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DateTue, 4 Nov 2003 07:47:29 -0500 (EST)
From"Richard B. Johnson" <>
SubjectRe: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Michael Clark wrote:

> On 11/04/03 04:54, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > It is particularly irksome to me because I studied Latin in
> > High School, where I first encountered this word. My second
> > encounter was where somebody corrupted it to mean some kind
> > of new idea. Then some idiot named a company Paradigm and
> > the end was clear.
>
> How do you know the guy is an idiot - did you meet him?
>
> Quite a good name for a loudspeaker company in respect to providing
> a 'reference example' for sound.
>
> Although funny they have a registered trademark for 'Paradigm'
> - a bit generic methinks.
>
> ~mc

Yes, metaparadigm is much more meaningful --and it can mean anything
you want it to because it had not been previously defined for a few
hundred years!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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