Dar- Thursday, August 24, 2006, 11:14:53 AM, you wrote:
> Now, that bugged this boy. I wanted to be excited about astronauts > and rockets and such, but somehow that turned it into a PR game. I'm still not used to the renaming of the Giants' ballpark. I wonder how long it will be before we get "AT&T Pluto" or "Halliburton Ceres". > I wonder if some mathematicians or word lovers were bugged when IBM > changed the name of sexadecimal to hexadecimal. DEC used octal, > perhaps to avoid an offensive chimeric word with magic spell > connotations, being based in Massachusetts and all that. ROTFL. Fortunately the only vestiges of octal left seem to be left over in things like chmod. > Sometime late last century I vaguely noticed that there weren't any > Datsuns around. ...and there's a town in Japan that got renamed Toyota. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
