classiccmp-digest V1 #355

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Sep 8 14:33:22 2000

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 cem14_at_cornell.edu wrote:

>
> Paul Brown wrote:
> >Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:11:52 -0500
> >Subject: Re: Windows CE and an OT rant
> >
> -snip-
> >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.

Or, 'you can BORROW my agility?'
 
> The measurement/instrumentation half should have kept the
> HP name. The agilent oxymoron actually fits the other one.
>
> Carlos.
>
>
Received on Fri Sep 08 2000 - 14:33:22 BST