On 05/08/2012 09:31 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Fedora is stuck on cows, clearly a Spherical Cow is a subset of Beefy
Miracle,
I wonder how many of the voters GNU that.
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On 05/08/2012 09:31 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Fedora is stuck on cows, clearly a Spherical Cow is a subset of Beefy
Miracle, I suppose that given that it's Linux, it wouldn't be too much
of a jump from cows to something GNU.
LOL. Good catch ;)
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Antonio Olivares wrote:
I think Chris was talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%
80%93Tarski_paradox as applied to spherical cows.
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Dear sir,
I did not know about this :( Thank you for explaining/referring me to this. I
had heard about Banach spaces in college and j
Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/02/2012 12:24 PM, Michael Hannon wrote:
I'm late to this (all-important) thread, but I haven't seen anybody mention
the origin of the term "spherical cow". It's a physics joke, or, maybe
better, a joke about physicists.
Yes. And many of us consider it to be trivializing F
Alan Cox wrote:
On Wed, 02 May 2012 11:20:09 +0300
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
On 05/01/2012 09:40 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun
pair.
Justify it all you want, it still sounds like "Copying Ubuntu" to me.
Dudes, it's
On 05/02/2012 06:07 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 02 May 2012 17:19:31 +0100
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>
>> If the masses vote for
>> an adjective-noun form, they shall have their way.
>
> What masses? I heard about a vote to vote on elimination
> of code names and spent three days trying to figur
> Just like the American Political System, we have no voice and no vote :(,
With all due respect you don't pay taxes either 8)
If you contribute work to the project you do get a vote.
Alan
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Joe Zeff kirjoitti:
> On 05/02/2012 07:01 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Spherical Cows, would other animals want to get in Fedora naming
> > schemes for next versions of Fedora?
>
> Smiling Kzinti?
Äkäsjärvinen Äimänkäki= :D
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It's not a bad idea naming a fedora release after Dennis Ritchie as a
tribute. I think is a great idea.
El 02/05/2012 19:12, "Antonio Olivares" escribió:
>
>
> --- On Wed, 5/2/12, Chris Adams wrote:
>
> > From: Chris Adams
> > Subject: Re: Fedora 18 rele
On Wed, 2 May 2012 19:01:43 -0700 (PDT)
Antonio Olivares wrote:
>snip
>
> Spherical Cows, would other animals want to get in Fedora naming
> schemes for next versions of Fedora?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Antonio
I'm holding out for Streamlined Ape.
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On 05/02/2012 07:01 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Spherical Cows, would other animals want to get in Fedora naming schemes for
next versions of Fedora?
Smiling Kzinti?
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> I think Chris was talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%
> 80%93Tarski_paradox as applied to spherical cows.
>
> poc
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Dear sir,
I did not know about this :( Thank you for explaining/referring me to this. I
had heard about Banach spaces in college and just heard of T
On 05/02/2012 06:12 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Just like the American Political System, we have no voice and no vote :(, the "Ruling
Elite" are the ones that chose names and vote, us the users are the ones that have to end up
with whatever others choose if we are not part of the "Ruling Elite"
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 18:12 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > As a mathematician, I look at "spherical" and want to ask if
> > Fedora
> > accepts the Axiom of Choice - if so, we can have two
> > identical spherical
> > cows, but who really wants to decompose a cow to get
> > there. Of course,
> >
--- On Wed, 5/2/12, Chris Adams wrote:
> From: Chris Adams
> Subject: Re: Fedora 18 release name
> To: "Community support for Fedora users"
> Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 3:13 PM
> Once upon a time, Alan Cox
> said:
> > You can have fun with physicists 8)
On 05/02/2012 06:38 PM, Roger wrote:
> On 03/05/12 03:26, Maurizio Marini wrote:
>> Fedora change release every 6 months, as far as i can see this
>> is not
>> enough to select the new name, you should change release more
>> slowly...
> What about getting entirely radical and call it *** Fedora
On 03/05/12 03:26, Maurizio Marini wrote:
Fedora change release every 6 months, as far as i can see this is not
enough to select the new name, you should change release more slowly...
What about getting entirely radical and call it *** Fedora 18 *** ,
the next one could be *** Fedora 19 *
Once upon a time, Alan Cox said:
> You can have fun with physicists 8)
As a mathematician, I look at "spherical" and want to ask if Fedora
accepts the Axiom of Choice - if so, we can have two identical spherical
cows, but who really wants to decompose a cow to get there. Of course,
we'd have to
On 05/02/2012 02:26 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
Non-physicists tend to view this approach as a simplistic retreat from
reality. Hence, the joke: A physics professor says to the class, "consider a
spherical cow of mass M".
To which the smartarse student asks "do we know if the expansion of the
univers
> Non-physicists tend to view this approach as a simplistic retreat from
> reality. Hence, the joke: A physics professor says to the class, "consider a
> spherical cow of mass M".
To which the smartarse student asks "do we know if the expansion of the
universe is linear in all directions, and wil
On 05/02/2012 12:24 PM, Michael Hannon wrote:
I'm late to this (all-important) thread, but I haven't seen anybody mention
the origin of the term "spherical cow". It's a physics joke, or, maybe
better, a joke about physicists.
Yes. And many of us consider it to be trivializing Fedora and makin
>>> Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun
>>> pair.
>> Justify it all you want, it still sounds like "Copying Ubuntu" to me.
>
> Dudes, it's just a name.
> Please, focus on technical.
I'm late to this (all-important) thread, but I haven't seen anybody mention
t
On 05/02/2012 03:59 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
And how pray are you going to tip a spherical cow ?
Ruins all the fun 8)
That's only a problem if it's also of uniform density.
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Fedora change release every 6 months, as far as i can see this is not
enough to select the new name, you should change release more slowly...
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On Wed, 02 May 2012 17:19:31 +0100
Andrew Haley wrote:
> If the masses vote for
> an adjective-noun form, they shall have their way.
What masses? I heard about a vote to vote on elimination
of code names and spent three days trying to figure out
how to sign up to vote against all code names, and
On 05/01/2012 06:20 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> Spherical Cow
>
> Can we add a rule for F19 that the name shall not be an adjective-noun
> form?
Such as "Beefy Miracle", perhaps?
IMO, such a rule would be deeply undemocratic. If the masses vote for
an adjective-noun form, they shall have
On 02/05/12 11:59, Alan Cox wrote:
And how pray are you going to tip a spherical cow ?
Ruins all the fun 8)
forceps, big ones.
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On Wed, 02 May 2012 11:20:09 +0300
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> On 05/01/2012 09:40 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >> Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun
> >> > pair.
> > Justify it all you want, it still sounds like "Copying Ubuntu" to me.
>
> Dudes, it's ju
On 05/01/2012 09:40 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun
> pair.
Justify it all you want, it still sounds like "Copying Ubuntu" to me.
Dudes, it's just a name.
Please, focus on technical.
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On 05/01/2012 12:20 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
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>> Spherical Cow
>
> Can we add a rule for F19 that the name shall not be an adjective-noun
> form? Those sound too much like Ubuntu's naming scheme.
A screen saver is required!
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> Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun
> pair.
Justify it all you want, it still sounds like "Copying Ubuntu" to me.
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On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 13:20:14 -0400,
DJ Delorie wrote:
Spherical Cow
Can we add a rule for F19 that the name shall not be an adjective-noun
form? Those sound too much like Ubuntu's naming scheme.
Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun
pair.
-
> Spherical Cow
Can we add a rule for F19 that the name shall not be an adjective-noun
form? Those sound too much like Ubuntu's naming scheme.
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On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 06:51 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> The name for Fedora 18, the follow-up to Beefy Miracle,
> is: Spherical Cow
LOL! I can't wait to see the artwork.
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