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May 10, 2011, 01:19 PM
 
So the next version of Android is code-named "Ice Cream Sandwich". Am I just getting old and cranky or is this just silly?
     
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May 10, 2011, 01:22 PM
 
You're being old and cranky if you don't like that they're being silly.
     
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May 10, 2011, 01:29 PM
 
As long as they're following a theme, I'm fine with it. I long for the days when every Mac had a fancy codename.

The funniest thing about all of this is when a codename gets reused by a different company. Pink was at one point Apple's codename for the big OS rewrite out of which Copland was the first release (Gershwin was the second and the supposed end of the Pink project). Recently MS reused the name for Windows Phone 7 - which was released, but isn't doing great at the moment.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
     
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May 10, 2011, 01:33 PM
 
BTW, the code name becomes twice as epic when you get to hear serious tech pundits talking about the stability of ice cream sandwich and such. I hope that was part of the reason google does this.
     
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May 10, 2011, 01:34 PM
 
I can understand using names like Copland and Gershwin... or using place names. I still find Ice Cream Sandwich weird.

Guess I am just cranky.
     
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May 10, 2011, 01:41 PM
 
You're just cranky.

I think one of the reasons they did it is because they make statues on their campus of the codenames, and an ice cream sandwich is a better looking visual. Plus they already have Froyo, which looks just like ice cream.

These things are important.

Anyway... deserts are at least cooler than big cats.

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May 10, 2011, 01:45 PM
 
aha, it's going to be brown with a white center.
     
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May 10, 2011, 01:47 PM
 
Originally Posted by Atheist View Post
I can understand using names like Copland and Gershwin... or using place names. I still find Ice Cream Sandwich weird.

Guess I am just cranky.
To me the tech industry is notoriously irreverent. Do you consider yourself to be fairly serious when it comes to business?
     
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May 10, 2011, 01:51 PM
 
Originally Posted by ort888 View Post
You're just cranky.

I think one of the reasons they did it is because they make statues on their campus of the codenames, and an ice cream sandwich is a better looking visual. Plus they already have Froyo, which looks just like ice cream.
The froyo is cursed.

But it comes with a statue!

The statue is also cursed.

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May 10, 2011, 01:52 PM
 
Just wait until they need to come up with a desert that starts with the letter X.

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May 10, 2011, 01:57 PM
 
Originally Posted by The Final Dakar View Post
To me the tech industry is notoriously irreverent. Do you consider yourself to be fairly serious when it comes to business?
Yeah... I do actually. Maybe it's my age? (Just shy of 50)
     
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May 10, 2011, 02:08 PM
 
Originally Posted by Atheist View Post
Yeah... I do actually.
...and there you go.

Originally Posted by Atheist View Post
Maybe it's my age? (Just shy of 50)
I don't know what you do, but I'd be more likely to blame the industry. Some are more straight-laced than others.
(The irony of using the term straight-laced here is not lost on me)
     
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May 10, 2011, 03:07 PM
 
Originally Posted by ort888 View Post
Just wait until they need to come up with a desert that starts with the letter X.
Xerxes
     
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May 10, 2011, 03:53 PM
 
Power Macintosh 7100 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Power Macintosh 7100's internal code name was "Carl Sagan", the in-joke being that the mid-range PowerMac 7100 would make Apple "billions and billions."[1] Though the project name was strictly internal and never used in public marketing, when Sagan learned of this internal usage he sued Apple Computer to force the use of a different project name....Though Sagan lost the suit, Apple engineers complied with his demands anyway, renaming the project "BHA" (for Butt-Head Astronomer). Sagan promptly sued Apple for libel over the new name, claiming that it subjected him to contempt and ridicule, but lost this lawsuit as well. Still, the 7100 saw another name change: it was finally referred to internally as "LAW" (Lawyers Are Wimps).
     
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May 10, 2011, 03:56 PM
 
Shame such a smart guy had no sense of humor.
     
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May 10, 2011, 04:19 PM
 
They shoulda named it Yo Mamma.
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May 10, 2011, 04:32 PM
 
Originally Posted by The Final Dakar View Post
I don't know what you do, but I'd be more likely to blame the industry. Some are more straight-laced than others.
(The irony of using the term straight-laced here is not lost on me)
I'm a software engineer... LOL
     
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May 10, 2011, 04:40 PM
 
Originally Posted by Atheist View Post
I'm a software engineer... LOL
Sounds straight-laced to me.

But yes, I see your point.
     
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May 10, 2011, 04:42 PM
 
Originally Posted by P View Post
As long as they're following a theme, I'm fine with it. I long for the days when every Mac had a fancy codename.

The funniest thing about all of this is when a codename gets reused by a different company. Pink was at one point Apple's codename for the big OS rewrite out of which Copland was the first release (Gershwin was the second and the supposed end of the Pink project). Recently MS reused the name for Windows Phone 7 - which was released, but isn't doing great at the moment.
Pink was Microsoft's Kin (Roz Ho's ill-fated project), not Windows Phone 7.
     
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May 10, 2011, 05:03 PM
 
Speaking of the Kin, one of my co-workers just bought one. Apparently they give them away for free without data plans now.

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Originally Posted by ort888 View Post
Speaking of the Kin, one of my co-workers just bought one. Apparently they give them away for free without data plans now.
Or cell phone plans.

Actually, Bill Gates just wants to get them out of his garage.
     
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May 10, 2011, 05:17 PM
 
Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot View Post
Pink was Microsoft's Kin (Roz Ho's ill-fated project), not Windows Phone 7.
Really? That's even better.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
     
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May 10, 2011, 05:32 PM
 
For some reason I've been dubbed the office cell phone expert guy... when she showed it to me I had to try and keep a straight face. I pretended like I had never heard of it before. What was I supposed to do?

And honestly, it's fine as a feature phone... it was just such a terrible alternative to a smartphone, and yet it had smartphone pricing and data plans.

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May 10, 2011, 06:23 PM
 
dessert
desert

one of you needs to double check that

two cause you want seconds = dessert. i don't think people want seconds of a desert
     
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May 10, 2011, 06:26 PM
 
waiting for iOS 5 "melting ice cream sandwich" jokes.
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May 10, 2011, 06:29 PM
 
Originally Posted by Shaddim View Post
waiting for iOS 5 "melting ice cream sandwich" jokes.
or use cake code names. cake and ice cream right? either one is good on their own, but when together? even better.

need both so each will keep trying to out do each other; good competition.
     
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May 10, 2011, 06:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by residentEvil View Post
or use cake code names. cake and ice cream right? either one is good on their own, but when together? even better.

need both so each will keep trying to out do each other; good competition.
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May 10, 2011, 10:50 PM
 
Ice cream wouldn't make a convincing Android logo, and I can't really thing of any other desserts that start with an "I."
     
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May 11, 2011, 12:49 AM
 
Originally Posted by ort888 View Post
Just wait until they need to come up with a desert that starts with the letter X.
XOXO Cupcakes Valentine's Day Cupcakes Recipes Valentine's Day
     
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5 View Post
Ice cream wouldn't make a convincing Android logo, and I can't really thing of any other desserts that start with an "I."
İncir Reçeli (Turkish green fig preserves)

Yeah, I had to google that...

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May 11, 2011, 02:24 AM
 
The iPhone 4 has a striking resemblance to an ice cream sandwich.
     
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May 11, 2011, 09:33 AM
 
Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton View Post
"A cookie is just a cookie, but the Newton was fruit and cake"
Some cookies are more than just cookies.


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^GREAT episode!
     
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May 11, 2011, 10:40 AM
 
Originally Posted by ort888 View Post
Speaking of the Kin, one of my co-workers just bought one. Apparently they give them away for free without data plans now.
Buying things that are free is never a good idea

Also, Seinfeld was pretty much never funny. Certainly never as funny as anyone thought it was at the time.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
     
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May 11, 2011, 06:28 PM
 
Then again, you're from the UK. Your sense of what's funny or not is drastically flawed.
     
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May 11, 2011, 07:03 PM
 
Oh the UK produces a fair amount of utter dross as far as comedy goes but a lot of the bad stuff that has classic status is loved for reasons of nostalgia over humour.

True classics are still funny, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Monty Python etc.

We have always imported a fair amount of comedy from the US but Seinfeld was never primetime over here. Neither was Everybody Loves Raymond which I gather was pretty popular in its heyday stateside. Nowadays you have Two and a Half Men as your most popular sitcom (well until recently) which should be called Two and a Half Jokes. Which is still being generous.

Big Bang Theory is funny and South Park is still great. HIMYM has gone off the boil a bit this season but 30 Rock is genius. I also miss Scrubs.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
     
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May 11, 2011, 07:04 PM
 
Also anything billed as comedy on BBC1 over the last decade or so tends to be utter crap. Especially if its repeated on a Sunday afternoon.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
     
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May 11, 2011, 08:32 PM
 
Google: 'no plans' for Chrome OS on tablets, any other form factors -- Engadget

"[Chrome OS] is a new experience we're working on. It's hardware agnostic in a sense. We are fully, 100 percent focused on laptops. Most of the web usage -- greater than 90 percent -- is on laptops. That's what we're working on today, and we have no other plans on any other form factors."
Wow, that's short-sighted, considering that notebooks are going to start vanishing in a few years. Actually, they're starting to get squeezed out of the market now. I'm just shocked, you'd think a company like Google, with so many products in the mobile market, wouldn't have their heads shoved up their asses like this.
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Originally Posted by Shaddim View Post
Google: 'no plans' for Chrome OS on tablets, any other form factors -- Engadget



Wow, that's short-sighted, considering that notebooks are going to start vanishing in a few years. Actually, they're starting to get squeezed out of the market now. I'm just shocked, you'd think a company like Google, with so many products in the mobile market, wouldn't have their heads shoved up their asses like this.
It seems quite far-sighted to me. Everything is internet-based, why not create an affordable system that can easily fit in with enterprise users for a cheap monthly subscription, and Google handles all the upgrades?
     
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5 View Post
It seems quite far-sighted to me. Everything is internet-based, why not create an affordable system that can easily fit in with enterprise users for a cheap monthly subscription, and Google handles all the upgrades?
Excluding the fastest growing segment of computer buyers is far-sighted?
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Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but Chrome is more like OS X, and for the tablet market, Google has Android (Apple has iOS).

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Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but Chrome is more like OS X, and for the tablet market, Google has Android (Apple has iOS).

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It's hardware agnostic, supposedly, a cloud-based OS. I just wonder why they're leaving out other mobile devices when laptops are going the way of the dinosaur. It's like making a bed in a burning house.
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Originally Posted by Shaddim View Post
It's hardware agnostic, supposedly, a cloud-based OS. I just wonder why they're leaving out other mobile devices when laptops are going the way of the dinosaur. It's like making a bed in a burning house.
I think you're confused. Chrome OS is ONLY for these notebooks. It's for a specific, very large market: education and enterprise, which is still a huge business for notebooks.

For consumer products, they have Android, and Honeycomb specifically for tablets.
     
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5 View Post
For consumer products, they have Android, and Honeycomb specifically for tablets.
Ice Cream Sandwich is the current Android release for tablets (and all devices).
     
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Originally Posted by mduell View Post
Ice Cream Sandwich is the current Android release for tablets (and all devices).
Ice Cream Sandwich's source code hasn't been released for anything besides the Xoom.
     
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5 View Post
Ice Cream Sandwich's source code hasn't been released for anything besides the Xoom.
Ice Cream Sandwich contains 20% of your daily dose of calcium.
     
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Dangit, I really want an ice cream sandwich now.
     
   
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