Re: Full-screen DOS Prompt on Vista (was I want to go geek .. and VPC?)

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

On Jun 22, at 11:39 AM, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> That error message was written by M$ programmers and incorporated
> in the finished product sold by M$. That makes it a statement of M
> $. If you want to think billg doesn't know what his programmers are
> doing and what is incorporated in the company's products, go ahead.
> That would, in my book, render him incompetent, not dishonest.
> Which would you rather be thought? 
Another way to look at the unobjectionable of Patricia's remark is as
a certain kind of figure of speech which she, and not I, will know
the name of. (Does anyone remember a wonderful short story by Thurber
about "the container for the thing contained"?)

David Auerbach