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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: SMALL Excerpt from "Windows Sources"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.180941.5490@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec30.031820.21424@netcom.com> <47798@ogicse.ogi.edu> <1hscqpINNdve@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:09:41 GMT
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- In <1hscqpINNdve@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
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- >In a previous article, timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol) says:
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- >It "should be much more useable" in 8 megs?
- > Because Petzold never jumps to conclusions?
- > Because you listened to one too many net.rumors?
- > Because your crystal ball says it will work better?
- > Because Bill Gates visited you in a dream and told you?
- > Because it is stated in the US constitution?
- > Because it is our God given right to have it work better?
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- >What do you base this imperatve "should" on?
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- Uh, you appear to be making a mistake in English usage here. In this
- case, that 'should' can be read as 'can probably be expected to', or
- as 'ought to'.
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- >When you say that it must work much better,
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- No one said that. Rest of discussion obviated by interpretational
- error on part of previous poster.
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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