classiccmp-digest V1 #355

From: cem14_at_cornell.edu <(cem14_at_cornell.edu)>
Date: Tue Sep 5 00:21:00 2000

Paul Brown wrote:
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:11:52 -0500
>Subject: Re: Windows CE and an OT rant
>
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>or
>take the long-respected brand name of Hewlett-Packard
>Instruments and start calling them "Agilent Technologies", a name
>that I haven't heard pronounced the same way twice, or again

The worse part is that "agilent" is a very dumb name in many
languages; agile on one hand, "lent" ("slow" in most languages)
on the other.

The measurement/instrumentation half should have kept the
HP name. The agilent oxymoron actually fits the other one.

Carlos.
Received on Tue Sep 05 2000 - 00:21:00 BST