Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:57:45 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro Message-ID: <20110331005745.470ff183.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110330194154.GA76616@guilt.hydra> References: <0148AA41-E800-477F-94BF-2D27E864053F@adelaide.edu.au> <20110329212348.GI2281@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110329213936.GA84631@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20110330000007.99a555cf.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110329192319.319dc40f@scorpio> <20110330014820.84d5cf27.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110329235614.GJ2281@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110330020917.ba2af8eb.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110330151026.GB75845@guilt.hydra> <20110330154523.GA33883@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110330194154.GA76616@guilt.hydra>
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:41:54 -0600, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: > > > > > > We were speaking in analogies here, where the car *is* the operating > > > system -- so I think if it said "1/0" it would be more accurate to > > > say the "car" would crash. > > > > It's uncertain whether the car would crash, or run infinitely. > > Mathematically, that seems to be the case, but implementations tend to > result in crashy behavior -- or, quite often, raise exceptions. We're talking about a car. It doesn't raise exceptions, it simply explodes! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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