On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 06:17:04PM -0500, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > > > It is an old joke , but the more people in the room the dumber it gets. >
Having grown up on a sheep farm, I can say this definitely applies to sheep. An individual sheep is quite difficult to control, and I have a lot of respect for its intelligence. Sheep in mobs, on the other hand, are gobsmackingly stupid, and it only requires a man and his dog to control a mob of a hundred animals... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
