HAL must die!
Chip Camden
sterling at camdensoftware.com
Wed Mar 16 15:11:01 UTC 2011
Quoth Robert Huff on Wednesday, 16 March 2011:
> Erich Dollansky writes:
>
> > > The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
> > > choose from.
> >
> > when it comes to screwing, we use - at least outside the USA -
> > metric screws. M3, M4 ... M10 ...
> >
> > We do not care much who manufactured them.
> >
> > The software industry is still far away from this.
>
> ... in part, because the definition of a "screw" is not yet
> fixed.
>
Microsoft seems to understand the definition of "screw" well enough for
its own purposes. The rest of us just don't like being on the receiving
end of it.
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