On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:10:18PM +0100, padawan12 wrote:
As a scientist I love the company of my scientist friends. We can chat to the early morning sun about electrical fields and the properties of quarks. When with the mathematicians we never lose a moment to stroke our beards over Euler and Riemann. Oh and the practical japes I enjoy with my engineer chums in the HE physics lab.
But my engineer buddies for all the great things they've built never got anything reliable enough to work for long. Fortunately the scientists know how to fix it, they're still waiting for some results to come in but they reckon they've achieved perfection, at least on paper. My mathematical mates have an elegant proof of this discrepancy, something to do with the set of all sets that don't include themselves as subsets.
Anyway it's not as if we can't all work together. Between us we've discovered that if offered the choice of a one or five year warranty on a device built to last exactly 13 months, 90% of the time I will opt for the service contract thus achieving the optimal transfer of money from my pocket to elsewhere.
I probably deserved that. I'm not predjudiced - some of my best friends are engineers. ;)
Psyenz 2 th4 m4x,
Chris.
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