Expensive unreliability

September 9, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XVIII: It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Pet-friendly travel:
http://www.bringfido.com/

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 

Software and entropy

September 8, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XVII: Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Old SF:
http://www.oldsf.org/#

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 

2054 aircraft

September 7, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
IoT search engine:
https://www.shodan.io

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 

Last 10 percent

September 7, 2016
Augstine'sAugstine's Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Hidden worlds of national parks:
https://artsandculture.withgoogle.com/en-us/

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 

No more plane crashes

September 6, 2016

Augstine's Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Moving balls:
http://www.haneke.net/

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 

Highly successful businesses

September 5, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XIII: There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Website info:
http://builtwith.com/

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 

Cinderella off the team

September 4, 2016
Cinderella thrown off the basketball team because she ran away from the ball.

Website 4 the day:
Hamster butts:
https://twitter.com/9GAG/status/767036031975694336

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 

Cost of bad products

September 2, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XII: It costs a lot to build bad products.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Hot glue hacks:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IahCw6plBhs

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 

Rotating Earth faster

September 1, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XI: If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
See pages Google cached:
http://cachedview.com/

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 

Fight winners

August 31, 2016
Augstine's Law Number X: Bulls do not win bullfights; people do. People do not win people fights; lawyers do.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Free USGS Quads:
http://www.natgeomaps.com/trail-maps/pdf-quads

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 
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