Why is Tech often named after something else?

[Monica Dream]

There's also Tiny C, Small C, Objective C, and CO2 (C Object Oriented).

..and a sentimental favorite of mine: Let's C (*glances over at the paper manual I still have, sheds a tear for the long lost floppies*)

A lot of the time things are named for the sake of uniqueness. "project 1"? WHICH "project 1" -you know?

And marketing, of course -for the sake of standing out from the other products. Or to tickle the fancy of one of the owners (e.g. how the Altair got it's name)

 

[Free]

There's also Tiny C, Small C, Objective C, and CO2 (C Object Oriented).

Those who got tired with the C's have moved on to D.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Nobody I know ever called it "Lets C", it was always "The Mark Williams compiler". Turbo C was more like a different language but anyone who used the language extensions was a tosser, since unlike Turbo Pascal portable code mattered. There was also Whitesmith's C where they made it gratuitously different from K&R C to avoid imaginary copyright problems.

There was some debate as to whether the successor to C would be D or P, but it turns out the next languages to come out from Bell Labs would be Alef, Inferno, and Go. Then there's Java, Swift, and Rust to consider.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Then there's Java, Swift, and Rust to consider.

Since we are talking about naming, there is the atrociously named javascript having nothing to do with java.

 

[Soen Eber]

Since we are talking about naming, there is the atrociously named javascript having nothing to do with java.

Yes, but the marketing worked, and embedded Java floundered.

 

[Free]

Java...

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

... Storage and programs on the internet? ...

SAPOTI is actually pretty easy to pronounce but I could see a long term debate if it were "Sah-pot-ee" (LoL "potty"! Deleting can be called flushing) or "Sah-poe-tye" or "Spot-eye" with a silent "A".
Kind of like Kodak. A non-word which could make it ubiquitous.

Though, I think Amazon missed the boat with S3. "Amazon Storage Service" would have hit harder. Imagine, "Just stick the files in your... " =^-^=

Speaking of ill fitting metaphors, why is the save button still a 3" floppy?

 

[Khamon]

A coworker had to install a printer today on a desk that sits in front of a networked copier. The user can literally turn her chair 160 degrees and retrieve something printed to the copier without standing. They do that daily when other office users send things to the copier for them to file (or sometimes ha ha ha scan to their email ha ha ha so they can forward the document to someone else ha ha ha ha ha). So now there's a printer sitting on the desk, directly wired to the computer, for no reason.

This derail is brought to you by my mind thinking about the printer icon looking like an old dot matrix line printer, after reading the post above, then connecting that thought to the most current silly user news from today.

 

[Pancake]

Suggested in my news feed today.

Bing Chat is now “Microsoft Copilot” in potentially confusing rebranding move

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Your browser is currently not supported on copilot.microsoft.com

Support for your browser is coming soon. In the meantime, you can use Microsoft Edge

Oh god they have Edge on Mac now.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Bing Chat is now “Microsoft Copilot” in potentially confusing rebranding move

And I will probably ignore that the same way I ignore Bing.

 

[Free]

There was a product called Bing Chat?

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

Oh god they have Edge on Mac now.

You mean Microsoftiefied Chrome?

 

[Khamon]

Copilot has appeared in the Windows 11 taskbar with a little tryme label across it.

 

[Lori Claremont]

Copilot has appeared in the Windows 11 taskbar with a little tryme label across it.

and cannot be removed from the taskbar <growl>

 

[Essence Lumin]

and cannot be removed from the taskbar <growl>

Hmm. I haven't seen it. It isn't in my taskbar. Winver says 22H2 build 22621.2715.

 

[Free]

and cannot be removed from the taskbar <growl>

How to remove Copilot from Taskbar in Windows 11

Learn how to show or hide Copilot button on Taskbar in Windows 11 using the Settings app, Group Policy Editor, and Registry Editor options.

www.thewindowsclub.com

?

 

[Lori Claremont]

How to remove Copilot from Taskbar in Windows 11

Learn how to show or hide Copilot button on Taskbar in Windows 11 using the Settings app, Group Policy Editor, and Registry Editor options.

www.thewindowsclub.com

?

Thank you!!! It's blissfully gone now!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Do people using the internet in the UK have to click on biscuit notices?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Cookies are a thing in the UK as well.