Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> But yes, I have used named pipes in Unix before, and they can be 
>> surprisingly handy for some things. Kind of annoying in that (at least 
>> back then) the locking/exclusion semantics made things difficult. 
>> Difficult enough I wound up writing a socket listener instead and 
>> replaced the I/O stuff with libraries to talk to the sockets.
> 
>   I don't know why, but somehow you always succeed in doing two things:
> 
> 1) Whenever someone belittles Windows, especially on its API and its
> capabilities, for example by saying that Windows does not support this
> or that, you almost always have a counter-argument ready, telling that
> Windows *does* support it. (And even if the support is extremely hard
> for a regular user to use, while the same feature in eg. linux is rather
> simple to use, you still manage to make it *sound* like it's a completely
> trivial thing to do in Windows as well, even if it really isn't.)
> 
> 2) Whenever someone exalts unix in general or linux in particular, and
> this is something which is absolutely undeniable, you often aknowledge
> it, but *still* manage to somehow find something negative about it, making
> it sound less useful. (While I'm not doubting your honesty, it often is
> something which is rather difficult to verify in a few minutes, especially
> for someone who is not thoroughly acquainted with the internal workings of
> unix/linux/posix, which sometimes just feels too convenient.)
> 
>   I'm not saying that what you are saying is not true. I just sometimes
> get the feeling that you make things sound more positive or negative than
> they really are, on purpose.
> 
So, he does this in other conversations too, not just ones on economics? lol

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void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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