From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 22:40:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D33106564A for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:40:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy2-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy2-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.39.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 184528FC13 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7354 invoked by uid 0); 30 Mar 2011 22:39:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 30 Mar 2011 22:39:26 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=kvrAqcH9UVKCCf/2i8pn3W/wlUQeJgXetXiy6dMAXgk3ecTgVBuFS4lcXrTeWxC3Jx8dxGpFN60bIV7NVSxjWBw9AKjOAkp8JAHhB0SL+DiqWQqRdCW503/jXa8LWkNn; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q51Sz-0003np-Iu for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:54:10 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:41:54 -0600 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:41:54 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20110330194154.GA76616@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD References: <0148AA41-E800-477F-94BF-2D27E864053F@adelaide.edu.au> <20110329212348.GI2281@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110329213936.GA84631@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20110330000007.99a555cf.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110329192319.319dc40f@scorpio> <20110330014820.84d5cf27.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110329235614.GJ2281@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110330020917.ba2af8eb.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110330151026.GB75845@guilt.hydra> <20110330154523.GA33883@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110330154523.GA33883@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:40:43 -0000 --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: > >=20 > > We were speaking in analogies here, where the car *is* the operating > > system -- so I think if it said "1/0" it would be more accurate to > > say the "car" would crash. >=20 > It's uncertain whether the car would crash, or run infinitely. Mathematically, that seems to be the case, but implementations tend to result in crashy behavior -- or, quite often, raise exceptions. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk2Th4IACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKV3AQCcDlnvXQgKFV4NVysyFiMO71wQ HmwAoLW0TzShnpFRcCMgB4wYGnVk2V1q =qJIG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx--