On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:12:38PM -0700, Justin Banks wrote: > It's not perfect, but as was recently pointed out, if you can only get > 98% of the way there rather than 100% is that a reason for not trying to > make it possible?
BTW, that's a fine example of a common fallacy: "$FOO is 98% of the way to $TARGET" does not allow to interpolate the properties of $TARGET to those of $FOO. Telling that a condom is a 98% approximation to platonic ideal of such is not particulary useful, especially if it turns out that what this number really means is that there's a hole on its tip covering 2% of surface... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/