From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 26 20:38: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2315337B41E for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:37:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0R4bqr14718; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 05:37:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <02ba01c1a6ec$62983740$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Terry Lambert" Cc: 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> Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 05:37:52 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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