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Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?
From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:34:19 -0400
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:53:33AM -0700, David W. Hankins wrote: ...
It's like someone intentionally optimized this function specifically to be the most pessimal.
... If you know the word "pessimal" [malus, pejor, pessimus = bad, worse, worst], you should know that "most pessimal" is redundant - perhaps allowable for emphasis - and that "optimized to be pessimal" is so much an oxymoron it must be deliberate. But why not just say "pessimized"? ;-) -- Joe Yao ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.
Current thread:
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?, (continued)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Michael . Dillon (Apr 19)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Joseph S D Yao (Apr 21)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Etaoin Shrdlu (Apr 21)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Joseph S D Yao (Apr 21)
- A proposal - was Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Albert Meyer (Apr 21)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Michael . Dillon (Apr 19)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Michael . Dillon (Apr 19)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 18)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Michael . Dillon (Apr 19)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? David W. Hankins (Apr 19)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Joseph S D Yao (Apr 21)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Jay Hennigan (Apr 21)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Joseph S D Yao (Apr 21)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? David W. Hankins (Apr 21)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Robert Boyle (Apr 17)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Martin Hannigan (Apr 17)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 18)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 18)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Michael . Dillon (Apr 18)