On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:33:22 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Tom wrote: > >>On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:44:26AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >> >> >>>On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:03:33PM -0800, Tom wrote: >>> >>> >>>>God, I hate dicking with the kernel. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Did God answer you on this complaint? >>> >>> >> >>God uses Windows. Didn't you know that? >> >> > God doesn't use base-2 computing systems; He uses base-4 systems; and > they're not based on silicon, but on dexoyribonucleic acids. And instead > of grouping the operands as bytes, He groups them as codons (triplets). > And by the judicious use of noops (mistaken until recently as "junk > DNA"), the code does some really neat regulation processes, preventing > the overproduction of proteins in certain cases. And I've heard that by > shifting the start bit, a routine can take on an entirely different > function (thus having two modules on one bit of code - which is an > incredible concept), but I'm not sure about this one. And the code sits > on, and reproduces, its own machine on which to run. Really awesome > programming and machine design. We _wish_ we could do a tenth as well > with our systems. Maybe some day -- "like father, like son" (or daughter > - no sexism intended here, folks).
Nevertheless, He did write the original specification for binary comms with a suggestion for error handling: "let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation" -- James 5:12, KJV -- ....................paul "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, Winner of British Plain English Campaign's 2003 "Foot in Mouth" award. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
