Re: SMP/cc Cluster description [was Linux/Pro]

Davide Libenzi
2001-12-05T23:27:08Z

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:13:04PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > Oh, I agree with that. There is no doubt of that, I thought that was fairly
> > > apparent. We aren't arguing about "what" we are arguing about "how". You
> > > are saying "I can take the path explored before and do it better" and I'm
> > > saying "Maybe, but extremely unlikely given history. It's far more likely
> > > that you'll repeat history by ignoring it, a time honored tradition, albeit
> > > ill-advised."
> >
> > Larry, I'd like to remember You that science progress has been made by
> > people that forced common knowledge, starting from Platone spherical earth
> > up to Einstain theory of relativity.
> > A lot of failures sure, but a single success is enough to pay out.
>
> How about you go read Einstein's history and show me where he made
> discoveries by retracing paths which had been shown time and again to
> be fruitless? You'll look for quite a while.

You're a funny guy Larry, suggesting other people to go for reading
something that, until now, I gave for sure that You've read before
suggesting someone else to read.
At that time there was a bunch of Phisics gurus saying that conventional
law of mechanins would apply even for sub-atomical particles.
Thanks god Albert decided to prove that maybe these guys where wrong.

- Davide