Re: durians

2001-05-07 Thread Jeff Okamoto 

 Grocers either stock [durians] outside or frozen.

And I believe there are laws in some of the SE Asian countries where they
are more common that makes getting on public transportation with a durian
illegal.

Jeff

Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

2001-04-17 Thread Jeff Okamoto 

   The
   timescales of corporations like Sun are not the same as those commonly
   encountered in the open software arena.
  
  Ditto for HP.
 
 Which is more extreme (HP9000/L1000, HP-UX 11.00 + March 2001 patches):
 
 % /usr/contrib/bin/perl -v
 
 This is perl, version 4.0
 
 $RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.8 $$Date: 1993/02/05 19:39:30 $
 Patch level: 36

"Top men" are working on this problem.  Stay tuned.

Jeff

Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

2001-04-16 Thread Jeff Okamoto 

 The
 timescales of corporations like Sun are not the same as those commonly
 encountered in the open software arena.

Ditto for HP.

Jeff

Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order

2001-01-08 Thread Jeff Okamoto 

 On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:42:12PM -0500, Brian Finney wrote:
  say we start with this number
  123,456,789
  
  one hundred twenty-three million four hundred fifty-six thousand seven hundred
  eighty-nine
 
 satakaksikymmentäkolme miljoonaa neljäsataaviisikymmentäkuusi tuhatta
 seitsemänsataakahdeksankymmentäyhdeksän.

Or 1,2345,6789

ichi oku ni-sen sambyaku yon-ju go man roku sen nana hyaku hachi-ju kyu.
or
one one-hundred-million, two thousand three hundred forty-five ten-thousand,
six thousand seven hundred eighty nine.

Why are we trying to teach a computer language about natural languages?

Jeff