Comments on: Nomenclature http://hootingyard.org/archives/1141 A Website by Frank Key Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:59:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Outa_Spaceman http://hootingyard.org/archives/1141/comment-page-1#comment-5479 Outa_Spaceman Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:26:41 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1141#comment-5479 Bad reputations... Hmmmm... Anybody remember when Sellafield was called Windscale...? Bad reputations…
Hmmmm…
Anybody remember when Sellafield was called Windscale…?

]]> By: glyn Webster http://hootingyard.org/archives/1141/comment-page-1#comment-5471 glyn Webster Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:32:49 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1141#comment-5471 The name changes Laban Tall notes were made to escape implied obligations, but it's also done to escape bad reputations: in 2007 the suspiciously incompetent Diebold Election Systems changed its name to "Premier Election Solutions"; in 2003 the tobacco company Philip Morris changed its name to "Altria." (Sorry, I should have said this first rather than wittering on about totalizator machines.) The name changes Laban Tall notes were made to escape implied obligations, but it’s also done to escape bad reputations: in 2007 the suspiciously incompetent Diebold Election Systems changed its name to “Premier Election Solutions”; in 2003 the tobacco company Philip Morris changed its name to “Altria.”

(Sorry, I should have said this first rather than wittering on about totalizator machines.)

]]> By: Glyn Webster http://hootingyard.org/archives/1141/comment-page-1#comment-5468 Glyn Webster Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:25:11 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1141#comment-5468 Ah, a Totalizator Agency Board. I have liven a clean life. Now that I've looked it up, I've discovered that "totalizators" were giant Edwardian mechanical computers! I thought it was all done with ticket machines and chalk boards. http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/atl.htm "... In 1913 [Sir George Julius] installed his first totalizator on Ellerslie Racecourse in N.Z. and the second at Gloucester Park in Western Australia in 1916. The installation at Ellerslie was the first automatic totalizator in the world and although it looked like a giant tangle of piano wires, pulleys and cast iron boxes and many racing officials predicted that it would not work, it was a great success." Bicycle chains and sprockets are mentioned on that page too. It's probably all done in little Dieboldesque booths now though, so I'll continue to give the racetrack a wide berth. Ah, a Totalizator Agency Board. I have liven a clean life. Now that I’ve looked it up, I’ve discovered that “totalizators” were giant Edwardian mechanical computers! I thought it was all done with ticket machines and chalk boards.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/atl.htm

“… In 1913 [Sir George Julius] installed his first totalizator on Ellerslie Racecourse in N.Z. and the second at Gloucester Park in Western Australia in 1916. The installation at Ellerslie was the first automatic totalizator in the world and although it looked like a giant tangle of piano wires, pulleys and cast iron boxes and many racing officials predicted that it would not work, it was a great success.”

Bicycle chains and sprockets are mentioned on that page too. It’s probably all done in little Dieboldesque booths now though, so I’ll continue to give the racetrack a wide berth.

]]> By: Trubott Wellington http://hootingyard.org/archives/1141/comment-page-1#comment-5465 Trubott Wellington Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:52:09 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1141#comment-5465 Call me a conspiracy theorist, but suppose the government were to sell a majority share in "Royal Signals and Radar Establishment" the tabloids would cry-foul, patriots would beat their fists in the air and heads would metaphorically roll. On the other hand supposing it were re-branded to something meaningless like QnetiQ, an improperly punctuated name that reeks of frivolity. We could sell such a company to Fidel Castro a hundred times before anybody paid it the blindest bit of notice. TW. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but suppose the government were to sell a majority share in “Royal Signals and Radar Establishment” the tabloids would cry-foul, patriots would beat their fists in the air and heads would metaphorically roll.

On the other hand supposing it were re-branded to something meaningless like QnetiQ, an improperly punctuated name that reeks of frivolity. We could sell such a company to Fidel Castro a hundred times before anybody paid it the blindest bit of notice.

TW.

]]> By: Frank Key http://hootingyard.org/archives/1141/comment-page-1#comment-5460 Frank Key Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:06:42 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1141#comment-5460 Glyn : I'm sure a Hooting Yard reader who fancies a flutter on the horses will be able to enlighten you. Glyn : I’m sure a Hooting Yard reader who fancies a flutter on the horses will be able to enlighten you.

]]> By: Glyn Webster http://hootingyard.org/archives/1141/comment-page-1#comment-5459 Glyn Webster Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:55:44 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1141#comment-5459 I'd like to know what "the Tote" is. Is it something that's already been through one of those rebranding exercises? I’d like to know what “the Tote” is. Is it something that’s already been through one of those rebranding exercises?

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