[FFmpeg-cvslog] r21226 - in trunk: Makefile common.mak subdir.mak

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:06:57PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Ramiro Polla <ramiro.polla at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 2010/1/26 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
> >> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> >>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:17:53AM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >>>> Baptiste Coudurier <baptiste.coudurier at gmail.com> writes:
> >>>> > On 1/15/10 11:26 AM, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> >>>> >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 08:16:28PM +0100, ramiro wrote:
[...]
> >> Whatever people may have used if for,
> >
> > To uninstall.
> 
> And it didn't always work.  Furthermore, it CANNOT be made to always
> work correctly.

A hd has a non zero probability of fatal failure, of detectable biterros
and of undetected bit errors. ram has a non zero probability of bit errors
and there exist ECC ram to reduce this but it still can fail.
You can have a power outage and your UPS can fail or the powr could just
be gone too long, you could have a heart attack, there could be an earthquake
primality testing algoithms used in cryptography are normally probabilistic
and can on very rare occasions return composite numbers ...
I dont think a small probability of failure is a reason to remove a feature
and quite a few people seem to want it back

Also a solution that works 100% but that has other disadvantages may be
worse in practical terms than a 99.999% working one

[...]
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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

The real ebay dictionary, page 1
"Used only once"    - "Some unspecified defect prevented a second use"
"In good condition" - "Can be repaird by experienced expert"
"As is" - "You wouldnt want it even if you were payed for it, if you knew ..."
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