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Sony "Poos"? |
Listed in: News, Off Topic, Humor Tags: infinity, Microsoft, Sony
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Okay, this one's for all you 8th-grade boys out there...To be fair, English is a horribly difficult language for non-native speakers to master. And there are always little cultural things that don't translate as intended.
No doubt, you all had some good laughs over "PS" and "PSP," but now, Sony has gone one better by registering the name "Poos." The German gaming site (GameFront.de) that originally reported the story said "Sony has patented 'P oo S', but we don't know what it is. Perhaps it's the name of the controller."
As it turns out, it's actually a "P" and an "S" with an "infinity" sign between them, which is a numeral "8" lying on its side (see image below). Rumour has it that it's to be the name of the PS3 online network. Previously, it was announced at the E3 2006 Expo as the "PlayStation Network Platform."
Unfortunately (but hilariously), the name "Poos" is starting to stick as toilet-related jokes start popping up on gaming sites all over the 'Net. Yep, looks like it's hitting the fan for Sony...
One can only imagine what scatological name Microsoft will come up with in response...stay tuned!
Via Spong.com
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lol
haha
P S stand for playstation though.
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poos and wiis come on. someone is s******g with us.
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i'm not going to believe it until a little while from now, it's all a little too convenient.
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and for the topic, SO WHAT! even if they have 90 million other registered names! you should just wait, anyway if you speculate know or not, you'll only have the answer when sony will spoil it, so just wait&see!
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they got the name 4 how the ps3 works lol
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unless they learn basic Japanese in young age while ESL than they will have a change to master both Japanese and English.
but even though english is easy to learn, it's also the hardiest to master.
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Easy to learn and master, but difficult to type correctly. ;)
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PooS=Playstation official online Service"
Good thing it wasnt this
PoS=Playstation online service
a.ka.
PoS=Piece of *****
P.S. Stands for Xbox 360
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lol hope ya get teh joke ;)
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cuz easiest language to learn in the world is ENGLISH !!!!
(oh, expect if u are french, cuz they have attitude problems)
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Yeh, I'm sure it's really crowded with the two of you in there.
;)
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The coprophilia XXXBox!
Germans rejoice!!
Chicka-chicka bowwow!!
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Wee
POS
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SONY won't be calling anything related to the PS3, Poos. Written by One over at Beyond3D:
"I don't know who first found the trademark application of the PS3 controller, but apparently he/she has little experience with the Japanese trademark database.
You can search Japanese trademarks from here
http://www.ipdl.ncipi.go.jp/Syouhyou/syouhyou.htm
and the said trademark for the PS3 controller is Trademark Application 2006-40965. It has 8 images, but all of them are just the drawings of the PS3 controller from different angles.
The trademark section is with the note "(for query)". What is actually written in there as "Trademark (for query)" is actually "§P∞S", not even "P∞S". How to pronounce the trademark is also registered, and it's the same as "PS", no infinity or whatever. So what do those '§' and '∞' mean in the context of the trademarks database? Apparently they are control characters.
To illustrate what those control characters mean we can browse other trademarks. For example H10-58610 by SCE has this image:
Its trademark for query is "§X∞I∞[sai]". '§' in the head means it's an image trademark, not a word trademark. So what does '∞' mean? I think it means it changes where characters are put in a trademark image. Another control character that appears in trademarks is '\', which means CR-LF.
Another question is, why the mere drawings of the PS3 controller have "§P∞S" as the query term. I think it's because the PS3 controller has a button with the PS symbol at the center of it. I can verify this theory since Trademark Application 2005-49788 is for the most famous PS symbol and its query term is also "§P∞S"."
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