I've used Maple in Linux. It was fairly nice, and actually *slightly* more stable than the Winders release. No noticible differences, mind you (well, except that there was exactly one calculation that I ever did in which the versions differed in opinion as to the answer . . . ). Also, grant that the version in question was Maple V.
Of course, considering the price (I know this isn't a concern for Joe or Dr. Joe, but to those of us that can scarcely afford a pack of Juicy Fruit . . . ), I'm surprised that more people don't tout the advantages of YACAS. Aside from a few minor differences (no purely dedicated GUI interface, a little less functionality), it's more-or-less a young Maple.
I wouldn't know, exactly what to tell your kids about the whys and wherefores.
Actually, the way I explained it to my five-year-old-cousin-who-appears-to-live-with-me was like this:
I sat him down in a kitchen chair (so he couldn't get away and whatnot) and gave him a light indian rub. Then I asked him "if I did that hard enough, do you think your arm might fall off?"
After receiving the affirmative response, I started to explain to him as simply as I possibly could what happens when an object enters the atmosphere, proper angle of reentry, so on. Come to think of it, he's a smart little bastard . . .
At any rate (though it's a couple of days later now), perhaps something such as would be helpful in explaining the issue to your kids.
xScruffx
Thank you very much for pointing this out. Much like the other (well-publicized) tragedies that have happened of late, it's probably best for the chillin' to be *told* about this stuff by their PARENTS rather than CNN/FNN/whathaveyou.
Now, if that's the only tube in the house . . . let them play in their room or something for a bit.
You can bet that if an Indian businessman and a Japanese sit down to do business, they'll do it in English.
Man . . . throw in Juan Valdez, Commandant Klink, and Ivan the terrible, and all of them can find out what it's like to walk into an American [cab/convenience store/motel/restaurant/whathaveyou].
As a matter of fact, I'm learning esperanto just so I can confuse the hell out of THEM for a change:o)
I quit the motel I was working at (usually referred to as the "Jihad Hilton") about four months ago. The friend of the family that received the management position that I was up for still calls me on a regular basis to beg for help with their computer system.
At any rate, I dance around every answer as best as I can, doing my best to make it quite clear that I know how to solve the problem, but that I am no longer on their payroll, no longer suffering from curry poisoning, and no longer willing to give a damn about their business.
Of course, I do give them the option of hiring me on as a consultant for five hours a week (at an hourly rate of $4000.00 USD per hour) or alternatively handing me half the stock in the business.
They haven't taken me up on my offer yet. Too bad, considering that part of it would involve writing a driver for their screwed up printer (one of the newer multifunc. Canon dealies and a Caldera Linux based motel management system, iirc).
The faster the downstream, the quicker they can download their fertilizer and whatnot. The quicker the upstream, the quicker the mashed taters get to us. It's THAT SIMPLE.
I feel sorry for the poor AOL converts that have no clue about what is being installed on their system- they are just innocent victims. They may not even know how to uninstall something- so they have no choice.
How would they ever know it? Hell . . . if they're getting 56K speeds, then they're more-than-likely already dumfounded.
Now, I'm kinda tired, so bear with my spouting of drivel and all that.
The one thing that I basically came away with from this Bob dude's rant on his site is that he considers himself a true pioneer that blah blah blah, jag jag jag, right to link to anybody he wants. Seems to me that he's suing them for what amounts to the same damned thing (well, reversed, inversed, contrapositivized, some other big words that mean "the opposite, but not complete opposite of that idea").
If he ain't got a link to google on his site, they probably ought to consider a countersuit.
There's actually a schmuck down here in Evansville (yay corn) that's trying to get the DNC law reversed. Scary part of it is that he's making a good deal of "progress" towards these ends.
Guess I'll have to start thinking up new "I hope you're gang raped by water buffalo" lines for the guys.
Will you be doing specials on HAM about HAM and it's relative uses? I used to hear about HAM sammiches all the time, but the packets haven't been coming through with mayo of late.
I REALLY wanted to ask if he really WAS Thomas Dolby and, if so, who the hell it was that blinded him with science back in the '80s, but alas . . . too stupid to post before the topic was locked.
Give the CS guys at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (http://www.rose-hulman.edu) a call. I'm not saying that they'll definitely agree to a fast-track cirriculum or anything like that, but it's also not unheard of for students to test into the school as Juniors or seniors either. As I recall, they do their own in-house testing, so it wouldn't cost as much as tests given by some other places and whatnot.
If they do indeed let you fly through the school, you'll have a CS degree from a perty reputable school. At least that's what the family and whatnot told me when they begged me to go back:O)
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I've used Maple in Linux. It was fairly nice, and actually *slightly* more stable than the Winders release. No noticible differences, mind you (well, except that there was exactly one calculation that I ever did in which the versions differed in opinion as to the answer . . . ). Also, grant that the version in question was Maple V.
Of course, considering the price (I know this isn't a concern for Joe or Dr. Joe, but to those of us that can scarcely afford a pack of Juicy Fruit . . . ), I'm surprised that more people don't tout the advantages of YACAS. Aside from a few minor differences (no purely dedicated GUI interface, a little less functionality), it's more-or-less a young Maple.
xScruffx
. . . are any of them HIRING?!?!?!
xScruffx
I wouldn't know, exactly what to tell your kids about the whys and wherefores. Actually, the way I explained it to my five-year-old-cousin-who-appears-to-live-with-me was like this: I sat him down in a kitchen chair (so he couldn't get away and whatnot) and gave him a light indian rub. Then I asked him "if I did that hard enough, do you think your arm might fall off?" After receiving the affirmative response, I started to explain to him as simply as I possibly could what happens when an object enters the atmosphere, proper angle of reentry, so on. Come to think of it, he's a smart little bastard . . . At any rate (though it's a couple of days later now), perhaps something such as would be helpful in explaining the issue to your kids. xScruffx
Thank you very much for pointing this out. Much like the other (well-publicized) tragedies that have happened of late, it's probably best for the chillin' to be *told* about this stuff by their PARENTS rather than CNN/FNN/whathaveyou.
Now, if that's the only tube in the house . . . let them play in their room or something for a bit.
xScruffx
xScruffx
Dude's demanding a "donation" to get what he calls the "full story" and whatnot.
This just went from incredibly humorous to absofuckinglutely disgusting.
I personally hope he sues me now that I've used information on said page to form an opinion on the situation and concluding that he's an ass-clown.
xScruffx
Man . . . throw in Juan Valdez, Commandant Klink, and Ivan the terrible, and all of them can find out what it's like to walk into an American [cab/convenience store/motel/restaurant/whathaveyou].
As a matter of fact, I'm learning esperanto just so I can confuse the hell out of THEM for a change
xScruffx
I quit the motel I was working at (usually referred to as the "Jihad Hilton") about four months ago. The friend of the family that received the management position that I was up for still calls me on a regular basis to beg for help with their computer system.
At any rate, I dance around every answer as best as I can, doing my best to make it quite clear that I know how to solve the problem, but that I am no longer on their payroll, no longer suffering from curry poisoning, and no longer willing to give a damn about their business.
Of course, I do give them the option of hiring me on as a consultant for five hours a week (at an hourly rate of $4000.00 USD per hour) or alternatively handing me half the stock in the business.
They haven't taken me up on my offer yet. Too bad, considering that part of it would involve writing a driver for their screwed up printer (one of the newer multifunc. Canon dealies and a Caldera Linux based motel management system, iirc).
xScruffx
The faster the downstream, the quicker they can download their fertilizer and whatnot. The quicker the upstream, the quicker the mashed taters get to us. It's THAT SIMPLE.
xScruffx
How would they ever know it? Hell . . . if they're getting 56K speeds, then they're more-than-likely already dumfounded.
xScruffx
Now, I'm kinda tired, so bear with my spouting of drivel and all that.
The one thing that I basically came away with from this Bob dude's rant on his site is that he considers himself a true pioneer that blah blah blah, jag jag jag, right to link to anybody he wants. Seems to me that he's suing them for what amounts to the same damned thing (well, reversed, inversed, contrapositivized, some other big words that mean "the opposite, but not complete opposite of that idea").
If he ain't got a link to google on his site, they probably ought to consider a countersuit.
xScruffx n whatnot
. . . how many of y'all have already mailed this bob dude to request that he link to your low PR site on his high PR site?
Just me?
xScruffx and whatnot
There's actually a schmuck down here in Evansville (yay corn) that's trying to get the DNC law reversed. Scary part of it is that he's making a good deal of "progress" towards these ends.
Guess I'll have to start thinking up new "I hope you're gang raped by water buffalo" lines for the guys.
xScruffx
Will you be doing specials on HAM about HAM and it's relative uses? I used to hear about HAM sammiches all the time, but the packets haven't been coming through with mayo of late.
. . . how much Mr. Brown looks like Thomas Dolby?
I REALLY wanted to ask if he really WAS Thomas Dolby and, if so, who the hell it was that blinded him with science back in the '80s, but alas . . . too stupid to post before the topic was locked.
Darn my lethargic self.
Perhaps somebody should contact the Cotex corporation and attempt to convince them to become the next big Linux corporate sponsor.
. . . to a normal person/hobbyist (ie not a scientist, not working on a degree, etc.), what exactly is a cluster good for?
Been wondering about that for a while now, but nobody i've asked seems to get the question.
In case that's the case here too, let me rephrase: why would a private citizen build a cluster for his/her home?
xScruffx
Give the CS guys at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (http://www.rose-hulman.edu) a call. I'm not saying that they'll definitely agree to a fast-track cirriculum or anything like that, but it's also not unheard of for students to test into the school as Juniors or seniors either. As I recall, they do their own in-house testing, so it wouldn't cost as much as tests given by some other places and whatnot.
:O)
If they do indeed let you fly through the school, you'll have a CS degree from a perty reputable school. At least that's what the family and whatnot told me when they begged me to go back
xScruffx