On Thursday, 04/27/2006 at 10:42 EST, James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always thought the IBM machine labeling closely coinceded with a change in VP > of marketing. > > Or is it something like how they determine when Easter is?
Actual naming is very complex. Multi-colored wheels with spinners, 20 4-sided dice, and 4 20-sided dice are involved. (I think the 20-sided dice explain why certain letters never appear in product names.) Calendars are not normally used except to the extent IBMers cut up the month names into individual letters and then send them through an oscillating fan. This provides one half of the name. The other half is more, shall we say, "intuitive" in nature. There are entrails and coffee grounds to be examined, comets to be charted, and incense to be burned. The results of these New Age elements are combined with an Old World, but widely recognized, component: Tana leaves. The following morning, locust shells are found in the shape of the letters and numbers that comprise the name. "Change in VP marketing." Please. That's the silliest thing I have heard in a long time.... -- Chuckie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
