Eh?
I'm having trouble seeing the IT angle in this story - unless 'the sum of six and 15' is it.
An Indian bride left her wedding ceremony after her gormless fiance failed to answer a simple maths question, it's being reported. Local police were called in to mediate the returning of gifts, including jewellery, which had been exchanged dowry-fashion between the families before the wedding. During the ceremony in Rasulabad …
>India, a country that produces many very very bright mathematicians, physicists and coders, and hosts famed technical technical colleges... and this gentleman restores the balance.
Nah, the groom appears to be Texan ... and has certainly applied for a job at the patent office, maybe ?
A single individual's mathematical ability is hardly ive of the country as a whole. If that was the case we'd be screwed, our prime minister and education secertary both decline to try and answer questions that are only ever so slightly harder.
Not that I'm keen on outsourcing to india but the issues are not to do with the employees abilities, or if they are that's a mangement issue employing the wrong people.
"... our prime minister and education secertary both decline to try and answer questions that are only ever so slightly harder.
Not that I'm keen on outsourcing to india but the issues are not to do with the employees abilities, or if they are that's a mangement issue employing the wrong people."
Outsourcing the Prime Minister might not be such a bad idea. He doesn't speak common Joe's language, doesn't understand the world we live in, won't show for TV debates (a concept he strongly pushed forward for the last general election), and hasn't achieved anything useful in 5 years.
How much more harm could be done by outsourcing him, really? Think about the savings for the tax payer, if we do that with a number of ministers and MPs! Most of the time they don't show up in Parliament either, so can as well set up a conference call instead!
"He's already been outsourced! He's a bloody Scot, and so where the previous two! I say give Scotland their independence, make them take Cameron and Brown and Blair, and put up a fence so that no-one, and especially those three, can come south ever again!"
I didn't realise UKIP supporters read the IT press. How are you getting on with all the big words?
She's cute enough, to my eye at least.
If we are going to run this allegory into the dirt, Pennywise would certainly represent the eeevil of short-sighted manglement, er, management ("The Mangler" was another Stephen King story) that insist on going cheap cheap cheap and then wondering why the whole network seems possessed. IIRC only silver (a decent budget) could stop the beast that was Pennywise's alter ego. (Caveat: I read the book many many snows ago, and the made-for-teevee movie was entirely disappointing.)
@ skeptical i
That's the old knock on adaptations of Stephen King stories, that they are great on paper, but disappointing in other media. I think that "The Dead Zone" was pretty good, and the Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption (and those last two were definitely not horror stories) were great, but other than that it is hard to think of a Stephen King film/TV series that was really good.
When the news items said "maths" I was expecting a question somewhat more advanced than elementary arithmetic.
Last week I was fixing a download problem for a friend. I did a quick mental guesstimate that its projected completion time in about an hour meant it was using the broadband connection to near enough full capacity. She thought that was mental magic. Rather surprised I reminded her that it was basically the old school arithmetic problem of "how long to fill a bath".
Rather surprised I reminded her that it was basically the old school arithmetic problem of "how long to fill a bath".
In this day and age half the people would then ask you what a bath was, as they only have showers...
Or if they're being smart, they ask if it's quicker to fill it from the top-down or the bottom-up ;)
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