At 02:30 PM 12/18/2001, you wrote: >Windows 2000 is really quite good. Linux is good too, (and it is _still_ >inferior to the least powerful commercial unix).
I'm impressed that you're not trying to tell me that Windows 2000 is far better than anything that Linux could ever come up with and that anyone who thinks that Windows is bad should DIE DIE DIE (or similarly for Linux). I appreciate that. Thanks. I agree that Windows 2000 is good. It's my Windows of choice when I need to use Windows (well, depending... sometimes I prefer Win98). Linux is good for server applications, but the desktop support is just not there yet. >But that is not the issue. You create a significantly advanced (and >probably slightly bug prone) system that is designed to make a better >system. That system should hopefully be bug free (if the original >programmers didn't f%&^ up severely). That system in turn creates an >even more advanced system that should be even more bug free (because >computers are not prone to the kinds of mistakes that humans make). Even >if that system was just a pure rewrite of itself, that should be enough >to create a perfect system within a few iterations. Run the system for a >few hundred thousand iterations (just to be sure) and you would have a >system that became infalliable. Also that system would become more and >more efficient with each iteration. An OS has millions of lines of code, and each iteration of the OS includes more and more lines of code (remember when Windows was just a shell overlaying DOS and could fit on a single floppy? Kids these days, I tell ya). No system can be perfect, because no system (and no system developer, even if that system developer is the system itself) can possibly anticipate every need that will arise. The human brain has been in development for hundreds of thousands of years, after all, and is still really in beta. Want to trade AI URL's? One of my favorites is the Singularity Institute: http://www.singinst.org/ Sliante, Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exup�ry "Push the button, Max!"
