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Originally posted by: vudu
When did PGC increase the max avatar size? First Jonny and now Ruby. Why was I not informed?
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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
Read my sig (which I came up with myself).
Nothing wrong with dating her. It's introducing her to others which you'll likely avoid.
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The exercise got off to an unpromising start. NewCo executives volunteered that they wanted the company to be perceived as strong, innovative, dynamic and caring. "We've done this process with hundreds of companies," Redhill says wearily. "They all say, 'We want to be perceived as strong, innovative, dynamic and caring.'" And therein, it seemed, lay the problem. Though top NewCo executives had avowed their intention to be different, to change the paradigm, to think outside the nine dots, "the qualities they were aiming to project were in fact common currency," Redhill sighs.
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Michele Lally, global marketing director for Reuters-Dow Jones Interactive, recently renamed Factiva, is grateful to her naming company, Interbrand, for helping her stand out in a world of Factevas and Actevas. She has sought refuge in, as she puts it, "the semiotics of the letter i." "Have you seen our letterhead?" she asks. "We do the i as a biacron. An i with a circle on top. Or 'the bubble,' as we call it internally." Lally herself is bubbling over with enthusiasm for the bubble. "The brand circle denotes infinite possibilities," she says. "We very much hope that bubble, that icon, will come to symbolize business information in airport lounges worldwide."
Ron Kapella, head of Enterprise IG, seems to be pursuing a similar tack with Naviant, an online data-mining company. Eager to distinguish his brainchild from its sound-alike cousins Agilent and Navigent, he, too, has honed in on the letter i. "Notice that the letter i is exactly in the middle of the word," he says. "Notice also that it has a circle over it. An i with a circle over it is the international symbol for information. It's a visual symbol we've created. Consumers will come to associate it with endless inspiration, endless possibility."
Unless, that is, they associate it with googly eyed teenage girls who dot their i's with hearts and smiley faces. And indeed, among some companies, a backlash against the naming companies has taken hold. For some, the fact that they came up with their names all by themselves, without recourse to professional help, has become a point of pride. "I love our name," Jeff Mallett, president and CEO of Yahoo, recently told an industry newsletter. "It's fun, irreverent and consumer-focused. And it wasn't conjured up by Landor, or some huge naming agency."
It's this sort of chutzpah that makes the namers at Landor see red. "The Internet is filled with arrogance," says Amy Becker coldly. "You might have a provocative, fun name. But do you have the basis for a lasting brand? We still don't know how compelling a brand Yahoo will be 10 years from now. I sense a real missed opportunity."
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Bachrach recently completed a renaming project for MacTemps, a specialized talent agency that provides print production experts who are proficient on Macintosh computers. Bachrach didn't much care for the name. "It didn't function well," he says. "It didn't suggest a brand." Bachrach thought he could help. "What MacTemps needed," he says, "was a name that was aggressively novel, shockingly different. A name that grabbed the perceiver by the throat and shook him."
Bachrach and his team of constructional linguists rose to the occasion. They presented MacTemps executives with their recommendation -- Aquent. Aquent? "It doesn't mean anything," Bachrach cheerfully explains. "But if it did mean something, it would mean, 'Not a Follower.'"
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Lu Cordova, president of TixToGo.com, is among the CEOs who roll their eyes at this sort of hubris. "Let's face it," she says. "We know who's in these big naming companies. We went to college with some of them. They say they're experts at this and experts at that. But they're really just our peers. They don't have any special mystical powers."
Cordova learned this the hard way earlier this year, when she sought out a new name for TixToGo, a popular online booking, ticketing and reservations service. After several months of probing and crunching, the naming firm she'd hired came back with a strong recommendation: YourThing.com. "The first 10 people we mentioned it to all said, 'It sounds like your, um, thingy," Cordova says drily. "So we said, whoops, OK, that one's gone."
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Originally posted by: eljefe
In light of the DUAL MOTION DETECTION capability that was confirmed yesterday, have those who were worried that there were too few buttons for deep control schemes changed there minds?
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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
The thing was that it WAS confirmed, don't use this "because I'm not a fanboy" bull****, thanks...
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Q: Will Revolution hook up to a television?
A: Yes. It will also be able to interface with a computer monitor. In June 2004 Nintendo engineer Genyo Takeda said: "You'll be able to play [Revolution] not just by linking up to a television but to a computer monitor as well."
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Originally posted by: Shecky
Was it ever in question?
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IGN Wii: You mentioned that Madden runs in progressive-scan and widescreen modes. Is this something you've been encouraged to do by Nintendo or are these visual options you have pursued on your own?
John Schappert: I won't say that Nintendo so much encourages us. Any help we ask for it certainly gives us. That's just something we're doing.
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Originally posted by: DeadlyD
This thread LIES
they dont hate it, they just state they like the other word better
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Today I am seeing a group of grown adults act like a bunch of crybaby brats. Or a group of ignorant children act like crybaby brats. I am not sure which sickens me most, but probably the adults because you are supposed to know better.
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Originally posted by: Hostile Creation
How about Siemens?
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Originally posted by: JonLeung
...and yet you'll still buy a Wii this year, so calling them retarded doesn't help matters when you support them.
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Originally posted by: VGrevolution
From what I gathered you need alot more horsepower for HD, so Nintendo probaly did save quite a bit by not going HD.
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Young referenced the fact that HD graphics allow for smaller objects to stand out more when sitting further away from the screen, as opposed to sitting up close like a computer monitor.
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
Is anyone else a little annoyed that we finally get Final Fantasy III but it's a new 3D version?
No, but in the best of both worlds you could just slap the original version on the new DS one as a extra without too much trouble.
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Originally posted by: animecyberrat
I Noticed a similar thing witht he Plug N play tv game thing that looks liek an N64 controller but has NES games onit, it uses the same connector thet Atari, Genesis and 3Do used,
I never could get Any controllers for Genesis or Atari to work ont hem but the 3dO pad I have worked a little but not very well. I noticed that Atari and Genesis controlers are 100% compatible with each other, except if your using an atari stick youc an only play Sonic as it is the only game that uses 1 button.
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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
Why shouldn't it? Extension cables only connect the pins from one plug to another, they don't change the arrangement in any way and don't care about the data sent.
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Originally posted by: vudu
Also, your avatar is too big.
