[mikhael]

Well, boys and girls, the inevitible has happened. I've been laid off. Evidently the mathematics caught up to me: my salary was 1/6th of the engineering budget for a bankrupt company, and I am 1/10th of the engineering staff. In real numbers, that means that I got more than 26K/yr more than the average engineering staffer. So, they let me go.

This means that my website (hardly ever updated) is no longer up. It means that my email address has changed. Use [email protected] until further notice. It means that I no longer have a place to upload models for projects like the 158th or any of the other little side projects I'm working with. It also means that I might actually have more time to do Freespace related stuff. I can dream, right? Of course, it also means that I can spend more time on my education (whooohoo: 96 on my first C++ test, btw).

Anyway, I just thought you lot needed to know (those who care anyway. ).

[saturn114]

hey i got a good server if you need one to host your stuff
and  check out this post
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,10312.0.html

its  about a  good idea i came up with this mornin
im thinking about  making and putting up a huge  database store of mpeg and divx files of shows we watch

[LtNarol]

sorry to hear that my friend...new email added.  grab me on AIM or ICQ sometime.

[an0n]

How much space/bandwidth does yer site use?

[mikhael]

thanks for the offers of space, but I'm not looking for hosting or anything. there's more than 17gig of data between the two servers (30gig of combined drive space) and 12 users. I'll find a new colocation and put my machines back on line that way.

I just wanted to let you lot know the score, so you didn't think I'd died or something. :-D

[an0n]

Hmmmmm.

*may be able to get/rent Mikhael a server but will need to talk to Kam about it first*

What kinda bandwidth does yer site use and what kinda price-range are you looking for?

[mikhael]

Preferably, the server would have to reside locally, an0n. It'll be fine. Any job that I'm likely to get will host the servers for me. Webhosting/application-hosting is the main part of my job skills (though unix administration is what I prefer to do).  Thanks for the offer, but don't worry about it.

[an0n]

Hmmmm. Unix administration you say? Linux-like operating system you say?

Iiiiinteresting.

*goes to scheme*

[saturn114]

sounds  cool heh being a admin is the thing to do

[mikhael]

Originally posted by saturn114
sounds  cool heh being a admin is the thing to do

No, its very much not--at least in my area. Programmers are in demand, but admins are suddenly a dime a dozen. With Lucent, Nortel and IBM laying off people in my area (some of these companies are on their third round!), systems administrators are thick on the ground.

I'm seriously considering plumbing or carpentry. At least those lot have unions to protect them. Of course there's always the flipside of unionisation. *heh*

[CP5670]

How about getting into pure mathematics?

[mikhael]

Originally posted by CP5670
How about getting into pure mathematics?

Well, considering I'm no Taniyama or Feynman or the like, I'm not likely to get the sort of position that makes one a profitible mathematician. Heck, we're talking mathematics, my friend: the ONLY 100%, always sure, always true, always accurate thing in the entire universe. I can't even be a mathematical fraud: its too easy to detect (unlike, say, physics).

[an0n]

Yeah. Maths is really perfect. Find me the root of -1.

[an0n]

And no, CP, it's not friggin 1i.

[Knight Templar]

well MS's calculator is sure dumb.. "invalid output or function"

[mikhael]

Originally posted by an0n
Yeah. Maths is really perfect. Find me the root of -1.

Um, which root of -1? square root, cube? what? I mean, at least form a real question.

[CP5670]

Well, considering I'm no Taniyama or Feynman or the like, I'm not likely to get the sort of position that makes one a profitible mathematician. Heck, we're talking mathematics, my friend: the ONLY 100%, always sure, always true, always accurate thing in the entire universe. I can't even be a mathematical fraud: its too easy to detect (unlike, say, physics).

That is exactly why I find it so great. I personally will almost definitely be going into the field later on (asymptotic analysis in particular); even the best professorship around is not going to make a whole lot of money, and the competition is very high, but the subject itself is too great to pass up.

Actually the easiest place to become an academic fraud and get away with it is probably this literary criticism; you can write just about any smart-sounding garbage and anyone will accept it.

Yeah. Maths is really perfect. Find me the root of -1.

uh...the nth root is e^{2pi k/n} where k varies from 0 to n-1 to give the n distinct roots.

[an0n]

Okay, give me the root of -1 without making reference to imaginary numbers.

[CP5670]

What order? -1 can have real roots under certain conditions, but they are never principal roots.

[Kamikaze]

/me is very confused

How/where do you learn these terms/techniques/whatnos anyway?