From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 10 10:54:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA04817 for current-outgoing; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 10:54:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA04807 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 10:54:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA16187; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 11:49:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602101849.LAA16187@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FS PATCHES: THE NEXT GENERATION To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 11:49:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, julian@ref.tfs.com, phk@critter.tfs.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <23417.823939098@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 9, 96 11:58:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > And I suppose both of you feel that seat belts, and those who wear > them, are old fuddy-duddy throw-backs to the age of the horse and > buggy. "We don't support the idea of seat belts," says Terry Lambert. > "Furthermore, we've eliminated the steering wheel and break pedal, > replacing them with an advanced full voice command system. Sure, it > often takes a couple of minutes to get it to pay attention to your > screams of ``AIGH! STOP! STOP!!!'' but progress is worth such > sacrifices." I wouldn't go so far as to eliminate seatbelts. But since a two channel military grade GPS with key and generator is accurate to much less than a car width, I do think automated driver systems are feasible, and should probably be built. I'm happy to be lumped into the same category as DMR and the Plan9 "fanatics" in your book. When given the choice between evolutionary (with not much progress) and revolutionary (with not much grandfathering of obsolete crap), I *do* tend to pick revolutionary. Consider me a counterbalance. Not that I think your anaology holds water or anything. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.