[24316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vijay Gill)
Tue Jun 15 19:12:22 1999
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:11:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vijay Gill <wrath@cs.umbc.edu>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: danny@qwest.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199906152237.PAA14672@kitty.kotovnik.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> (As a side note - i find the ignorance of engineering professionals about
> basic facts of the underlying science quite alarming; i guess the american
> educational system puts too much emphasis on skills and too little on the
> broader cirriculum, particularly mathematics. The very fact that engineering
> people tend to dismiss logical conclusions as opinions, instead of trying
> to find flaws in the logic, is a clear indicator of the absymal state of
> overall comprehension of the scientific methodology).
This bears reiteration. When I was in college, I learned a lot about
statistics, which aside from being fun in an abstract way, I thought I'd
never ever use that in my day job.
Wrong.
/vijay
