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On 05/02/2012 06:07 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 02 May 2012 17:19:31 +0100 Andrew Haley wrote:
>
>> If the masses vote for an adjective-noun form, they shall have
>> their way.
>
> What masses? I heard about a vote to vote on elimination of code
> names and spent three days trying to figure out how to sign up to
> vote against all code names, and could never do it. The masses
> don't appear to be eligible to vote in fedora elections.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
http://tinyurl.com/fedora-election-guide [docs.fedoraproject.org]
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/

Should explain the process, eligibility for different vote types and
how to access current votes and view the results of past elections.

Regards,
Bryn.
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<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>
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On 05/02/2012 03:59 AM, Alan Cox wrote:

And how pray are you going to tip a spherical cow ?

Ruins all the fun 8)


That's only a problem if it's also of uniform density.
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>>> 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.

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.* The world is a complicated place, and to
make any progress in analyzing it, physicists (and other scientists) have to
resort to simplifying assumptions.* E.g., the earth and the sun are not really
spheres,* but if you ignore that geometric subtlety, you can do some
reasonable calculations about the gravitational interaction of the sun and the
earth.

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".

-- Mike
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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!

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> 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)

Alan
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On 05/02/2012 02:26 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

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)


"Physics is like sex...it may give some practical results, but that's
not why we do it." -- Richard Feynman

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Once upon a time, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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!

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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
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On 05/02/2012 06:38 PM, Roger wrote:
> 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

Followed by **** Fedora 2013 **** then **** Fedora XP *****

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