Re: Intelligence & Creativity
jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:34:18 -0400 (EDT)
How fast is the train travelling? Too fast.
Though Mike's answer is more mathematically correct, I'm sure you'll all
buy into the existential validity of my answer. Not that I want a copy of
Win98. It's kind a like giving out Syphalus. Now if you were to give out
a free copy of RedHat Linux, now that would be a prize. No, wait, no it
wouldn't . . . Linux is free anyway.
Personally, I think MicroSoft Employees aren't necessarily dumb, I
think they suffer from bad Process, and perhaps too much release pressure.
I interviewed there, good tough interview. Got the offer, turned it down.
Wanted a life outside of the Redmond compound. Average MS employee at the
time was working 80 hours a week. Of course if I'd have taken the stock
options alone I'd be a millionair 1.3 times over. My youth was not worth
the cash trade if you ask me.
-j
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 Mike42082@aol.com wrote:
> I'm only 17, so bear with me.
>
> Since you can backtrack, and meet the train at the end of the bridge, you can
> also go another fourth of the length of the bridge in the other direction
> which would put you directly in the middle of the bridge when the train
> reaches the first end of the bridge.
>
> In the time that it takes you to run the last half of the bridge, the train
> travels the entire length of the bridge. Thus, 1 length of the bridge,
> divided by 1/2 the length of the bridge, equals 2. In other words, the train
> is travelling twice as fast as you.
>
> Mike
>