their machines, each time a new tool comes along that they want to use -- or even evaluate, is not in anyone's interests.
Right. Everytime a user needed to install a piece of software, they'd have to put in a request for IT support. IT support (i.e. you) would put it in a queue, low prioritize it, and fix it next week. In the meantime the user can't do their job because they're waiting for you to come over and enter a password and then click Install. That's no way to run a railroad.
"Not only will we keep you in a baking hot desert for years on end, but you won't be able to chat with any of your friends back home."
I guess they are pretty confident they don't need any more troops. They can stop recruiting at high schools then, right?
Rad Hack's flaw was giving up on being THE store for electronic, A/V, and other technical components, cutting back on things like electronics kits in favor of pre-built robots, etc. Instead of maintaining a technical focus, they veered into a confusing mash of angles like prebuilt computers, TVs and video players, and cell phones.
I am one of few people that still go to RadHack for cables and rare items that would be marked up 200% at Best Buy or impossible to find. I don't know why anyone else goes there -- and I think that's their problem.
Other things I like about RS is that the staff usually only ask if you need help once, and aren't impossible to find when you DO need help finding something, and usually there is someone there who has a clue as to the arcane thing you are looking for.
Trying to be a miniature Best Buy, and leaving more than 75% of their small floors as open space, is their problem -- not branding. DIY is becoming vogue again, and they should try returning to their DIY roots.
It ain't because people are broke, and have better things to shell out $5,000 on, it's because people are afraid of other people thinking they are nerds.
Open standards and open source are two completely different things and always has been.
Open Source means allowing people to see how programs work and be free to change them as they see fit and promote sharing and interoperability.
Open Standards means allowing software companies to ignore standards and change them as they see fit in order to generate greater lock-in (under the guise of competitiveness). See also: MS Visual Java.
'It seems like the system wasn't analyzed at all.'
Of course it wasn't. QA costs money and provides no tangible product. And QA departments are always asking for more resources with which to perform tests on. And QA always slows down release schedules by adding extra development time or to run all their little tests or their annoying little procedures and policies. In the meantime the customers are getting impatient and the balance sheet is slipping.
If you absolutely must have some sort of quality process, to sate your investors or customers or federal agencies or whoever, you can get cheap testers overseas who have never seen your product before and no nothing about your industry, and can receive your build and run some brief, but well-documented smoke tests on it overnight, and then send it back to you with the OK stamp you paid them for. The next time you want to know if your product works right, just get new overseas testers who aren't all wrapped up with knowing all the things that happened the last time or hold any of the burden of having ever seen your product before.
Nobody cares if you make a *good* product. They care if you make a product *fast*. And cheap.
Why is Wal-Mart so successful? Well, for starters, they offer lots of cheap things. You don't see Wal-Mart wasting money and holding up stock by worrying about quality. You want quality? Go to Sears -- haha, I joke, Sears is now K-Mart.
Once it's out the door, who cares? You got paid for it already. It's much cheaper to staff a call center to take customer complaints. And you can have that "done" overseas too.
I'm 33 and haven't used cursive since high school, unless you count when I sign my name.
I don't have a use for it and frankly don't see the point. And after decades of deciphering my family's various peculiar handwriting styles, I'd be more than glad to be rid of it.
It would be nice to know if this affects DD-WRT boxes that are not WAN-facing and are not in router mode.
I have three DD-WRT's in client bridge mode so as to provide wired connections throughout the house. They hop over WiFi to the WAN-facing router which still runs stock VxWorks. So I'd be inclined to think that my boxes are safe.
As for DD-WRT releasing a patch, gee thanks. I have two different (and old) versions of DD-WRT among the three devices and haven't touched them since installing, because upgrading requires lots of personal time with each device to reinstall and reconfigure and god knows what else and I simply don't have the time -- the whole point of setting up client bridges was to make life easier, not some sort of time-consuming exercise in obscure geek cred.
I seem to remember the music industry being not to keen on used record and tape sales a few years back.
The older I get the more I realize that the rest of you humans are just spinning in silly little circles.
that seems to indicate that there are a few certain "correct" answers, which kind of throws the whole test into doubt now, doesn't it?
Only if the test-takers know the answers in the first place.
And if the test-takers are deliberately trying, for some reason, to lie to their therapist. Perhaps once upon a time they used Rorschach tests to evaluate people for acceptance (jobs, security clearances, I don't know), but I'm betting they don't now. But it is still useful in a non-defensive context e.g. willful personal therapy.
The blots and their good/bad answers were exposed in William Poundstone's Big Secrets years ago anyway. I dunno the scope of the dispute in this, the latest installment of "OMGLOLWTFPEDIA", but I don't see how the exclusionist position has merit.
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Good, they're crowding the job market anyway.