Title: Dodgy Acronym Post by: kinboshi on November 10, 2007, 12:26:45 PM http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/09/nanotube_acronyms/
You have carbon nanotubes (CNTs), the Chinese have been working on Copper versions... Title: Re: Dodgy Acronym Post by: Shogun112 on November 11, 2007, 11:24:44 AM Isnt that like a few years back when Cranfield University got all nice new NT Servers and they needed to give them a name.. Someone suggested to the boss to use an acronym includint the university name and the boss agreed...
Title: Re: Dodgy Acronym Post by: AndrewT on November 11, 2007, 02:46:50 PM Isnt that like a few years back when Cranfield University got all nice new NT Servers and they needed to give them a name.. Someone suggested to the boss to use an acronym includint the university name and the boss agreed... Sounds like the (probably apocryphal) story of the time Newcastle Polytechnic became a university and the suggested new name was the City University of Newcastle upon Tyne, before some spoilsport stopped it. |