Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 01 Apr 2010 07:53:18 Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: On 04/01/10 07:40, Nadav Har'El wrote: We should especially avoid free software - because much of it was written by gentiles who eat bread during Passover! Following that logic, you should also avoid using any of M$

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
On 04/01/10 09:06, Shlomi Fish wrote: Why are you saying M$ instead of MS? Don't you know the dollar signs ($) is not kosher for Passover since U.S. dollars constitute leavened bread? This makes all Perl, PHP and Bash/zsh code (And some Ruby and Haskell code) non- kosher for Passover.

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 01 Apr 2010 10:30:36 Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: On 04/01/10 09:06, Shlomi Fish wrote: Why are you saying M$ instead of MS? Don't you know the dollar signs ($) is not kosher for Passover since U.S. dollars constitute leavened bread? This makes all Perl, PHP and Bash/zsh

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Well, first of all, it should be noted that the $ sign is generally associated with greed for money (Like Make $$$ fast.) etc. So you say Larry Wall makes all of us Perl programmers greedy? He basically invented the

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Apr 1, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Well, first of all, it should be noted that the $ sign is generally associated with greed for money (Like Make $$$ fast.) etc. so this is what people are implying by writing M$ instead of MS. By associating the $ sign with Microsoft, one

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:21:43AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: So you say Larry Wall makes all of us Perl programmers greedy? He basically invented the extensive use of the $ signs: I think the Bourne Shell preceeds that by a few years.

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:40:21 +0300 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: We're in the middle of Passover, and apparently observant Jews who are computer users are facing a new problem: a famous Rabbi has just declared [1] that during the week of Passover, observant Jews must only use

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Apr 1, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Where can you get kosher for passover dog/cat food? I always have to stock up for my cats as the super markets just hide the pet food but never bring any alternatives. Not that I know why my cats would want to eat kosher anyway, but in

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Herouth Maoz
On 01/04/2010, at 07:40, Nadav Har'El wrote: How can software possibly contain chometz? And who eats software anyway? :-) As it turns out, it's not just that you're not allowed to eat chometz on Passover - you're not allowed even to benefit from it. Observant jews already make sure that

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Apr 1, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Herouth Maoz wrote: Apple is a little less lucky, because rumour has it that Steve Jobs is partly Jewish. Oy. That's a persistant rumor, that both Steve (Woz) and Steve (Jobs) are Jewish. They are not. In fact due to his bilogical father being a Syrian

Re: Kosher-For Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Saba Moshe
Thank you, Nadav, for bringing us these important news on this very important day of April 1st. Saba Moshe Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:40:21 +0300 From: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il Subject: Kosher for Passover software To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Message-ID:

Re: Kosher-For Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Kfir Lavi
Wallak, LO KALATETI ;-) And yesterday my wife told me that today will be the lie day. hehe Good! Kfir On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Saba Moshe sabamo...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Nadav, for bringing us these important news on this very important day of April 1st. Saba Moshe Date:

Re: Kosher-For Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Israel David
Thanks for your inputs on April fool and Pessah Kosher software. A serious issue that will need consideration on a year round basis by observant jews yet is the separation of milchik from fleishik software. The Jerusalem rabbinate is willing to offer his benevolent assistance so we don't go

Haifux lecture on Yom Hasho'a?

2010-04-01 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, This message is relevant only for those who want to attend Haifux' next lecture about Genetic Algorithms. The Genetic Algorithm lecture is currently scheduled on April 12th. This happens to be Yom Hasho'a, or to be precise, the evening after the day of the ceremonies. So