Subject: Re: 7 points user's memo
To: None <aball@students.prairiestate.edu>
From: =?UTF-8?B?UHJ6ZW15c8WCYXcgUGF3ZcWCY3p5aw==?= <pp@kv.net.pl>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 04/02/2007 10:59:36
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:12:04 -0000 (GMT)
"Andrew Ball" <aball@students.prairiestate.edu> wrote:

> Hello Przemysl/aw
>
>   PP> "No" has the same meaning (sometimes positive) as "yes"
>     > (seometimes negative). I know that.
>
> The only example that springs to mind is on active-low chip inputs,
> and even then it's just because people associate low with "no".  Other
> than that I have no idea what you might mean.

You said the "no" and "yes" have the same weight sometimes (neuron
networks come to my mind). On the other hand "No" can have positive
meaning during e.g. brainstorms (aka vehement discussions). "Positive"
thru the results it brings (nixing errenuous paths) .

>   PP> No, the accent is not on "suggestions" I've made but on the
>     > time: "for the last time". In other words I declare that for the
>     > last time I submit in the mailing list any idea of mine.
> You're not going to write any more?
No, I said I would stop to deliver ideas.

> In the message that I read, Zafar wrote "So it starts to rot",
Right, my fault.

> private message, off-list.  Note that these two have very different
> meanings.
Yes, I know.

pp
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Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp@kv.net.pl>

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