begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:19:35AM -0700: > On 7/19/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I think you're making a good case for the problem being /intractable/. > > > >Many decidable problems are intractable. > > Yawn. Sigh. Yawn yourself. The whole mess was worthwhile of your yawns from the very start. Why is it of interest that a complicated system with lots of interactions turns out to be, well, complicated?
"Look, this complicated system is extremely complicated! This is news!" The only interesting thing about the (original) article was that the "simplifications" made the problem /more/ difficult (if more amenable to analysis), and how the conclusions drawn from the mathematical model weren't overly applicable to the real world. Sigh indeed. > How pedantic. Yes I know, I know. But Jesus man do you > realize at all what a tiny audience you have decided to > address with this distinction? If you can't or don't care about the distinction, then don't use the term in the first place. Just say "It's hard" and be done with it. > All I really need is some sleep. I must be sick to > respond to this sort of thing. Or I pushed a button. /me shrugs -- Nothing wrong with pedantry, else we should call GPL software "freeware". Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
