[TriLUG] Gmail invite...
Jon Carnes
jonc at nc.rr.com
Mon Aug 9 21:34:10 EDT 2004
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:46, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 15:07, Frye, Matthew wrote:
> > On the Kernel mailing list, Linus described three conditions under which
> > UTF-8 encoded strings could never contain junk. What are they? Or at least
> > two of them.
> >
>
> Quoted from a post by Linus Torvalds on 2004-02-16 20:26:07 to
> linux-kernel list.
> Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API
>
> <quote>
> You live in a theoretical world where
> (a) there is only one standard
> (b) people read it
> (c) people actually follow it and never have bugs
> </quote>
>
It may have been easy to find, but its a darn good quote!
Jon
BTW, Jim: "x^i = x^i + 2pR" represents the cycle or harmonic
of the system. When you pedal that stationary bike of yours
(well Nordic track...) that pedal ends up at the same place as
it started - eventually.
Euclidean Geometry is a fine mathematics for school kids but it
hardly cuts it in the real world.
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