If something takes obvious inspiration from a previous, similar thing, but then does it better in every way, I wouldn't really call it a "ripoff".
Granted, I've never seen C# v1, so I can't really comment on that, but some of our projects here are stuck on C# v2, and while I do miss some of the nifty features of v3.5 and v4, I'd still much rather be writing code in C# v2 than in Java. Microsoft may have made some pretty terrible products in their time, but C# is actually one of the prettiest languages I've worked in. While Java is... not.
I wouldn't say one of the best episodes ever. It was definitely the best episode in the past couple seasons, but only because the vast majority of episodes the past couple seasons have been utter garbage, so that episode was a breath of fresh air in actually having some fun dialog, and a plot that vaguely made sense.
I miss the first 3ish seasons, where I could count on good writing every episode...
Because google gives you relevant search results, and bing doesn't. Therefore, yahoo also doesn't, nor does duckduckgo, because they use bing. I tried duckduckgo a few months back - I liked their philosophy and their UI, but their actual results were usually crap. While google -is- looking less and less not-evil over time, the fact is, there really isn't any other alternative to google searching at this time (I notice that your supposed alternative still uses google results, just through a proxy.)
To be honest, I don't even really care if google knows what I'm searching for most of the time. On the rare occasion that I do care, I just log out. And the rest of the time, I find it often actually does give me more useful results by their supposed privacy-invasion (example: prioritizing results from sites about games I play). It bothers me to no end when scuzzy sites try to obtain information about me without my consent and without giving back anything in return, but google -has- my consent, and I -do- get personal benefit from the exchange.
I do agree the whole social media push is dumb, though. But I just turned that "feature" off.
Or just use neologisms or other things that are words to your brain, but not words according to a dictionary. I doubt dictionary attackers are going to use Urban Dictionary or etc. in their brute-forcing.
I tried it for a little while, a few months back. I loved their shiny yet clean interface, I loved their philosophies... but after using it for a little while, I realized that at least 75% of all the things I searched for, I gave up and prepended !google to the front of it to get any useful results. So I gave up and just went back to google.
Have they really gotten that much better in the past few months? I doubt it...
Made to look like a captcha, with the text, "What is 2+3?" Spammers read the captcha and submit that back. Normal people type 5. "What site is this?" is another good one. Heck, you don't even need to make it look like a captcha; it's just funnier that way. One site I mod used to get dozens of spam threads a day, until a couple years ago they added a box to the end of their registration with one of a handful of questions like "what do seal clubbers club" (answer: seals), or "what is the first letter of the alphabet". It now gets a few a month, most of which look entirely nonautomated. When bots have evolved to read natural language and spit out correct answers to arbitrary (though easy) questions, well, as xkcd once said, mission accomplished. (Though his mission was a different, albeit related, mission.)
More like how many will just go use yousendit or mediafire or rapidshare or filesonic or...
Actually, the real question is, how many people (especially those people routinely uploading copyrighted content) -already- use all of those other sites. And the answer is probably "most of them". [insert statement about hydra heads.]
Except you can't. Different products being interchangeable would be exactly what we'd like. I have an mp3 player, which was advertised as having Android! Cool, I thought, if I ever want to run any apps, now I could. And at first, that was true. Now, however, that mp3 player is still stuck with Android 1.6, and it's a royal pain finding apps that I can still use (I only recently found a decent media-playing app it will run, cause the native UI for the player is also terrible. My impression is that app started life specifically because its creator had the same mp3 player, and was just as frustrated with the situation as the rest of us.)
Nothing major is wrong with XP. Several things are wrong with Win7. I do have Win7 at home, cause I got a new laptop a year ago and didn't have much choice (and even if I felt like replacing the OS with a copy of XP from elsewhere, I'd have to fight with all the hardware, which I'm sure wasn't tested on XP since it's not supposed to be supported any more).
But after getting Win7, I had to find replacements or other hacks for dang near every piece of the visible UI, before I could call it useable. Some of them were just designed to look and feel like XP, or, more accurately, like Win2k; some of them were actually better than XP/Win2k, it's not like I would claim either of those OSes were perfect. They were just entirely useable, which is more than I can say about the mess of a UI that Win7 provides.
So I'm keeping my XP at work until IT pries it out from under me, because I don't feel like dealing with the same issues again. (Plus, it's nice to have developers working on different OSes. After all, we sell to precisely the sort of people who are going to want our software to continue to work on XP and on Win2k and Win2k3 for all eternity.)
Yep, every time we get a news post about fracking, I know I'll find some good comments from BSG fans, but, indeed... this post in particular had a pretty excellent headline for completely misinterpreting it. To the extent that it actually took me a sec to parse it the correct way, and I -do- know what it actually means to people who study engineering and aren't fans of scifi tv.
That said, it was originally spelled "frack", I believe; the new series decided to spell it "frak", but I like the originally spelling more, so I keep spelling it that way.:p
Well, that or the high prices. There are certainly a handful of movies I'd be happy to see; while I won't argue that there's a lot of junk, I feel like there's always been a lot of junk, we just only remember the good movies of other eras and forget all the crap ones. But I'm not going to pay 11 bucks to get to a theater and have to watch awful loud advertisements until the previews start... and then have half the "previews" actually turn out to be advertisements as well. If theaters want to do that, they should let us in for free. Otherwise, they should go back to the system of only displaying still, silent ads before the show starts (I didn't mind those), and leaving the preview time for actual movie previews (I didn't mind those either). Then I might actually start going to movies again.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of The Doctor. Though my first thought was, "impermanently". Though, granted, I believe he technically only has one more regeneration before they have to either recancel the show or (more likely) deus ex machina some way to give him more.;)
Bitcoins, duh. (Seriously, I played with bitcoins for a few days when I heard about them the first time, then got bored of them. But I imagine an order like that would be a major win for bitcoins or some other such similar system.)
Holy carp, really? It's actually happening this time? There's been a movie coming out "in a couple years" for like a decade (seriously, I remember being excited to hear that a movie was in the works, when I was in high school). But hey, wikipedia says it's actually been cast this time, so it must be for real. (Ender's Game may actually have been my intro to sci-fi. It has a special place in my brain; I've been looking forward to the movie for a long time, so it had better not suck.)
Also, major +1 to Sanderson. By no means my intro to fantasy (I just learned of him a few months back), but that trilogy is certainly up near the top of the list of good fantasy literature. You can visit his site and read in-depth commentary he wrote on all his books, too, which is kind of interesting.
I'd be happy if my 1.6 mp3 player had 2.0 (last I looked, all the apps I wanted to run required at least 2; not so many of them required 3 or 4. But that company really doesn't care, and would like you to simply buy a new device from them, even though the old one works. Well, for certain definitions of working, anyway, that would probably apply equally well to their newer offerings as well. Which I think are still on 2, anyway.)
Hi, Archos! Guess who isn't buying anything from you ever again?
Mod this guy up. I recently got my random hosted files off my alma mater's web server I'd been mooching off for the past couple years, and set up my own apache server running locally on an old laptop in my closet (I got the laptop for free, but you could probably find one for basically free off Craigslist or your local used computer shop). Wasn't terribly difficult, and now I can do whatever I want to it. I wouldn't consider it if there were any chance of, say, getting slashdotted, but for files that will mostly only be seen by myself and people I specifically point to a particular file, it's pretty nice to have.
(I'd say in my case more like 99.99%, by weight. Maybe only 99% by count. I'm just glad my complex has paper recycling, or there were would a buttload of paper going straight from my mailbox into the trash. Daily.)
I disagree about Dexter: I thought seasons 2-3 were kind of weak (comparatively - they were still great), and this current season was comparatively excellent (though the first season was still the best). Dexter is quality.
Burn Notice, Castle, and Leverage are also great shows from the US. As was the first season of Game of Thrones, and that shows signs of continuing to be the case. And Hustle and Being Human are great, too, if you include British tv (Doctor Who used to be, until season 5 came and ruined it).
However, while I watch all of those every week they air, I don't watch any of them on tv.
Hey! I work there, I totally wasn't expecting to see someone else mention it. Glad to see people talking about it (either that or you're a shill and actually also work there, in which case, I'm totally -not- posting this from work.:p)
It was certainly my first thought when I saw a thread with this title, whether a mandate like that would increase interest in our software. But you would expect me to think something like that, given that I work there (even if I am several layers removed from people actually purchasing the software, and quite happy about that.)
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If something takes obvious inspiration from a previous, similar thing, but then does it better in every way, I wouldn't really call it a "ripoff".
Granted, I've never seen C# v1, so I can't really comment on that, but some of our projects here are stuck on C# v2, and while I do miss some of the nifty features of v3.5 and v4, I'd still much rather be writing code in C# v2 than in Java. Microsoft may have made some pretty terrible products in their time, but C# is actually one of the prettiest languages I've worked in. While Java is... not.
I... totally thought that sentence was going to end with...
"for me to poop on...!"
But yours works too I guess. (For certain definitions of "works".)
I wouldn't say one of the best episodes ever. It was definitely the best episode in the past couple seasons, but only because the vast majority of episodes the past couple seasons have been utter garbage, so that episode was a breath of fresh air in actually having some fun dialog, and a plot that vaguely made sense.
I miss the first 3ish seasons, where I could count on good writing every episode...
I prefer the simpler and more elegant "[Citation Needed]".
There's your meme. :p
Because google gives you relevant search results, and bing doesn't. Therefore, yahoo also doesn't, nor does duckduckgo, because they use bing. I tried duckduckgo a few months back - I liked their philosophy and their UI, but their actual results were usually crap. While google -is- looking less and less not-evil over time, the fact is, there really isn't any other alternative to google searching at this time (I notice that your supposed alternative still uses google results, just through a proxy.)
To be honest, I don't even really care if google knows what I'm searching for most of the time. On the rare occasion that I do care, I just log out. And the rest of the time, I find it often actually does give me more useful results by their supposed privacy-invasion (example: prioritizing results from sites about games I play). It bothers me to no end when scuzzy sites try to obtain information about me without my consent and without giving back anything in return, but google -has- my consent, and I -do- get personal benefit from the exchange.
I do agree the whole social media push is dumb, though. But I just turned that "feature" off.
Or just use neologisms or other things that are words to your brain, but not words according to a dictionary. I doubt dictionary attackers are going to use Urban Dictionary or etc. in their brute-forcing.
Screw the tshirt, I'd like to be a walking wifi hotspot at no cost to myself. (I'd happily wear the tshirt to get the rest of it, though.)
I tried it for a little while, a few months back. I loved their shiny yet clean interface, I loved their philosophies... but after using it for a little while, I realized that at least 75% of all the things I searched for, I gave up and prepended !google to the front of it to get any useful results. So I gave up and just went back to google.
Have they really gotten that much better in the past few months? I doubt it...
Made to look like a captcha, with the text, "What is 2+3?" Spammers read the captcha and submit that back. Normal people type 5. "What site is this?" is another good one. Heck, you don't even need to make it look like a captcha; it's just funnier that way. One site I mod used to get dozens of spam threads a day, until a couple years ago they added a box to the end of their registration with one of a handful of questions like "what do seal clubbers club" (answer: seals), or "what is the first letter of the alphabet". It now gets a few a month, most of which look entirely nonautomated. When bots have evolved to read natural language and spit out correct answers to arbitrary (though easy) questions, well, as xkcd once said, mission accomplished. (Though his mission was a different, albeit related, mission.)
More like how many will just go use yousendit or mediafire or rapidshare or filesonic or...
Actually, the real question is, how many people (especially those people routinely uploading copyrighted content) -already- use all of those other sites. And the answer is probably "most of them". [insert statement about hydra heads.]
Except you can't. Different products being interchangeable would be exactly what we'd like. I have an mp3 player, which was advertised as having Android! Cool, I thought, if I ever want to run any apps, now I could. And at first, that was true. Now, however, that mp3 player is still stuck with Android 1.6, and it's a royal pain finding apps that I can still use (I only recently found a decent media-playing app it will run, cause the native UI for the player is also terrible. My impression is that app started life specifically because its creator had the same mp3 player, and was just as frustrated with the situation as the rest of us.)
Nothing major is wrong with XP. Several things are wrong with Win7. I do have Win7 at home, cause I got a new laptop a year ago and didn't have much choice (and even if I felt like replacing the OS with a copy of XP from elsewhere, I'd have to fight with all the hardware, which I'm sure wasn't tested on XP since it's not supposed to be supported any more).
But after getting Win7, I had to find replacements or other hacks for dang near every piece of the visible UI, before I could call it useable. Some of them were just designed to look and feel like XP, or, more accurately, like Win2k; some of them were actually better than XP/Win2k, it's not like I would claim either of those OSes were perfect. They were just entirely useable, which is more than I can say about the mess of a UI that Win7 provides.
So I'm keeping my XP at work until IT pries it out from under me, because I don't feel like dealing with the same issues again. (Plus, it's nice to have developers working on different OSes. After all, we sell to precisely the sort of people who are going to want our software to continue to work on XP and on Win2k and Win2k3 for all eternity.)
Yep, every time we get a news post about fracking, I know I'll find some good comments from BSG fans, but, indeed... this post in particular had a pretty excellent headline for completely misinterpreting it. To the extent that it actually took me a sec to parse it the correct way, and I -do- know what it actually means to people who study engineering and aren't fans of scifi tv.
That said, it was originally spelled "frack", I believe; the new series decided to spell it "frak", but I like the originally spelling more, so I keep spelling it that way. :p
How I read it: earthquakes may be cause by an Ohio oil well that needed to be further the frack away from... something?
Well, that or the high prices. There are certainly a handful of movies I'd be happy to see; while I won't argue that there's a lot of junk, I feel like there's always been a lot of junk, we just only remember the good movies of other eras and forget all the crap ones. But I'm not going to pay 11 bucks to get to a theater and have to watch awful loud advertisements until the previews start... and then have half the "previews" actually turn out to be advertisements as well. If theaters want to do that, they should let us in for free. Otherwise, they should go back to the system of only displaying still, silent ads before the show starts (I didn't mind those), and leaving the preview time for actual movie previews (I didn't mind those either). Then I might actually start going to movies again.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of The Doctor. Though my first thought was, "impermanently". Though, granted, I believe he technically only has one more regeneration before they have to either recancel the show or (more likely) deus ex machina some way to give him more. ;)
Bitcoins, duh. (Seriously, I played with bitcoins for a few days when I heard about them the first time, then got bored of them. But I imagine an order like that would be a major win for bitcoins or some other such similar system.)
Holy carp, really? It's actually happening this time? There's been a movie coming out "in a couple years" for like a decade (seriously, I remember being excited to hear that a movie was in the works, when I was in high school). But hey, wikipedia says it's actually been cast this time, so it must be for real. (Ender's Game may actually have been my intro to sci-fi. It has a special place in my brain; I've been looking forward to the movie for a long time, so it had better not suck.)
Also, major +1 to Sanderson. By no means my intro to fantasy (I just learned of him a few months back), but that trilogy is certainly up near the top of the list of good fantasy literature. You can visit his site and read in-depth commentary he wrote on all his books, too, which is kind of interesting.
Everything I've posted to facebook about work, and everything I've posted to facebook about my personal life, has been posted to the same profile.
Yes, all 0 posts.
I'd be happy if my 1.6 mp3 player had 2.0 (last I looked, all the apps I wanted to run required at least 2; not so many of them required 3 or 4. But that company really doesn't care, and would like you to simply buy a new device from them, even though the old one works. Well, for certain definitions of working, anyway, that would probably apply equally well to their newer offerings as well. Which I think are still on 2, anyway.)
Hi, Archos! Guess who isn't buying anything from you ever again?
Slashdot needs a "+1 (Depressingly accurate)". I suppose there's "insightful", but that doesn't convey quite the same emotion.
Mod this guy up. I recently got my random hosted files off my alma mater's web server I'd been mooching off for the past couple years, and set up my own apache server running locally on an old laptop in my closet (I got the laptop for free, but you could probably find one for basically free off Craigslist or your local used computer shop). Wasn't terribly difficult, and now I can do whatever I want to it. I wouldn't consider it if there were any chance of, say, getting slashdotted, but for files that will mostly only be seen by myself and people I specifically point to a particular file, it's pretty nice to have.
Mark this up, a lot.
(I'd say in my case more like 99.99%, by weight. Maybe only 99% by count. I'm just glad my complex has paper recycling, or there were would a buttload of paper going straight from my mailbox into the trash. Daily.)
I disagree about Dexter: I thought seasons 2-3 were kind of weak (comparatively - they were still great), and this current season was comparatively excellent (though the first season was still the best). Dexter is quality.
Burn Notice, Castle, and Leverage are also great shows from the US. As was the first season of Game of Thrones, and that shows signs of continuing to be the case. And Hustle and Being Human are great, too, if you include British tv (Doctor Who used to be, until season 5 came and ruined it).
However, while I watch all of those every week they air, I don't watch any of them on tv.
Hey! I work there, I totally wasn't expecting to see someone else mention it. Glad to see people talking about it (either that or you're a shill and actually also work there, in which case, I'm totally -not- posting this from work. :p)
It was certainly my first thought when I saw a thread with this title, whether a mandate like that would increase interest in our software. But you would expect me to think something like that, given that I work there (even if I am several layers removed from people actually purchasing the software, and quite happy about that.)