On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:18:51 -0700 "H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:57:41PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:16:26 -0700 > > Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > > The search results seem to be identical whether you search for D > > > or :D, so the colon seems to be ignored. > > > > > > > Yea, google pathologically ignores anything that isn't strictly > > alphanumeric, even when you enclose in quotes. Fucking annoying as > > hell. Especially when you're trying to find something about C++ and > > the damn thing comes back with a bunch of C# results. That's a real > > obnoxious trend in computing: Software doing whatever the hell it > > feels like (usually under the guise of "being helpful") instead of > > doing what it's fucking told. > [...] > > Any time you hear "smart" and "software" in the same sentence, be > prepared for something dumb. > Heh, I actually say pretty much the same thing myself very often. Couldn't agree more. If you were around me in person, you'd frequently hear "I hate when (devices|programs) try to be smart." Smart(.*) is a red flag for "badly designed" or "unreliable". That's actually been an even bigger thing with me lately than ever before since, because of work, I have a call phone for the first time now - two actually, an iPhone and an Android - and I absolutely *HATE* both the damn things (with the iPhone being slightly worse). *Everything* about them is just wrong, backwards, idiotic. They even managed to take something as trivial to get right as volume controls and *completely* fuck it up in every imaginable way. And of course, Android aped Apple's idiotic lead on that, as usual. Damn I miss pay phones: I spent less than $5/year on those. Try finding a cell plan that even remotely compares to that. Or one with buttons that are actually usable. Or any fucking buttons at all, for that matter. Meh, now I'm *really* rambling though... ;)
