Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261661AbTKDMqX (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 07:46:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262057AbTKDMqX (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 07:46:23 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:48768 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261661AbTKDMqW (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 07:46:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 07:47:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Michael Clark cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Brian Beattie , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right In-Reply-To: <3FA767A4.5060403@metaparadigm.com> Message-ID: 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> <3FA767A4.5060403@metaparadigm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 34 On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Michael Clark wrote: > 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 Yes, metaparadigm is much more meaningful --and it can mean anything you want it to because it had not been previously defined for a few hundred years! Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/