Reply to: Too many jobs!

[Freamon]

The Bob to Local exchange rate for IT workers is still about 8:1, from what I've seen. Although 1 local might actually get you more useful output than 8 bobs (sometimes they just don't do the needful).

[OwlHoot]

It's been obvious for years slide rules would become a rarity. So over the years I've snapped up any I see in charity shops and such like, and now have a box full.

[xoggoth]

Slide rules? Never figured them out.

I am starting to kick myself for the things I threw away. I had one of the first HP calculators about £170 in early 70s. Bet it would be a worth a bit by now.

[hyperD]

u da man

have you met Malc ?

Milan.

He your sockie? He'll have to meet mine then.

[Churchill]

Not much use, it must be admitted, for adding.

Multiplying and dividing though, ace.

also

sin/cos
Logs
Roots

Depends what sort (and size) you have.

[milanbenes]

u da man

have you met Malc ?

Milan.

[hyperD]

Xog and Zeity,

can you two use slide rules ?

what on earth are they for ?

Milan.

Hey benesy, I can use a circular slide rule for calculating track vectors, airspeeds, climb/descents, flight time, distances, and fuel consumption calcs. I can even do this on my Navitimer.

[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.

[RichardCranium]

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

[milanbenes]

Xog and Zeity,

can you two use slide rules ?

what on earth are they for ?

Milan.

[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.

[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)

[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.

[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.

[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?