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Mark Lanctot
2007-10-05, 08:11
OK, for my Friday musing, I am curious where this term came from.

Was it focus-grouped? Did it come from that 'evil' JimC? (No Jim, I don't think you're evil at all, but you have fairly gleefully taken the blame yourself for some naming decisions recently, which I think is rather cool actually! It nicely extinguishes the flames before they start.)

This question probably won't/can't be answered, but is "Jive" just a development phrase, are there any thoughts of using it with a commercial product? The Jive remote...SqueezeCenter Jive.
bklaas
2007-10-05, 08:24
I have no answer, but...

the charger has a nickname too. "Shuck".

Put them together and you have "Shuckin' the Jive".

...which happens to be a chapter from the Holy Text known as Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin.
http://www.compleatsteve.com/miscellany/cruelshoes_2.htm

After reading the chapter "Shuckin' the Jive", I think all of your questions will be answered.

#!/ben
Mark Lanctot
2007-10-05, 08:55
the charger has a nickname too. "Shuck".

Put them together and you have "Shuckin' the Jive".

LOL! Now that's a term that will stick in my mind long after a commercial product is released...


...which happens to be a chapter from the Holy Text known as Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin.
http://www.compleatsteve.com/miscellany/cruelshoes_2.htm

After reading the chapter "Shuckin' the Jive", I think all of your questions will be answered.

It raises wayyyyy more questions than it answers (quite the odd story) but I would be honoured to play the role of the eastward wandering Canadian guru! ;-)
dean
2007-10-05, 09:52
Jive was suggested by an old friend of mine and it stuck for now.

Just a note: the word "jive" is a temporary code name and will be
going away.
mflint
2007-10-06, 02:39
> going away...

Shame, I like 'Jive.' Much better than some secret projects I've worked on. Projects 'Marrow' and 'Radish' were certainly ones to forget ;-)

Matthew
dean
2007-10-06, 12:52
On Oct 6, 2007, at 2:39 AM, mflint wrote:

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>> going away...
>
> Shame, I like 'Jive.'
Me too.

But the good news is that we're going to be using Squeezebox and the
Squeeze prefix more and more consistently. SqueezeNetwork,
SqueezeCenter, etc...


-dean
kdf
2007-10-06, 13:51
On 6-Oct-07, at 12:52 PM, dean blackketter wrote:

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> On Oct 6, 2007, at 2:39 AM, mflint wrote:
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>>
>>> going away...
>>
>> Shame, I like 'Jive.'
> Me too.
>
> But the good news is that we're going to be using Squeezebox and the
> Squeeze prefix more and more consistently. SqueezeNetwork,
> SqueezeCenter, etc...

Jive is a nifty name, but someone got there first for software (use
google if you care)

-kdf