On Feb 20, 2008 7:15 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. You have a strange idea of pretty clear if you alone understood that. At least three of us didn't. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
