From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 9 23:59:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA26042 for current-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 23:59:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA26033 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 23:59:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA23419; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 23:58:18 -0800 To: Terry Lambert cc: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer), phk@critter.tfs.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FS PATCHES: THE NEXT GENERATION In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Feb 1996 14:03:24 MST." <199602092103.OAA11190@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 23:58:18 -0800 Message-ID: <23417.823939098@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I think that the principal of least astonishment has to be balanced against > > the problem of staying in the dark ages. > > Here here! Loud sigh. And I suppose both of you feel that seat belts, and those who wear them, are old fuddy-duddy throw-backs to the age of the horse and buggy. "We don't support the idea of seat belts," says Terry Lambert. "Furthermore, we've eliminated the steering wheel and break pedal, replacing them with an advanced full voice command system. Sure, it often takes a couple of minutes to get it to pay attention to your screams of ``AIGH! STOP! STOP!!!'' but progress is worth such sacrifices." :-) Jordan