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Article #375Re: Hardware for new Linux box
From: David Damerell
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:00
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Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote: >Robin Smith <smithrc@zdbaora.nat.bt.com> doodled in uk.comp.os.linux: >>Bollocks, the phrase "Device Speed is always a function of temperature" is >>wrong. "temperature is a function of device speed" is correct. >An inverse function is also a function, as long as ranges, domains and non- >smooth bits are sorted out. Eh, it depends. To a mathematician, perhaps; but I think in this context 'X is a function of Y' implies a relationship where Y causes X in some way. -- David/Kirsty Damerell. damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/ w.sp.lic.#pi<largestprime>.2106 |___| "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc." Confessed Mercrediphile. |___| | | | Or, in Klingon: "nucharghqangbogh chaH DISopchu' 'e' wItIv." | | |
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,57abaeb217d681cb X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,57abaeb217d681cb X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Subject: Re: Hardware for new Linux box Date: 1999/11/18 Message-ID: <7Lt*+nqdo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> X-Deja-AN: 550134886 References: <942201399snz@siberia.demon.co.uk> <80ttgr$1aq2@gamma.dmz-eu.st.com> <x2emdp17uo.fsf@zdbaora.nat.bt.com> <slrn837n23.dfg.piglet@pigsty.td.micromuse.co.uk> Organization: Linux Unlimited Reply-To: damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,demon.tech.pc Originator: damerell@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk ([127.0.0.1])