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Didn't everyone realize this six months ago?

• jacquesm 17y ago
  Frankly no. I just sat here and it suddenly hit me. Congratulations on being a whole lot smarter than me :) (don't worry about it, you probably share that distinction with a large part of the population of the planet). And is there any take on this being an oversight or was it on purpose ?
  • access_denied 17y ago
    On purpose?! By a company that chooses pink as the color for special edition Zune, to just name one example of demonstrable lack of taste? I don't think they are more subtle than, er, Yahoo or what about Tumblr... need I go on? Maybe in the head of one single advertising guy who wanted to.. but then again, how many advertising people know that GNU even exists? Let alone iterational humour.
  • tokenadult 17y ago
    An item from a dead HN thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632022 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632022 commented on plausible interpretations of "bing" as a Chinese word. Without tone markings, it's hard to know whether joking that it means "ice" makes more sense than joking that it means "sick," and in any event the official Microsoft rendering of "Bing" in Chinese turns the pronunciation into "bi ying," as indicated in the link above.
  • ianbishop 17y ago
    I meant no offense! But within a week of the new engine being announced (or rather renamed) it was pointed out by TC and other news outlets.
    • jacquesm 17y ago
      > I meant no offense! none taken, hence the :) > But within a week of the new engine being announced (or rather renamed) it was pointed out by TC and other news outlets. I completely missed that, I was pretty busy with other stuff when bing launched.