Altium for kids and manga fans - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: FrankBuss
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 07:46:59 am
content: Some days ago I applied for a new account for Altium Live to download the free viewer (but already found a link to it) and today I got an eMail with the activation link. This was step 3:Maybe I'm getting old, but looks strange for me for a professional electronics company.

author: Jon86
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 12:54:20 pm
content: Seriously?! I even found the component symbols pretty silly myself...Can you not even upload your own? I agree, this totally ridiculous especially with Altium's usually very professional style.

author: FrankBuss
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 01:32:20 pm
content: There was no upload link on the activation page, but after the registration it was possible to upload your own image in the profile settings, which I did. Much better now than my initial bald psychopath decision

author: Zbig
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 02:15:22 pm
content: Quote from: FrankBuss on December 30, 2013, 01:32:20 pmMeh, he's just eccentric. He can afford an Altium license after all so, yeah, you know how the saying goes...

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 03:59:12 pm
content: They have had that for years. It is to access the forums. Part of the forum package they use.

author: jancumps
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 04:04:06 pm
content: I particularly like the single-toothed troll image.

author: Rufus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 04:09:25 pm
content: Quote from: FrankBuss on December 30, 2013, 01:32:20 pmAt one time some people had 4000x3000 pixel avatar images resized to 32x32 in your browser - lol at page loading speeds. Just another bit of the wheel they neglected to re-invent when they developed Altium Live.I generally dislike the Altium live interface and rarely visit. The 8 forum posts in the last 24 hours there tells me I am not missing much.

author: sacherjj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 02:00:09 am
content: I found this rather silly as well. I just selected an op-amp and moved on.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 08:06:06 am
content: It is Kawaii. But it is one thing if teenagers who refuse to grow up put cute Hello Kitty stickers on all their cloth or if it is for a commercial support forum.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 09:09:09 am
content: I kid you not, we had those avatars on our name sign on our cubicles, I wonder if I have a photo of that...

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 09:20:58 am
content: Yep, here you go:http://www.flickr.com/photos/altium/3397827372/#

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 09:22:53 am
content: Quote from: Rufus on December 30, 2013, 04:09:25 pmIt has alwyas been crap, based on the silly Morfik technology. I guess they had to get something out of Morfik, it cost the company 15% of it's market worth.

author: nitro2k01
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 09:57:14 am
content: Which one did you have, Dave?

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 10:27:30 am
content: Quote from: nitro2k01 on December 31, 2013, 09:57:14 am

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 10:37:25 am
content: Quote from: nitro2k01 on December 31, 2013, 09:57:14 amI was a rebel and had my real hand photo you see now on the blog site. I think the only one to do so.

author: nitro2k01
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 11:11:57 am
content: Damn, I knew you would've used that one. But I imagined a drawn version of it.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 12:23:18 pm
content: Quote from: nitro2k01 on December 31, 2013, 11:11:57 amThis was pre the blog, but once the blog came around and I started using that photo for it, I added the EEVblog logo. I don't think management was happy...

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 01:08:30 pm
content: It's always amusing when I see older companies try to be "hip and trendy". They usually lookreallyout-of-place and awkward.In the East, this sort of "cute culture" is far more prevalant...

author: FrankBuss
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 01:08:59 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on December 31, 2013, 09:09:09 amLooks slightly different than the website avatars. I guess only managers know why it is a good idea to spend money for such things.Same with company logo or name changes etc. Once I worked for a company where they changed their logo a little, same name and nearly the same font. All products had to be changed for the new logo, letter templates (and of course, the design agency dictated that the logo had to be placed x mm from top instead of the old y mm), website, software, documentation etc. There should be a Dilbert comic for it. PHB: "Hey, marketing, we don't have any new product ideas, let's change the corporate identity to compensate for it. And create some new name sign plates for the employees. Dilbert, can you create modern looking rehashes of our old products in shiny new cases and with new GUI for the trade fair next week?"Glad I'm a freelancer now

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2013, 01:30:45 pm
content: Quote from: FrankBuss on December 31, 2013, 01:08:59 pmIn one of his early books he has a list of things management likes to do when bored. Guess what is on the list?Rename the company.