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Re: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?


From: Vijay Gill <wrath () cs umbc edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:11:25 -0400 (EDT)


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






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