English humor.

When asked by the teacher to give the difference between an active verb and a passive verb a student answered: “The main difference between them is that an active verb shows action and a passive verb shows passion (страсть)”.

Why did the student answer incorrectly? Did he know the rules of word-building? (passive ad.-passivity n.)

– Did the foreman (мастер) show you round and tell you what your work would be? – asked the owner of a large works, when addressing a new employee.

– Yes, sir, he told me to wake him up when I see you coming, so I must go, sir.

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“There is nothing more tragic in life than the impossibility of changing what you have done”. (J. Galsworthy)

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper and your self-confidence”. (R. Frost)

“Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he doesn’t show to anybody”. (M.Twain)

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Automation Starts with Men

Automation is the result of months and years of planning by engineers using computers, by the way. Automation begins with a team of highly skilled men, automation experts, programmers. They consult with the people who run a factory about the type of operation desired. They prepare a master plan. After the green light is given on the master plan, there are months of detail planning. A medium or large computer is brought in to help solving so some of the complicated problems. One of its tasks will be to keep track of production scheduling and inventory control. When you have hundreds of machines working on thousands of items every day, it becomes impossible for human clerks to keep things under control. In the first place, you would have to have too many clerks. In the second place, ever with enough clerks, they could not possibly get together and integrate-combine their information fast enough to do any good. What is needed it is a controller robot. It can receive masses of information in a short time and come up with new requirements-parts, machines, raw materials, men.

Расскажите о применении автоматики на предприятиях пищевой промышленности.

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