OT: How many mathematicians...

Programmers: "None, that's a hardware problem." Hardware engineers: "None, we'll just fix it in software."

;-) Rich

Hardware: 'The light bulb was obviously not properly specified'

Software: 'The light bulb control was not properly specified'

Cheers

PeteS

"rtngw" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@example.net...

How many do you need to find the bulb in the dark room anyway?

petrus bitbyter

Ah! At last somebody's paying attention to the helical ridges and grooves of the light bulb's connecting part, and worrying about

thread safety.

(Sorry: couldn't resist. I'll go take my medication now.)

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:57:23 -0600, John Fields Gave us:

I had a work associate at one time that called them "Dark Suckers" instead of "light bulbs". :-]

On 30 Oct 2006 23:14:51 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com Gave us:

Do you really think we'd get so many major contract bids if we operated that way?

In Cincinnati (Evendale) General Electric workers got quite angry a decade or so ago about how so many of their jet engine components were being "outsourced" to other local machine shops and other alternate sources. That's a union shop though.

GE knows how to change light bulbs real good. Probably ONE guy with a salary and a house and cars and everything where that is all he does all day long throughout all the plant structures.

On 31 Oct 2006 13:27:47 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com Gave us:

You'll be happy to see those nice young men with their clean white bulbs.

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:11:50 +0100, "petrus bitbyter" Gave us:

It could very well be a room with windows in broad daylight. Still, the bulb needs changing.

For the mathematician, would not having light, and being able to then calculate be worse? (time wise, at least)

The question isn't how many would it take, but how long would it take, and how badly would that time requisite scale up as one added each additional mathematician?

Never been there. So, tell us all about your experience at the asylum. ;-)

Did they give you lots and lots of paper to go ahead and attempt to re-derive Dirac's equation?

Cheers! Rich

Wasnt It, JoeBloe Who Sputtered and Spewed:

In the Navy, when it comes time to get transferred, one can fill out a request for desired duty stations, called a "Dream Sheet", cause youre dreaming if you think youre gonna get your first choice! Anyway, once I noticed that there is a billet for a Chief (E-7) Electrician in the White House, whose sole job is to change the light bulbs throughout the mansion.

Dream Job, indeed

N.S.N.S.

Wasnt It, ***ME*** Who Sputtered and Spewed:

I stand corrected. THIS is the 'dream job' of changing light bulbs!

N.S.N.S.

Dream job? You want to climb up and down a ladder all day, swapping out light bulbs in the wind and rain and sleet and traffic and all that?

I wouldn't do that for less than steeplejack pay.

Cheers! Rich

Wrongly Attempting Independent Thought, Richard The Dreaded Libertarian Sputtered and Spewed:

Did you read the article? The boy is making $190,000/yr for 'swapping out light bulbs in the wind and rain and sleet and traffic'

How much does steeplejacking pay?

N.S.N.S.

Ladder? Who said anything about ladders?

So, how does "steeplejack pay" compare to this guy's 91,000 pounds a year?

ObPuzzle: compose an interesting anagram of the following sentence: Followups directed to rec.puzzles.

========================================================= Ian Smith is a street and traffic light engineer for Birmingham City Council, who reportedly gets a basic salary of 71,000 pounds plus annual bonuses amounting to 20,000 pounds.

His generous salary terms -- which include 15,000 pounds for being on standby -- were in the spotlight after payroll documents were leaked to the Daily Mirror newspaper, which splashed the story with the headling "You Watt?"

The annual pay package for Smith -- who is also a long-standing union official -- makes him better paid than Birmingham Council leader Mike Whitby, who earns 67,000 pounds a year, the tabloid pointed out. =========================================================

Ian Smith is probably making more of a contribution to society than Mike Whitby.

No. they form a corporation, get millions in venture capital backing, rape the funding having parties, hire an illegal alien to actually do the work, stiff the worker, go bankrupt, close the company and claim success and satisfied customers, and walk away with ill gotten gains with nobody to blame `cause the work got done. 100% republican they are.

Back in the day, i got all four first choice postings. I am glad i got first instead of second choice in one case, 'cause petty officer Cundy (a classmate of mine) on board the USS Towers got killed when rudder control failed during underway replenishment.

And that is what 40 years of Labor party and rampant trade unionism will get you. BTW if housing weren't far worse than where i live i would take that job, even at its effective low pay for the housing market there.