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From: Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] UN to fund linux for the 3rd world
Date: Thu,  2 Sep 2004 21:39:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e35c0620409022139c24701d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4779b6712137df1bf318abd67be50e00@plan9.ucalgary.ca>

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:09:35 -0600, andrey mirtchovski
<mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
> to do it) and observe the reactions -- suddenly everyone is an expert
> at everything and everyone has their own opinion which won't change no
> matter how much sanity you throw at them.

That's one thing I like about this list: no matter how biased at least
some of us are, we seem ready to listen to some new sanity.

Or insanity.  Hm.  Maybe we'll just listen to anything.  As opposed to
pretending to listen.

> the only reasonable way to filter out the people who know what they're
> talking about from the cheerleeding crowd is to throw in some serious
> mathematics -- that's the only thing everyone is scared of :)

Hey, just talking about talking about serious mathematics makes me scared.

-Jack, serious math weenie


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-03  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-01 14:48 boyd, rounin
2004-09-01 17:57 ` Jack Johnson
2004-09-01 17:59   ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-01 20:39     ` Tim Newsham
2004-09-01 21:16       ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-01 21:45         ` C H Forsyth
2004-09-02  3:24           ` Dan Cross
2004-09-02  3:31             ` George Michaelson
2004-09-02  4:24               ` Dan Cross
2004-09-02  5:15                 ` Jeff Sickel
2004-09-02  5:38                   ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-09-02  6:24                     ` Zigor Salvador
2004-09-03  2:10                   ` Dan Cross
2004-09-02 19:27                 ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-02 20:38                   ` Charles Forsyth
2004-09-02 22:44                     ` Adrian Tritschler
2004-09-03  3:00                   ` Dan Cross
2004-09-03  3:01                     ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-02  5:03               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-09-02  5:13                 ` George Michaelson
2004-09-02  9:10             ` Dick Davies
2004-09-03  2:13               ` Dan Cross
2004-09-03  2:38                 ` George Michaelson
2004-09-05  0:30                 ` Dick Davies
2004-09-05  0:31                   ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-05  1:11                   ` Jack Johnson
2004-09-05  2:50                     ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-02 14:26             ` ron minnich
2004-09-02 21:48               ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-09-02 22:09                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-09-03  0:21                   ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-09-03  0:40                     ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-09-03  4:39                   ` Jack Johnson [this message]
2004-09-03  2:53               ` Dan Cross
2004-09-02  9:40 Aharon Robbins
2004-09-02  9:44 ` Dick Davies
2004-09-02 10:11 ` lucio
2004-09-02 10:52   ` George Michaelson
2004-09-02 11:21     ` lucio
2004-09-02 18:32       ` Jack Johnson
2004-09-02 22:58         ` Adrian Tritschler
2004-09-02 15:11 ` Sam
2004-09-02 19:51   ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-02 22:06 ` geoff
2004-09-03  2:33 ` Dan Cross
2004-09-02 10:37 Aharon Robbins
2004-09-02 11:10 ` lucio
2004-09-02 18:54   ` dvd
2004-09-02 19:20     ` Boris Maryshev
2004-09-02 21:40     ` Charles Forsyth
2004-09-02 21:55       ` Boris Maryshev
2004-09-03  5:20       ` dvd
2004-09-03  6:22         ` lucio
2004-09-03  7:49         ` Charles Forsyth
2004-09-03 17:48           ` Jack Johnson
2004-09-03 17:52             ` ron minnich
2004-09-03 18:22               ` dvd
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409031316170.22793-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>
2004-09-03 19:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-09-03 21:11   ` dvd
2004-09-03 20:48 ` dvd
2004-09-03 20:52   ` ron minnich
2004-09-03 21:15     ` dvd

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