More marketing confusion
More marketing confusion
Posted Mar 24, 2004 17:20 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137)Parent article: Wal-Mart and Sun share Linux desktop lust (Register)
Following the links on the Walmart page, I ran across this interesting statement:
"Uses the security features of Java to prevent unsafe codes, such as viruses, from damaging the system environment"
Posted Mar 24, 2004 19:32 UTC (Wed)
by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
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by tjc (guest, #137)
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by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Posted Mar 24, 2004 20:16 UTC (Wed)
by allesfresser (guest, #216)
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I would also like to mention the similar (ab)use of "softwares" as a plural fungible instead of "software" or "software packages" as a collective class. Both of these misusages are becoming increasingly common... sigh...
Posted Mar 24, 2004 23:01 UTC (Wed)
by isavant (guest, #20225)
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by joebrandt (guest, #20435)
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Posted Mar 25, 2004 8:07 UTC (Thu)
by Eudyptes (guest, #15589)
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Just a short linguistic rant: More marketing confusion
Who the hell decided that "code" should be make plural? It isn't, it just
makes you sound stupid when you do it!
The quote is quite a hoot, though.
I've worked with programmers from India and Pakistan that use "codes" as the plural form of "code", so this might be an english as a second language thing.
More marketing confusion
It's also a war3z d00d thing, though. It makes the users sound, well, ignorant.
More marketing confusion
Aside from the secondary-language issue mentioned above, it does make it look like the writer assumes that "code(s)" is/are some secret magic incantations stolen from the privileged few, rather than simply the instructions for how to do something. (And this would certainly fit with the aforementioned cargo-cultish war3z d00d mentality.)More marketing confusion
This usage of "codes" as plural for "program" is quite common with HPC and FORTRAN programmers. More than one code (machine instruction) can correctly be referred to as "codes", just as more than one program can be referred to as "programs".Not wrong, just different.
I wonder if the keyboard has windows keys?
More marketing confusion
ROFL! More marketing confusion
From www.walmart.com
"We're sorry!
The Walmart.com Web site is temporarily closed. Please visit again soon.
In the meantime, if you need any assistance, please email us anytime at
Help@Walmart.com or call our Customer Service during the hours of 6 a.m.
to 1 a.m. CST at 1-800-966-6546.
Thank you."
They're down. Hmmmmm.......! Did Bill give the CEO a call or something?
Or maybe some digruntled blackhat the took exception to Sun rebranding
Linux as a Java OS? I don't know, maybe it was another W2k3 that got
taken down... yet again?
Cheers