Hi all,

Right now I am in FULL. RAGE. MODE and am literally loosing my mind over this!

So I make videos for AAC, DigiKey, and Maker Pro and for someone who has issues with reading (for example, reading words that dont exist and trying to predict what the sentence will say instead of actually reading it) I am really struggling with some STUPID PRODUCT NAMES!!

Arduino. Arduino. Arduino. I'll stick that where the sun don't shine mate! What a stupid ****ing name

Raspberry Pi. rrpppbbbbssssss

Raspbian. I can imagine myself punching the guy who came up with that in the face

 

Raspbian. I can imagine myself punching the guy who came up with that in the face

At least Raspbian is better than Debian Hard Float (armhf) for RPi.
http://www.zen103156.zen.co.uk/rpitime.pdf
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How about PI OS? Thats nice and simple

 

Right now I am in FULL. RAGE. MODE and am literally loosing my mind over this!

 

How about PI OS? Thats nice and simple

I'm sure they wanted the Debian part of the distro in the official name because of the long history of quality Debian Linux releases. That part of the name has a long and good history in the Linux world.
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-detailed.en.html

 

I suppose "due mille nove" (2009 in Italian) strikes you as odd. I guess that makes you a full fledged cultural bigot. You need to loosen up if you're going to survive the globalized post industrial world. Who cares what things are named?

 

This is pretty close to me today

 

Hi all,

Right now I am in FULL. RAGE. MODE and am literally loosing my mind over this!

So I make videos for AAC, DigiKey, and Maker Pro and for someone who has issues with reading (for example, reading words that dont exist and trying to predict what the sentence will say instead of actually reading it) I am really struggling with some STUPID PRODUCT NAMES!!

I tend to agree with you but I am sure Robin, that for an Italian colleague of you, even if not making sense it would not sound (or read) that much hard to spell/pronounce Arduino or duemila.

After all, "adafruit", or "pitaya" or "renesas" or "beagleboard" what they actually mean in our context? They are just names as I understand it. Do you know that "pitaya" is a fruit?

Many many centuries ago a Finish guy decided to call a certain tool, "visara". Some centuries later a distant relative of yours decided to call the same thing "hammer" and around here, we are calling it "martillo".

I even guess, there was a time when "Robin" meant nothing but a loving mother insisted to call like that her newborn baby...

 

@atferrari

Im not entirely sure what you are trying to say but when companies produce products that have strange names it just irritates me especially if I have to say it in front of an audience

 

Raspbian OS

Is it Rasp - bian
or Rars be an
or Rasp b an

Here is something that I found difficult to get right: "Our Arduino"
Say that out loud quickly and see if you get it! I sure cant!

 

Raspbian OS

Is it Rasp - bian
or Rars be an
or Rasp b an

Here is something that I found difficult to get right: "Our Arduino"
Say that out loud quickly and see if you get it! I sure cant!

First world problems.

 

@nsaspook SO true !!!

 

@atferrari

Im not entirely sure what you are trying to say but when companies produce products that have strange names it just irritates me especially if I have to say it in front of an audience

One man's strangeness is another man's familiarity.

I say, if you have it together enough to produce a board with that much impact, you get to call it what you want.

Drug companies are sometimes pretty good at this. My favorite was Librium (chlordiazepoxide - anti-anxiety), it comes from Equilibrium.

How about spandex out of expand. Have to mention SPAM (spiced ham) - talk about high impact marketing names!

You may be getting mad at the wrong industry

 

@atferrari

Im not entirely sure what you are trying to say but when companies produce products that have strange names it just irritates me especially if I have to say it in front of an audience

Maybe you are in the wrong line of work.

 

@GopherT Maybe companies make stupid names

 

@GopherT Actually, I am in the right line of work thank you. Its not me, companies DO make unusual and strange names that don't always work well.

 

@atferrari

Im not entirely sure what you are trying to say but when companies produce products that have strange names it just irritates me especially if I have to say it in front of an audience

Sorry Robin; I should have limited my comment to this:

I tend to agree with you but I am sure Robin, that for an Italian colleague of you, even if not making sense it would not sound (or read) that much hard to spell/pronounce Arduino or duemila.

Besides that even today I do not associate anything to Arduino other than the platform itself, I have not difficulties in pronouncing any of both expressions.

Traveling and to some extent, speaking other than my mother tongue, taught me some flexibility. Change you mindset and you will be happy. Learn Chinese.

 

Sorry Robin; I should have limited my comment to this:



Besides that even today I do not associate anything to Arduino other than the platform itself, I have not difficulties in pronouncing any of both expressions.

Traveling and to some extent, speaking other than my mother tongue, taught me some flexibility. Change you mindset and you will be happy. Learn Chinese.

It is certainly better to learn a language because you want to rather than because you have to. Fortunately, I learned Russian when I was in high school.

 

Hello,

Next to the beagleboard : http://beagleboard.org/getting-started
and the red pitaya : https://www.redpitaya.com/
there is also the banana pi : http://www.banana-pi.com/eindex.asp

Bertus

 

There's a history of using the names of fruit for IT stuff.
Orange Micro Inc. was a company which made products for use with Apple computers.
Tangerine Computer Systems was a British microcomputer company.