I'll admit that certain areas do need it, but I think they're in the minority. As I mentioned I have done some calculus at University, as it was compulsory; but it was useless to me in my studies and it has continued to be useless in my professional career. In the few cases I've had to hire people, mathematics has not been a consideration.
What area are you involved with that you find maths so vital?
I studied CS in NZ as well; I covered Java and C largely, plus a small amount of assembly and lisp. The languages were taught only as tools to teach the ideas; after the first couple of courses we were free to write our projects in any language we saw fit, more or less.
I was, unfortunately, required to take some calculus as well. Which seems completely redundant for almost all areas of computer science. I'd put it as a prerequisite for some limited courses, but I don't think most areas need anything above high school mathematics.
You should also note that it's only compulsory to attend if you're enrolled to vote. Enrolling is optional. Also, that the law is not enforced; they won't chase you up for the fine, if they do get around to fining you.
I can hook up up a copy of the source if you want, and you can take it from there. A surprisingly large amount of it is even commented:)
Internally, blog entries and photo collections are grouped by location; if you look at location details, you get nearby locations, posts and photos from there, plus extra info. If you want to modify the code to show this on the map, that's very straightforward (I'm going to adjust it to show a photo in there, as the article writer has done).
If you can do the indiana-jones style line drawing itself - very cool. I'm pretty sure that the Google API doesn't support it though. I should be updating the site to use the compressed line format, but haven't got around to it.
As for the firewall... I'm working while on the road, so I'm lugging a laptop with me everywhere. And TOR seems to pass through these firewalls just as easily as it's meant to (I'm in Iran at the moment - the sites these people block are just funny sometimes). Updating by email shouldn't be too hard to implement though.
Photo collections are dated and located, rather than individual photos. It's entirely manual, but takes little time. Although I never got around to implementing http uploading, so scp/pscp.exe are my friends:) There is a script there for chopping photos into three different sizes for thumbs, previews and full size though.
Finally - SE Asia rocks. Thai food is fucking great, the prices are cheap, the weather is good (once you adapt to the heat, that is) and the people friendly. I'm heading back that way, just doing it overland:) I think I'll hang around a year or so, if I can wrangle the visas.
Well, if you're a business customer anyway (and who else wants that many?) then they've had that for years. We ordered 120 desktops and just sent them the image we wanted on the hard drive, the sent a test machine to confirm it was good (it wasn't, they sent another with corrections, it was) and then all the rest we shipped directly to the offices that needed them.
Yes, I've called them repeatedly for servers within the same price range, as well as desktops in a cheaper range. I have spoken to an Indian every single time. Personally, this doesn't bother me though; the service they gave was fine, their English was fine, so for me it's no problem. They were just as clueless as most tech support is, but that's not the point; just demand what you actually need until they give it to you:)
Side note - I was calling from NZ instead, so I would be surprised were I to speak to someone in Texas...
Hmmm... If you were feeling like playing devils advocate, you could suggest that the situation is the same with Windows... Of course I would never say such a thing!
That's what the wipe utility uses - from the man page
"In normal mode, 34 patterns are used (of which 8 are random). These patterns were recommended in an article from Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz) entitled "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory".
Time has had George Bush as the Person of the Year. Not to mention Hitler and Stalin. I don't really care _who_ they put as the Person of the Year now.
While most of your post makes sense, it looses some for missing this part in the gp - "(and after working there, I could have predicted this a long time ago)".
I'm visiting India next year, and am looking forward to it. I can see for myself then:)
But if you aren't working in the country in question, why is this even a problem? I'm in Europe on a tourist visa, but am working for a company back in New Zealand at the moment. As far as I'm aware, this is no violation of my visa. I guess the question is, if he's making the money on the net, where is he earning the money? Presumably the Japanese authorities have decided that he's making the money there.
While I was forced to study maths as part of my degree, I still think it was a waste of my time. Talking to my Head of Department before I left, he said it was purely a method to weed out those who would be poor CS students, when they didn't have the funding to cover all students, based on the fact that good maths students often == good CS students. Basically, you don't need mathematics for most computer science subjects. It's a complete waste of your time, avoid it if you can.
If you read your GP, the post makes more sense. They weren't attacking the java sets, they were attacking windows.forms; which is not, last time I looked, particularly cross platform...
Trying not to comment on the grammatical murder that this is - "sometimes they're content is not, but in the end they're legal"... The second they're is OK. The first is not.
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I'll admit that certain areas do need it, but I think they're in the minority. As I mentioned I have done some calculus at University, as it was compulsory; but it was useless to me in my studies and it has continued to be useless in my professional career. In the few cases I've had to hire people, mathematics has not been a consideration.
What area are you involved with that you find maths so vital?
I studied CS in NZ as well; I covered Java and C largely, plus a small amount of assembly and lisp. The languages were taught only as tools to teach the ideas; after the first couple of courses we were free to write our projects in any language we saw fit, more or less.
I was, unfortunately, required to take some calculus as well. Which seems completely redundant for almost all areas of computer science. I'd put it as a prerequisite for some limited courses, but I don't think most areas need anything above high school mathematics.
You should also note that it's only compulsory to attend if you're enrolled to vote. Enrolling is optional. Also, that the law is not enforced; they won't chase you up for the fine, if they do get around to fining you.
I can hook up up a copy of the source if you want, and you can take it from there. A surprisingly large amount of it is even commented :)
Internally, blog entries and photo collections are grouped by location; if you look at location details, you get nearby locations, posts and photos from there, plus extra info. If you want to modify the code to show this on the map, that's very straightforward (I'm going to adjust it to show a photo in there, as the article writer has done).
If you can do the indiana-jones style line drawing itself - very cool. I'm pretty sure that the Google API doesn't support it though. I should be updating the site to use the compressed line format, but haven't got around to it.
As for the firewall... I'm working while on the road, so I'm lugging a laptop with me everywhere. And TOR seems to pass through these firewalls just as easily as it's meant to (I'm in Iran at the moment - the sites these people block are just funny sometimes). Updating by email shouldn't be too hard to implement though.
Photo collections are dated and located, rather than individual photos. It's entirely manual, but takes little time. Although I never got around to implementing http uploading, so scp/pscp.exe are my friends :) There is a script there for chopping photos into three different sizes for thumbs, previews and full size though.
Finally - SE Asia rocks. Thai food is fucking great, the prices are cheap, the weather is good (once you adapt to the heat, that is) and the people friendly. I'm heading back that way, just doing it overland :) I think I'll hang around a year or so, if I can wrangle the visas.
I had a similar idea myself for my travels.
Ah, excellent, thanks.
I thought US gas was heavily subsidised anyway; at least, the price you pay there seems cheaper than anywhere else in the world.
Well, if you're a business customer anyway (and who else wants that many?) then they've had that for years. We ordered 120 desktops and just sent them the image we wanted on the hard drive, the sent a test machine to confirm it was good (it wasn't, they sent another with corrections, it was) and then all the rest we shipped directly to the offices that needed them.
Yes, I've called them repeatedly for servers within the same price range, as well as desktops in a cheaper range. I have spoken to an Indian every single time. Personally, this doesn't bother me though; the service they gave was fine, their English was fine, so for me it's no problem. They were just as clueless as most tech support is, but that's not the point; just demand what you actually need until they give it to you :)
Side note - I was calling from NZ instead, so I would be surprised were I to speak to someone in Texas...
Hmmm... If you were feeling like playing devils advocate, you could suggest that the situation is the same with Windows... Of course I would never say such a thing!
Why don't you just use adblock to block the script? It isn't just limited to blocking the advert images you know...
"In normal mode, 34 patterns are used (of which 8 are random). These patterns were recommended in an article from Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz) entitled "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory".
Time has had George Bush as the Person of the Year. Not to mention Hitler and Stalin. I don't really care _who_ they put as the Person of the Year now.
While most of your post makes sense, it looses some for missing this part in the gp - "(and after working there, I could have predicted this a long time ago)". I'm visiting India next year, and am looking forward to it. I can see for myself then :)
But if you aren't working in the country in question, why is this even a problem? I'm in Europe on a tourist visa, but am working for a company back in New Zealand at the moment. As far as I'm aware, this is no violation of my visa. I guess the question is, if he's making the money on the net, where is he earning the money? Presumably the Japanese authorities have decided that he's making the money there.
So, so true.
While I was forced to study maths as part of my degree, I still think it was a waste of my time. Talking to my Head of Department before I left, he said it was purely a method to weed out those who would be poor CS students, when they didn't have the funding to cover all students, based on the fact that good maths students often == good CS students. Basically, you don't need mathematics for most computer science subjects. It's a complete waste of your time, avoid it if you can.
Oh, I don't know. The war on terror is unwinnable by definition, so you'll be fighting at least one war against terrorists forever...
I was stuck trying to decide whether you should be modded insightful or funny... So I decided to post instead. Sorry.
If you read your GP, the post makes more sense. They weren't attacking the java sets, they were attacking windows.forms; which is not, last time I looked, particularly cross platform...
Of course you can. We developed speech, but we were able to think before then. Thought has enabled language, not the other way around.
Yeah, sometimes my inner grammar nazi plays up. I wonder if you can get therapy for it?
Guess I failed on that not commenting thing...