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Douglas Adams, author of the awesome Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy, died
yesterday from a heart attack. I loved his "trilogy" of Hitchhiker books,
and he will definitly be missed.
The New York Times has an interesting column on a $3,000
computer back in 1981. It was a 4.77- MHz Intel 8088 with 64 kilobytes of
memory. It's absolutly amazing how much cheaper and faster computing power has
changed over the years. Now you can get a 1.5 GHz Intel chip with 512 MB of
memory for under $3,000. And it keeps getting cheaper.
Here's an interesting dilema: Two people get to divide $1000. Person A gets to
decide how the $1000 should be divided between them. Person B gets to decide
whether that division is acceptable. If Person B rejects it, however, no-one
gets anything.
So what do you do? Person B could reject the money if he felt person A was
insulting him by only giving him like $1. However even if person A recieves more
money, B still might take a 60/40 split because $400 is better than nothing.
There are no right answers, but it's just one of those problems that gets you
thinking.
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