[PD-dev] outlet_anything() & threads [OT]

[Chris McCormick]

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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