Origin of Famous Brand Names

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 COwplandREsearch 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 numberrepresented 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 (Indian) 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 includedthe 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 aharishi 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 Larrymin 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.SonyIt originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaningsound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN

Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is theacronym for Stanford University Network. AndreasBechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khoslarecruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacturecomputers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop aUNIX-based OS for the computer.

All about Attitude

If you think you know what good attitude is or want to harvest good attitude, then this is the story for you...

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Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a unique manager because he had several
waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive
person all of the time. How do you do it?"

Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.' I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy", I protested.

"Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices.
When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life."

I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of
reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning, and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers.
While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I
asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door", Jerry
replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.

"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?", I asked.

Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and
nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?", I asked.

"Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me", said Jerry.

She asked if I was allergic to anything. "Yes", I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply... I took a deep breath and yelled, "Bullets!" Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."

Jerry lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

Simplicity of Men Vs Complexity of Women!!!

HER DIARY........

Day night, I thought he was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a cafe to have some coffee. I was shopping with my friends all day long,so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment.
Conversation wasn't flowing so I suggested that we go somewhere quiet so we could talk, he agreed but he kept quiet and absent.

I asked him what was wrong - he said, "Nothing."
I asked him if it was my fault that he was upset. He said it had nothing to do with me and not to worry.
On the way home I told him that I loved him, he simply smiled and kept driving.
I can't explain his behavior; I don't know why he didn't say, "I love you, too."
When we got home I felt as if I had lost him, as if he wanted nothing to do with me anymore.
He just sat there and watched TV.; he seemed distant and absent.
Finally I decided to go to bed. About 10 minutes later he came to bed.
I decided that I could not take it anymore, so I decided to confront him with the situation but he had fallen asleep.
I started crying and cried until I too fell asleep.
I don't know what to do. I'm almost sure that his thoughts are with someone else.
My life is a disaster.






HIS DIARY..........
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Today India lost the cricket match. DAMN IT

PAKISTANI MATHS QUESTION PAPER

Instruction

1. Students found copying will be shot on the spot.
2. Any student coming late after 10 minutes after the exam starts will be forced to join Al Qayda group .
3. AK 47's and Grenades are not allowed in the exam hall. Students may keep their daggers, revolvers and pack of anthrax bombs only for self defense.

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Math Exam Time : 3 hours
Maximum Marks : 100
All questions are compulsory.

1. Abdul was sent to jail for murder. He has 7 wives in his house.
Abdul distributed money to his wives in such a proportion that the
youngest and most recent wife receives maximum and oldest wife gets
minimum, and each wife gets double of her former competitor. Abdul has
1700 Rupaye left in his house. Abdul's oldest wife needs atleast 25
rupaye per month. Find out the time when Abdul will have to break jail
to come out and earn money so that his wives do not starve.

2. Karim is a drug seller. Prices per gram of marijuana, hasis,
haroine and LHD are 50, 60, 70, 80 Rupaye respectively. Karim offers a
discount of Rupaye 20 for his buyers who buy more than 50 grams of
drug. If Rahim, a buyer gets Rupaye 7 discount per gram, find out the
grams of LHD he bought.

3. Imran tampers the ball thrice per over. He deforms the ball .02% of
its original shape each time. Find the percentage deformation of the
ball due to tampering in a one day series match against India in which
Imran bowled 9.4 overs.

4. Mohammed has a Company named Al Allah Kidnapping & Murder Private
Limited. He has to threat 10 people per day over Telephone. 40% of the
people he threats are cinema stars in Mumbai, 30% are businessman in
Delhi, 20% are cricket players in Madras and 10% are shopkeepers in
Calcutta . If ISD charges are Rupaye 15, 25, 40, 50 per minute from
Mohammed's city Islamabad to Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta and Madras
respectively and he gets a Telephone bill of 10,230 Rupaya in a month,
find out the number of cinema stars in Mumbai, threatened in that
particular month.

5. A terrorist group has to provide one Ak 47, one Ak 49, one Rocket
Launcher, 50 Grenades and one pack of RDX to its Rugroots after
training. One Ak 47 costs 100$; one Ak 49 costs 150 $, a Bazuka rocket
Launcher costs 50 $, a grenade is for 3 $ per piece, a pack of RDX
Bomb attached with remote Control is 500 $. The terrorist group admits
2000 new people every year out of which 30 % are lost or shunted out
while training. Find the amt. of Foreign Money Pakistan Govt. has to
provide each year to run such a group.

6. If stability of a democratic Govt. in Pakistan is given by the
following equation X exp3 + X exp2 -16 = i ; Find out X.

7. Probability of a Pakistani Prime Minister to be shot is 78 %.
Probability of a Military General to be shot is 42%. Find the joint
probability of a Prime Minister to be shot who is also a Military
General.

8) Find out geometrically the area of Paktunistaan using PI Theorem
with Osama BIn Ladens Correction (That is taking the value of PI =
786, instead of 3.14.....), if Paktunistaan is taken as a heptagon.

9) A 'GHAURI' controlled missile tries to fly from Drass to Kargil
which is not too far from Drass (say 100 miles) and is exactly to the
East of Drass . The wind is blowing from the South and the speed of
the wind is exactly equal to the speed of the missile. The controller
decides to steer straight to Kargil all the time during the flight.
Will the missile ever reach Kargil? What if the speed of the wind is k
times the speed of the missile, where k is a positive number (can be
greater or less than 1)? Try to sketch the trajectory of the missile
(with respect to the ground, of course) in each of the three cases:
k=1, k>1 and k<1.

10) Briefly discuss the Unsolved problem of "Bisection of a Triangle"
with a Compass and an unmarked ruler if the triangle is named as
KASHMIR

Reasons (Its Nice)

One Early morning a mother went to her sleeping son and woke him up.

MOM : Wake up, son. It's time to go to school.
SON : But why, Mama? I don't want to go to school.
MOM : Give me two reasons why you don't want to go to school.
SON : One, all the children hate me. Two, all the teachers hate me.
MOM : Oh! that's not a reason. Come on, you have to go to school.
SON : Give me two good reasons WHY I should go to school?








MOM : One, you are FIFTY-TWO years old and should understand your Responsibilities. Two, you are the PRINCIPAL of the school.

Real life IAS (UPSC Exam 1998) Interview Questions

Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A.Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)

Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall,how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all as it has already been built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)

Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four applesand three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)

Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)

Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)

Q.If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet and Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)

Q. What looks like half apple ?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper)

Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A : Dinner.

Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A ! : It caused a revolution.

Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )

Life is Beautiful

A Professor began his class by holding up a glass with
some water in it.
he held it up for all to see & asked the students,'
How much do you think
this glass weighs?'

'50gms!' .... '100gms!' ......'125gms' ......the
students answered.

'I really don't know unless I weigh it,' said the
professor, 'but, my
question is: What would happen if I held it up like
this for a few
minutes?'

'Nothing' the students said.

'Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an
hour?' the
professor asked.

'Your arm would begin to ache' said one of the
students.

'You're right, now what would happen if I held it for
a day?'

'Your arm could go numb, you might have severe muscle
stress & paralysis
& have to go to hospital for sure!' ventured another
student & all the
students laughed.

'Very good. But during all this, did the weight of the
glass change?'
asked the professor.

'No'

'Then what caused the arm ache & the muscle stress?'
The students were
puzzled.

'Put the glass down!' said one of the students.

'Exactly!' said the professor.' Life's problems are
something like this.

Hold it for a few minutes in your head & they seem OK.
Think of them for
a long time & they begin to ache. Hold it even longer
& they begin to
paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything.

It's important to think of the challenges (problems)
in your life, but
EVEN MORE IMPORTANT to 'put them down' at the end of
every day before you go
to sleep. That way, you are not stressed, you wake up
every day fresh &
strong
& can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your
way!'

So, as it becomes time for you to leave office today,

Remember friend to 'PUT THE GLASS DOWN TODAY! '

Vocabulary GENIUS

The person who invented this sentence must be a vocabulary GENIUS.

Read the sentence below carefully:

"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing
handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality
counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes
intercommunications' incomprehensibleness".

This is a sentence where the Nth word is N letters long.

e.g. 3rd word is 3 letters long, 8th word is 8 letters long an

Mechanic and Surgeon

A mechanic was removing the cylinder heads from the
motor of a car when he spotted the famous heart
surgeon in his shop, who was waiting for the service
manager to come take a look at his car.

The mechanic shouted across the garage, "Hello Doctor!
Please come on over here for a minute."

The famous surgeon, a bit surprised, walked over to
the mechanic. The mechanic straightened up, wiped his
hands on a rag and asked argumentatively, "So doctor,
look at this here. I also open hearts, take valves
out, grind 'em, put in new parts, and when I finish
this will work as a new one. So how come you get the
big money, when both of us are doing basically the
same work?"

The doctor leaned over and whispered to the mechanic
"Try doing it with the engine running."

Lessons in Corporate Excellence

Corporate Lesson 1:

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her
shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a
towel and runs downstairs.When she opens the door, there stands Bob,
the next door neighbour. Before she says a word, Bob says, "I'll give
you $800 to drop that towel," After thinking for a moment, the woman
drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds,
Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the
towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her
husband asks, Who was that?" "It was Bob the next door neighbour," she
replies. "Great!" the husband says, "did he say anything about the
$800 he owes me?"

Moral of the story: If you share critical information pertaining to
credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a
position to prevent avoidable exposure.

Corporate Lesson 2:

A priest offered a lift to a Nun.

She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The
priest nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he
stealthily slid his hand up her leg. The nun said, "Father, remember
Psalm 129?" The priest removed his hand. But changing gears, he let
his hand slide up her leg again. The nun once again said "Father,
remember Psalm 129?" The priest apologized "Sorry sister but the flesh
is weak." Arriving at the convent, the nun went on her way. On his
arrival at the church the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said,
"Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory."

Moral of the story: If you are not well informed in your job, you
might miss a great opportunity.

Corporate Lesson 3:

A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to
lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie
comes out. The Genie says, "I'll give each of you just one wish." "Me
first! Me first!" says the admin. clerk. "I want to be in the Bahamas,
driving a speedboat, without a care in the world." Poof! She's gone
"Me next! Me next!" says the sales rep. "I want to be in Hawaii,
relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of
Pina Coladas and the love of my life." Poof! He's gone. "OK, you're
up," the Genie says to the manager. The manager says, "I want those
two back in the office after lunch."

Moral of the story: Always let your boss have the first say.

Corporate Lesson 4:

A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day.

A rabbit asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day
long?" The crow answered: "Sure, why not." So, the rabbit sat on the
ground below the crow, and rested. A fox jumped on the rabbit and ate
it.

Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be
sitting very high up.

Corporate Lesson 5:

A turkey was chatting with a bull.

"I would love to be able to Get to the top of that tree," sighed the
turkey, but I haven't got the energy." "Well, why don't you nibble on
my droppings?" replied the bull They're packed with nutrients." The
turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it gave him enough
strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after
eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a
fourth night there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon
he was spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Moral of the story: Bullshìt might get you to the top, but it won't
keep you there.