+ the Old Royal Observatory at Greenwich (next to the Maritime Museum, anyway)
+ Gawking at Buckingham Palace
+ day trips to Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh.
That should keep him busy.
Is there other more obscure geek stuff? What about the Royal Institution?
Also remember that it is polite to end all requests for assistance with the expression "yawanka" (meaning "if you would be so kind"). As in "Can you tell me the way to the Tower of London, yawanka?".
Here in Denmark, "the Danish Bernie Madoff", Stein Bagger, just got 7 years. Of course he only
swindled about 150 million dollars, so proportionately he got off worse.
Back in the day...
I did my PhD work on a university-wide mainframe which cam equipped with a seriously dubious scheduling algorithm and a whole lot of quota restrictions on job queues, job output queues, cpu usage etc. The critical parameter was the five-minutes-cpu per job limit. The only way to get around this was the self-resubmitting job which, when it got to 4:30 minutes cpu, would write its state to disc and resubmit itself using the written state as input. The fun, of course, was avoiding creating a rabbit job which would reproduce itself uncontrollably bringing the entire university's theoretical research program to a grinding halt. Oh happy days.
Hollerith constants
Equivalences
Computed Gotos
Arithmetic Ifs
Common blocks
There were worse things, horrible things... dirty tricks you could play to get the most out of limited memory, or to bypass Fortran's historical lack of pointers and data structures.
Long live Fortran! ('cause you know it's never going to go away)
Didn't most of the tricks just boil down to "Define one big integer array in a common block and then pack all your data, whatever its type, into that"?
All my PhD research was done with code like that. It was mostly written by my supervisor years and years before even that and I never actually learned how it worked.
Sad, but not new. I was privately educated in the 70s/80s and I can assure you that "teaching to the test" was alive and kicking then. I actually think it was worse in humanities subjects than the sciences. I managed fantastic results in, for example, English and French, without any appreciation of literature or any ability to speak or understand French. But I could recognise a subjunctive in either language at 50 paces.
With regard to maths, I don't see why this is necessarily true. Given the limited amount of time in the school curriculum, I would have thought it would be quite possible to change the relative emphases given to geometry, algebra & calculus, probability and statistics, and discrete mathematics to reflect changing fashions and needs. I remember doing groups & fields in the 6th form but I don't think I would have been profoundly disadvantaged if we had used the time instead to learn, say, some of the elements of complex analysis.
Do you mean it becomes a contract when the payment is accepted by the advertiser? If so, I wonder what constitutes "accepting payment" in an electronic transaction. Is there relevant case law?
This discussion reminds me a little of my first graduate-level class in magnetohydrodynamics. I was the only person in the room who'd never taken a class in fluid dynamics. Oops.
Weirdly enough, I ended up doing a PhD in... magnetohydrodynamics.
I think this is a really bad choice (though a very interesting book). You won't find the heat equation, the wave equation, the Helmholtz equation, the Navier-Stokes equation etc. anywhere in there.
I has lunch with Arnol'd once. Funny guy, great expositor.
Thinking about the original question, wouldn't the whole of Landau & Lifschitz be a good place to start? There definitely needs to be a good fluid dynamics text in there somewhere - in my day Batchelor was popular but I wonder if that's too old-fashioned nowadays.
My advice would be to start with the Head First book and then do the Sun Certified Java Programmer course. That'll give you a piece of paper which proves that you understand the basics of Java programming better than 90% of the "hotshots" out there with their fancy "frameworks" and "IDEs".
Then go out and learn how to write webapps with struts and eclipse, and maybe an ejb3 persistence layer for added brownie points.
If that isn't enough to get you a job where you can get somebody else to pay you to take your skills to the next level then you're doing something wrong.
Sounds like a common problem.
I haven't experienced this myself, but my wife has been to courses where she has asked "How do I do X?" questions and the answer has been "We could tell you that, but then you wouldn't have to buy our consultancy services, would you?" (possible phrased more subtly).
I think it's a bad analogy. Proofs are the building blocks of mathematics. The building blocks of history are primary sources. Neither should be quoted in full in a general-purpose encyclopedia, although outline-proofs or short quotations from primary sources are ok where appropriate. Citations are essential in _all_ articles.
Everybody who doesn't understand container formats should smash their computers? Well I'm ok then. But I wouldn't know a carburettor from a carbohydrate so I guess I'd better smash my car.
Ok, but I'm not "a guitarist". I'm just a guy with a couple of guitars and no particular talent or ear for music. Once in a while I like to fool around with my guitars, and right now I'm even taking lessons once a week, but that's about it. An electric tuner lets me tune faster and more accurately than I could do by ear and I don't really much care if that makes me less of a musician because I never claimed to be one in the first place.
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FoxyProxy extension works fine in 3.5 if you need an alternative.
+ Gawking at Buckingham Palace
+ day trips to Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh.
That should keep him busy.
Is there other more obscure geek stuff? What about the Royal Institution?
Also remember that it is polite to end all requests for assistance with the expression "yawanka" (meaning "if you would be so kind"). As in "Can you tell me the way to the Tower of London, yawanka?".
Also remember that in England you hail a bus or train by standing _in front of it_ and waving your arms violently up and down.
Here in Denmark, "the Danish Bernie Madoff", Stein Bagger, just got 7 years. Of course he only swindled about 150 million dollars, so proportionately he got off worse.
+ one reasonably prestigious university
I, for one, welcome our new Jewish-Asian Hybrid Overlords.
Back in the day ...
I did my PhD work on a university-wide mainframe which cam equipped with a seriously dubious scheduling algorithm and a whole lot of quota restrictions on job queues, job output queues, cpu usage etc. The critical parameter was the five-minutes-cpu per job limit. The only way to get around this was the self-resubmitting job which, when it got to 4:30 minutes cpu, would write its state to disc and resubmit itself using the written state as input. The fun, of course, was avoiding creating a rabbit job which would reproduce itself uncontrollably bringing the entire university's theoretical research program to a grinding halt. Oh happy days.
Hollerith constants Equivalences Computed Gotos Arithmetic Ifs Common blocks
There were worse things, horrible things... dirty tricks you could play to get the most out of limited memory, or to bypass Fortran's historical lack of pointers and data structures.
Long live Fortran! ('cause you know it's never going to go away)
Didn't most of the tricks just boil down to "Define one big integer array in a common block and then pack all your data, whatever its type, into that"? All my PhD research was done with code like that. It was mostly written by my supervisor years and years before even that and I never actually learned how it worked.
Sad, but not new. I was privately educated in the 70s/80s and I can assure you that "teaching to the test" was alive and kicking then. I actually think it was worse in humanities subjects than the sciences. I managed fantastic results in, for example, English and French, without any appreciation of literature or any ability to speak or understand French. But I could recognise a subjunctive in either language at 50 paces.
With regard to maths, I don't see why this is necessarily true. Given the limited amount of time in the school curriculum, I would have thought it would be quite possible to change the relative emphases given to geometry, algebra & calculus, probability and statistics, and discrete mathematics to reflect changing fashions and needs. I remember doing groups & fields in the 6th form but I don't think I would have been profoundly disadvantaged if we had used the time instead to learn, say, some of the elements of complex analysis.
Four miles! Assuming that the school is situated four miles south of the north pole.
mid-19th Century, according to an old episode of QI I was watching at the weekend.
Do you mean it becomes a contract when the payment is accepted by the advertiser? If so, I wonder what constitutes "accepting payment" in an electronic transaction. Is there relevant case law?
This discussion reminds me a little of my first graduate-level class in magnetohydrodynamics. I was the only person in the room who'd never taken a class in fluid dynamics. Oops. Weirdly enough, I ended up doing a PhD in ... magnetohydrodynamics.
I think this is a really bad choice (though a very interesting book). You won't find the heat equation, the wave equation, the Helmholtz equation, the Navier-Stokes equation etc. anywhere in there.
Thinking about the original question, wouldn't the whole of Landau & Lifschitz be a good place to start? There definitely needs to be a good fluid dynamics text in there somewhere - in my day Batchelor was popular but I wonder if that's too old-fashioned nowadays.
My advice would be to start with the Head First book and then do the Sun Certified Java Programmer course. That'll give you a piece of paper which proves that you understand the basics of Java programming better than 90% of the "hotshots" out there with their fancy "frameworks" and "IDEs".
Then go out and learn how to write webapps with struts and eclipse, and maybe an ejb3 persistence layer for added brownie points.
If that isn't enough to get you a job where you can get somebody else to pay you to take your skills to the next level then you're doing something wrong.
The "Where?" is important, but the "Select" and "From" are equally important.
Sounds like a common problem. I haven't experienced this myself, but my wife has been to courses where she has asked "How do I do X?" questions and the answer has been "We could tell you that, but then you wouldn't have to buy our consultancy services, would you?" (possible phrased more subtly).
... not to be confused with European Conference on Digital Libraries, which functions at a _slightly_ higher level.
I think it's a bad analogy. Proofs are the building blocks of mathematics. The building blocks of history are primary sources. Neither should be quoted in full in a general-purpose encyclopedia, although outline-proofs or short quotations from primary sources are ok where appropriate. Citations are essential in _all_ articles.
Everybody who doesn't understand container formats should smash their computers? Well I'm ok then. But I wouldn't know a carburettor from a carbohydrate so I guess I'd better smash my car.
Well that gets rid of Stephen Hawking, for a start.
Ok, but I'm not "a guitarist". I'm just a guy with a couple of guitars and no particular talent or ear for music. Once in a while I like to fool around with my guitars, and right now I'm even taking lessons once a week, but that's about it. An electric tuner lets me tune faster and more accurately than I could do by ear and I don't really much care if that makes me less of a musician because I never claimed to be one in the first place.