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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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