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Member since February 15, 2005

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  1. Comment - Betanews contest: Re-doing Bing, or, 'Name That Search Engine'

    (May 29, 2009 - 3:26 PM)

    Mentioning it doesn't mean we aren't familiar with it. Finger is still a valid binary on most *nix boxes, and on all of my *nix servers. I remember using it in college to see how else was logged into our VAX servers.

  2. Comment - Betanews contest: Re-doing Bing, or, 'Name That Search Engine'

    (May 29, 2009 - 2:51 PM)

    Microsoft ditched all the "My" prefixes with Vista and 7.

  3. Comment - Betanews contest: Re-doing Bing, or, 'Name That Search Engine'

    (May 29, 2009 - 2:51 PM)

    If Microsoft is smart, they'd want to either redefine a verb or create a new one. There's no marketing better than having your own word: google it, tivo it, digg it, etc. "Bing it" sounds pretty silly though. While I like "finger," I think it's got too many sexual connotations. So that led me to a few decent candidates, but this is the best way to go, methinks: Microsoft Scoop.

    Then, you could tell someone to "scoop it." One syllable beats Google's two. And it subtlely brings up "scoop" like having a newspaper scoop - being the first one with the exclusive result.

    So for your tag line, no need to get overly complicated, you can use the already ubiquitous: "What's the scoop?"

  4. Comment - Opera Browser Takes to the Skies

    (Nov 1, 2005 - 11:32 AM)

    Moderators, please score this troll down. Opera's strength has always been as a business selling embedding browsers and writing small-footprint, slick, browser bundles.

    I have been using Opera on and off since version 3.6 on BeOS - it's had ads until recently, but now it's ad-free.

  5. Comment - Google Web Accelerator Returns

    (Oct 27, 2005 - 1:08 PM)

    Um... what was the purpose of your initial reply? Just to suggest that using the word "noob" was going to stop people from reading? You slammed me for "etiquette." I say skip the post if you're so bothered. Don't go out of your way to post something negative because one word bothered you. That's problem with the net, everyone has to chime in about everything.

    I added something to this site - an explanation of what the actual problem was, which was missing from this article. People who don't like the manner in which it's said can move on. No "angry little teacher" routine, just an objection to your calling me out.

    I don't really care for it when people expect the content but object to the manner in which its delivered.