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Is it just me?

LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,681
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Is it just me or has anybody else noticed that forum references to DAZ Studio are finally not as frequently calling it just "DAZ"? (especially among the newbies) Have we finally broken the bad habit? If so, what happened? Are there now so many versions of Studio that we have to identify which Studio we're talking about? 8-o

Not complaining, just observing.

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  • SylvanSylvan Posts: 2,718
    edited December 1969

    I always said "DAZ" but I was corrected (not on this forum) that I should say "Studio" and not DAZ as DAZ is the company and studio the actual software...

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    I tend to not correct New Users so much as pointedly refer to Daz Studio in my replies,

  • Mr Gneiss GuyMr Gneiss Guy Posts: 462
    edited December 1969

    I kind of liked D|S, but that was already falling into disuse several years ago.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,620
    edited December 1969

    I found the | symbol too hard to just thrown in, not on my keyboard, needed character map
    I call it studio or DS
    but I am a Carraraite and a bit of a Poser and iCloner who uses Daz content so Daz for me has always been the company and source of models I use, not the software.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 2013

    Mr Gneiss Guy said:
    I kind of liked D|S, but that was already falling into disuse several years ago.

    Yes after my first reference to it by it's full name I then will start using DS, as it is obviously easier to type than DAZ Studio.

    Post edited by Chohole on
  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,256
    edited December 1969

    DS for me too. Sometimes I'll type out DAZ Studio....

  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    RAMWolff said:
    DS for me too. Sometimes I'll type out DAZ Studio....

    My preference as well. I only use DAZ to refer to the company, and then I often would use DAZ3D just to be certain folks knew exactly who/what I was referring to.
  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,256
    edited December 1969

    Miss B said:
    RAMWolff said:
    DS for me too. Sometimes I'll type out DAZ Studio....

    My preference as well. I only use DAZ to refer to the company, and then I often would use DAZ3D just to be certain folks knew exactly who/what I was referring to.

    Yup, DAZ3D is what I type out so there is no mistaking what or who I'm referring too! lol

  • 3WC3WC Posts: 1,114
    edited December 1969

    I like to type out "The Studio 3d posing program produced by the company Digital Art Zone-"

    NOT! I like DS too! :)

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,565
    edited December 1969

    DS sounds great. Poser can be considered PS but that gets easily confused with photoshop.

  • jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,157
    edited December 1969

    Well ... I use Daz studio for the software, and Daz 3D for the company.

  • CypherFOXCypherFOX Posts: 3,401
    edited December 1969

    Greetings,
    I've been random in my usage, but I really like D|S. But I'm a programmer, so the pipe operator is something I type all the time.

    -- Morgan

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,256
    edited December 1969

    I had no idea that ' | ' was called a pipe operator!

  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    I just usually type D/S when I'm referring to DAZ Studio.

  • CypherFOXCypherFOX Posts: 3,401
    edited December 2013

    Greetings,

    RAMWolff said:
    I had no idea that ' | ' was called a pipe operator!
    Pipe, bar, and 'or' are its three names that I can think of off the top of my head.

    'Pipe' when it's being used as a..well..pipe, in a Unix-y sense. 'Bar' when it's being used as a separator, and 'or' when it's being used as either bitwise (|) or logical (||) 'or' in most programming languages.

    Anyway... 'D/S' has totally different connotations to me, due to my misspent post-college years. 'DS' less so, and is a primary alternate. 'D|S' makes sense to me, but I keep feeling like other people are going to cock their head confoozedly at the screen when I write it. 'Studio' seems too broad, and 'DAZ' is Just Wrong(tm).

    Those were fun paragraphs to write, with all the the use/mention distinctions going on.

    -- Morgan

    Post edited by CypherFOX on
  • SupercopeSupercope Posts: 128
    edited December 1969

    On most of the keyboards I've seen, you can get the pipe character by holding down SHIFT and typing \ (which is generally just above the ENTER key).

    For anyone who was a) Interested and b) didn't know....

    I was always partial to D|S myself...

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    That only works on US layout. on UK keyboards it tends to be next to the shift key, between shift and Z

  • DireBunnyDireBunny Posts: 556
    edited December 1969

    I'm thinking of referring to daz studio as "Fusion-powered Muffin Bomb 4.x"

    I think it will catch on...

  • wizwiz Posts: 1,100
    edited December 1969

    RAMWolff said:
    I had no idea that ' | ' was called a pipe operator!

    As cypherfox pointed out, programmers came up with some bizarre nicknames, usually monosyllabic, for things they use a lot, instead of going with conventional 3-5 syllable names like "exclamation point" or "underscore"

    ! - bang or wow
    ^ - hat
    _ - base
    $ - cash

    This is a famous poem, "Hatless Atlas"

    ^<@<.@* <br /> }"_# |
    -@$&/_%
    !( @|=>
    ;`+$?^?
    ,#"~|)^G

    It translates to

    hat less at less point at star
    backbrace double base pound space bar
    dash at cash and slash base rate
    wow open tab at bar is great
    semi backquote plus cash huh DEL
    comma pound double tilde bar close BEL

    The page I grabbed that from says it can be sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" but I remember it as being done to the "Alphabet Song"

  • DAZ_ann0314DAZ_ann0314 Posts: 2,861
    edited December 2013

    wiz said:
    The page I grabbed that from says it can be sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" but I remember it as being done to the "Alphabet Song"

    Actually if you listen to the tune of the Alphabet Song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, they are the same (or at least reaaally close). Didn't notice it until I tried it both ways and was like huh...the song sounded the same no matter which one I picked as the tune LOL Never noticed that before either DOH! :)

    Post edited by DAZ_ann0314 on
  • DAZ_ann0314DAZ_ann0314 Posts: 2,861
    edited December 1969

    Dire Bunny said:
    I'm thinking of referring to daz studio as "Fusion-powered Muffin Bomb 4.x"

    I think it will catch on...

    HMMM I like that one, may have to start using it! hehe

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,620
    edited December 2013

    SAPI4 TTS cannot read the Geek language and SAPI5 not even the characters
    http://youtu.be/zMW9yJeg3GE
    SAPI4 thinks the pipe thingy is a vertical line too

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    That only works on US layout. on UK keyboards it tends to be next to the shift key, between shift and Z

    I did not know that people in the United Kingdom use different keyboards. I learned something new.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 2013

    starionwolf said:
    chohole said:
    That only works on US layout. on UK keyboards it tends to be next to the shift key, between shift and Z

    I did not know that people in the United Kingdom use different keyboards. I learned something new.

    Yes. the layout is just slightly different for some of the keys. I had been quite happily typing away on this keyboard, (which happens to be the American layout) with no problems as I touch type, until I needed to use the back slash in order to be able to use the MS IE 11 fix and had to use the command panel to do it. Ended up changing the language from English UK to English US in order to do it, and now I have to think before I type @ and # because they aren't where I expect them to be and I have to use an alt character to get £. and can't type '' with one key press.

    Post edited by Chohole on
  • SlimerJSpudSlimerJSpud Posts: 1,453
    edited December 1969

    Wasn't it dear old Winston talking about "two great peoples divided by a common language?" :lol:

    In Unix, not only is the '|' referred to as a pipe, we also have a 'tee' command, which is referred to as a pipe fitting. If you want to give a Mac user a heart attack, you can bring up a Unix shell on their machine and start typing cryptic Unix commands that actually do something. It scares the heck out of them. :gulp:

    For me, DS works fine. Since I'm stuck on Daz Studio 3 for a while, I refer to it as DS3, which won't confuse anybody.

  • Ryuu@AMcCFRyuu@AMcCF Posts: 703
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    starionwolf said:
    chohole said:
    That only works on US layout. on UK keyboards it tends to be next to the shift key, between shift and Z

    I did not know that people in the United Kingdom use different keyboards. I learned something new.

    Yes. the layout is just slightly different for some of the keys. I had been quite happily typing away on this keyboard, (which happens to be the American layout) with no problems as I touch type, until I needed to use the back slash in order to be able to use the MS IE 11 fix and had to use the command panel to do it. Ended up changing the language from English UK to English US in order to do it, and now I have to think before I type @ and # because they aren't where I expect them to be and I have to use an alt character to get £. and can't type '' with one key press.Hey, I heard the UK keyboard also moves the U immediately after the O so they can be typed together in the proper order.

    Just kidding ;-)

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Ryuu@AMcCF said:
    chohole said:
    starionwolf said:
    chohole said:
    That only works on US layout. on UK keyboards it tends to be next to the shift key, between shift and Z

    I did not know that people in the United Kingdom use different keyboards. I learned something new.

    Yes. the layout is just slightly different for some of the keys. I had been quite happily typing away on this keyboard, (which happens to be the American layout) with no problems as I touch type, until I needed to use the back slash in order to be able to use the MS IE 11 fix and had to use the command panel to do it. Ended up changing the language from English UK to English US in order to do it, and now I have to think before I type @ and # because they aren't where I expect them to be and I have to use an alt character to get £. and can't type '' with one key press.Hey, I heard the UK keyboard also moves the U immediately after the O so they can be typed together in the proper order.

    Just kidding ;-)

    ROFL :coolgrin:

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,681
    edited December 2013

    Slimer_J_Spud said:
    Wasn't it dear old Winston talking about "two great peoples divided by a common language?" :lol:

    In Unix, not only is the '|' referred to as a pipe, we also have a 'tee' command, which is referred to as a pipe fitting. If you want to give a Mac user a heart attack, you can bring up a Unix shell on their machine and start typing cryptic Unix commands that actually do something. It scares the heck out of them. :gulp:

    ...

    Yeah, "|" has always been "pipe" to me. I'm an old Unix wizard. Loved "piping" commands together. Damn, UNIX was powerful! I miss it. :-(

    UNIX wizards could cast spells of gobbledegook that would befuddle any naïve onlooker. Pure magic! :-o

    Long, long Before UNIX (early 70's), I worked with the Xerox Operating System on a Xerox Sigma5 mainframe, where the "!" was a lead character to all system commands input by punch cards. So you used the expression "stick a couple bang cards in front of your program" a lot when advising student programmers.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited December 2013

    LeatherGryphon said:
    Are there now so many versions of Studio that we have to identify which Studio we're talking about? 8-o

    Not complaining, just observing.

    I need to specify whether I am using Daz Studio 3 or 4.6 in other threads. People ask me, "Are you using Studio 3 or 4 with advanced spotlights by Age of Armour?" I use generation 3 and 4 figures in Studio 3 and 4. I should stick with version 4 because I can use the new sub surface scattering, advanced spotlights and Luxus.

    Then the question becomes, why am I still using Daz Studio 3? Uh...

    Post edited by starionwolf on
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