Nopensius
What language is this? and what does it mean in english? My original guess was latin but i didn't find any such word in the online Latin-English dictionaries.
thanks in advance!
Unknown language to English: Nopensius
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Only one occurrence in Google : http://www.google.com/search?hl=fr&lr=& ... =Nopensius
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Guest
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i heard it used in an episode of Stephen Hawking's Universe. I'm not exactly sure of the context but it was something like, "this turned out to be our nopensius.."
a quick google search turned up only one reference to it: "I know other places have, well, at Bell Labs, our *Nopensius* was famous for giving out candy bars and T-shirts,..."
i'm guessing it's a title of some sort.
a quick google search turned up only one reference to it: "I know other places have, well, at Bell Labs, our *Nopensius* was famous for giving out candy bars and T-shirts,..."
i'm guessing it's a title of some sort.
Nopensius
Just a guess.
Could it be a joke, an ironic title given to a financial director or other manager who has urchins in his pockets ?
Nopensius=No depense ?
In the google link, the context is:
Question : Sharon Pearl, Contacts * Research Center, I was just wondering, Julia, you talked a lot about how to get rewards. I was wondering what types of rewards they give you for publishing, patents. You know, is it monetary, is it promotions.
Answer: But for the most part, I think our place is not very good in finding ways of rewarding people for specific things that it would like to promote, and we have to get better at doing that. I know other places have, well, at Bell Labs, our *Nopensius* was famous for giving out candy bars and T-shirts, which were so cheap, but you know, it was such a big status symbol if you got, I mean, you would acquire a whole bunch of these same kind of T-shirts or these same books and people would say, _Oh, I have five of those._ And so I think you can reward people in a much more intelligent way without spending that much money
Could it be a joke, an ironic title given to a financial director or other manager who has urchins in his pockets ?
Nopensius=No depense ?
In the google link, the context is:
Question : Sharon Pearl, Contacts * Research Center, I was just wondering, Julia, you talked a lot about how to get rewards. I was wondering what types of rewards they give you for publishing, patents. You know, is it monetary, is it promotions.
Answer: But for the most part, I think our place is not very good in finding ways of rewarding people for specific things that it would like to promote, and we have to get better at doing that. I know other places have, well, at Bell Labs, our *Nopensius* was famous for giving out candy bars and T-shirts, which were so cheap, but you know, it was such a big status symbol if you got, I mean, you would acquire a whole bunch of these same kind of T-shirts or these same books and people would say, _Oh, I have five of those._ And so I think you can reward people in a much more intelligent way without spending that much money
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TheRonin
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Mystery solved! (?)
Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson
These are the names of the two men who were awarded the nobel prize in physics for their discovery of faint background radiation remaining from the "big bang". The pronunciation of Arno Penzias is unmistakably similar to "our Nopensius". Also, the fact that the name was mentioned in a tv-show about the big bang gives the theory more credence.
The only thing i can't figure out is the useage of the word in the article in google:
"I know other places have, well, at Bell Labs, our *Nopensius* was famous for giving out candy bars and T-shirts,...".
These are the names of the two men who were awarded the nobel prize in physics for their discovery of faint background radiation remaining from the "big bang". The pronunciation of Arno Penzias is unmistakably similar to "our Nopensius". Also, the fact that the name was mentioned in a tv-show about the big bang gives the theory more credence.
The only thing i can't figure out is the useage of the word in the article in google:
"I know other places have, well, at Bell Labs, our *Nopensius* was famous for giving out candy bars and T-shirts,...".
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It makes suddenly "ding" in my head.
I HAVE ALREADY SEEN OR HEARD THIS NAME SOMEWHERE... but where ?
Was it not the name of some comic's hero ? A kind of lunatic scientist, like the Professor Nimbus (in France) or Calculus in Tintin ?
I know that I know that name. I have newly seen it in a newspaper, magazine, or else... But where ??
It's terrific. I feel that I will not sleep that night ! 
(We could ask to Nephilim : he knows a lot about Marvell Comics, don't he ?).
I HAVE ALREADY SEEN OR HEARD THIS NAME SOMEWHERE... but where ? Was it not the name of some comic's hero ? A kind of lunatic scientist, like the Professor Nimbus (in France) or Calculus in Tintin ?
I know that I know that name. I have newly seen it in a newspaper, magazine, or else... But where ?? It's terrific. I feel that I will not sleep that night ! (We could ask to Nephilim : he knows a lot about Marvell Comics, don't he ?).
TheRonin, I think you have solved the mystery. Since Arno Penzias worked as the Chief Scientist at Bell Labs (http://www.bell-labs.com/user/apenzias/profile1.html), I imagine the speaker is referring to him since he was probably in charge of motivating the people that he was supervising.
"I know other places have, well, at Bell Labs, Arno Penzias, was famous for giving out candy bars and T-shirts,..."
The Big Bang context really helped.
"I know other places have, well, at Bell Labs, Arno Penzias, was famous for giving out candy bars and T-shirts,..."
The Big Bang context really helped.