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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 lot of missing buttons. > > > On Mar 4, 11:31 pm, Peter Becker <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 excluded any vowels as not to generate rude words by >> accidents :-) >> >> Peter >> >> Marcelo Morales wrote: >> > Is there a more compelling reason to do a 6.6 release? >> > Let me tell you I can appreciate a good laugh too. >> >> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Vince O'Sullivan <[email protected]> >> > 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 version between 6.5 and 6.7? Well, there >> >> are negative associations with the number 6.6...6. Though we >> >> appreciate a good laugh, this is not the permanent association we want >> >> for the IDE." > > > -- []'s Marcelo Takeshi Fukushima --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
