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At 04:52 PM 5/28/00 +0100, Kevin Pickering wrote: >An aeroplane has wings, agreed, but they can be placed on top, in the >middle, at the bottom, you can have the big wings at the back with small >(canard) at the front. You can have one wing, two or three (triplane). >Personal preference in the aviation industry. Kevin, You're missing Jim's point. He's saying that DIR is, by definition, a *very* specific set of gear configuration and other rules. If you change *anything*, no matter how slight, it is no longer DIR by definition. Changing even the slightest thing, renders the configuration *Modified DIR*, not DIR. That's Jim's point. If you change anything, it's no longer DIR regardless of whether or not your change is an improvement. To extend the airplane analogy, if you take the Boeing 747 design, add one rivet to the design, then build the new design, you end up with a Kevin-airplane 101, not a Boeing 747. Yes, the new airplane is *like* the Boeing 747, but it's *not* a Boeing 747, by definition, because it has an extra rivet. -Mike Rodriguez <mikey@ma*.co*> Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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