Time Diver

A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat." "Is the man of the house home?", they asked. "No", she said. "He's out." "Then we cannot come in", they replied. In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go tell them I am home and invite them in!" The woman went out and invited the men in. "We do not go into a House together," they replied. "Why is that?" she wanted to know. One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, "He is Success and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home." The woman went in and told her husban...

Persoalan yang cukup menarik bagi ahli matematik sampai saat ini ialah persoalan TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem), yang dikenal sebagai NP complete problem (Non-Polynomial Complete Problem) dan TSP juga dikenal oleh ahli matematika sebagai persoalan yang bandel ("Stubborn resistance to all kinds of attack"). Pemecahan TSP memerlukan waktu yang amat banyak. Sebagai contoh untuk soal yang sederhana yaitu n=50 maka diperlukan 65 x 1065 langkah pemecahan.

Di kalangan mereka yang sedang gandrung MP3, nama Seitzer dan Gerhauser mungkin tak berdering di kepala. Tapi harap tahu, merekalah yang mengawali kemungkinan MP3 menerobos ke mana-mana. Tak ada yang menyangka sama sekali: tahun lalu 'MP3' mengambil alih posisi 'sex' sebagai kata yang paling banyak dicari di Internet. Tak seorang pun (mungkin kecuali bos 'Playboy', Hugh Hefner) yang lebih terkejut dibandingkan dengan Dieter Seitzer dan Heinz Gerhauser. Dua orang inilah yang mengawal pengembangan format musik digital MP3 di Fraunhofer Institute, Erlangen, Jerman. MP3 memang menakjubkan. Ada banyak format untuk musik rekaman di Web, tapi MP3-lah sejauh ini yang paling populer -- dalam waktu yang sangat singkat. Salah satu perkiraan mutakhir menyebut jumlah musik berformat MP3 yang ditaruh di Internet mencapai setengah juta.

A child was crying. His father was trying to distract him to no avail. "I don't want to wear these torn out shoes. The child screamed inconsolably. "ALL my classmates wear new pair of shoes. they run like deer and laugh at pointing to my shoes." The child said innocently. The father was a poor man with limited means. He wanted his child to be happy and contended with whatever he had, but assured that he Will get a new pair of shoes the next month. when the child was adamant, the father told the boy that he would get them repaired. The child felt happy as he thought the cobbler wont repair his shoes as they were beyond repair.