Richmond, Maybe they just hired an enthusiastic, fresh-out, naïve marketing person, for whom we should cut some slack :-) Or maybe the Scottish Valley Girls need to do SOMETHING to justify their expense to Inland Revenue... Walt
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote: > Why do I feel that RunRev have been scraping the barrel recently? > > I wonder if the, unintended, result of their open source initiative is > that their income has > dropped considerably; hence the rather childish adverts. > > My e-mail inboxes (I have 2 e-mail addresses that are personal and one for > my Devawriter) > seem to get at least one RunRev advert a day, and, as such, I don't mind > that. > > But there is something I don't like; the implication of these adverts > seems to be that any old moron > can write computer programs ; something that is palpably not true. And my > ego feels bruised by > the corollary that if any old moron can write computer programs with > Livecode then I must be any old moron (and I'm not; I'm a special type of > moron in a category of my own). > > Certainly that "BE THIS GUY" (Who would you rather be? and the answer is > 'anybody else') advert does not > do RunRev many favours; it comes out of the British 'dumb everything down > to the stage where its just simply insulting' school of thought that seems > to be pretty well all pervasive throughout the British Isles. > > This started with the slightly prognathous girl on the new RunRev website > who is spacing out with her > mall-rat friends (Scottish valley girls; the open sewer that runs between > Edinburgh and Glasgow, starting > with Westerhailes [heroin capital of the world] and moving through > Hamilton [Buckfast tonic wine capital > of the world]; 2 national disgraces and social bombsites whichever way you > look at them) and has moved slowly down-market from there ("'down market' > from Westerhailes" I hear you ask; well, I did see somebody injecting > themselves with heroin in a carpark right smackdown by the river Tay in > Dundee in 2003; so, if one thinks about parts of Lochee and Hilltown, it is > just about possible). > > As somebody who has learnt about 9 programming languages (and most of the > people on the RunRev use-list will better me there), I am well aware that > learning to program is NOT for any old moron, and to imply so > with "Tracy Beaker on Speed" types of adverts is disingenuous insofar as > it gives any moronic programmer wannabees out there a distinctly wrong > impression, and it will drive away more intelligent and motivated typoes > towards programming languages/IDEs/packages that don't promote themselves > through kiddy-crap. > > The whole thing reminds me of a Steve Martin film called "The Jerk", > where, at one point, Steve Martin, playing the epynomous lead character, is > drinking some multicolored cocktail out of a glass with a paper umbrella in > it, and pointing at an advert the same cocktail saying "be somebody". > > "With 8 x 1 hour long lessons and a 1 hour 1-1 Skype Session and a Live > Q&A Session every week you could produce the #1 selling app." > > Possibly; but not if you are a person who wants to "be somebody" in the > way the advert presents things. > > RunRev produce a fantastic product; a product that can produce simple > Powerpoint-like slideshows to incredibly complicated stuff (my Devawriter > being about 25% along that line); so advertising Livecode like > this is just doing RunRev a disservice. > > ------ > > Jump on me. > > Agree. > > Disagree. > > BUT; Please, don't keep quiet. I do feel that as parts of what RunRev > choose to call a 'community' and > like to tell us that we have some sort of say and input on what their > company does, we should voice our opinions in this respect (as well as all > the others). > > ------ > > Richmond. > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode