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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.