Evening Reading

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Doh, had a few things sneak up on me! Here we go!

- Torrent in Opera, maybe Torrent will make its way into FireFox next?
- Phone companies huffing over bandwidth and websites
- Parking lot ads making people emo
- Dude, GPS darts

Lastly, looks like Apple is doing some shuffling on iPod pricing (LOLOL)

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    February 7, 2006 8:05 PM

    Couldn't even finish my Calculus test today, 12 problems, 1 hour, I finished 10 =(

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      February 7, 2006 8:06 PM

      What was it on?

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        February 7, 2006 8:10 PM

        It's embarassing to say, but it's Business Cal and it was on matrices, after talking to my classmates after the test, I found out that I spent 15 minutes trying to solve a "No Solution" with Gaussian deduction. The other problem I had left was another Gaussian deduction, I started that and got to the same point as the "No Solution" before time was up.

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      February 7, 2006 8:07 PM

      Calculus was made by the devil!

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      February 7, 2006 8:10 PM

      which calculus?
      what type of material was covered?

      sometimes professors put more problems on a test than most students can finish on purpose and curve it according to how your peers did.

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        February 7, 2006 8:13 PM

        Yeah, but if it's one of those really mean pricks of a profession, he'd just end up failing 90% of the class instead.

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      February 7, 2006 8:13 PM

      and let me add the only reason I got out of Computer Science was all of the math courses, yet even in a business major I'm still stalked by the shit.

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        February 7, 2006 8:16 PM

        I enjoy math, just not doing it (the really hard ones at least). But I appreciate all it's given humanity.

        I was an ISM major and it was the comsci stuff that killed me. Being a "computer analyst" is not as challenging as being an economic analyst or accountant. It's a like a new challenege each time I do work and there's always room to improve and in the world of public accounting the rules change every year.

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        February 7, 2006 8:48 PM

        CS only goes up to calc II

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          February 7, 2006 8:49 PM

          Not everywhere, we have to take through 3 along with all sorts of other math classes (finite, etc)

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          February 7, 2006 8:51 PM

          CS here requires Calc 1-3, Diffeq (Calc 4 really), Stats, and Linear Algebra. Get a free math minor out of it though. Fuck, I need to file for that already...

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          February 7, 2006 8:52 PM

          I had to do:
          Math 100 & 101 (Differentiation and Integrals and such)
          Math 202 (Multi-variate calculus and differential equations)
          Math 233a (Linear Algebra)
          Math 122 & 222 (Finite and Combinatorial Mathematics)
          Stats 265 (Statistics for Engineering and Sciences)
          CSC 340 (Numerical Methods)

          That last one wasn't really a math course so it doesn't count I guess. But there was definitely a lot of math in my first few years of my degree.

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      February 7, 2006 8:15 PM

      37 is the new 91

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      February 7, 2006 8:18 PM

      I always did bad in math. Especially Calc. Hasn't hurt me though. At least...not that I know of.... :\

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        February 7, 2006 8:23 PM

        Math destroys everything I love.

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        February 7, 2006 8:28 PM

        Im TERRIBLE at math!

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        February 7, 2006 8:44 PM

        Lol you don't know how far behind you are because you can't calculate it.

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        February 7, 2006 8:53 PM

        Math of any kind is by far my least favorite academic subject. Drives me nuts. Don't enjoy it in the least.

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