Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:55:30 -0500 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 15:55:00 +0100 From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Subject: Re: General ramblings (with some Linux flavouring). (Was: Re: Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing 'magic instructions' and 'start fixing real problems') References: <1q8s3dvb888t.dlg@v.nguard.lh> Organization: 255 software MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M () Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-l09Z+XAasYhASZQDs/96pXJR+raNGhLqMSDAT1Gif51Nb+GlqCNz3wDZhvxm/oWAa0g4/+9EKa1rZPl!DyBpFBbagXErLe1cThq2guoHrly4ZPABHfHAlufIOxF1Snh9ZaUl50UuI99z2XyunNYemRNN X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2133 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:117710 comp.sys.intel:689 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:2604 >On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 22:35:33, T wrote: [] >>It is the apps the customer cares about. They could couldn't >>care less if they were run int Flying Zucchini OS, if >>it ran their apps. [] I know "could care less" is the US version of this expression, but it's inaccurate. Think about it: if you could care less, that implies that you do care a little - which is not what you mean; you actually mean "couldn't care less". -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. - Oscar Wilde, quoted by Ron Bauerle 2015-7-24