OT: The passing of Pluto
Phil Davis
revdev at pdslabs.net
Thu Aug 24 20:22:28 EDT 2006
Have you heard about the town of half.com, Oregon? I think it has now reverted
back to its original name, Halfway OR. Their city fathers made a deal
(time-limited, I believe) with half.com and got the company to locate there.
Phil Davis
Mark Wieder wrote:
> 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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