zehydra said:
somonels said:
C++ - C#
Java - J#
iPod - Zune
iPad - Nokia phone
Mac - Windows
I thought C# was supposed to be an alternative to Java? (They are very similar, in terms of coding)
I'd say you're more correct; it's not only similar in terms of syntax, but it also modifies the idea of the JVM by making it closer to C-language efficiency, and (if I remember the details correctly) by modifying the VM to the point where code written in two different # languages will compile the same way (useful if most people are only familiar with Java or, God forbid, Fortran, but you want the compiled code to remain functionally consistent). It may even allow for literal code translation between # languages (for example, turning C# code into its J# equivalent, without the programmer manually rewriting the codebase from scratch); I haven't looked into that in awhile, though.
It does borrow many concepts from C++, but it's significantly more analogous to Java (whereas I think J# is straight-up Java syntax that can be compiled in relatively the same manner).
/geek rant
OT:I actually use Bing rather than Google (lolwut?). I have to look for images a lot, and Bing does a better job of bringing up relevant images that Google, in my experience.
And even though I'm under 30, I still appreciate the push towards natural language search over pure keyword search. And no, it's not because I'm computer illiterate; it's because I happen to think in languages rather than in keywords, and I find it faster to type out those thoughts than to think of something to search, and then try and figure out what keywords are going to bring up relevant information. Being able to type out a question rather than typing the subject of the question and scanning the results for answers, for example, has proved very helpful. Google will take the words out of the sentence and look results up, yes, but there isn't always (if ever) as much of a contextual examination as would be the case with a NLP search.
That and I'm not as worried about privacy issues with M$. It's clearly not getting the bulk of its revenue from ads, with all that money it's losing on Bing, so I doubt it has a real need to hoard information the way Google does. And Balmer has never claimed that anonymity on the web should end, mentioned off-handedly that the information scanned from Hotmail emails (if they even get scanned) could be used to track people in the event that a government is interested in a particular person. And M$ has never collected hundreds of gigabytes of people's personal data while driving around in vans for Bing Maps.
