Re: Database naming convention (yet another post of it, but a bit different)
From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: 21 Oct 2002 21:51:15 -0500
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Date: 21 Oct 2002 21:51:15 -0500
Message-ID: <Xns92AED51276E54pingottpingottbah_at_209.189.89.243>
"Adam Cantrell" <chrisjaney_at_hotmail.com> wrote in news:1L2t9.5383$qW4.2398434_at_newssrv26.news.prodigy.com:
>> Did you know that the size of a solid fuel booster for NASA was
>> determined by horse's asses? Literally. The Roman two horse
>> chariot determined the ruts that became the Roman roads. Roman
>> roads determined British railroad gauge; British railroad gauge
>> determine American railroad gauge; American railroad gauge
>> determined the size of tunnelsthru the Rocky Mountains and what
>> you could transport by rail.
>
> That's deep man.
heh heh...
Too bad he's ripping off James Burke on his show called Connections:
http://home.earthlink.net/~billotto/Connections.html
-- Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering http://www.hpdbe.comReceived on Tue Oct 22 2002 - 04:51:15 CEST