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Re: [opensuse] Release Notes and SuSEguide
- From: pmoellon <mop48836@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:54:05 +0100
- Message-id: <433ABC9D.7040802@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
houghi wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:04:16PM +0100, pmoellon wrote:
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>>(BTW, houghi, the boolean "or" was a diplomatic "and-and" ;-)
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>Great. A lot of the times I see people looking at solutions in an OR kind
>of way. I try to not do this myself and sometimes it works. :-)
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>houghi
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You are damn right...
Anyway, the linguistic "OR" is usually interpreted as a boolean "XOR":
either one or other. In computing, "OR" means "one, other, or both" -
that was the diplomacy to work better all together.
Having twice the field for finding solutions is doubling the chances to
have one. :-)
Patrick
>On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:04:16PM +0100, pmoellon wrote:
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>>(BTW, houghi, the boolean "or" was a diplomatic "and-and" ;-)
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>Great. A lot of the times I see people looking at solutions in an OR kind
>of way. I try to not do this myself and sometimes it works. :-)
>
>houghi
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You are damn right...
Anyway, the linguistic "OR" is usually interpreted as a boolean "XOR":
either one or other. In computing, "OR" means "one, other, or both" -
that was the diplomacy to work better all together.
Having twice the field for finding solutions is doubling the chances to
have one. :-)
Patrick
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