From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Aug 13 14:16:49 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 13 Aug 2001 21:16:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 45602 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2001 21:14:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Aug 2001 21:14:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2001 21:14:33 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15WP2d-0003xi-00 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:14:31 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:14:31 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] New to lojban, any suggestions? Message-ID: <20010813141431.T9477@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <10c.4035bc3.28a999b7@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10c.4035bc3.28a999b7@aol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i From: Robin Lee Powell On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 04:59:35PM -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 8/13/2001 3:18:10 PM Central Daylight Time, > jay.kominek@colorado.edu writes: > > > > And many of the programs I run on my linux box are physically > > > > impossible on a Win* box. The OS doesn't support the > > > > functionality. > > > > > > Your final claim is interesting. Since it is prima facie unlikely > > > is there there real evidence (beyond "I don't know how to do it") > > > for it. > > > > Oh. Thats rich. > > > > Using AOL (oh, and programming in, what, Fortran 40 years ago? I > > forget, and can't find, your exact claim), does not exactly equip > > you to be a competent judge of what features of Unix (an operating > > system you've never programmed anything on. If I'm wrong, please, > > correct me rudely.), can or cannot be made to exist on Windows (an > > operating system you've never programmed anything on. If I'm wrong, > > please, correct me rudely.). > > > > I've seen references to the fact that you're an academic of some > > sort. Tell me, what happens to someone who starts publishing papers > > with wild claims outside their field of expertise? > > > Note that I did not make a claim but asked a question, to which I got > the answer "No one knows how to do this one thing" which did not > answer the question asked. It was an example. You're clear on the concept, yes? You said that my claim that there is functionality in Linux that Win* doesn't support was 'unlikely'. I gave you an example. It's not a matter of "I don't know how to do it". It's a matter of "It's impossible without altering the OS or programming in machine language to get around the OS". Counter-example. QED. If you have evidence I'm wrong, produce it. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/