that. is. awesome. I can just imagine guys trying to pick up your mom -
Guy: Hey can I buy you a drink.
Your mom: *points at baby on bar* That's my kid.
Guy:...?
You don't already *have* a lightsaber? You must be new here. I got mine after eating 20 boxes of cheerios and 10 boxes of trix. Then I just sent my $50 shipping & handling and in 10-12 weeks I had my lightsaber!
A team of namers is given the parameters of the project -
product / company type
target audience
what sort of feeling the name should convey
the regions that the name will be used in
Namers then go off on their own and compose massive lists of names. I've seen the names run the gamut from simple mashups of common words to mashups of greek / latin roots to words based on etymological research of the original target "feeling" words. Then the namers get together and reduce the list down to a set of finalists before presenting them for client review.
Sometimes it takes a few iterations... Particularly if the objective is to get a globally trademarkable word that won't be misinterpreted as meaning anything offensive in another country.
Not really. Naming is actually a really big business and is usually a pretty painful process. I know someone that was a professional namer that worked for a big branding house for a while. The time they spent coming up with names was pretty incredible.
I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen him working on projects with my own eyes. I always figured a bunch of marketing hacks just got together in a room and tossed around names until one stuck. Maybe I was just biased because that's the way it worked where I was at.
Exactly. They're shooting themselves in the foot. The very *reason* that Gears of War 2 was the second biggest freaking release was that so many people had played the game. Did they all buy it new? No... but they all got addicted to your franchise buy playing it used or renting it and now you've got new customers you wouldn't have otherwise gotten. Quit acting like idiots and realize that rentals and second-hand games = customer conversion.
He asked what happened between an early build, say a CTP and a RC. I replied with an example of exactly what happens - Microsoft fills their OS with special case code to allow all of the crappy software written for their platform to continue to run on their OS.
This is one area where I have to feel sorry for Microsoft, they really are screwed either way. They put out mountains of best practices documentation and people just ignore it and write garbage anyway. These applications are all over the place and probably nearly every windows user uses at least one.
So, when they release a new version that does things differently (like Vista storing stuff in Users rather than Documents and Settings) then all the craptastic apps where they hard coded their program to use Docs & Settings will fail. Naturally Microsoft will be blamed because, "I got Vista and now I can't run my favorite program anymore".
So, Windows ends up full of code to clean up after other developer's mistakes.
...And you'll realize that this is actually pretty impressive (you know, for MSFT). At this point in its life Windows 7 is already performing *better* than SP1 Vista. Vista was hamstrung by drivers and incompatible apps even for months after its release. If 7 can already out perform it then I'd say we can look forward to a decent new OS.
Personally I'll stick with Homer Simpson's motto: "If something is hard to do, then it is not worth doing." Which is my rule regarding installing new Microsoft Operating Systems.
Actually Vista is probably the simplest OS install I've ever done. (disclaimer: I've never built a mac, don't know about that).
I don't believe that he wants a *current* discussion. He's looking for older information (1996 - 1998) in which case his best bet probably *is* searching old usenet forums. I can barely find what I want when I'm looking for info on current technologies. I couldn't imagine trolling MSDN or CodeProject for stuff that's 10 years old... Goodluckwiththat.
I agree. I've been running a Vista box for ever a year now with no AV and no problems. Why not? I dunno, maybe because I never install anything I'm not familiar with. I only browse with FF. I only use webmail accounts so e-mail viruses aren't an issue. I don't download random garbage from torrents and then act all shocked when it turns out to have a virus. Keeping your PC clean is relatively easy if you just avoid the crap you already know you shouldn't be doing and keep yourself patched.
Having an OS with a tiny market share that no one's bothering to hack helps too...:P
I've tried VLC recently but I couldn't even get it to play the audio track on a.MOV file... I dropped it shortly after that. Is MPlayer any better? I remember using it long ago but I stopped bothering to install it every time I rebuilt.
The same technology is available in newer desktops. It's a new feature in nVidia hardware so that you don't have to use your machine as a space heater when you're just surfing the web. They're actually also supposed to be doing some kind of SLI using the onboard GPU and any additional GPU you've got plugged in. (not on this laptop obviously because they've already got two separate GPUs, but in the case when you've got just one video card and onboard video you're supposed to be able to do it.)
No, you don't hear them on the radio because the RIAA cartel pretty much controls the radio and what gets played on it. If you listen to the few stations (usually online) that aren't controlled by them then you will, in fact, hear music that isn't part of the billboard top 100.
I like independent music and artists and even among them there are a lot of people that just plain can't sing, or write dreadful lyrics or just started playing a month ago... or all three. At any rate, I stand behind my point that if they're claiming that the reason they should be able to charge is because there are "all these songs" and 99.99% of them are crap, then people are just getting ripped off.
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that. is. awesome. I can just imagine guys trying to pick up your mom - ...?
Guy: Hey can I buy you a drink.
Your mom: *points at baby on bar* That's my kid.
Guy:
In soviet russia, siren feels you!
This woman is the reason these kinds of scams exist. She should be exiled.
You don't already *have* a lightsaber? You must be new here. I got mine after eating 20 boxes of cheerios and 10 boxes of trix. Then I just sent my $50 shipping & handling and in 10-12 weeks I had my lightsaber!
Jan Levinson-Gould of course. Also, those shots also look great in a warehouse.
A team of namers is given the parameters of the project -
product / company type
target audience
what sort of feeling the name should convey
the regions that the name will be used in
Namers then go off on their own and compose massive lists of names. I've seen the names run the gamut from simple mashups of common words to mashups of greek / latin roots to words based on etymological research of the original target "feeling" words. Then the namers get together and reduce the list down to a set of finalists before presenting them for client review.
Sometimes it takes a few iterations... Particularly if the objective is to get a globally trademarkable word that won't be misinterpreted as meaning anything offensive in another country.
Not really. Naming is actually a really big business and is usually a pretty painful process. I know someone that was a professional namer that worked for a big branding house for a while. The time they spent coming up with names was pretty incredible.
I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen him working on projects with my own eyes. I always figured a bunch of marketing hacks just got together in a room and tossed around names until one stuck. Maybe I was just biased because that's the way it worked where I was at.
Exactly. They're shooting themselves in the foot. The very *reason* that Gears of War 2 was the second biggest freaking release was that so many people had played the game. Did they all buy it new? No... but they all got addicted to your franchise buy playing it used or renting it and now you've got new customers you wouldn't have otherwise gotten. Quit acting like idiots and realize that rentals and second-hand games = customer conversion.
Bears Beats Battlestar Galactica.
Because we'll end up with programming examples that involve the use of methods named Cogito.Ergo.Sum() for adding two numbers together.
Hint for those of you not forced to study such things while you were taking CS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes
He asked what happened between an early build, say a CTP and a RC. I replied with an example of exactly what happens - Microsoft fills their OS with special case code to allow all of the crappy software written for their platform to continue to run on their OS.
This is one area where I have to feel sorry for Microsoft, they really are screwed either way. They put out mountains of best practices documentation and people just ignore it and write garbage anyway. These applications are all over the place and probably nearly every windows user uses at least one.
So, when they release a new version that does things differently (like Vista storing stuff in Users rather than Documents and Settings) then all the craptastic apps where they hard coded their program to use Docs & Settings will fail. Naturally Microsoft will be blamed because, "I got Vista and now I can't run my favorite program anymore".
So, Windows ends up full of code to clean up after other developer's mistakes.
Oh... we know what happens. Scroll down to the bit about SimCity.
...And you'll realize that this is actually pretty impressive (you know, for MSFT). At this point in its life Windows 7 is already performing *better* than SP1 Vista. Vista was hamstrung by drivers and incompatible apps even for months after its release. If 7 can already out perform it then I'd say we can look forward to a decent new OS.
Not just those moments... but the moments following it that involve Ctrl-Alt-Del and a lot of cursing at your machine.
Personally I'll stick with Homer Simpson's motto: "If something is hard to do, then it is not worth doing." Which is my rule regarding installing new Microsoft Operating Systems.
Actually Vista is probably the simplest OS install I've ever done. (disclaimer: I've never built a mac, don't know about that).
I don't believe that he wants a *current* discussion. He's looking for older information (1996 - 1998) in which case his best bet probably *is* searching old usenet forums. I can barely find what I want when I'm looking for info on current technologies. I couldn't imagine trolling MSDN or CodeProject for stuff that's 10 years old... Goodluckwiththat.
Black & White 2 allows you to choose between being benevolent and malevolent. Naturally any of the Sim / Tycoon games sort of fall into that category.
If all else fails just play Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
I agree. I've been running a Vista box for ever a year now with no AV and no problems. Why not? I dunno, maybe because I never install anything I'm not familiar with. I only browse with FF. I only use webmail accounts so e-mail viruses aren't an issue. I don't download random garbage from torrents and then act all shocked when it turns out to have a virus. Keeping your PC clean is relatively easy if you just avoid the crap you already know you shouldn't be doing and keep yourself patched.
:P
Having an OS with a tiny market share that no one's bothering to hack helps too...
Until you get a ton of them on your machine and starting IE (of course they're starting IE, FF users don't have these problems!) takes 10 minutes.
I've tried VLC recently but I couldn't even get it to play the audio track on a .MOV file... I dropped it shortly after that. Is MPlayer any better? I remember using it long ago but I stopped bothering to install it every time I rebuilt.
The same technology is available in newer desktops. It's a new feature in nVidia hardware so that you don't have to use your machine as a space heater when you're just surfing the web. They're actually also supposed to be doing some kind of SLI using the onboard GPU and any additional GPU you've got plugged in. (not on this laptop obviously because they've already got two separate GPUs, but in the case when you've got just one video card and onboard video you're supposed to be able to do it.)
No, you don't hear them on the radio because the RIAA cartel pretty much controls the radio and what gets played on it. If you listen to the few stations (usually online) that aren't controlled by them then you will, in fact, hear music that isn't part of the billboard top 100.
I like independent music and artists and even among them there are a lot of people that just plain can't sing, or write dreadful lyrics or just started playing a month ago... or all three. At any rate, I stand behind my point that if they're claiming that the reason they should be able to charge is because there are "all these songs" and 99.99% of them are crap, then people are just getting ripped off.
rofl, it was pretty obviously a joke.
I know that I don't want to be in ANY line in a concentration camp. 50% of the time it probably leads to something like the "showers".
Yeah but it's only mandatory for white people, so it's ok! ~