From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-16T10:13:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15225] Re: ZetaBITS == Zetta bits (10 ** 21)?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15205] ZetaBITS == Zetta bits (10 ** 21)?"
    on 01/05/16, "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@us.ibm.com> writes:

|Does ZetaBITS refer to the metric system or Latin?

It's intended pun between zetta (10**21) and greek letter zeta.
I've heard it's somehow related with a title of a Japanese Anime program.

It's hard to find unregistered domain name these days. ;-)

| I also noticed that a few things on the home page were in English, such 
|as "What's new" and "Top page", even though most everything else was in 
|Japanese. Any particular reason (convention, slang, jargon)?

As Glen pointed out in [ruby-talk:15206], it's common in Japan to use
simple English phrases everywhere.  Sometimes it causes funny
situation, like a girl wearing T-shirt with "Bitch" written on it.
Oh, no.  I hope she's not.

							matz.