Merced -> Itanium.
Zalman Stern
Unobtanium?
-Z-
Mike Smith
news:7tb4kh$a...@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com...
> I'd write more, but I'm laughing too hard. Will they call the 1GHz version
> Unobtanium?
Maybe they should license "Turbonium" from VW.
--
Mike Smith
There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply *can't* think.
There are another 5% who *can*, and *do*.
The remaining 90% *can* think, but *don't*.
-- R. A. Heinlein
Dave Schreiber
Zalman Stern <zal...@netcom14.netcom.com> wrote:
>I'd write more, but I'm laughing too hard. Will they call the 1GHz version
>Unobtanium?
For a bit of context to the above, here's a link to the press release,
etc.:
<http://www.intel.com/eBusiness/enabling/itanium.htm>
--
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so...@dks2.net I lived awake but half asleep?"
^^^^^ ^^^^ -Primitive Radio Gods (SOaBPBwMiMH)
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Rob Barris
wrote:
> In article <7tb4kh$a...@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>,
> Zalman Stern <zal...@netcom14.netcom.com> wrote:
> >I'd write more, but I'm laughing too hard. Will they call the 1GHz version
> >Unobtanium?
If they went with that name, the majority of Intel employees might stage
"a mutini"
Rob
Robert Harley
> I'd write more, but I'm laughing too hard. [...]
Thus spake the anagram generator:
Itanium for e-Business <-> Ruinous - benefit amiss
R
Robert Harley
Culled from the first few responses on Slashdot:
>Itanic
>It offers the deprecatory "sh" prefix, all too easily.
>Intel Itanium = Lame Unit In I.T.
R
Toon Moene
>
> Culled from the first few responses on Slashdot:
>
> >Itanic
>
> >It offers the deprecatory "sh" prefix, all too easily.
Hmmm, the `t' prefix seems more likely, to me.
Merced, a disaster of titanic proportions.
--
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Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286
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Maynard Handley
<to...@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> wrote:
>Robert Harley wrote:
>>
>> Culled from the first few responses on Slashdot:
>>
>> >Itanic
>>
>> >It offers the deprecatory "sh" prefix, all too easily.
>
>Hmmm, the `t' prefix seems more likely, to me.
>
> Merced, a disaster of titanic proportions.
All fun and games, but people laughed at the Pentium name too. Lots of
moaning about how 586 was good enough. That name change seems to have
worked out pretty well for Intel.
Conclusion---architects commenting on IA-64 and Merced engineering details
makes sense, but unless one of us has real-world experience in what makes
certain names and brands appeal to the world, let's leave names to the
marketing people.
Maynard
Peter Seebach
Bruce Hoult <bruce...@pobox.com> wrote:
>It seems different this time. I don't recall anyone laughing at the
>Pentium name as a laughable thing in itself.
I do, but we got used to it. It sure did sound funny...
>Does even *one* person here think that "Itanium" was a good name?
I doubt it; it's phonetically ugly.
-s
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David T. Wang
: hand...@ricochet.net (Maynard Handley) wrote:
: > All fun and games, but people laughed at the Pentium name too. Lots of
: > moaning about how 586 was good enough. That name change seems to have
: > worked out pretty well for Intel.
: It seems different this time. I don't recall anyone laughing at the
: Pentium name as a laughable thing in itself. The jibes concerned whether
: there was a need to use a name instead of a number at all, and humourous
: speculation on what the follow-up name would be (especially given mixing
: latin and greek).
I recall a lot of confusion, and people saying "huh?" at the Pentium
name.
: Time has of course shown that even Intel couldn't come up with another
: word name -- or at least one that would be better than just tacking "pro",
: "II", "III" onto the end of "Pentium".
And ofcourse Celeron and Xeon, and now AMD has joined the party with
the latest in a series of dumb names.
: > Conclusion---architects commenting on IA-64 and Merced engineering details
: > makes sense, but unless one of us has real-world experience in what makes
: > certain names and brands appeal to the world, let's leave names to the
: > marketing people.
: Does even *one* person here think that "Itanium" was a good name?
Does it matter what a bunch of programmers/architects/designers think
about a marketing name?
--
main(){char *a[]={"Illogical.","Balderdash.","Non sequitur.","Incorrect.",
"See what I mean?","Irrelevant.","Poppycock."};for(;;)puts(a[rand()%7]);}
Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
> Does even *one* person here think that "Itanium" was a good name?
I don't about "good" (especially given that I don't know if the leading
"i" should be pronounced as in "idea" or as in "integer"), but I can see
two (dubiously) positive aspects:
- it starts with "i" like "intel" (could be spelt "iTanium")
- it can be made to sound somewhat like "internet".
Stefan
Bruce Hoult
hand...@ricochet.net (Maynard Handley) wrote:
> All fun and games, but people laughed at the Pentium name too. Lots of
> moaning about how 586 was good enough. That name change seems to have
> worked out pretty well for Intel.
It seems different this time. I don't recall anyone laughing at the
Pentium name as a laughable thing in itself. The jibes concerned whether
there was a need to use a name instead of a number at all, and humourous
speculation on what the follow-up name would be (especially given mixing
latin and greek).
Time has of course shown that even Intel couldn't come up with another
word name -- or at least one that would be better than just tacking "pro",
"II", "III" onto the end of "Pentium".
> Conclusion---architects commenting on IA-64 and Merced engineering details
> makes sense, but unless one of us has real-world experience in what makes
> certain names and brands appeal to the world, let's leave names to the
> marketing people.
Does even *one* person here think that "Itanium" was a good name?
-- Bruce
Andy Newman
>Conclusion---architects commenting on IA-64 and Merced engineering details
>makes sense, but unless one of us has real-world experience in what makes
>certain names and brands appeal to the world, let's leave names to the
>marketing people.
Good points. Never underestimate the power of the marketing dept!
The branded name needs a few properties - not rude or silly in any
language (sometimes quite difficult), not similar to another company's
trademark, unique enough that it stands out (and Itanium does at least
stand out ;) so they can market the *shit* out of it (TV ads for micro-
processor chips, never thought I'd see that).
--
Chuck Berry lied about the promised land
Dave Hansen
<monnier+comp/arch/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Hoult <bruce...@pobox.com> writes:
>> Does even *one* person here think that "Itanium" was a good name?
>
>I don't about "good" (especially given that I don't know if the leading
>"i" should be pronounced as in "idea" or as in "integer"), but I can see
I suspect it's as in "idea," the goal being to remind you of titanium,
which is supposed to evoke images of strength and value. Witness the
credit card companies, desperate to introduce a more exclusive card
than their "platinum" cards (previously introduced to exceed the
"gold" cards) are now pitching "titanium" cards. (What's next,
osmium?)
>two (dubiously) positive aspects:
>- it starts with "i" like "intel" (could be spelt "iTanium")
>- it can be made to sound somewhat like "internet".
Or "Information Technology," i.e. "IT", with the "ium" suffix to
remind you of Pentium. Still dubious, though.
Regards,
-=Dave
Just my (10-010) cents
I can barely speak for myself, so I certainly can't speak for B-Tree.
Change is inevitable. Progress is not.
Matt Reilly
A friend came across a nearly shredded chunk of paper blowing
across a sidewalk in a bay area town (name withheld). I've removed
the headers and blocked out the name of the originator to protect the
identity of all parties involved.
I'm not absolutely sure what company it really came from, but
I can take a guess at the company and the product they were trying
to name.
matt
(As always, I don't speak for my employers unless they're paying
me for it. Whoever they are.)
----------------------------------------------------------------
To: New Product Naming Committee
From: zzzzz z. zzzzzzzz
I finished setting up the database for our AutoName V2.3
last night. Twelve hours later, AN had come up with just ten names.
The trend doesn't look good. We'd better start working up a list of
names on our own.
As most of you know, AutoName builds a database of company
characteristics, product information, and local cultural attributes
by scanning product brochures, press releases, internal memoranda,
just about anything in text form. Last night AN scanned the e-mail
backup archives and built a database tailored to our operation.
The database combined with specific product information has
yielded the following list so far. (As I've said, I think we should
probably abandon this path: I really don't like the trend here.)
Repentium
Monopolium
Huncocrapium
Hyperium
Uberhype
Trajedia
Rustoleum
Rehashium
Komitium
Dominatium
Agilentium
This doesn't look good. I'll bring the updated list to the
afternoon meeting. We've got to come up with something soon.
--
Linux Rules!
Linux on Alpha Rules Bigtime!
Chris Brown
Dave Hansen <dha...@btree.com> wrote:
>I suspect it's as in "idea," the goal being to remind you of titanium,
>which is supposed to evoke images of strength and value.
And lightbulbs?
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/* \_,hris Brown -- All opinions expressed are probably wrong. */
Chris Brown
Chris Brown <Chris.omitt...@arm.andthisbit.com> wrote:
>In article <37fca8d7....@192.168.2.34>,
>Dave Hansen <dha...@btree.com> wrote:
>>I suspect it's as in "idea," the goal being to remind you of titanium,
>>which is supposed to evoke images of strength and value.
>
>And lightbulbs?
Sorry, that's tungsten. Just ignore me and I'll go back to sleep. :-)
Brian Drummond
(David T. Wang) wrote:
>Bruce Hoult (bruce...@pobox.com) wrote:
>: hand...@ricochet.net (Maynard Handley) wrote:
>
>: > All fun and games, but people laughed at the Pentium name too. Lots of
>: > moaning about how 586 was good enough. That name change seems to have
>: > worked out pretty well for Intel.
>
>: It seems different this time. I don't recall anyone laughing at the
>: Pentium name as a laughable thing in itself. The jibes concerned whether
>: there was a need to use a name instead of a number at all,
>I recall a lot of confusion, and people saying "huh?" at the Pentium
>name.
but given their inability to copyright a number, the "need" was real
enough.
>: Time has of course shown that even Intel couldn't come up with another
>: word name -- or at least one that would be better than just tacking "pro",
>: "II", "III" onto the end of "Pentium".
>
>And ofcourse Celeron and Xeon, and now AMD has joined the party with
>the latest in a series of dumb names.
On the other hand...
how else could AMD have taken shots at both "pent"ium AND "dec" with one
stone?
(the dual processor configuration is rather obvious too)
- Brian
Pete Smoot
> I suspect it's as in "idea," the goal being to remind you of titanium,
> which is supposed to evoke images of strength and value.
I mentioned the new name to my wife last night. She got the titanium
association, but (when I mentioned it's supposed to invoke images of
strength and durability) asked "Titanium does that?"
Why does the marketing department of the Sirius Cybernetics
Corporation spring to mind? Share and Enjoy!
-- Pete Smoot
Pinnacle Systems
Chris Russ
> On 06 Oct 1999 17:48:44 -0400, "Stefan Monnier <f...@acm.com>"
> <monnier+comp/arch/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Witness the
> credit card companies, desperate to introduce a more exclusive card
> than their "platinum" cards (previously introduced to exceed the
> "gold" cards) are now pitching "titanium" cards. (What's next,
> osmium?)
My favorites are:
43 Tc Technetium (Radioactive!!!! NFIN == Not Found In Nature)
38 Sr Strongtium (paint this inside a cobalt bomb, eh?)
Then we can start getting silly:
59 Pr Praseodymium (Prosaic? maybe not)
94 Pu Plutonium (One of the most poisonous substances known to man!)
97 Bk Berkelium
98 Cf Californium (Big, heavy, radioactive with a very short half-life)
Too bad this one is taken:
14 Si Silicon
-Chris Russ
Paul DeMone
Zalman Stern wrote:
>
> I'd write more, but I'm laughing too hard. Will they call the 1GHz version
> Unobtanium?
Its all unobtainium for now. BTW, the new name for merced is about
all the information that came out of Intel's double slot presentation
at MPF. BTW, Peter Bannon of Compaq came up with best line I heard
all week: "EPIC stands for Expects Perfectly Intuitive Compilers".
Fred Pollack of Intel let slip with "Merced has more pipe stages
than we orginally had envisioned" <grin>
>
> -Z-
--
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Kanata, Ontario proportions to put more PRECISION and POWER into
dem...@mosaid.com architectures with MIPSed results but ALPHA's well
pde...@igs.net that ends well.
Chris Cox
Chris.omitt...@arm.andthisbit.com (Chris Brown) wrote:
> In article <7ticov$c...@sis.cambridge.arm.com>,
> Chris Brown <Chris.omitt...@arm.andthisbit.com> wrote:
> >In article <37fca8d7....@192.168.2.34>,
> >Dave Hansen <dha...@btree.com> wrote:
> >>I suspect it's as in "idea," the goal being to remind you of titanium,
> >>which is supposed to evoke images of strength and value.
> >
> >And lightbulbs?
>
> Sorry, that's tungsten. Just ignore me and I'll go back to sleep. :-)
Titanium -- as in, white paint (Titanium (di)Oxide).
Chris
Jan Vorbrueggen
> 94 Pu Plutonium (One of the most poisonous substances known to man!)
Well, yes, if you are stupid enough to inhale it in power form, and wait a few
years for cancer to develop. In that case, I suggest you take a similar dose
of Botulinus toxin, which would kill you in a minute or two, and be massive
overkill.
OT, I know.
Jan
Robert Barris
IIRC "Pu" is deadly for its chemical behavior once inhaled, the
radioactivity is secondary at that point.
Rob
Ketil Z Malde
> In article <37fca8d7....@192.168.2.34>,
> Dave Hansen <dha...@btree.com> wrote:
> >I suspect it's as in "idea," the goal being to remind you of titanium,
> >which is supposed to evoke images of strength and value.
> And lightbulbs?
No, but frying pans.
Or perhaps it's bicycles?
-kzm
--
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
Paul Dietz
Robert Barris <rba...@netcom.com> wrote:
> IIRC "Pu" is deadly for its chemical behavior once inhaled, the
> radioactivity is secondary at that point.
This is a common myth. No, the danger is due to its
radioactivity. Its chemistry is important in that
it affects how/where the element stays in the body,
and so affects the radiation dose.
Paul
Dave Hansen
[...]
>Titanium -- as in, white paint (Titanium (di)Oxide).
So it's all just a whitewash?
Toon Moene
> In article <handleym-061...@handma3.apple.com>,
> hand...@ricochet.net (Maynard Handley) wrote:
> > All fun and games, but people laughed at the Pentium name too. Lots of
> > moaning about how 586 was good enough. That name change seems to have
> > worked out pretty well for Intel.
> It seems different this time. I don't recall anyone laughing at the
> Pentium name as a laughable thing in itself.
Are you sure ? Doesn't "The Fifth" has any connotations of doom for you
?
It was pretty clear why Intel couldn't go on with calling it (x++)86 -
they weren't allowed to trademark a number.
Maynard Handley
(Robert Barris) wrote:
>In article <y4aepux...@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
>Jan Vorbrueggen <j...@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>>Chris Russ <jc...@aol.com> writes:
>>
>>> 94 Pu Plutonium (One of the most poisonous substances known to man!)
>>
>>Well, yes, if you are stupid enough to inhale it in power form, and wait a few
>>years for cancer to develop. In that case, I suggest you take a similar dose
>>of Botulinus toxin, which would kill you in a minute or two, and be massive
>>overkill.
>
>IIRC "Pu" is deadly for its chemical behavior once inhaled, the
>radioactivity is secondary at that point.
HOWEVER, is this chemical poisonousness substantially larger than that of
other inorganics that don't have the glamor of radioactivity (like arsenic
or cyanide). And if it is substantially more toxic (ie toxic in lower
doses), what's the mode of operation? Some strange fluke like the atom
just happens to be the right size to slide into some key enzyme and gum it
up?
Maynard
Rob Barris
hand...@ricochet.net (Maynard Handley) wrote:
http://www.uilondon.org/ci3_plu.htm says, "no worse than any other heavy
metal if ingested". My bad..
Rob
M. Ranjit Mathews
> Zalman Stern wrote:
> >
> > I'd write more, but I'm laughing too hard. Will they call the 1GHz version
> > Unobtanium?
Why didn't they call it Sexium ?
> Its all unobtainium for now.
It's jinxed. Hexium, that is.
Joe Pfeiffer
>
> I propose Capsicum!
Now, there's a hot idea! (note where I'm posting from)
--
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Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
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Natarajan Krishnaswami
> It's jinxed. Hexium, that is.
I propose Capsicum!
<N/>
--
I feel so semantic today...
-- Eric A. Meyer
simon...@my-deja.com
called 'Cache la Poudre' (hide the powder).
Zalman Stern wrote:
> I'd write more, but I'm laughing too hard. Will they call the 1GHz
> version Unobtanium?
>
> -Z-
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Before you buy.
Thomas Tonino
> http://www.uilondon.org/ci3_plu.htm says, "no worse than any other heavy
> metal if ingested". My bad..
Sure... we do not believe what Intel tells us, so why would we believe
this intitute. To quote http://www.uilondon.org/ui-info.htm "The
Institute promotes the peaceful use of nuclear energy..."
Alpha particles may get stopped by a glove, but that is not the end of
the story. Enery is conserved when thes particles hit your glove and
lead to heating and emission of gamma radiation.
Still I do believe that most of Plutonium's danger is radiological, not
chemical. But I wouldn't ingest any of it, thank you, even though the
Uranium Institute claims: "In commercial power plant or research
applications, plutonium generally exists as the compound plutonium
dioxide (PuO2), a very stable ceramic material which is extremely
insoluble in water or body fluids, reducing the chemical toxicity to
negligible levels, unless inhaled."
Thomas
Sander Vesik
>> IIRC "Pu" is deadly for its chemical behavior once inhaled, the
>> radioactivity is secondary at that point.
> This is a common myth. No, the danger is due to its
> radioactivity. Its chemistry is important in that
> it affects how/where the element stays in the body,
> and so affects the radiation dose.
It's chemistry makes it go to the places you want it least, or namely
bone marrow, liver, ...
> Paul
Martin Knoblauch
>
>Why didn't they call it Sexium ?
>
now, aren't they american? That would make "Sex" a very un-PC prefix.
Martin
Maynard Handley
<tto...@bio.vu.nl> wrote:
>Rob Barris wrote:
>
>> http://www.uilondon.org/ci3_plu.htm says, "no worse than any other heavy
>> metal if ingested". My bad..
>
>Sure... we do not believe what Intel tells us, so why would we believe
>this intitute. To quote http://www.uilondon.org/ui-info.htm "The
>Institute promotes the peaceful use of nuclear energy..."
>
>Alpha particles may get stopped by a glove, but that is not the end of
>the story. Enery is conserved when thes particles hit your glove and
>lead to heating and emission of gamma radiation.
Oh for crying out loud.
Are you seriously claiming that holding plutonium in your hand makes your
hand hot enough to emit gamma rays? Do you have any idea just how hot your
hand has to be to emit gammas?
>Still I do believe that most of Plutonium's danger is radiological, not
>chemical. But I wouldn't ingest any of it, thank you, even though the
>Uranium Institute claims: "In commercial power plant or research
>applications, plutonium generally exists as the compound plutonium
>dioxide (PuO2), a very stable ceramic material which is extremely
>insoluble in water or body fluids, reducing the chemical toxicity to
>negligible levels, unless inhaled."
Well that's a relief. I believe in getting all my chemical and physical
information from usenet individuals who came across it in a vision, rather
than bothering with those pesky scientific experiments.
Maynard
Thomas Tonino
> >Alpha particles may get stopped by a glove, but that is not the end of
> >the story. Enery is conserved when thes particles hit your glove and
> >lead to heating and emission of gamma radiation.
> Are you seriously claiming that holding plutonium in your hand makes your
> hand hot enough to emit gamma rays? Do you have any idea just how hot your
> hand has to be to emit gammas?
Never heard of bremsstrahlung? When charged particles change direction
they emit electromagnitic waves. If they change direction quickly - like
when they bounce on a nucleus - the radiation can have high enough enery
to be X-ray or gamma radiation. Heavy nuclei definitely work better than
light ones. Also called 'Braking Radiation'.
> >[ I'm not going to ingest plutonium, Thank You, just on a hunch]
> Well that's a relief. I believe in getting all my chemical and physical
> information from usenet individuals who came across it in a vision, rather
> than bothering with those pesky scientific experiments.
I believe in using common sense and being careful with stuff that has
proven dangerous in the past. Or would people at the Uranium Institute
have done experiments with humans ingesting this safe and inert PuO2?
Thomas
Natarajan Krishnaswami
> Alpha particles
Hah, every thread must eventually mention the Alpha.
Jonathan Rozes
in article <3801B19B...@bio.vu.nl>:
> Maynard Handley wrote:
>
>> >Alpha particles may get stopped by a glove, but that is not the end of
>> >the story. Enery is conserved when thes particles hit your glove and
>> >lead to heating and emission of gamma radiation.
>
>> Are you seriously claiming that holding plutonium in your hand makes your
>> hand hot enough to emit gamma rays? Do you have any idea just how hot your
>> hand has to be to emit gammas?
>
> Never heard of bremsstrahlung? When charged particles change direction
> they emit electromagnitic waves. If they change direction quickly - like
> when they bounce on a nucleus - the radiation can have high enough enery
> to be X-ray or gamma radiation. Heavy nuclei definitely work better than
> light ones. Also called 'Braking Radiation'.
Aren't alpha particles just a bit too big, fat and slow to cause
bremsstrahlung emission?
jonathan
--
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Maynard Handley
<tto...@bio.vu.nl> wrote:
>Maynard Handley wrote:
>
>> >Alpha particles may get stopped by a glove, but that is not the end of
>> >the story. Enery is conserved when thes particles hit your glove and
>> >lead to heating and emission of gamma radiation.
>
>> Are you seriously claiming that holding plutonium in your hand makes your
>> hand hot enough to emit gamma rays? Do you have any idea just how hot your
>> hand has to be to emit gammas?
>
>Never heard of bremsstrahlung? When charged particles change direction
>they emit electromagnitic waves. If they change direction quickly - like
>when they bounce on a nucleus - the radiation can have high enough enery
>to be X-ray or gamma radiation. Heavy nuclei definitely work better than
>light ones. Also called 'Braking Radiation'.
You said, and I quote, "lead to heating and emission of gamma radiation"
which implies thermal radiation.
Excited electrons generate bremsstrahlung. Slow moving alphas do not.
>> >[ I'm not going to ingest plutonium, Thank You, just on a hunch]
>
>> Well that's a relief. I believe in getting all my chemical and physical
>> information from usenet individuals who came across it in a vision, rather
>> than bothering with those pesky scientific experiments.
>
>I believe in using common sense and being careful with stuff that has
>proven dangerous in the past. Or would people at the Uranium Institute
And when did plutonium oxide prove dangerous in the past in terms of the
issue being discussed, ie can it poison people?
I object to your twisting of words to accomplish some political agenda.
Zalman Stern
: Hah, every thread must eventually mention the Alpha.
Perhaps that was why the 21264 was delayed. They went so fast that when you
turned them off, the Alpha stopping generated too many gamma rays and hence
was a radiation danger.
-Z-
Eric Werme - replace nospam with werme
>In article <7ticov$c...@sis.cambridge.arm.com>,
>>Dave Hansen <dha...@btree.com> wrote:
>>>I suspect it's as in "idea," the goal being to remind you of titanium,
>>>which is supposed to evoke images of strength and value.
>>
>>And lightbulbs?
>Sorry, that's tungsten. Just ignore me and I'll go back to sleep. :-)
You were probably thinking of light reflecting off white walls (TiO2 is
the standard white pigment in paint).
Sounds like whitewash too me, but I think that's something different.
--
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Dan Pop
>Still I do believe that most of Plutonium's danger is radiological, not
>chemical.
Encyclopaedia Britannica has some interesting data:
Plutonium and all elements of higher atomic number are
radiological poisons because of their high rate of alpha
emission and their specific absorption in bone marrow. The
maximum amount of plutonium-239 that can be indefinitely
maintained in an adult without significant injury is 0.008
microcuries (equal to 0.13 micrograms). Longer-lived
isotopes plutonium-242 and plutonium-244 are valuable in
chemical and metallurgical research. Plutonium-238 can be
manufactured to harness its heat of radioactive decay to
operate thermoelectric and thermionic devices that are small
and lightweight but long-lived (the half-life of
plutonium-238 is 86 years).
Dan
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Thomas Tonino
> Excited electrons generate bremsstrahlung. Slow moving alphas do not.
am...@nsof.co.il-n0spam
so I tried its root word "itan" and got the following:
No entries found that match your query.
Here is a list of similar words.
48 words found.
To view an entry in the list, highlight it and click on GO TO.
Adam
adam
add-on
Aden
aden
aden-
-athon
athon
-ation
ation
atom
attain
Auden
autumn
eadem
eaten
Eaton
Edam
Eden
Edom
Edwin
ethion
Eton
idem
-idin
idin
idiom
-idium
idium
item
oaten
odeum
Odin
odium
oidium
otium
Utahn
Wadden
wait on
wet down
Weyden
widen
witan
within
Witten
Woden
wooden
Wotton
(I particularly like "odium" and "wait on"!....)
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Jay Lessert
Bruce Hoult <bruce...@pobox.com> wrote:
>In article <handleym-061...@handma3.apple.com>,
>hand...@ricochet.net (Maynard Handley) wrote:
>
>> All fun and games, but people laughed at the Pentium name too. Lots of
>> moaning about how 586 was good enough. That name change seems to have
>> worked out pretty well for Intel.
>
>It seems different this time. I don't recall anyone laughing at the
>Pentium name as a laughable thing in itself.
Then you've a short memory. :-)
It certainly was laughed at on Usenet... and my Intel engineering
friends & acquaintances just sort of shrugged, smiled, and mumbled
something like "they're marketroids, what d'ya expect?".
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Jonathan Rozes
in article <38031967...@bio.vu.nl>:
> Maynard Handley wrote:
>
>> Excited electrons generate bremsstrahlung. Slow moving alphas do not.
>
> http://iptsg.epfl.ch/aps/BAPSTSF98/abs/S1700002.html
This method depends on a 2.5 MeV proton beam in order to knock out the
K and L shells of the target atom. When the vacancies are filled, x-rays
are produced. Will the 5.245 MeV alpha particles naturally emitted by
Pu-239 produce the same effect? In a layer of human skin?
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> You were probably thinking of light reflecting off white walls (TiO2 is
> the standard white pigment in paint).
Filaments in incadecsent bulbs used to be made of Wolfram; I don't know
whether that's true any more.
> Sounds like whitewash too me, but I think that's something different.
Calcium, not Wolfram. Whitewash is not the same as the pigment in white
paint.
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Reply to host nsf (dot) gov, user smetz
Bill Todd
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <nos...@nsf.gov.invalid> wrote in message
news:3804D8ED...@nsf.gov.invalid...
> Eric Werme - replace nospam with werme wrote:
>
> > You were probably thinking of light reflecting off white walls (TiO2 is
> > the standard white pigment in paint).
>
> Filaments in incadecsent bulbs used to be made of Wolfram; I don't know
> whether that's true any more.
Aren't Wolfram and Tungsten synonymous?
Paul DeMone
Eric Werme - replace nospam with werme wrote:
[snip]
> >Sorry, that's tungsten. Just ignore me and I'll go back to sleep. :-)
>
> You were probably thinking of light reflecting off white walls (TiO2 is
> the standard white pigment in paint).
>
> Sounds like whitewash too me, but I think that's something different.
TiO2 was also used in smoke generators on warships. Trying to
hide a big and unweildy EPIC battleship from a pack of SMT and
CMP dive bombers using a smoke screen might not be a bad allusion
for Itanium :)
All opinions strictly my own.
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Kanata, Ontario proportions to put more PRECISION and POWER into
dem...@mosaid.com architectures with MIPSed results but ALPHA's well
pde...@igs.net that ends well.
Maynard Handley
<tto...@bio.vu.nl> wrote:
>Maynard Handley wrote:
>
>> Excited electrons generate bremsstrahlung. Slow moving alphas do not.
>
>http://iptsg.epfl.ch/aps/BAPSTSF98/abs/S1700002.html
I'm not sure quite what to make of this given only the abstract.
The mechanism involved seems to be to fire protons at material possessing
heavy elements, the protons interact with core electrons in the heavy
metals freeing them, and one of the higher-up electrons falls into the
vacant core slot generating X-rays. This is not bremsstrahlung.
More to the point, without information about cross-sections (ie how
frequently this happens) it's relevance to the problem being discussed is
marginal. We're dealing with QM---anything that's not explicitly prevented
by some symmetry or conservation law can happen. The real issue is, does
it happen frequently enough to be worth worrying about. Being able to
detect something with a gaggle of highly sophisticated instruments is
quite different from having biological effects.
For example you probably have natural carbon-14 in your bones cooking you
with radioactivity from the inside-out as we speak. Does this worry and
concern you?
Maynard
David Gay
Jan Ingvoldstad <ja...@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> On Sat, 09 Oct 1999 06:44:07 GMT, simon...@my-deja.com said:
>
> > Since Intel like rivers, there is a river in Colorado
> > called 'Cache la Poudre' (hide the powder).
>
> but a noun. "Hide the powder" would be "cacher la poudre". The
> correct translation is "hiding place of powder".
>
> See also <URL: http://www.nps.gov/rivers/cachelapoudre.html>.
Sorry, but you're wrong, for modern French at least:
"Hiding place of powder" would be "Cache de poudre".
"Cache la poudre" reads as "Hide the powder", in the imperative tense.
"Cacher la poudre" is "To hide the powder".
I'd be somewhat surprised if "la" became "de" since 1820.
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dg...@cs.berkeley.edu
Jan Ingvoldstad
> Since Intel like rivers, there is a river in Colorado
> called 'Cache la Poudre' (hide the powder).
No, that's not "hide the powder", since the first word is not a verb,
but a noun. "Hide the powder" would be "cacher la poudre". The
correct translation is "hiding place of powder".
See also <URL: http://www.nps.gov/rivers/cachelapoudre.html>.
Interestingly enough, the word "cache" also carries other meanings,
such as a quick-to-reach storage (more specifically a place for
provisions or similar) or a secure storage, which (I guess) is why
we're using that word for quick-to-reach memory in computers. This
makes a bit of sense, since walking from the cache to the main storage
usually is a longer walk, and not really that desirable, unless you
absolutely have to.
(Now, did that bring us any closer to being on topic? ;)
--
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pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald
Reagan. The same is true of Graphical User Interfaces in general.
(Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning Was the Command Line, 1999)
cla...@yahoo.com
"Bill Todd" <bill...@foo.mv.com> wrote:
>
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <nos...@nsf.gov.invalid> wrote in message
> news:3804D8ED...@nsf.gov.invalid...
> >
> > > You were probably thinking of light reflecting off white walls
(TiO2 is
> > > the standard white pigment in paint).
> >
know
> > whether that's true any more.
>
> Aren't Wolfram and Tungsten synonymous?
>
Yes same thing.
Jan Vorbrueggen
> The mechanism involved seems to be to fire protons at material possessing
> heavy elements, the protons interact with core electrons in the heavy
> metals freeing them, and one of the higher-up electrons falls into the
> vacant core slot generating X-rays. This is not bremsstrahlung.
I think those are called Auger electrons.
> For example you probably have natural carbon-14 in your bones cooking you
> with radioactivity from the inside-out as we speak.
Potassium-40 is much worse - it accounts for about 40% of your natural
radiation budget. And you can't avoid it - without potassium, all cells
in your body, and in particular your neurons, will cease to function.
Jan
Jan Vorbrueggen
> Aren't Wolfram and Tungsten synonymous?
Indeed. I thought German was the only language which used Wolfram.
Jan
Anders Sundin
>Aren't Wolfram and Tungsten synonymous?
Wolfram means "wolf's soot" in german while tungsten is germanic for
"heavy stone" (it has nothing to do with heavy rock).
-Anders
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e-mail: Anders...@orgk2.lth.se voice: +46 462224185 fax: +46 462228209
Thomas Tonino
> Potassium-40 is much worse - it accounts for about 40% of your natural
> radiation budget. And you can't avoid it - without potassium, all cells
> in your body, and in particular your neurons, will cease to function.
mm... something new for the health food industry? You heard it here
first, so it is not patentable any more:
Potassium-40 free food and/or potassium-40-free potassium cloride to
help wash the evil potassium-40 ions from your body.
Thomas
Chris Russ
OTassium.
Olfram.
Ydrogren (androgeny. Bad idea)
Elium
Ithium (any of Tolkien's elves around here?)
Eryllium
Oron (Add an 'M')
Arbon
Itrogen
Xygen (Kinda cool. I like this one)
Luorine
Eon (A lot time until we ship)
Odium (A *really* bad name)
Agnesium (for all of you agnostics out there)
Luminum (Glows in the dark. I like it)
Ilicon (is this a convention?)
Hosphorus
Ulpher
Hlorine
Rgon (Bug spray?)
...
Others that would start with the letter "I":
Ickel
Ilver
Ismuth
Insteinium
My favorites are Xygen (probably makes a good company name) and Luminium.
;-)
-Chris Russ
Dave Hansen
>Let's see, new naming conventions:
[...]
>My favorites are Xygen (probably makes a good company name)
Someone else obviously thinks so, too. The xygen.com domain has been
registered, though there's no info there yet...
> and Luminium.
This seems to still be open. Better act fast! ;-)
Regards,
-=Dave
Just my (10-010) cents
I can barely speak for myself, so I certainly can't speak for B-Tree.
Change is inevitable. Progress is not.
Erik Corry
>> and Luminium.
> This seems to still be open. Better act fast! ;-)
Luminium.com is taken, and is much cooler :-).
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Erik Corry
> "Dave Hansen" <3806009f....@192.168.2.34> wrote:
>>> and Luminium.
>> This seems to still be open. Better act fast! ;-)
> Luminium.com is taken, and is much cooler :-).
Ooops I misread what you quoted as luminum. Still, Luminium.com has been
gone about a month. Now why won't this blasted newsread let me cancel :-(.
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Bill Todd
Jan Vorbrueggen <j...@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote in
message news:y4g0zeo...@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de...
>
> Jan
I think (based on use in old SF, primarily: I'm not *that* old) it may have
been fairly common in America before WWII - perhaps not surprising given the
degree to which Germany dominated so many scientific fields back then.
Zalman Stern
: Jan Vorbrueggen <j...@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote in
:> > Aren't Wolfram and Tungsten synonymous?
:>
:> Indeed. I thought German was the only language which used Wolfram.
: I think (based on use in old SF, primarily: I'm not *that* old) it may have
: been fairly common in America before WWII - perhaps not surprising given the
: degree to which Germany dominated so many scientific fields back then.
The name Wolfram gets mentioned because the chemical symbol for Tungsten is
'W'. (I've always assumed the periodic table was fairly international, with
the same symbols used despite differing languages. But I have no idea if
that is true.) I expect anyone who's taken a decent chemistry class knows
both names. Though I doubt many people here call the element Wolfram
outside of explaining the symbol. And of course the first association for
Wolfram these days is Mathematica.
-Z-
Dave Hansen
>"Dave Hansen" <3806009f....@192.168.2.34> wrote:
>
>>> and Luminium.
>
>> This seems to still be open. Better act fast! ;-)
>
>Luminium.com is taken, and is much cooler :-).
Oops, I didn't look closely enough. Luminum is available, luminium is
gone. Sorry!
Johan Carlsson
[snip]
> Ickel
> Ilver
> Ismuth
> Insteinium
You forgot one: Errum.
Hmm... Then they could "drop" the e too. Geddit? rrum!
e
Serguei Patchkovskii
: I've always assumed the periodic table was fairly international, with
: the same symbols used despite differing languages. But I have no idea if
: that is true.
It is. IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry,
http://www.iupac.org/) is responsible for assigning the official
element names.
/Serge.P
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Dan Pop
>The name Wolfram gets mentioned because the chemical symbol for Tungsten is
>'W'. (I've always assumed the periodic table was fairly international, with
>the same symbols used despite differing languages. But I have no idea if
>that is true.) I expect anyone who's taken a decent chemistry class knows
>both names. Though I doubt many people here call the element Wolfram
>outside of explaining the symbol.
In my native language, Romanian, both names are in current use, but
Wolfram seems to be more popular than Tungsten.
Terje Mathisen
>
> In <7u6p24$7d3$1...@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> Zalman Stern <zal...@netcom18.netcom.com> writes:
>
> >The name Wolfram gets mentioned because the chemical symbol for Tungsten is
> >'W'. (I've always assumed the periodic table was fairly international, with
> >the same symbols used despite differing languages. But I have no idea if
> >that is true.) I expect anyone who's taken a decent chemistry class knows
> >both names. Though I doubt many people here call the element Wolfram
> >outside of explaining the symbol.
>
> In my native language, Romanian, both names are in current use, but
> Wolfram seems to be more popular than Tungsten.
From the language department:
Wolfram is the proper name in Norwegian as well.
I first heard of Tungsten in relation to a not-so-good incandescent bulb
manufacturer: Tungsram.
It took me a while to figure out why the company had been named so. :-)
Terje
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Jan Ingvoldstad
<dg...@barnowl.CS.Berkeley.EDU> said:
> Sorry, but you're wrong, for modern French at least:
> "Hiding place of powder" would be "Cache de poudre".
*mumble* I should know this, having had a couple of years of French.
Lesson learned this week: Don't assume that authorative web sites
know better.
> I'd be somewhat surprised if "la" became "de" since 1820.
I wouldn't be surprised if the original form was "cache de la poudre"
(hiding place of the powder).
Brian Inglis
<zal...@netcom18.netcom.com> wrote:
>Bill Todd <bill...@foo.mv.com> wrote:
>: Jan Vorbrueggen <j...@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote in
>:> > Aren't Wolfram and Tungsten synonymous?
>:>
>:> Indeed. I thought German was the only language which used Wolfram.
>
>: I think (based on use in old SF, primarily: I'm not *that* old) it may have
>: been fairly common in America before WWII - perhaps not surprising given the
>: degree to which Germany dominated so many scientific fields back then.
>
>The name Wolfram gets mentioned because the chemical symbol for Tungsten is
>'W'. (I've always assumed the periodic table was fairly international, with
>the same symbols used despite differing languages. But I have no idea if
>that is true.) I expect anyone who's taken a decent chemistry class knows
>both names. Though I doubt many people here call the element Wolfram
>outside of explaining the symbol. And of course the first association for
>Wolfram these days is Mathematica.
>
>-Z-
Anyone who's taken a decent chemistry class probably knows the
Latin derivation for every chemical symbol in the metals.
Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Daniel Spangberg
> "Bill Todd" <bill...@foo.mv.com> writes:
>
> > Aren't Wolfram and Tungsten synonymous?
>
> Indeed. I thought German was the only language which used Wolfram.
>
> Jan
Swedish too at least. Wolfram is the Swedish (and obviously German)
name for W. Tungsten is the English name for it. One interesting note
may be that in Swedish a direct translation for Tungsten means Heavy
stone.
/daniel
M. Ranjit Mathews
> Anyone who's taken a decent chemistry class probably knows the
> Latin derivation for every chemical symbol in the metals.
Not necessarily, though many do. Rote memorization of symbols is more common in
some parts of the world. There are Chemical Engineers from India (who obviously
know Chemistry well enough to be Chemical Engineers) who don't know what Stannum or
Wolfram are; they might find it easy to guess what Ferrum and Cuprum are. I myself
don't know how potassium came to be K.
Mo
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names for elements in Russian. "KALI" (not the godess)
is the latin word for Pottasium. How they got the symbol
K from that beats me. :-)
A word about Chemical Engineers. We have nothing against
Chemists. But 3-4 undergrad courses in Chemistry do not
make us experts in Chemistry. More emphasis is on Thermo,
Math, Transport Phen. and REaction ENg. Chemists are OK -
but they need higher degrees to find jobs and always get
paid far less than ChemEs with comparable education.
M. Ranjit Mathews <ran...@realtime.net> wrote:
Not necessarily, though many do. Rote memorization of symbols is more
common in some parts of the world. There are Chemical Engineers from
India
(who obviously know Chemistry well enough to be Chemical Engineers) who
don't know what Stannum or Wolfram are; they might find it easy to
guess
what Ferrum and Cuprum are. I myself don't know how potassium came to
be
K.
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Bholu Ji
What about them? In Russian they use Argentum, Aurum etc.
if that is what you meant.
Madurai Veeran <mark...@worldnet.att.net>wrote:
What about Natrium, Kallium, Argentum, Plumbum, Hydragerum, Aurrum?
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Dan Pop
>Spoke with a Russian friend - they virtually use all Latin
>names for elements in Russian. "KALI" (not the godess)
>is the latin word for Pottasium. How they got the symbol
>K from that beats me. :-)
Romanian being a Romance language, I had very few surprises when I learned
the symbols of the chemical elements.
E.g.
Pb - Plumb
Ag - Argint
Au - Aur
Cu - Cupru
Fe - Fier
W - Wolfram
All the non-immediately obvious ones I can think of are:
P - Fosfor
Hg - Mercur
Sn - Cositor
K - Potasiu
Na - Sodiu