[The Java Posse] Re: Are these guys serious?

2009-03-08 Thread Vince O'Sullivan
On Mar 7, 9:56 am, Hannu Leinonen hlein...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't the original number of beast 616 anyways? Only in the beta version. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to

[The Java Posse] Re: Are these guys serious?

2009-03-08 Thread Marcelo Morales
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Vince O'Sullivan vjosulli...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 7, 9:56 am, Hannu Leinonen hlein...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't the original number of beast 616 anyways? Only in the beta version. ... fetched from the main-golden mercurial branch. -- Marcelo Morales

[The Java Posse] Re: Are these guys serious?

2009-03-07 Thread Hannu Leinonen
Isn't the original number of beast 616 anyways? Vince O'Sullivan wrote: Whilst there's no compelling reason to have a release numbered 6.6, there's equally no compelling reason to avoid it either. The reason given is so stunningly and extraordinarily lame 6.6 sounds so much like 666 that we

[The Java Posse] Re: Are these guys serious?

2009-03-06 Thread Vince O'Sullivan
Whilst there's no compelling reason to have a release numbered 6.6, there's equally no compelling reason to avoid it either. The reason given is so stunningly and extraordinarily lame 6.6 sounds so much like 666 that we really do seriously believe that it could lead to a permanent association of

[The Java Posse] Re: Are these guys serious?

2009-03-04 Thread Chris
Go to Vegas, pick any hotel, and try to book a room on the 13th floor. On Mar 4, 11:19 am, Vince O'Sullivan vjosulli...@gmail.com wrote: fromhttp://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1346 On why the next version of NetBeans will be 6.7 and not 6.6... And why are we skipping a

[The Java Posse] Re: Are these guys serious?

2009-03-04 Thread Peter Becker
I wonder if Hudson is going to skip in a year or so when they reach 1.666. How many numbers would one have to skip if every religion and superstition should be considered? Would there be anything left? Reminds me of a bit of code to generate a token for a browser where the allowed characters

[The Java Posse] Re: Are these guys serious?

2009-03-04 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
Reminds me of chinese elevators. They skip anything with a 4 in it, as well as 13. So, an office building with a 100th floor may have only 80 floors. Though, they don't skip floor 66. Food for thought. See http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2086/1790574882_68be5cb62a.jpg?v=0 for a nice photo of a

[The Java Posse] Re: Are these guys serious?

2009-03-04 Thread Marcelo Fukushima
in japan they also skip 4th floor because 4 and death reads the same (have the same sound even though are written differently)... a chinese friend of mine said the same thing happens in chinese On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.com wrote: Reminds me of chinese

[The Java Posse] Re: Are these guys serious?

2009-03-04 Thread Steven Herod
For me, it's less numbers and instead certain company logo's that fill me with a sense of foreboding dread. On Mar 5, 2:27 pm, RogerV rog...@qwest.net wrote: remember Apollo 13: launched on April 11, 1970 at 13:13 CST oxygen tank ruptured on April 13, 1970, 02:07:55.19 UTC On Mar 4, 8:19