Ben_Stanton Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 ....how big do you think the department is? Where do you think they get their inspiration? My personal feelings are split between Microsoft funding a huge international department with 100+ employees badgering away at inventive/meaningful and normally ambiguous and ludicrous codenames before then deciding on a final official name that is just as stupid. Or, do they pay bananas to one monkey with a crayon to flip through a thesaurus in Redmond? Lonestart, longhorm, bobcat, memphis, crossbow, aurora, and toaster to name but a few! But then I guess Intel and AMD are the same!
StewartKnight Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 as are linux (come on, who thought of GIMP) apple, AMD .........
Guest Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 I think the team are a bunch of snow boarders myself. Whistler is the place to be it seems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_codenames
webman Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 Personally I think there's a specialist primate zoo somewhere (maybe several) with network-capable typewriters. 8) Or maybe they've been testing their OLPC project (One Laptop Per Chimp). The codenames come from them playing darts with the codenames tied to the scores. That, or drugs
Ben_Stanton Posted January 24, 2007 Author Posted January 24, 2007 Any LOST fans out there? Maybe that's the answer we've all been waiting for. All the tests, the whole island facility has been the breeding ground for crack codename creators! I knew that polar bear had something to do with it - its Bill in true guise. All the clues are there - there has been codename hydra and a darwin!
Guest Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 Any LOST fans out there? Maybe that's the answer we've all been waiting for. All the tests, the whole island facility has been the breeding ground for crack codename creators! I knew that polar bear had something to do with it - its Bill in true guise. All the clues are there - there has been codename hydra and a darwin! Don't get me started on LOST - Best part of 3 months between episodes Grrrrrr
webman Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 Even worse for us terrestrial viewers - Sky have stolen our LOST!!
Guest Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 God bless 'tinternet. Finished season 2 before it aired on Ch4
Ben_Stanton Posted January 24, 2007 Author Posted January 24, 2007 Well, by my figuring - it should be available for download as of the 8th of February. I am in no way either a) admitting to downloading it or b) condoning the downloading of it. Views expressed are that of my own and not of the edugeek forum or any of its members, affiliates or sponsors! Although - somebody did manage to get the first 4 hours of 24 before it even aired in the states!
webman Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 Well I was hardly ever in to see it when it first aired on C4 so I gave up (DVD recorder = temperamental), obtained it using another method and watched them all at once (without the 118 guys interrupting in 10 min intervals)
mattx Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 Then of course there was the new season of '24' leaked on the internet before it was even shown on FOX.... Long Live The Bit Torrent...
Gatt Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 currently playing catch-up with '24' - on Day 2 now and since we have Cisco IP phones. i had a look at my ring tones.. and lo and behold there is one called "CTU" 8)
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