When my wife and I were engaged we were living in New Zealand. We did not like the look of the standard rings available or their price so we ended up having a jeweler make one for us. My wife designed one that had the jewels (and opal and 2 reasonable diamonds) in a patterns that she liked plus the added feature that the wedding band slots into the ring to form one unit. I bet that your Hunka-Burning-Love would really enjoy designing her own ring for the conversation piece value assuming that you can find someone here in the states to make it. I am told that Asian Indinan jewelers have a lot of skill and experience in doing custom gold work.
What if these became standard use or required for use of certain large software giants. A software company could burn info onto the writable part during the first use to control the software. Things like:
* Limit installs to once only
* Reinstall are limited to a machine with a specific CPU-ID Windows registy key.
* Burn in the last time that the software can be reinstalled to limit the usage for say 3 months or 1 year.
I would reccomend that you get the math degree also if you can do it without too much pain. It will give more work opportunities in the early to mid part of your 'work career'. I personally would be more likely to interview and hire a candidate that also had a math degree on top of the CS degree. And if you ever decide that you want to change tracks for wahtever reason you have other options available to you.
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They shall pay for their foul words. Burn the Heretics!!!!
When my wife and I were engaged we were living in New Zealand. We did not like the look of the standard rings available or their price so we ended up having a jeweler make one for us. My wife designed one that had the jewels (and opal and 2 reasonable diamonds) in a patterns that she liked plus the added feature that the wedding band slots into the ring to form one unit. I bet that your Hunka-Burning-Love would really enjoy designing her own ring for the conversation piece value assuming that you can find someone here in the states to make it. I am told that Asian Indinan jewelers have a lot of skill and experience in doing custom gold work.
What if these became standard use or required for use of certain large software giants. A software company could burn info onto the writable part during the first use to control the software. Things like:
* Limit installs to once only
* Reinstall are limited to a machine with a specific CPU-ID Windows registy key.
* Burn in the last time that the software can be reinstalled to limit the usage for say 3 months or 1 year.
Are am I just being paranoid?
I would reccomend that you get the math degree also if you can do it without too much pain. It will give more work opportunities in the early to mid part of your 'work career'. I personally would be more likely to interview and hire a candidate that also had a math degree on top of the CS degree. And if you ever decide that you want to change tracks for wahtever reason you have other options available to you.