I was in your situation (except it was after I spent almost 6 years in grad. school, although I did get a MS out of it). If you are so inclined, consider software test. You get to define and execute tests (just like physics), point out mistakes in other people's work (so you maintain your better-than-thou attitude you culture after years as a math-physics student) and generally get paid better than college professors and post-docs. Of course, you have to work to break through the "don't have your CS degree" misperception that some employers have. But even in this economy, the smart companies have an even greater need for software testers, because when you lay off a few developers, the remaining ones will be working that much harder, with less time. Do you really think they'll be generating fewer bugs?
Interestingly, I just went back to graduate school myself. I'm working on a MS in Software Engineering. (Figured I'd get some "real" creds.) Hey, it's fun to be working full-time and also be a full-time student.
As I remember, they also only allowed the experts to don the diving bells in that episode. So presumably, they would be more capable of coping with any problems, and particularly less likely to panic if something started to go wrong.
After college, I had the chance to participate in the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), or the German Academic Exchange Service. I got the opportunity to work in Berlin at the PTB (their version of NIST) for the summer before I started graduate school.
I had also applied to DAAD for the previous summer (for between my junior and senior years), but they got back to me late by which time I had accepted another summer research opportunity in the States. If I had held out for that, I would have been working in Aachen at a nuclear physics institute, if I remember correctly.
When I participated, I got a reasonable monthly stipend which I was able to live off of month-to-month. Depending on the involvement of the local support group, you may have a lot of activities available to you or not. But the weekends are typically yours, so you can travel around Europe some then. And in Germany, I met participants who were there for nearly a year, so they were allowed to take a week-long vacation. And depending on the activity of the local chapter, there may be many students there from other countries. I met people from at least 10 different countries during my summer.
Actually, regardless of my title above, you don't necessarily need to know German. Some of the other participants I met barely knew German, but still were there.
After a quick Google search, check www.daad.de for their web site (or www.daad.de/deutschland/en for the English version).
Based on the article, it appears that it has a little more flexibility that Dummynet. My understanding is that Dummynet can only do bandwidth throttling, fixed packet delay, and fixed packet loss rate, based on pseudo-random distribution. PacketSphere seems to add the ability to specific an action on every nth packet, can reorder packets in a controlled manner (vs. creating multiple pipes in Dummynet) and Gaussian-based delay rates. These are all things that would be great to see in dummynet. Of course, being that it is open software, I (or anyone else) could, but I hardly have enough time to use the current functionality in dummynet!
It all depends on the kids and how they are raised. My mother comments that for quite some time, when I would play a game, we would continue playing after the "first winner" so that there would be a "second winner" and so on. Apparently, after I started playing games with my cousins, that concept fell by the wayside.
Now, not all games allow that, such as chess (defeat your opponent's king) or Monopoly (bankrupt your opponents). However, two games that do are Life and Careers. (Based on what I found on the Web, Careers may not even be sold any more, so the rules for it can be found here.) The purpose of Careers was to be the first player to achieve "success" which was based on a formula each player would set for themselves at the beginning of the game. Each would have to get a set amount of money, fame and happiness. So even if your opponents have more money than you, you could win because you achieved goal first. Then others could continue to play. The same with Life: even if others haven't reached Millionaire Acres yet, they can continue to play.
The point is that most games define rules for only one winner. It is up to the participants to allow others to "win" as well.
I will state up front that I have no personal experience with any of the TI graphing calculators. Part of that may be that whenever I would try to do something with one at a store I got nowhere. But I guess that speaks to simply having to get to know whatever calculator you get.
That aside, the HP has a few things in favor for it:
Durability - generally, HP's are built to last. More than a few of my professors were still using their HP12's that they had purchased years before. And the HP48 has a similar durable construction.
Cross-platform - from a quick perusal of TI's website, I gather that you need a Mac or Windows box to connect the TI to a computer. With the HP48, any computer that has a serial port and a working version of either kermit or zmodem and you can upload and download programs/data to the calculator. I.e., it will work with your favorite free-nix.
Availability of programs - contrary to a previous poster's comment, there are plenty of programs available for the hp48. You have to remember that the hp48 has been around for almost a decade (with the hp28 as its predecessor), and there have been a lot of geeks writing and refining code for it all this time. Check out Yahoo!: http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Hardwa re/Calculators/Hewlett_Packard/HP_48. I'm not saying there are more programs than the TI, because I don't know that. I'm just saying that there are programs available.
Originality - while high school is a time where many try to fit in, it is always nice to set yourself apart. Use something that the rest of the class doesn't have. Plus, it will be less likely to be stolen (no one else will know how to use it) or even borrowed. And if you do move on into a technical field in college, you would have a leg up on knowing how to use an hp48 before all your new friends. Then you move from being the only one to the first.
Extended use - I got my hp48sx 6 years ago when I was in my first year of graduate school. I quickly discovered that I wished I had it through my 4 years in college, when I was doing so many derivatives and integrals and linear algebra. However, I discovered that it was extremely helpful in grading a stack of lab reports (I could enter the basic equation and run through many minor changes to variables' values quickly). I found it useful when I could program it to do repetitive operations on data (some preliminary, some not) when I couldn't get back to a "real" computer, and could plot trends, as well. And I am finding it useful now for calculating amortizations as I have been looking for a home, determining monthly payments under different time periods, interest rates and price ranges.
As to the price, sure, $160+ for a calculator is pretty steep. (Reflects first on-line price found for a HP-48GX. Could not find one quickly for a TI-??.) But, a quick check of eBay found 48SX's for $30-80 and 48gx's less than $150. (No idea what the final price may be.) But if you average this over a 5-year less-than-average life, you are looking at less than $40/year. Considering one of the previous posters seemed to be replacing a TI every year or so, this has to be a real savings.
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I was in your situation (except it was after I spent almost 6 years in grad. school, although I did get a MS out of it). If you are so inclined, consider software test. You get to define and execute tests (just like physics), point out mistakes in other people's work (so you maintain your better-than-thou attitude you culture after years as a math-physics student) and generally get paid better than college professors and post-docs. Of course, you have to work to break through the "don't have your CS degree" misperception that some employers have. But even in this economy, the smart companies have an even greater need for software testers, because when you lay off a few developers, the remaining ones will be working that much harder, with less time. Do you really think they'll be generating fewer bugs?
Interestingly, I just went back to graduate school myself. I'm working on a MS in Software Engineering. (Figured I'd get some "real" creds.) Hey, it's fun to be working full-time and also be a full-time student.
As I remember, they also only allowed the experts to don the diving bells in that episode. So presumably, they would be more capable of coping with any problems, and particularly less likely to panic if something started to go wrong.
After college, I had the chance to participate in the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), or the German Academic Exchange Service. I got the opportunity to work in Berlin at the PTB (their version of NIST) for the summer before I started graduate school. I had also applied to DAAD for the previous summer (for between my junior and senior years), but they got back to me late by which time I had accepted another summer research opportunity in the States. If I had held out for that, I would have been working in Aachen at a nuclear physics institute, if I remember correctly. When I participated, I got a reasonable monthly stipend which I was able to live off of month-to-month. Depending on the involvement of the local support group, you may have a lot of activities available to you or not. But the weekends are typically yours, so you can travel around Europe some then. And in Germany, I met participants who were there for nearly a year, so they were allowed to take a week-long vacation. And depending on the activity of the local chapter, there may be many students there from other countries. I met people from at least 10 different countries during my summer. Actually, regardless of my title above, you don't necessarily need to know German. Some of the other participants I met barely knew German, but still were there. After a quick Google search, check www.daad.de for their web site (or www.daad.de/deutschland/en for the English version).
So much for Microsoft being "innovative".
So if you do the math, that means the range is 172.16.0.0-172.31.255.255, which thus includes the addresses the previous poster stated.
Based on the article, it appears that it has a little more flexibility that Dummynet. My understanding is that Dummynet can only do bandwidth throttling, fixed packet delay, and fixed packet loss rate, based on pseudo-random distribution. PacketSphere seems to add the ability to specific an action on every nth packet, can reorder packets in a controlled manner (vs. creating multiple pipes in Dummynet) and Gaussian-based delay rates. These are all things that would be great to see in dummynet. Of course, being that it is open software, I (or anyone else) could, but I hardly have enough time to use the current functionality in dummynet!
Now, not all games allow that, such as chess (defeat your opponent's king) or Monopoly (bankrupt your opponents). However, two games that do are Life and Careers. (Based on what I found on the Web, Careers may not even be sold any more, so the rules for it can be found here.) The purpose of Careers was to be the first player to achieve "success" which was based on a formula each player would set for themselves at the beginning of the game. Each would have to get a set amount of money, fame and happiness. So even if your opponents have more money than you, you could win because you achieved goal first. Then others could continue to play. The same with Life: even if others haven't reached Millionaire Acres yet, they can continue to play.
The point is that most games define rules for only one winner. It is up to the participants to allow others to "win" as well.
I will state up front that I have no personal experience with any of the TI graphing calculators. Part of that may be that whenever I would try to do something with one at a store I got nowhere. But I guess that speaks to simply having to get to know whatever calculator you get.
a re/Calculators/Hewlett_Packard/HP_48. I'm not saying there are more programs than the TI, because I don't know that. I'm just saying that there are programs available.
That aside, the HP has a few things in favor for it:
Durability - generally, HP's are built to last. More than a few of my professors were still using their HP12's that they had purchased years before. And the HP48 has a similar durable construction.
Cross-platform - from a quick perusal of TI's website, I gather that you need a Mac or Windows box to connect the TI to a computer. With the HP48, any computer that has a serial port and a working version of either kermit or zmodem and you can upload and download programs/data to the calculator. I.e., it will work with your favorite free-nix.
Availability of programs - contrary to a previous poster's comment, there are plenty of programs available for the hp48. You have to remember that the hp48 has been around for almost a decade (with the hp28 as its predecessor), and there have been a lot of geeks writing and refining code for it all this time. Check out Yahoo!: http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Hardw
Originality - while high school is a time where many try to fit in, it is always nice to set yourself apart. Use something that the rest of the class doesn't have. Plus, it will be less likely to be stolen (no one else will know how to use it) or even borrowed. And if you do move on into a technical field in college, you would have a leg up on knowing how to use an hp48 before all your new friends. Then you move from being the only one to the first.
Extended use - I got my hp48sx 6 years ago when I was in my first year of graduate school. I quickly discovered that I wished I had it through my 4 years in college, when I was doing so many derivatives and integrals and linear algebra. However, I discovered that it was extremely helpful in grading a stack of lab reports (I could enter the basic equation and run through many minor changes to variables' values quickly). I found it useful when I could program it to do repetitive operations on data (some preliminary, some not) when I couldn't get back to a "real" computer, and could plot trends, as well. And I am finding it useful now for calculating amortizations as I have been looking for a home, determining monthly payments under different time periods, interest rates and price ranges.
As to the price, sure, $160+ for a calculator is pretty steep. (Reflects first on-line price found for a HP-48GX. Could not find one quickly for a TI-??.) But, a quick check of eBay found 48SX's for $30-80 and 48gx's less than $150. (No idea what the final price may be.) But if you average this over a 5-year less-than-average life, you are looking at less than $40/year. Considering one of the previous posters seemed to be replacing a TI every year or so, this has to be a real savings.
But, in the end, to each their own.