Thus spake W.C. Epperson:
> "To question all things; never to turn away from any difficulty; to
> accept no doctrine either from ourselves or from other people without
> a rigid scrutiny by negative criticism; letting no fallacy, or incoherence
> or confusion of thought, step by unperceived; ...these are the lessions
> we learn from the ancient dialecticians." First time I saw that, I
> though Marcus had written it, but it's from John Stuart Mill.
Marcus doesn't use semicolons. =)
> Hmm, now that I look at it again, I guess Marcus' point is that
> the weighing in of a gorilla like Microsoft is a signal event of
> firewalls' arrival as a technology. I shudder to agree.
And the fact that a company (even The Company) can reasonably hope to
sell the product based on no factual description of its merits
whatsoever.
Mike
(`and I'd like it written in Java')
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