HAL must die!

[Chip Camden]

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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