Too many jobs!

[d000hg]

If you study electronics you don't just do maths though. Saying the maths is easier is moronic (it was Sas after all), you use the relevant parts of maths just like any other engineering discipline.

Electronics people have to all kinds of other stuff like what the bands on resistors mean

[sasguru]

If you study electronics you don't just do maths though. Saying the maths is easier is moronic (it was Sas after all), you use the relevant parts of maths just like any other engineering discipline.

Well you complete cretin, the OP was comparing the Maths parts of an Electronics degree to that required of Computer Science, my point being that the Maths requirement for neither is particularly onerous.

[xoggoth]

Agree with Beans (the bit I could be arsed to read anyway). You will never get an exact match of requirements and candidates at any time in any area but shortage drives salaries and a perception of high salaries entices more people into the professsion.

If you rush to fill every short term gap from outside, because of course they do not leave when there is no shortage, you destroy the dynamics of our economy. If they do leave they take their expertise with them. How many decades before we are struggling to compete with India's aircraft industry I wonder?

[sasguru]

Of course it is.

It's Applied Maths, dumbo.

You know, stuff that's actually of some use to someone rather that abstract crap that no one will care about for another 3 centuries for designing Warp Drive MkII (assuming that you lot haven't blown yerselves up by then of course, under which circumstance merely counting to twenty will come in handy).

All applied maths was pure once - the reason it is useful is that mathematicians have used rigour and abstraction to make it fool proof.

[milanbenes]

How many decades before we are struggling to compete with India's aircraft industry I wonder?

Agree with Xog (the bit I could be arsed to read anyway).


Milan.

[Mich the Tester]

Agree with Xog (the bit I could be arsed to read anyway).


Milan.

Agree with milan. (the bit I could be arsed to read anyway)

[xoggoth]

my point being that the Maths requirement for neither is particularly onerous

Pretty onerous in my recollection (but we did PROPER degrees in those days) but anyway relevant to a real career which I think is what d00000000000000gh was saying.

[milanbenes]

Xog and Zeity,

can you two use slide rules ?

what on earth are they for ?

Milan.

[RichardCranium]

Agree with Solzenytzin. (the bit I could be arsed to read anyway)

[Mich the Tester]

Xog and Zeity,

can you two use slide rules ?

what on earth are they for ?

Milan.

I bet Malc and Gricer could find a use for them.