On Monday 29 August 2011 at 14:22 Alexander Peshkov wrote: > > Paul, telling true I've also not understood a humor. May be that's > because I and Adriano are not native english speakers? >
Probably :-) I can't say for other langauges but irony is used a lot in english. When we say someone or something is really clever we usually mean the opposite. This way we avoid actually saying that data=writeback is idiotic and the inventor of this was a moron. Although I have to say that the Torvalds quote made me laugh. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Specialists in Firebird support ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
