Widgets

What exactly are widgets? Is there a specific product or is it just like saying you know, that thingi magjie.

I keep reading, Company X manufactures widgets. How many widgets should you sell _____.


From what I can tell so far, widgets = gadgets = anything.

Originally posted by RahimK
What exactly are widgets? Is there a specific product or is it just like saying you know, that thingi magjie.

I keep reading, Company X manufactures widgets. How many widgets should you sell _____.


From what I can tell so far, widgets = gadgets = anything.

Originally posted by RahimK
What exactly are widgets? Is there a specific product or is it just like saying you know, that thingi magjie.

I keep reading, Company X manufactures widgets. How many widgets should you sell _____.


From what I can tell so far, widgets = gadgets = anything.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tabco/widget.htm

Originally posted by RahimK
What exactly are widgets? Is there a specific product or is it just like saying you know, that thingi magjie.

I keep reading, Company X manufactures widgets. How many widgets should you sell _____.


From what I can tell so far, widgets = gadgets = anything.

Originally posted by RahimK
What exactly are widgets? Is there a specific product or is it just like saying you know, that thingi magjie.

I keep reading, Company X manufactures widgets. How many widgets should you sell _____.


From what I can tell so far, widgets = gadgets = anything.

Originally posted by Will Everitt
The original widget was patented in the UK by Guinness.

The word "widget" as applied to this device is a trademark of the Guinness brewery.

Originally posted by Will Everitt
The original widget was patented in the UK by Guinness

The Guiness brewing company borrowed a word from the public domain for their device. A very good marketing idea.
However, when Rahim is reading about widgets, it is the generic widget that means "gadget" or "thing-a-ma-bob" and not the widget in the can of Guiness.

http://experts.about.com/e/w/wi/widget_(tv_series).htm

There are many definitions of widget.

But since the beer revolution of 1990, it's generally used to describe a gadget in a beer can which does something to the beer when you open the can.

I've never understood what it's supposed to do.
so, basically, best just to ignore this post, because it's not very informative.





sorry.

Originally posted by Nordlys
I didn't know that. That makes it kind of funny that a wino has it as his username.

So I understood widgets correctly. Strange thing is that I never really heard of the word till this semester. I heard it in all 4 of my class multiple times and in my books also. Strange hey.

I prefer, you company sells thingi magiees 🙂

there are four meanings for widget:

1. the original (from 1930s) came from US economists, and is a generic name for a small manufactured item;

2. (late 1980s computing) a visual symbol on a computer screen (ie, what is now known as an icon);

3. (early 1990s) a plastic bladder or floating capsule of pressurized nitrogen and beer which discharges when the can or bottle is opened and causes the beer to form a creamy head in imitation of draught beer, esp. when the beer is poured into a glass; and

4. a splodget, splidget, midget or smudget.

Originally posted by murrow
there are four meanings for widget:

1. the original (from 1930s) came from US economists, and is a generic name for a small manufactured item;

2. (late 1980s computing) a visual symbol on a computer screen (ie, what is now known as an icon);

3. (early 1990s) a plastic bladder or floating capsule of pressurized nitrogen and beer which discharges when ...[text shortened]... r, esp. when the beer is poured into a glass; and

4. a splodget, splidget, midget or smudget.