Re: I had to say it because I was afraid no one else would

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:21 PM, John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Leonard C. Porrello
> <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- soleratec -dot- com> wrote:
> > Because "other-than-normal stoppage" is an inevitability for most (all?)
> > systems, I expect that my very expensive, new and shiny system will
> > recover itself gracefully even in the case of other than normal
> > stoppage. This is behavior I would consider "normal". And while I
>
> Wanna bridge?
>
> This isn't a matter of shiny brand new hardware. It's a matter of old,
> dull, spaghetti code software. I've never met a piece of hardware that
> without software, ever did anything, graceful or otherwise.
>

I've got a hydraulic jack in my garage that lowers itself quite gracefully
without one byte of code. (Lifting things with the jack is not so graceful,
but it's efficient)

-Wendy
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