Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    In no way whatsoever does [accounting] fit [into SSDS]. But there are no restrictions. Maybe someone wants to update a running total for each account. and a transaction record. Add that simple feature if you want.
     

    Okay, I'll get right on that as soon as you add DVD burning functionality to my toaster. 



  • Custom Desktop Search

    @feel_the_lurve said:

    you could do random accounting.  Since all the features work together you get a lot more features from adding one.
    Randomly selecting the overdue account you would call next would make it more fun. Maybe less stressful. Seems like a pure silly idea. But who cares. Customize the search to have all the bells and whistles you want. It's yours you know.



  • Swamp search testing is fun. Try slow motion mpeg?

    @feel_the_lurve said:

    I tried that but VB6 gave me an error "Compile error: Procedure too large"
    I will check to see if I have ever got that error. It has been years since I have created an exe with VB6 My version is VB5. I'll fiddle with the code a bit and maybe create the same problem here?  



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Randomly selecting the overdue account you would call next would make it more fun. Maybe less stressful. Seems like a pure silly idea. But who cares.
     

    Spectate, could you please take over Accounting at my workplace?  I've been trying to drive my company into bankruptcy for years, but it keeps chugging along.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    In no way whatsoever does it fit. But there are no restrictions. Maybe someone wants to update a running total for each account. and a transaction record. Add that simple feature if you want.
     

    So why add it? Have you ever heard of the term 'feature creep'? When did SSDS start supporting the idea of accounts?

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    I will check to see if I have ever got that error. It has been years since I have created an exe with VB6 My version is VB5. I'll fiddle with the code a bit and maybe create the same problem here?  

    You could try splitting that single routine into smaller more maintainable routines. I would strongly advise you to read up on the concepts of subroutines and functions - they really are better than goto / gosub.



  • Extract Extraordinaire - Spectate Swamp Desktop Search

    @CodeSimian said:

    Spectate, could you please take over Accounting at my workplace?
    It was refreshing working at a Pulp and Paper Mill. Accounting had very little power. Production had final say in everything. When accounting has control of IT. They can demand that some pure silly requests be implemented. Come Hell or High Water. It usually ends up being both. But if you stand your ground and are sneaky enough, things can get done.

     

    Personal accounting can be far simpler than any business requirements. I would only be interested in who owes me what Not when and how many times and what the payment schedule is. If you keep a semi formated list of expenses, they can be extracted and fed into a spreadsheet for totals? This simplified accounting would be very easy to maintain using the 'rrr' search and replace option running as a background job with the prompts being supplied. Bury that confidential info in the middle of huge text files and use your own personal nicknames. If you are interested in more security. 



  • 100 SSDS versions Needed

    @spenk said:

    So why add it? Have you ever heard of the term 'feature creep'? When did SSDS start supporting the idea of accounts?

    I hate feature creep. Ooooh. I'm just saying that some things are quite simple to implement without any complexity. Accounting no - Accounts Maybe. We could end up with 100 different versions of SSDS. Each having a special Feature or two. That would be OK. That would be super.


  •  @SpectateSwamp said:

    Bury that confidential info in the middle of huge text files and use your own personal nicknames.

     

    Hmm... Wouldn't this be security through obscurity

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    We could end up with 100 different versions of SSDS. Each having a special Feature or two. That would be OK. That would be super.
     

     

    As if killing yourself with a dull blade while listening to bad music wasn't good enough... you can now do it in 100 different ways! 



  • Let the Testing Begin - SSDS to the MAX

    @spenk said:

    You could try splitting that single routine into smaller more maintainable routines. I would strongly advise you to read up on the concepts of subroutines and functions - they really are better than goto / gosub.

    The search has some huge arrays that are only used for directory and multi directory merges and such. Their size could be reduced to a Quarter or even less. Anything to get that first executable. Then your are away. Chop out the whole help.txt build stuff. What ever it takes to get that EXE. If all that fails, make a copy of the source.txt you are using available. It might cause problems on my VB5. I could easily test that with little effort on my behalf. No re-write required just yet.

    There is some pure dead wood in the search as well. Not much but it could be completely removed.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

     No re-write required just yet.

     

     

    entirely and utterly incorrect in every particular. 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    The search has some huge arrays that are only used for directory and multi directory merges and such. Their size could be reduced to a Quarter or even less. Anything to get that first executable. Then your are away. Chop out the whole help.txt build stuff. What ever it takes to get that EXE. If all that fails, make a copy of the source.txt you are using available. It might cause problems on my VB5. I could easily test that with little effort on my behalf. No re-write required just yet.

    There is some pure dead wood in the search as well. Not much but it could be completely removed.

     

    The arrays would probably be better as collections, however that isn't the problem here - the fact you have a single routine that is approximately 10,000 lines long is the problem. This problem is compounded by the fact that you rely so heavily on global variables, got and gosub statements combined with poor naming conventions (for both variables and labels). As it stands trying to trim that routine down is only going to cause problems for anyone with less than intimate knowledge of it's inner workings. A re-write is pretty much needed.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    The search has some huge arrays that are only used for directory and multi directory merges and such. Their size could be reduced to a Quarter or even less. Anything to get that first executable. Then your are away. Chop out the whole help.txt build stuff. What ever it takes to get that EXE. If all that fails, make a copy of the source.txt you are using available. It might cause problems on my VB5.

    I am using the source from

    http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/source.txt 

    I got rid of the stuff to make the help file, still no luck :(  I tried doing what spenk said too and made some Sub Routines for CreateCommandFile, CreateHistoryFile, SetUpNoShow, etc and text2_Chg is still too big.  Maybe it only works with VB5??  But I don't know where to find that anymore.



  • @Renan_S2 said:

    Hmm... Wouldn't this be "security" through insanity?
    Fixed that for you.



  • Let the Testing Begin - SSDS to the MIN

    @feel_the_lurve said:

    I got rid of the stuff to make the help file
    Try setting cript1(20000) cript2(20000) and cript3(20000) down to 1000 or smaller. It did run on VB6. You have no fear removing stuff. That's very good. It would be nice to see you get a new exe. Good luck



  • @Lingerance said:

    @Renan_S2 said:

    Hmm... Wouldn't this be "security" through insanity?

    Fixed that for you.

     


    OK, thanks. I thought so, but when I realized it, was too late to edit my message.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    You have no fear removing stuff. That's very good.
     

    Geez, I can remove stuff too, and make a much greater improvement than the other guy in the process:

     cat /dev/null > ~/projects/src/SSDS/source.txt



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @feel_the_lurve said:

    I got rid of the stuff to make the help file
    Try setting cript1(20000) cript2(20000) and cript3(20000) down to 1000 or smaller. It did run on VB6. You have no fear removing stuff. That's very good. It would be nice to see you get a new exe. Good luck

     

    You know, while it is amusing to see the two of you colaborate, wouldn't Sourceforge or something be a better place to do this?  This is the DailyWTF forum, not your personal chat room.

    Why don't you two go meet up at the SwampShack? 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Randomly selecting the overdue account you would call next would make it more fun.
     

    I can just see how Swampy pays his bills...

    1. Enter all payees and payment details into search.txt
    2. Start up SSDS
    3. Randomly select payee (hit P, Q, semi-colon, backslash, hit enter 500 times, pick nose, hit printscreen)
    4. Randomly select payment amount (hit #, numpad 3, scratch ass, sniff finger, hit enter between 23 and 37 times, but NOT 30)
    5. Enter magic numbers into cmd(23), cmd(987), cmd(12434562342322), and cript(1.6108)
    6. Fill out cheques according to search results
    7. Video in cheques while swinging camcorder around wildly and mumbling incoherently
    8. Post video on YouTube and post links to videos in irrelevant forums and inform payees that cheques are online and waiting to be viewed/picked up

    It is very much more fun and less stressful when you start making payments like

    • Bank - $3.27 - for beer last night
    • Fred next door - $890.17 - mortgage payment for February

     

    The possibilities are endless.





  • @WeatherGod said:

    You know, while it is amusing to see the two of you colaborate, wouldn't Sourceforge or something be a better place to do this?
     

    But Swampy refuses to upload the source code to Sourceforge's CVS. Apparently it's too complicated or something. And then there's all those bug reports... Perfect software doesn't have bugs, so those people must be talking about something other than SSDS. And since SSDS's bug report pages have been taken over by these "mistaken" people, development has been suspended until the "spam" stops. 



  • Swamp Search is good enough

    @MarcB said:

    But Swampy refuses to upload the source code to Sourceforge's CVS. Apparently it's too complicated or something. And then there's all those bug reports... Perfect software doesn't have bugs, so those people must be talking about something other than SSDS. And since SSDS's bug report pages have been taken over by these "mistaken" people, development has been suspended until the "spam" stops. 

    I just knew I shouldn't have got involved with that SourceForge.net. It means having to administer this and reply to that. Being pushed to add a new feature. No thank you. It's good enough for me right now.


  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I just knew I shouldn't have got involved with that SourceForge.net. It means having to administer this and reply to that. Being pushed to add a new feature. No thank you. It's good enough for me right now.
     

    Translation: "I'm stupid, lazy, selfish and completely detached from reality.  I want the geek community to help me develop my product and I want the masses to use it, but I don't want to lift a single finger to make either of those dreams a reality.  I can even insult my potential user and developer base, and they'll thank me for it!" 

    No, spamming random forums with your inanity does not count.  You have to give developers a reason to help you and you have to convince the masses to use your product.  You are not doing a good job of either, right now (or ever).



  • Swamp Search is more than good enough

    @CodeSimian said:

    No, spamming random forums with your inanity does not count.  You have to give developers a reason to help you and you have to convince the masses to use your product.  You are not doing a good job of either, right now (or ever).
    I'll be much nicer in the next Template video set. An auto run dvd presenting all the options. There won't be many in the first pass. But it will grow quickly. (My camcorder power unit is getting fixed) Somebody out there has jinxed me. First my Modem....

     @CodeSimian said:

    "I'm stupid, lazy, selfish and completely detached from reality. 
    And besides that I don't want to do it.

     

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    And besides that I don't want to do it [maintain my SourceForge project].
     

    Right, and by the same token, no one else wants to:

    • Watch your nausea-inducing video
    • Listen to your views on politics, desktop search, or video editing
    • "Improve" SSDS
    • Port SSDS to another language/platform
    • Use SSDS
    Somehow, you don't seem to be getting the message.  Why do you think all your other threads get locked?  Hint: it is not because of plants, censorship, or shadowy conspiracies.  It is because nobody is interested in what you have to say.


  • Swamp Search keeps on ticking.

    @CodeSimian said:

    It is because nobody is interested in what you have to say.
    I was hoping to get another song or cartoon or 2, out of this thread. But Everybody is worn down now and their creativity gone. Except for us bots.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I was hoping to get another song or cartoon or 2, out of this thread. But Everybody is worn down now and their creativity gone. Except for us bots.
     

    No need.  Your capacity for unintentional self-parody is boundless.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I just knew I shouldn't have got involved with that SourceForge.net. It means having to administer this and reply to that. Being pushed to add a new feature. No thank you. It's good enough for me right now.

    Let's paraphrase this shall we?...

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    I just knew I shouldn't have got involved with that SourceForge.net.

    @SpectateSwamp (paraphrased) said:
    I think any site which userbase reports my software as imperfect is complete bs.

    ... 

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    It means having to administer this and reply to that.

    @SpectateSwamp (paraphrased) said:
    I am too lazy and don't want to maintain anything because it involves work, even if I started it.

    ...

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    Being pushed to add a new feature. No thank you.

    @SpectateSwamp (paraphrased) said:
    I don't want to do anything more with my project other than force my views about it on people.

    ...

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    It's good enough for me right now.

    @SpectateSwamp (paraphrased) said:
    It's good enough for me therefore it's good enough for everybody.

    So, what can we get out of this statement?..

    @SpectateSwamp (paraphrased) said:

    I think any site which userbase reports my software as imperfect is complete bs. I am too lazy and don't want to maintain anything because it involves work, even if I started it. I don't want to do anything more with my project other than force my views about it on people. It's good enough for me therefore it's good enough for everybody.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I was hoping to get another song or cartoon or 2, out of this thread. But Everybody is worn down now and their creativity gone. Except for us bots.

    You do realise that had you put in the 30 seconds required to grant me project admin status, I would have not only worked on SSDS for you, I would have taken care of setting up the SourceForge stuff, right? Instead, you couldn't quite get your head around it, so instead of getting help, you came back and called us lazy! You have no people skills, dude.

    Admittedly I probably would have cleaned up the code to the point where you couldn't understand it any more. But since you called me lazy for volunteering to help, as I've already stated I've decided not to help you, and will instead continue to sit back and laugh at your attempts.

    Also, the idea of a program this badly written doing any kind of accounting is a bad idea. Seriously, write an accounting program from scratch. Don't integrate it into this.



  • @elgate said:

    Also, the idea of a program this badly written doing any kind of accounting is a bad idea. Seriously, write an accounting program from scratch. Don't integrate it into this.
     

    Nonsense! SSDS can, should and will do everything!

    • SSDS frees you from geeky computer knowledge!
    • SSDS unchains your data from proprietary file formats!
    • SSDS brings easy computing to the Masses!
    • SSDS helps the HomeLess!
    • SSDS exposes political corruption and Plants
    • SSDS balances your checkbook!
    • SSDS is FUN!
    • SSDS will cure cancer!
    • SSDS will bring peace to the Middle East!


  • @CodeSimian said:

    @elgate said:

    Also, the idea of a program this badly written doing any kind of accounting is a bad idea. Seriously, write an accounting program from scratch. Don't integrate it into this.
     

    Nonsense! SSDS can, should and will do everything!

    • SSDS frees you from geeky computer knowledge!
    • SSDS unchains your data from proprietary file formats!
    • SSDS brings easy computing to the Masses!
    • SSDS helps the HomeLess!
    • SSDS exposes political corruption and Plants
    • SSDS balances your checkbook!
    • SSDS is FUN!
    • SSDS will cure cancer!
    • SSDS will bring peace to the Middle East!

    Maybe SSDS is designed to help the homeless because when you use it for your accounting, it makes you homeless?



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Try setting cript1(20000) cript2(20000) and cript3(20000) down to 1000 or smaller. It did run on VB6. You have no fear removing stuff. That's very good. It would be nice to see you get a new exe. Good luck
     

    I doubt the size of the arrays will make a difference, it's the size of the routine itself is the problem i.e. too many lines of code.

     @SpectateSwamp said:

    I just knew I shouldn't have got involved with that SourceForge.net. It means having to administer this and reply to that. Being pushed to add a new feature. No thank you. It's good enough for me right now. 

    So you want to claim to be open source but are too lazy to even post the source in a way that allows other developers to contribute and also too lazy to read submitteed bug reports etc.  The fact it is good enough for you sums up this application - it is written by you, for you and nobody else.

    If you want to even come close to being taken seriously you need to at least look like you give a toss about things. simply ignoring criticism doesn't work. Why even set up the sourceforge project if you are not going to post your code there or allow any other developers to join? I bet you haven't even looked at the submitted bugs or feature requests either.



  • Re: Let the Testes Begin - SSDS to the MIN

    How many songs and cartoons have there been so far? I have the Swamp Rap but I'm too lazy to look through this whole thread for other such things. Could somebody post a resume of the songs, cartoons, (but especially songs, because I collect silly songs) and other entertainment generated by this thread, created by people/bots other than SpectateSwamp himself? I fear it would take too long to find them if I just looked at videos of random posts.



  • @feel_the_lurve said:

    I decided to check out this program because sometimes I have trouble searching throught the file I keep all my emails in with the windows search (it does not even show the matching lines!!) 

    I like it pretty good, however sometimes it would be nice to run multiple searches (I think this was in the feature list) so I can look at some pictures in search while I listen to some mp3s in search.  But whenever I try to open another Spectate Swamp Desktop Search I get a searchWarning! that it is "Already running!" Maybe you can add another command that makes it play mp3s while you look at pics?

    Anyway I like it so far, even though I haven't figured out all the bells and whistles.  I like that though, you should add even more features like random text from a file (!!!) or play mp3s in slow motion!

    Well done - a satisfied customer. That's one in - ooooooh - 9 or so years. I'm happy for you.

    Now all you need is for some fly-by-night operation to buy you out, rebadge your product, and market it as an "Enterprise Search Portal" - result!



  • The importance of Desktop Search to the ClueLess

    How can you explain to the clueless that having Tens of thousands (oodles) of files in various formats is easier that 8 or 10 Large text ones. Same with folders. Maybe 8 or 10 of them and that is it. All they have to do, is worry about and backup that info and they are well on their way to safe simple computing. There is just so much the Masses don't need to know. Especially computer wise. Then They are ready to get that new camcorder and step into the Digital Video age, knowing next to nothing and being Proud of it.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    How can you explain to the clueless that having Tens of thousands (oodles) of files in various formats is easier that 8 or 10 Large text ones.
     

    Would you rather store all your liquor in different bottles, or mix them all together in a bucket?

     

    Also, what do you mean by "The Masses"? Do you JUST mean "other people"? Because I read this:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    The Masses were getting tired of seeing the same old lady at the beginning of the Family photos.

    From that, I can only infer that The Masses are a) your friends and family or b) you. If that's the case, why the hell are you pimping your shit on the internet?



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    How can you explain to the clueless that having Tens of thousands (oodles) of files in various formats is easier that 8 or 10 Large text ones. Same with folders. Maybe 8 or 10 of them and that is it. All they have to do, is worry about and backup that info and they are well on their way to safe simple computing. There is just so much the Masses don't need to know. Especially computer wise. Then They are ready to get that new camcorder and step into the Digital Video age, knowing next to nothing and being Proud of it.

     

    You are just trolling now....

    People have numerous files for many valid reasons. e.g.

    1. Source code is split to make maintenance easier.
    2. Letters sent to different people are stored as separate documents.
    3. Presentations are each given their own set of slides.
    4. Notes are kept on a project by project basis.
    5. Chapters of a book can be given their own file.
    6. Different spreadsheets are kept for different costings / expense reports / whatever.

    they are just for starters. There are numerous reasons for having multiple folders

    1. Keep files related to a certain project together
    2. Keep files related to a certain customer together
    3. Group photographs taken at a particular place / on a particular time together.
    4. Keep files together because it makes sense to do so without lumping them into one big text file.
    None of this has any impact on backing up though as you would just set your backup program (whatever one you use) to back up the one or two top level folders that contain all these other folders. Simple. More importantly if the files are separate changes can be made to individual files or individual files can be deleted or restored in isolation - no need to edit one or two larger files.

    However this has sod all to do with searching and even less to do with digital video and camcorders. We all realise you know next to nothing - you didn't need to explain that, we are not that surprised either that you feel ignorance is anything other than a character flaw.


  • @spenk said:

    You are just trolling now....

     

    "Now?"



  • @NSCoder said:

    How many songs and cartoons have there been so far? I have the Swamp Rap but I'm too lazy to look through this whole thread for other such things. Could somebody post a resume of the songs, cartoons, (but especially songs, because I collect silly songs) and other entertainment generated by this thread, created by people/bots other than SpectateSwamp himself? I fear it would take too long to find them if I just looked at videos of random posts.

    Well, aside of the Swamp Rap there's also my Desktop Search Rain music video (see the signature). Now in 48khz 192kbps stereo Ogg, but note that this isn't the final mix - I'll make a better version. Eventually. Yeah. =)

    I'd like to see other pointers to famous works of fan art (um) produced by readers, too. I think I missed the desktop backgrounds etc.

    As a Wikipedia admin I'm very much loathe to even suggest this, but... where's our epic encyclopediadramatica.com article? I mean, while I on principle disapprove of many things said on the site, I think this thread has far more potential for humour than some random boring 2-penny deviantART feuds. =)



  • @rc_pinchey said:

    From that, I can only infer that The Masses are a) your friends and family or b) you. If that's the case, why the hell are you pimping your shit on the internet?
     

    I think Swamp is the ultimate sociopathic solipsist.  He seems to be genuinely unable to infer the existence of others who are unlike him and do not share his views on, well, everything.

    Look at this gem of a conversation:

    http://www.topshareware.com/Spectate-Swamp-Search-download-42932.htm

    Brilliant media player
    This can do it all - video, music and image playback! I just wish it had some sort of search functionality built in. Maybe next version?
    -- Posted by Jon on Tuesday, February 06, 2007

     

     

    Hi Jon to search my inmail.txt file (I have them all back to 1996) at prompt #1 enter "inmail.txt" at prompt #2 enter "C" for full context display or "S" for matching lines display at prompt #3 enter "from:/SpectateSwamp" The "/" is the field seperator and can be changed in the control.txt file up to 6 elements can be listed here. and you are off searching you can display a previous match by entering "p" enter "b" to back up one screen and display again enter "a" to continue complete display from the latest match.

    This is probably the best place to replay to search questions for now.

    -- Posted by Spectate Swamp on Wednesday, February 07, 2007

     

    This little exchange makes no sense until you realize that Spectate cannot see anything from anyone else's point of view.  Anyone who disagrees with him is a "plant" or deluded.

    @rc_pinchey said:

    Would you rather store all your liquor wine in different bottles boxes, or mix them all together in a bucket?

     

    Fixed that for you.

    @stolen_username said:

    @spenk said:

    You are just trolling now....

     "Now?"

     

     

     He is not a troll in the classic sense, since he really seems to believe everything he spews about SSDS, video editing, politics, etc..  Yes, he is deliberately annoying, but no, he is not adopting false opinions just to provoke a reaction.  If you watch some of his non-SSDS related video 're-shoots" of his laptop screen, for example, you can see him using SSDS to find and play videos on his laptop.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I just knew I shouldn't have got involved with that SourceForge.net. It means having to administer this and reply to that.
     

     

    So, if you can't manage a software project, keep it to yourself and do not put it on SourceForge.    

     



  • @CodeSimian said:

     He is not a troll in the classic sense, since he really seems to believe everything he spews about SSDS, video editing, politics, etc..  Yes, he is deliberately annoying, but no, he is not adopting false opinions just to provoke a reaction.  If you watch some of his non-SSDS related video 're-shoots" of his laptop screen, for example, you can see him using SSDS to find and play videos on his laptop.

    Okay.  I haven't ventured into looking at many of his non-SSDS videos myself (except one where he's looking for dinosaur skin and his buddy decides to start hiding rocks).  To be honest, I've been making the unconscious assumption that SSDS is so unusable, not even SpectateSwamp would be able to stand using it most of the time.



  • @stolen_username said:

    I've been making the unconscious assumption that SSDS is so unusable, not even SpectateSwamp would be able to stand using it most of the time.


    No - that's partly the point. It's a classic case of Hello World gone horribly wrong, slowly absorbing all the particular author's needs into one huge source file. It's Emacs written by somebody with half the IQ of RMS :)



  • @Benn said:

    It's Emacs written by somebody with half the IQ of RMS
     

    But 0.5 of an RMS is still roughly equivalent to a normal person, which we know excludes Swampy.



  • Something I find disturbing is that SpecateSwamp is a 'Top 25' contibutor to TheDailyWTF forums (hover over the boxes below your avatar) , AND has only posted in this one thread!  That is quite a WTF in itself!



  • @DrPhil said:

    Something I find disturbing is that SpecateSwamp is a 'Top 25' contibutor to TheDailyWTF forums (hover over the boxes below your avatar) , AND has only posted in this one thread!  That is quite a WTF in itself!

    I saw him replying in "Those unstable databases" once.



  • @stolen_username said:

    Okay.  I haven't ventured into looking at many of his non-SSDS videos myself (except one where he's looking for dinosaur skin and his buddy decides to start hiding rocks).  To be honest, I've been making the unconscious assumption that SSDS is so unusable, not even SpectateSwamp would be able to stand using it most of the time.
     

    It is a tool that suits SS perfectly (and I am saying this without sarcasm) because he has written it to suit his approach to computers. Every feature and function has been implemented because he desired it, the peculiar syntax should make sense to him due to the fact he choose the terminology etc.

    The main issue people have is not with SSDS itself but mainly Spectate's attitude in pushing it on all and sundry and his refusal (inability?) to understand why people would not use it. His insistance on refering it to a desktop search when it isn't only strengthens the resistance people have.



  • @Benn said:

    @stolen_username said:
    I've been making the unconscious assumption that SSDS is so unusable, not even SpectateSwamp would be able to stand using it most of the time.
    No - that's partly the point. It's a classic case of Hello World gone horribly wrong, slowly absorbing all the particular author's needs into one huge source file. It's Emacs written by somebody with half the IQ of RMS :)
     

    I've been reading this thread from the beginning and I've come to the same conclusion.  I just can't force myself to envision someone willingly using such a ridiculous abomination in their everyday lives.  I know SpectateSwamp does, but I half-forget that every once in a while.



  • @WWWWolf said:

    Well, aside of the Swamp Rap there's also my Desktop Search Rain music video (see the signature). Now in 48khz 192kbps stereo Ogg


    Cool. :) Hey, you didn't mispronounce metadata, as far as I can tell (I've only watched the video so far and the sound is youtube-quality so it's hard to hear.) In fact, 'data' is quite difficult to mispronounce, since there are at least three different ways of pronouncing the first vowel depending on the region. Since I moved a couple of years ago, I've been switching pronunciations of 'data' mid-sentence because I can't decide whether to go with what I'm used to or what the people around me say.



  • @spenk said:

    Have you ever heard of the term 'feature creep'? When did SSDS start supporting the idea of accounts?

     

    Am I the only person here who wouldn't be surprised if SSDS started life as something other than desktop search?



  • @ComputerForumUser said:

    @spenk said:

    Have you ever heard of the term 'feature creep'? When did SSDS start supporting the idea of accounts?

     

    Am I the only person here who wouldn't be surprised if SSDS started life as something other than desktop search?

     

     

    i think maybe some kind of bastard media player, so terrible he describes it as something else. 


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