Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 05:37:52 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <02ba01c1a6ec$62983740$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123223104.SM01952@there> <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020124213809.00e6e5d0@localhost> <20020125131659.GB7374@hades.hell.gr> <3C51CD33.4E69B204@mindspring.com> <001b01c1a635$636a4170$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C5270E4.BF21F79B@mindspring.com> <011b01c1a659$fb98a670$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C52AB34.B8896C8D@mindspring.com> <018c01c1a675$f3dcc1c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C534259.A20067B2@mindspring.com>
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Terry writes: > You mean anecdotally. Empirically would mean > you had some conclusive evidence you could share. No. "Empirically" means "based on experience"--mine, in this case. > Can you back this statement up? See above. > Have you ever heard the words "metastable" > or "fractal"? Yes, but they don't apply in this context. > I said it was an emergent property; this doesn't > mean that "a seemingly simple system is in fact > complex"; it means that complexity will appear, > eventually if not immediately. Either way, it has nothing to do with my statement that greater complexity tends to correlate with greater instability. > You don't act as if it makes no difference to you. > You act as if you are heavily invested in the > status quo. I simply present an alternate viewpoint for those considering the matter. > ... I'm not prepared to grant that the > systems installed from CDROM are "production > systems" ... I've no doubt that many FreeBSD production systems, including mine, are installed from a CD-ROM, whether you are prepared to grant this or not. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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