> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Paul Stewart <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Yeah, just learning that... got a *tonne* of offline replies. > > > > Planets won't work well, simpson characters we'll run out very > > quickly.... umm.. forgot the rest. We were looking for something that > > makes sense to the function of the box itself and scales up (as per some > > other folks point).... > > With 726 episodes in 30 TV seasons and 11 feature films, it's very > difficult to run out of Star Trek characters. Not main characters, > though.
Not to mention all the books, etc. Really, it's not hard to find precompiled lists of this sort of stuff. One could start at someplace like http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Coruscant for Star WARS (not Trek) stuff and probably scale up to a very large size with all the names, places, planets, etc. In the old days (pre-Web), it was actually a lot harder to come up with a comprehensive naming scheme. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
