Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> As you know perfectly well, you have deleted the lines where I >> actually described my philosophy. > > the entirely of the rest of that post, karl, reads as follows: > > "The latter takes 1 brain cell, and 2 hours of my computer's time. > Using jigdo has taken 100,000 of my brain cells so far, > and will probably take 15 minutes to run when I get it running. > Present rate of exchange: 1 brain cell = 1 hour computer time." > > there is absolutely nothing there that describes a "philosophy" in > any way, shape or form. Oxford English Dictionary: philosophy 3 "a theory or attitude that guides one’s behaviour". Incidentally, while I was wrong to say the 2 lines in question were not adjacent, it was perfectly clear that the "philosophy" I was referring to was that above, namely that I would prefer a method that takes me less time to understand as against one that takes my computer less time to complete. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
