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Is plan9 a good name for an operating system? It's named after (arguably) the worst movie ever. It's even bad as a trash movie. Is the code quality of plan9 bad?


And Linux is named after a rude developer..or Washing-soap..who knows. An Oracle is the opposite you want of a Database, but Intel made a really good promise for others (Meltdown's). Google the searchengine is written wrong -> Goggles and and and ;)


> Google the searchengine is written wrong -> Goggles

A ha! One of today's Lucky 10000... https://xkcd.com/1053/


Wait do you really think Google is referencing Goggles and not Googolplex?


Google Glass should have been made as Goggles, design-wise it would have been a smashing success if they dared to do it.

edit: they had that mobile app called that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Goggles


Yeah they try to rewrite history i think, but if you look at the old logo the G looks like Goggles, it's also more logic to call your search-engine goggle, and not a number, but anything is better then BackRub.


Googol 10^100 not Googolplex 10^(10^100).

Googol or goggles, it's still just a typo someone decided to keep in mind for a name.


Are you comparing an operating system with a window manager ?

We name products with odd name because they are products, you want to be different.

Parts of this product are rarely named differently, a windshield is still called a windshield, not a "wdsd".


>a windshield is still called a windshield, not a "wdsd".

Embraer calls it's Side-Windows in the Cockpit DV's (Direct Vision)

SSD's have no Disk.

My WM is called i3 my File-manger Thunar or MC..Firefox whatever that is, git? Java? Go? C the successor of B..


SSD litteraly mean Solid State Drive.

Embrear does marketing, adding shiny names make it look better, it's like retina, it mean nothing but people think it mean it's a good screen.

IMO i3 is badly named, I did read it multiple time _in context_ and I only found out later that it was a window manager..

git, java, go and c and are pronouncable name and are most of the time in context.

It's funny that you put firefox in the middle, because when an old person I know started to use computers for his first time, I learned him to use Chrome. When I came back several week later, he was using Internet Explorer. Why ? Because it's called Internet Explorer and he forgot about chrome.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

>>sometimes called a solid-state device or a solid-state disk

>and are most of the time in context.

With git your are right

>because when an old person I know started to use computers for his first time, I learned him to use Chrome.

That's why you exchange the Chrome icon with the Internet explorer one, but let's just call everything Browser or WWW-Explorer ok?

> I did read it multiple time _in context_ and I only found out later that it was a window manager..

Then work on your internal memory system and try to use a search-engine, and don't blame others for it...btw i3 is also a Car, not that your even more confused when someone wants you to show you a i3 in a Parking slot.


Meaning != "sometimes called".

Ah the good old "the tool is not wrong, you are".

Don't search any further why Desktop Linux distribution are still less used by common people than Windows or Mac.


>Don't search any further why Desktop Linux distribution are still less used by common people than Windows or Mac.

I choose the tool i like most and that is FreeBSD. And i really give a crap about common users. Who btw use iOS or Android and NOT Windows or Mac, different tools for different jobs.

BTW you know what Metal and DirectX is? And VisualStudio is NOT another Photoshop.


I assumed the D stood for drive.


Hmm, it looks from this article all three are used:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

>sometimes called a solid-state device or a solid-state disk




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