When asked to your address, your answer begins with http:// Instead of calling you to dinner, your spouse sends e-mail. You chat with your fingers, not your mouth. You use Firefox 7, and you check every week whether version 8 was released. You know the difference between Java and Javascript. […]
Strange… I’ve never heard about that. It did work yesterday. How is this possible? The machine seems to have a malfunction. Has the operating system been updated? The user has made an error again. There is something wrong in your data. I have not touched that module! You must have […]
Theory is when you think you know something but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works but you don’t know why. Usually we combine theory and practice: nothing works and we don’t know why.
Theory tells you how a circuit works, not why it does not work. Not everything works according to the specs in the data book. Anything practical you learn will be obsolete before you use it, except the complex math, which you will never use. Always try to fix the hardware […]
Law 1: Every Software Engineer continues his state of chatting or forwarding mails unless he is assigned work by manager. Law 2: The rate of change in the software is directly proportional to the payment received from client and takes place at the quick rate as when deadline force is […]
Dilbert’s “Salary Theorem” states that “Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives, sales people, accountants and especially liberal arts majors.” This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following two well known postulates: Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power. Postulate 2: Time […]
There are four engineers travelling in a car; a mechanical engineer, a chemical engineer, an electrical engineer and a computer engineer. The car breaks down. “Sounds to me as if the pistons have seized. We’ll have to strip down the engine before we can get the car working again”, says […]
Five surgeons were taking a coffee break and discussing their work. The first said, “I think accountants are the easiest to operate on. You open them up and everything inside is numbered.” The second said, “I think librarians are the easiest to operate on. You open them up and […]
The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the green pigs who stole the Birds’ eggs. Use the unique destructive powers of the Angry Birds to lay waste to the pigs’ fortified castles. Angry Birds features hours of gameplay, challenging physics-based castle demolition, and […]
