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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:19:57 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>, 'Mitsuru IWASAKI' <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>, yb@sainte-barbe.org, acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Subject:   Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815
Message-ID:  <3D6C415D.7483B754@mindspring.com>
References:  <B9ECACBD6885D5119ADC00508B68C1EA0D19B71B@orsmsx107.jf.intel.com> <3D6BF4E6.9B441A6B@mindspring.com> <20020828024604.GA4653@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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David Schultz wrote:
> > So the worst possible outcome in the failure case is that it
> > fails -- which it already does, without the assumption -- and
> > the best possible outcome is that it succeeds when it wouldn't
> > have.
> >
> > "Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't"
> 
> Sometimes.  But see http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/DWIM.html

I understand, but having a different failure is no worse than
having a failure, I think.  In either case, it doesn't work,
even if it doesn't work in an entirely different way.


| Everyone knows that dragons don't exist.  But while this simplistic
| formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the
| scientific mind.  The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact
| wholly unconcerned with what does exist.  Indeed, the banality of
| existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to
| discuss it any further here.  The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the
| problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the
| mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical.  They were all,
| one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely
| different way ...
|                 -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"

8-).

-- Terry

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