It doesn't *have* to be humans that are doing the engineering, does it? Couldn't we, at some point in the future, have AI performing engineering?
Granted at this stage of technological process it seems a bit far fetched, but that may not be the case in the future. If computers are driving cars and winning game shows, there could be some point where computers can not only initiate engineering tasks, but solve them and perform QA as well.
human contestant: "What is the 1920s?"
(wrong answer)
watson: "What is the 1920s?"
(wrong answer)
Yeah, I really want AI or computers to perform engineering in the future.
In their early days Byte and Kilobaud had lots of interesting, technical content. I became a 6502 fan because of these mags.
Sadly, Byte ditched its technical content and devolved into nothing but reviews. Its death caused no sadness. I predict that Real Soon Now the new Byte will follow the old Byte into oblivion.
ms patented clumsy. It's a part of every ms product.
"I hated the way it laid out figures/tables."
Then don't let'em float.
"All in all, Word has its faults but WYSIWYG was a godsend and I never regretted using it for my thesis."
After having learned LaTeX six or seven years ago, I took an oath *never* to create another Word document as long as I live. LaTeX is like Unix and Linux: hard to learn and easy to use. Word (and all ms products) are the opposite: easy to learn and hard to use.
I use LaTeX under Linux and have an incredible wealth of free products (xfig, grace, ps2epsi, convert, many others) which help me be very productive and easily create gorgeous documents. I can't imagine using anything but LaTeX for typesetting equations.
My biggest LaTeX document so far has 51.eps includes and is about 100 pages long. I set up make so that if any include file or.tex file changes, all I have to do is type "make" and I have a new.pdf file. How could anything be simpler?
Dude. We had two E10Ks and had to swap out *all* the processors (e-cache problem). Now we have two F15s. Got'em just last fall and we've already had to swap out *ALL* the CPUs. Again. Even a microsoft user could see the pattern.
Last week a stick of memory failed and crashed the whole stinking domain.
Reliability? I think not, and I'm (sort of) a fan of Sun.
I don't think Sun will be around in the long term for any of a number of reasons.
When I was a BSEE undergraduate, I had to endure Kreyszig's "Advanced Engineering Mathematics". It is a horrible book if you're trying to learn differential equations.
A much, much better book is "Applied Differential
Equations" by Murray R. Spiegel.
Slashdot Mirror
It doesn't *have* to be humans that are doing the engineering, does it? Couldn't we, at some point in the future, have AI performing engineering?
Granted at this stage of technological process it seems a bit far fetched, but that may not be the case in the future. If computers are driving cars and winning game shows, there could be some point where computers can not only initiate engineering tasks, but solve them and perform QA as well.
human contestant: "What is the 1920s?"
(wrong answer)
watson: "What is the 1920s?"
(wrong answer)
Yeah, I really want AI or computers to perform engineering in the future.
The folks in India won't care how hot or cold it is in the data centers over here.
More importantly, when a man and woman in Arkansas get divorced, are they still first cousins?
No, they are still siblings.
I mean, what's at the outer edge? A wall?
Yes, a brick wall guarded by a very mean dog. Nobody knows what's at the other end.
(Apologies to whoever said that first...)
In their early days Byte and Kilobaud had lots of interesting, technical content. I became a 6502 fan because of these mags.
Sadly, Byte ditched its technical content and devolved into nothing but reviews. Its death caused no sadness. I predict that Real Soon Now the new Byte will follow the old Byte into oblivion.
R.I.P., old Byte.
42
"but to me LaTeX was too clumsy"
.eps includes and is about 100 pages long. I set up make so that if any include file or .tex file changes, all I have to do is type "make" and I have a new .pdf file. How could anything be simpler?
ms patented clumsy. It's a part of every ms product.
"I hated the way it laid out figures/tables."
Then don't let'em float.
"All in all, Word has its faults but WYSIWYG was a godsend and I never regretted using it for my thesis."
After having learned LaTeX six or seven years ago, I took an oath *never* to create another Word document as long as I live. LaTeX is like Unix and Linux: hard to learn and easy to use. Word (and all ms products) are the opposite: easy to learn and hard to use.
I use LaTeX under Linux and have an incredible wealth of free products (xfig, grace, ps2epsi, convert, many others) which help me be very productive and easily create gorgeous documents. I can't imagine using anything but LaTeX for typesetting equations.
My biggest LaTeX document so far has 51
Long live Professor Knuth and LaTeX!
Dude. We had two E10Ks and had to swap out *all* the processors (e-cache problem). Now we have two
F15s. Got'em just last fall and we've already had to swap out *ALL* the CPUs. Again. Even a microsoft user could see the pattern.
Last week a stick of memory failed and crashed the whole stinking domain.
Reliability? I think not, and I'm (sort of) a fan of Sun.
I don't think Sun will be around in the long term for any of a number of reasons.
If this ever lives on a Sun box, can the default PLEASE not be ascii??? Sun, please get a clue on this!
When I was a BSEE undergraduate, I had to endure Kreyszig's "Advanced Engineering Mathematics". It is a horrible book if you're trying to learn differential equations. A much, much better book is "Applied Differential Equations" by Murray R. Spiegel.