[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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