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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