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There are many companies / brands / products whose names were derived from strange circumstances.

Mercedes
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.

Adobe
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran
behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apple Computers
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.

CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.

Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number
represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'

Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was
initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym
of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was
designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring
it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a
UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered
themselves yahoos.




Ant and the Grasshopper
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CLASSIC VERSION...
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for
the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

-MODERN VERSION...
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

BBC, CNN, NDTV show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to
suffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house.

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticizes the Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the grasshopper.

Opposition MP's stage a walkout.

Left parties call for "Bharat Bandh" in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]", with effect from the beginning of the winter.

The ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government and handed over to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered by BBC, CNN and NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it "a triumph of justice". Koffi Annan invites the grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.

The Top 15 most colorful, controversial Microsoft statements ever


In the pantheon of controversial Microsoft comments CEO Steve Ballmer's quote this week about the Apple iPod: "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item," ranks right up there. But Between Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates that comment would be hard pressed to crack the Top 15 all-time most controversial or even colorful things the two of them have uttered in the past oh, 20 years or so. These are my favorite quotes, there are many like them but these are mine:

Who could forget:

1. Ballmer lambasting technology stock valuations, including those of his own company:"There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy."

2. Ballmer on those pesky iPods and Google."My children--in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."
3. More on Google of course, by Ballmer:"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards. "

4. Ballmer on usefulness of blogs:"I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative. "

5. Ballmer on Microsoft's standing in the marketplace:"We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. "

6. Ballmer on Linux's uh, health problems:"Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works."
7. Ballmer on potential Linux patent problems: Microsoft wants to "get the appropriate economic return for our shareholders from our innovation," suggesting that users and vendors of other versions of Linux could be at risk of patent infringement lawsuits. Ballmer's comments came after Microsoft and Novell signed a business and technology partnership that included an agreement not to assert patent and intellectual property rights.

Chairman Gates has his own litany of controversial comments.

1. Gates on his place in the universe:"Hey, I never told anyone to buy my stock! Besides, no one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year-if you check, you'll see that that's more than most people make in a lifetime!"
2. Gates on Microsoft's anti-trust case:"This anti-trust thing will blow over."

3. Gates on, the distributed nature of intelligence at his company ( I think):"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."

4. Gates on the number of H-1B visas that should be permitted in the US over the current 65,000 currently allowed:"300,000 would be a fantastic improvement."

5. Gates, again reasserting his place in the world:I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.

6. Gates getting one right perhaps:"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG. "

7. Gates on his rush for support Digital Rights management:"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."

8. Gates on his customers:"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey."

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Computer Sayings

• There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
• A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.
• The programmer's national anthem is 'AAAAAAAARRRRGHHHHH!!'.
• At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
• Beta. Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it's released. Beta is Latin for "still doesn't work."

• Computer analyst to programmer: "You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
• Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow.
• Hidden DOS secret: add BUGS=OFF to your CONFIG.SYS
• Hit any user to continue.
• I wish life had an UNDO function.

• If your computer says, "Printer out of Paper," this problem cannot be resolved by continuously clicking the "OK" button.
• It said "Insert disk 3..." but only 2 fit in the drive.
• Microsoft Windows: computing While U Wait
• 665.9238429876 - Number of the Pentium Beast
• I have yet to meet a C compiler that is more friendly and easier to use than eating soup with a knife.

• My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
• Programming graphics in X is like finding sqrt(pi) using Roman numerals.
• "To know recursion, you must first know recursion"
• Life's unfair - but root password helps!
• Mountain Dew and doughnuts... because breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

• Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
• "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
• Intel: We put the "um..." in Pentium.
• Helpdesk tip #2: When the support analyst says "Click...", wait for the rest of the sentence.
• BREAKFAST.COM Halted...Cereal Port Not Responding

• BUFFERS=20 FILES=15 2nd down, 4th quarter, 5 yards to go!
• As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
• Disinformation is not as good as datinformation.
• Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.....
• Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...

• All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
• A good programmer makes all the right mistakes.
• "There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true."
• "A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street."

• C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
• A computer scientist is someone who, when told to "Go to Hell," sees the "go to," rather than the destination, as harmful.
• APATHY ERROR: Don't bother striking any key. Application has reported a "Not My Fault" in module KRNL.EXE in line 0200:103F
• "The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a software patch and a user with an idea."

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