From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 16 11:31:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7C616A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:31:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72DE843D2F for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:31:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from syncman@optusnet.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.7] (c211-30-137-44.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [211.30.137.44]) (authenticated bits=0)iAGBUxWc022027 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:31:00 +1100 Message-ID: <419A7FC3.30900@optusnet.com.au> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:31:31 +0000 From: Andrew Sinclair User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20041109180359.GA1349@heim-034-71.raab-heim.uni-linz.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20041109180359.GA1349@heim-034-71.raab-heim.uni-linz.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: What OS are you? fun X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:31:08 -0000 Wille Harald wrote: >On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:35:38PM -0500, Peter Hummers wrote: > > >>I found this through Hubert Feyrer's NetBSD 'blog: "Answer a couple of >>'personality test'-like questions, and see what OS you are. I'm OS X - >>not too bad after all!" >> >> > >Amiga OS. Ahead of your time. >I always knew it ;-) > > Same here, how the bloody hell did it know? I didn't even relate to the questions ;-) By the way, speed of light in the other thread is way off. The "accepted constant" is bogus. The average speed is actually closer to 2.4 million kilometers per second. From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 16 14:39:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E039F16A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:39:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABAC943D5A for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:39:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.213]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I7A00MUM0PB0UB0@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:39:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I7A00I0T0PBGWD0@pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:39:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from sirius (S0106000c41b2b9a3.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.45.143]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with SMTP id <0I7A00C5D0PBIU@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:39:11 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:39:13 -0700 From: Dan MacMillan In-reply-to: <419A7FC3.30900@optusnet.com.au> To: Andrew Sinclair , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Subject: RE: What OS are you? fun X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:39:12 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Sinclair > Sent: November 16, 2004 15:32 > To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: What OS are you? fun > > By the way, speed of light in the other thread is way off. The "accepted > constant" is bogus. The average speed is actually closer to 2.4 million > kilometers per second. You'd better cite your source and / or reasoning, as ~3*10^8m/s =is= the accepted constant speed of light in vacuum. -- Danny From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 16 17:24:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA3216A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:24:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kayjay.xs4all.nl (kayjay.xs4all.nl [80.126.33.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B1E443D46 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:24:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from karelj@kayjay.xs4all.nl) Received: from kayjay.xs4all.nl (localhost.kayjay.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by kayjay.xs4all.nl (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAGHOkYC016017; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:24:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karelj@kayjay.xs4all.nl) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by kayjay.xs4all.nl (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iAGHOjsp016016; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:24:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karelj) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:24:45 +0100 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" To: Dan MacMillan Message-ID: <20041116172445.GA14385@kayjay.xs4all.nl> References: <419A7FC3.30900@optusnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: Andrew Sinclair Subject: Re: What OS are you? fun X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:24:48 -0000 On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:39:13AM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew Sinclair > > Sent: November 16, 2004 15:32 > > To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: What OS are you? fun > > > > By the way, speed of light in the other thread is way off. The "accepted > > constant" is bogus. The average speed is actually closer to 2.4 million > > kilometers per second. > > You'd better cite your source and / or reasoning, as ~3*10^8m/s =is= the > accepted constant speed of light in vacuum. Yes indeed. Also, the word 'average' makes the statement pretty meaningless without specifying how the averaging is done (different materials I think?). Karel. From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 00:57:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D7C16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:57:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C6743D45 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:57:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dsyphers@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) ESMTP id iAH0vwto021018; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:57:58 -0800 Received: from yggdrasil.seektruth.org (c-67-171-38-33.client.comcast.net [67.171.38.33]) (authenticated bits=0)iAH0vvaU027428 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:57:58 -0800 From: David Syphers To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, rob@pythonemproject.com Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:58:31 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <419A7FC3.30900@optusnet.com.au> <20041116172445.GA14385@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <419A6ED9.9030301@pythonemproject.com> In-Reply-To: <419A6ED9.9030301@pythonemproject.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411161658.31536.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: What OS are you? fun X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:57:59 -0000 On Tuesday 16 November 2004 01:19 pm, Rob wrote: > Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:39:13AM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: > >>>-----Original Message----- > >>>From: Andrew Sinclair > >>>By the way, speed of light in the other thread is way off. The "accepted > >>>constant" is bogus. The average speed is actually closer to 2.4 million > >>>kilometers per second. > >> > >>You'd better cite your source and / or reasoning, as ~3*10^8m/s =is= the > >>accepted constant speed of light in vacuum. > > > >Yes indeed. Also, the word 'average' makes the statement pretty > >meaningless without specifying how the averaging is done (different > >materials I think?). > > OK, I'll bite on this. Check www.nist.gov. They occasionally update > the fundamental physical constants, but we are talking about incredibly > small amounts. I have no idea how this got onto stable@, but I just have to comment. The speed of light in a vacuum, in m/s, is never going to change because... yes, that's right, the meter is defined so that c=299792458 m/s. This is why CODATA says the value is exact. Of course, it's a lot easier just to use natural units where c=1... -David