My vote: It's hilarious. But, that's after meeting Fred in person last week & noting that, indeed, he -always- does all lowercase for his name, even on the printed program (I'm sure there are exceptions, but there were none at the conference). If I hadn't met him or seen all of this, I'd probably be scratching my head. - MLD
On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:38 AM, Martin Braun wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 05:16:34PM -0500, Tom Rondeau wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Josh Blum <[email protected]> wrote: >>> is this a typo or something special here >> >> Nope, that's not a typo, just a (possibly bad) joke. The >> Blackman-harris window gets the "harris" portion from fred harris, who >> always spells his name in lowercase letters. When adding that window >> function in, I thought it'd be funny. > > If it's a joke, it's definitely a bad one. > I came about this when starting the spectral estimation toolbox, and > it's annoyed me ever since. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
