Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Apr 2002

...
  -----Original Message-----
 From: Raymond Moyers [mailto:rmoyers@nop.org] 
...
   And today you have enough hardware in a PC box to
support
  5,000 people doing the same thing, not that your lust for faster
  hardware is over, because unix is doing things that Ken and Dennis
  never envisioned. 
It's a shame that it has so much power, and yet is so poorly engineered,
but I don't' suppose that's the point here.

...
   ""If we prevent them from doing stupid
things, we also prevent
  them from doing creative things""  -   Cant Remember Who 
But abstaining from stupid things is not the same as preventing others
...
 from doing them.  In other words, it can't hurt to
be careful what you do, yourself, and to make the judgment whether this thing which
you're
about to do is actually worth, for instance, a sacrifice of consistency.

...
   And these new things are seem seemless because the
system
  concepts are extensable with flexability in depth 
Seamless is a very relative term, but ok, I'll go with that.

...
   Winblows by contrast has the depth of  leftist reason
and
  the flexability of a socialist utopian machine gunner setting up
  40 paces from a fresh dug mass grave ditch.
  and like winblows, equal use and benifit to you if your aim 
 and desire
  dont fit with theirs. 
Wow, you're really down on these "leftists," aren't you.  I'm
certainly
glad I've never met one ;)  They sound scary, especially if they're 
that much like windows.

...
   Flexability is freedom, freedom gives birth to
creativity. 
...which leads to new ideas, which lead, of course, to cheese.

In other words, you may want to be more clear about your logic here.
Even though I agree in principle with the above, it's very sensational,
and there's nothing to support it.

...
   True or false dont matter ?  you really would make a
good leftist
  ( called liberal today, even as the real liberal is the opposite of a
  leftist, its George Orwells newspeak, todays liberals are 
 not liberals
  they are leftists, perhaps Marxocrat would be a good label ) 
I really hope you're not trying to make this into a more political 
discussion than it is now.

...
     It is not
the plumbing -- it is what goes down the pipe   that needs to
 >  be standarded! 
...
   This is wrong, to do so would eliminate creativity.

I don't think so.  The fact that the standard exists, and is 
generally followed, doesn't prevent somebody from making a new
standard or an extension to the old one where necessary.

...
   New protocols are invented every day, the usefull
ones end up
  being adopted and the bad ones on the ashheap. 
It would be great if it did work that way -- now who's being 
utopian? ;)

...
   On a 2 button mouse, you press both buttons to
simulate
  button 3,  it works smoothly and perfectly well. 
You _can_ with XFree86, and friends.  I certainly hope you don't think
that those are the only X servers available.  Some servers (while being
very nice programs) don't have this feature.

For the sake of argument I'll assume that you know all of this already,
and point out that you could also use keys on the keyboard, if you so 
desire.  I have done it before while using a Macintosh one-button mouse.

...
   still suffreing the leftist egalitarian poison that
has 
 raped the planet
  of man potential.  ( and left 200 million of its citizens in 
 mass graves ) 
Ack -- not the leftists again!

...
   we can get along back to the accent of man. 
What kind of accent does man have?  I hope it's not southern.

Chris

Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'