Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263996AbTKDIqj (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 03:46:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263997AbTKDIqi (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 03:46:38 -0500 Received: from gort.metaparadigm.com ([203.117.131.12]:12684 "EHLO gort.metaparadigm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263996AbTKDIqi (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 03:46:38 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA767A4.5060403@metaparadigm.com> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:47:32 +0800 From: Michael Clark User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030930 Debian/1.4-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Brian Beattie , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right References: <1067778693.1315.76.camel@kokopelli> <200311021715.hA2HFXr5026778@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1067888137.869.26.camel@kokopelli> <200311032023.hA3KN3gv000750@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 22 On 11/04/03 04:54, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > It is particularly irksome to me because I studied Latin in > High School, where I first encountered this word. My second > encounter was where somebody corrupted it to mean some kind > of new idea. Then some idiot named a company Paradigm and > the end was clear. How do you know the guy is an idiot - did you meet him? Quite a good name for a loudspeaker company in respect to providing a 'reference example' for sound. Although funny they have a registered trademark for 'Paradigm' - a bit generic methinks. ~mc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/