Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun pair.

On 05/01/2012 09:40 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: >> Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun >> > pair. > Justify it all you want, it still sounds like "Copying Ubuntu" to me. Dudes, it's just a name. Please, focus on technical.

And how pray are you going to tip a spherical cow ? Ruins all the fun 8)

>> Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun >> pair. > Justify it all you want, it still sounds like "Copying Ubuntu" to me. Dudes, it's just a name. Please, focus on technical.

On 05/02/2012 12:24 PM, Michael Hannon wrote: > I'm late to this (all-important) thread, but I haven't seen anybody mention > the origin of the term "spherical cow". It's a physics joke, or, maybe > better, a joke about physicists. Yes. And many of us consider it to be trivializing Fedora and making it look like a joke, or at least childish. This is why I suggested, earlier, that the code name for F18 be a celebration of life. L'chiam!

> Non-physicists tend to view this approach as a simplistic retreat from > reality. Hence, the joke: A physics professor says to the class, "consider a > spherical cow of mass M". To which the smartarse student asks "do we know if the expansion of the universe is linear in all directions, and will it therefore remain spherical throughout the experiment" And then the really evil student asks "Suppose I throw the cow up in the air and catch it as it comes back down, the kinetic energy is converted to potential energy and back, yes ?" "But as the universe is expanding it'll come down further than it went up and thus energy is not conserved" You can have fun with physicists 8)

From: Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net&gt; Subject: Re: Fedora 18 release name To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 3:13 PM Once upon a time, Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt; said: > You can have fun with physicists 8) As a mathematician, I look at "spherical" and want to ask if Fedora accepts the Axiom of Choice - if so, we can have two identical spherical cows, but who really wants to decompose a cow to get there.  Of course, we'd have to call F19 Banach-Tarski! --

I think Chris was talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2% 80%93Tarski_paradox as applied to spherical cows. poc --

On 05/02/2012 07:01 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Spherical Cows, would other animals want to get in Fedora naming > schemes for next versions of Fedora? Smiling Kzinti?

> I think Chris was talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2% > 80%93Tarski_paradox as applied to spherical cows. > > poc > > -- Dear sir, I did not know about this :( Thank you for explaining/referring me to this. I had heard about Banach spaces in college and just heard of Tarski as a mathematician during a history of Mathematics class. My professor in college knew many great mathematicians in person and he was in a picture with them when he was young. Hilbert, Polya, Fejer, ..., were some of the mathematicans in the picture. Spherical Cows, would other animals want to get in Fedora naming schemes for next versions of Fedora?

Fedora is stuck on cows, clearly a Spherical Cow is a subset of Beefy Miracle,

--- On Wed, 5/2/12, Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net&gt; wrote: > From: Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net&gt; > Subject: Re: Fedora 18 release name > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; > Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 3:13 PM > Once upon a time, Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt; > said: > > You can have fun with physicists 8) > > As a mathematician, I look at "spherical" and want to ask if > Fedora > accepts the Axiom of Choice - if so, we can have two > identical spherical > cows, but who really wants to decompose a cow to get > there. Of course, > we'd have to call F19 Banach-Tarski! > > -- Sorry to disagree!, but if we allow Mathematicians' names here, I have some others that are far greater than Banach and Tarski, take F19 Euclid - Greatest Geometer of all time F19 Archimedes take Paul Erdös, Euler, Riemann, Gauss, All would be great here :) Sadly, though Spherical you would be correct sir, I also thought about Lobachevsky, but he apparently did work on HyperBolic Geometries :) But to get back at the naming, How about the tribute to Denis Ritchie, was the next version of Fedora going to be named in his honor, since he was one of the pioneers of C/C++ and the Unix operating system which is the prototype of the system that we are using? Just like the American Political System, we have no voice and no vote :(, the "Ruling Elite" are the ones that chose names and vote, us the users are the ones that have to end up with whatever others choose if we are not part of the "Ruling Elite" :( Is there an electoral college in the Fedora voting? Because if there is, the majority does not get to choose the name :( Best Regards, Antonio -- users mailing list users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

> Spherical Cow Can we add a rule for F19 that the name shall not be an adjective-noun form? Those sound too much like Ubuntu's naming scheme.

If the masses vote for an adjective-noun form, they shall have their way.

On 03/05/12 03:26, Maurizio Marini wrote: > <humor>Fedora change release every 6 months, as far as i can see this > is not > enough to select the new name, you should change release more > slowly...</humor> What about getting entirely radical and call it *** Fedora 18 *** , the next one could be *** Fedora 19 *** and so on. Yup! it's way out of the box thinking! Roger