OT: The passing of Pluto

[Mark Wieder]

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.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net