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Re: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?

  • From: Vijay Gill
  • Date: Tue Jun 15 19:12:20 1999

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