From: rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez)
To: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: How do sockets works? (Bsd, Sun, NeXT)
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 91 7:35:31 EDT
>
> >Geek joke: Why did the plane taking off from Warsaw crash?
> > Too many poles in the right half of the plane.
>
> This isn't the first time I've seen this joke. What does the punchline
> mean?
Its a control theory joke. If the poles of a control loop are in the
right half of the complex plane, then the system is unstable.
Awful, no?
How about this one:
you: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a grape?
the victim: I dunno
you: Elephant grape sin theta. What do you get when you cross
an elephant with a dandelion?
the victim: Uh..
you: Elephant dandelion sin theta. What do you get when you
cross an elephant with a mountain climber?
the victim: Wait.. uh.. elephant mountain climber sin theta?
you: Of course not! You can't cross an elephant with a mountain
climber.... a mountain climber is a scaler! (scalar.. vector
cross products.. get it?)
-Roger
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