Google, IBM, Mellanox, Nvidia, Tyan form OpenPower Consortium

Re:Google, IBM, Mellanox, Nvidia, Tyan form OpenPower Consor... by iyulaev on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @06:05PM (#6169535)

"IMHO, that doesn't mean it's not shouting. "

So why did you write IBM, instead of Ibm? Or ARM, instead of Arm?

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Re:Google, IBM, Mellanox, Nvidia, Tyan form OpenPower Consor... by marshray on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @06:25PM (#6169621)

Because I find meaningless three letter acronyms much more palatable than five letter contrived ones.

The contrivedness of an acronym increases exponentially with its length.

EDIT: OK, I give in. I had too much fun hanging out with the password cracking guys at the awesome Passwords 13 conference last week.

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