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Squeak Group Buys Ship Naming Rights in Gaiman Novel
nadyne writes "Recently, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund ran an auction for the naming rights for a cruise ship in Neil Gaiman's upcoming novel Anansi Boys. Today, Neil Gaiman reported in a post to his blog that Markus Gaelli won this auction. According to Neil, Markus will use his hard-won auction to promote Squeak. He didn't tell us what the name of the cruise ship will be, but promised to do so in the future. Neil linked to Squeakland, although it's not clear whether Markus is associated with that site or Neil was just using it as a convenient starting point for his readers who might not know anything about Squeak."
Ok this is quite unlikely , though what hapens if a troll decideds to waste his money on this and he ends up having a ship named the "USS fart-bonk-poo-sh*t-F*ck".
I mean that could really break the illusion and harm sales.? did the aucthion have any rules to prevent this
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Boxers with writing on their back for off shore gambling
McDonalds now offering money to rappers and musicians everytime they mention a McDonalds product
Baseball parks now without one bare wall. Tear down the Ivy, we need to make room for Bacardi.
Companies using subliminal advertising
20 minutes of commercials at the Theater, the place I paid $10 bucks to see a movie, hijacked by angry Jew adverisors. It is enough to make me want to strap on a bomb and blow myself up.
Super hot attractive knock-out girls on college campuses getting free clothing and music and mp3 players so all the ugly, unnatractive, fat women on campus will follow them and buy the crap the pretty ones get for free. Related- how much free crap did Trump get for his wedding so all the guests would go running to buy it?
And if I hear the "I'm lovin' it" one more time, I am canceling my cable.
Now if I open a copy of Old Man and the Sea, and find his boat is renamed "Bank One boat", I will go apeshit.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
I must say as someone who used to work in smalltalk and has now extensive knowlidge of ruby, I would not underestimate ruby on rails . ,,It really is wonderfull.
Smalltalk is great and squeak is very intresting and powerfull , though the development time with ruby and its comparitive speed is of far more intrest, the same can be said for ruby on rails
i shall take a look at squeak as i do have very fond memorys of smalltalk , however i am becoming a strong proponent of ruby day on day so it will take alot to convert me , However i always look forward to eatting my words if it helps make my life easier.
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
You're only listening to the FUD.
Canada allows a third party to arbitrate in legal matters, provided both sides consent to it. Therefore, you could ask a priest/rabbi/imam to help you decide how to conduct your divorce proceedings, or divide up inheritance according to the rules prescribed by the religion. Both sides have to agree to having someone like that, and a Canadian judge must OK everything that the arbitrator decides, before it can take effect. It's not Muslims getting separate laws, they are still bound by Canadian laws, which take precedence. It's not just for Muslims, its for religious Jews and other groups as well. Heck, under this law, Catholics could ask for a priest to preside over the distribution of inheritance, but everyone involved must agree to it, and a Canadian judge must OK any decision the priest makes.
Quit the FUD, its nowhere near as terrifying as you make it out to be.
Squeak hasn't been close to dying since it's inception. If the squeak-dev list traffic is any indication, a lot of growth has happened in the last year...
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Will the day come when the advertising value of something will outweigh the inate value of the object itself?
If I understand your question, I'd say such things happen routinely on the internet, with sites like slashdo.org, and the like.
There are two kinds of people: 1) those who start arrays with one and 1) those who start them with zero.
I read something last year that said pop stars in China had basically given up making money from direct sales because of all the piracy. Some relied on concert sales, but others would find a corporate sponsor for their song. Since advertising can just be ripped out, they would right the song about the product. Like if it was a love song, they'd be sure and mention their love of Pepsi. Come think of it, isn't this what Celine Dion tried to do for Chrysler here in the U.S.?
Integrated product placement is the wave of the future... but its easier to do in IP, which has very little innate value and great advertising potential, then in manufactured goods.
Still, perhaps we'll reach a day when every item has product placement in it or on it, and is thus free. Expensive products will be advertised on cheaper products, and more expensive products will be advertised on merely expensive products. Of course, that advertising budget has to come from somewhere, so in the end of the day you will have to turn over your entire salary to one company's really expensive product that spirals down the proceeds to everything else you would normally have pay for but now get for free with advertising on it. I'm betting that company will be Microsoft...
As someone with severe colour blindness I must say that i agree strongly , the sites current design make navigation near impossible to me!
Im a robot your a robot , That however is a row-boat
In one sense this marketing strategy has already worked -- I have read Neil Gaiman and now have tried to follow the link (initially more interested in Gaiman references that programming tools). Though squeak.org is slashdotted, your link to seaside.st is not, and the tutorial references www.sqeak.org. While I'm not a web designer for a living, I find myself doing a fair amount of HTML, CGI, and Perl work. I will have to check this out in more detail latter. So the gambit has already gotten them a possible user.
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Case of an author selling "name space" in his novels seems to be another bit of evidence supporting Klein's claims. There is something very close to intellectual prostitution in this.
the Smalltalk programming language- the first fully OO language
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As has been pointed out, nobody agrees on exactly what set of features constitutes "object-oriented". "OO zealots will choose some subset of this menu by whim and then use it to try to convince you that you are a loser."
Even Peter Norvig (author of a couple great Lisp books) says "Depending on your definition, CLOS [Common Lisp Object System] is or is not object-oriented".
Personally, I'd argue that Lisp was there first. But a Lisp/Smalltalk argument wouldn't be productive for anybody.
It runs on oodles of platforms
Sure, as long as you don't care about it looking like a normal app. It doesn't use Gtk+ or Qt on Linux, or Windows widgets on Windows, or Aqua widgets on the Mac. Stuff you write in Squeak feels even less native than Javascript on a webpage, and that takes some doing.
So yeah, it's great if you're doing CS research and don't care how ugly or hard to use it is (I never could figure out what all the million different window-title-bar-buttons do). If you want to actually write an app to do something for people, it sucks.
Yay, the Smalltalk people have a language that's 20 years ahead of us. Why is their user interface system not worth a bucket of warm spit? Or rather, since it can't be used to write normal apps, why are so many Squeak advocates trying to convince me that I'm a loser for not using Squeak?
I think GNOME/KDE are to Squeak what Apple was to PARC. It's great that you've got an interesting platform to play with, but you need somebody who cares about shipping a product.
...r, someone could still pull apart my window by pulling up the Halos, by Alt- or Middle-Clicking on various Morphs (= Widgets) a...
But that's rather the point. I do lots of left and middle, as well as right clicking. Even when on the Mac I use a three button mouse. And I occasionally click the wrong button...(Yes, it's clumsy. But I *do* do it. Particularly if I'm off to the side, and operating the mouse with an unusual hand.)
OTOH, I hadn't been aware of the change in the licensing of the Fonts.
On the third hand, anything I used Squeak (or any other Smalltalk) for would be a minor part of the application. Squeak is possible because the last time I looked it was possible to have it generate C code which was equivalent. It can even be considered because it looks to be an excellent graphics environment. But it can't be considered because the linking is too difficult, etc., as mentioned before.
Still, I have looked at it, and at one time I was considering it for a business application. But I didn't want the naive end-user redesigning the dialogs (whether by accident, or on purpose). The inability to lock down the dialogs, and then later unlock them defeated this application. (That *was* two or three years ago now, but when I asked I was told that this was a feature, not a bug. And that there was no likelihood of it changing in the future. So I looked elsewhere. I eventually ended up with a bunch of scripted macros in an MSExcel Spreadsheet...UGH!, but it was the best way I could find. And it didn't require installing an entire new programming environment at the end-user locations. I was, however, *really* trying to avoid ending up there.)
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.