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 <peter.becker...@gmail.com> 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 <vjosulli...@gmail.com> > > 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." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
