Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov>]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:06:25AM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> > 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"?
>
> Oh, stop being such a pessimist.   :-)


Optimally, it would be so.


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Joe Yao
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