Fwd: Re: Entangled monolith? [was: Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems]

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 20:15:30 UTC 2014


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-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: Entangled monolith? [was: Re: GR proposed re: choice of 
init systems]
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:13:06 -0400
From: Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>
To: Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com>

On 10/20/2014 02:00 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
> 2014/10/20 23:07 "Andrei POPESCU" <andreimpopescu at gmail.com
> <mailto:andreimpopescu at gmail.com>>:
>  >
>  > On Sb, 18 oct 14, 01:12:11, Steve Litt wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Whoa guys, slow down on the generalizations. Don't assume everyone uses
>  > > KDE4. Two years ago I kicked KDE, in its entirety, libraries and all,
>  > > off all my computers. It's an entangled monolith and a danger to
>  > > computing.
>  >
>  > I must be misunderstanding something, but how can a monolith be
>  > entangled (in itself if I understood the meaning of the above)?
>
> Hi, Andrei,
>
> Can I turn the question upside down?
>
> Would one expect the parts of a monolith to refrain from knowing too
> much about each other?

With regards to the 2001 monolith, it knew EVERYTHING, including the
answer to "42". We still haven't progressed much from the ape with a
thighbone, where the answer to "What?" is <smash!> :) <cackles> Ric



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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
Linux user# 44256






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