From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30081 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2005 17:10:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 30071 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jun 2005 17:10:24 -0000 Received: from host217-40-213-68.in-addr.btopenworld.com (HELO SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:10:24 +0000 Received: from mace ([192.168.1.25]) by SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:10:22 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'The Cygwin-Talk 'i wonder if anyone's even reading this bit anyway' List'" Subject: RE: My Spacebar is OK! Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:33:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00416.txt.bz2 ----Original Message---- >From: Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06 > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > >> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot >> more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off the >> top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed off the edge of a >> coffee-table! > > You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-) > Igor No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo. That's why the hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....