Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 09:42:37 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, "Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@labs.gr>, "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <a0510102eb8378219d7a4@[10.0.1.16]> In-Reply-To: <01ef01c17fbf$6c549c50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15377.37214.213789.306335@guru.mired.org> <00c901c17f9f$e80a95e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011208043931.GA27716@hades.hell.gr> <00fd01c17fa9$ccf20c20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011208053552.GC28300@hades.hell.gr> <013201c17fab$fc6e3260$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a05101013b83761131a48@[10.0.1.16]> <018001c17fb5$1837e910$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a05101021b83771bf0275@[10.0.1.16]> <01ef01c17fbf$6c549c50$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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At 9:07 AM +0100 on 2001/12/08, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >> Well, you had not provided this information >> in your original scenario. > > You assumed that I was speaking of a desktop as furniture, rather than > within the context of a computer operating system? That seems like an odd > assumption, in a mailing list devoted to discussion of a computer operating > system. That's the sort of thing that happens in the real world. Some people see words like "desktop" and they automatically assume that everyone will share their personal private definition of this term, and the reality is that this is not true. In this particular case, it was your omission of the word "computer" that confused me. You said "desktop" when you should have said "desktop computer". When concocting totally arbitrary and asinine hypothetical situations in the future, you would do well to remember that it would be very useful to be omniscient as well, so that you can know precisely what basic terms may need to be defined and provide a suitably bizarre description, so that your masterpiece cannot be picked apart on initial inspection. >> Indeed, since you prohibit the possibility >> of ever gaining additional information on the >> subject, it simply is impossible to make a >> proper recommendation. > > There's nothing impossible about it. People do this all the time. Not in your hypothetical situation they don't. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> H4sICIFgXzsCA2RtYS1zaWcAPVHLbsMwDDvXX0H0kkvbfxiwVw8FCmzAzqqj1F4dy7CdBfn7 Kc6wmyGRFEnvvxiWQoCvqI7RSWTcfGXQNqCUAnfIU+AT8OZ/GCNjRVlH0bKpguJkxiITZqes MxwpSucyDJzXxQEUe/ihgXqJXUXwD9ajB6NHonLmNrUSK9nacHQnH097szO74xFXqtlbT3il wMsBz5cnfCR5cEmci0Rj9u/jqBbPeES1I4PeFBXPUIT1XDSOuutFXylzrQvGyboWstCoQZyP dxX4dLx0eauFe1x9puhoi0Ao1omEJo+BZ6XLVNaVpWiKekxN0VK2VMpmAy+Bk7ZV4SO+p1L/ uErNRS/qH2iFU+iNOtbcmVt9N16lfF7tLv9FXNj8AiyNcOi1AQAA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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