"Advertising"
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People on CP need to quit flipping out every time they see an article that advertises a third-party product as part of its discussion. It's not ethics or morals or anything, it's just excessive political correctness. Seriously, if the product is of interest to us, and the article actually discusses code relevant to the product, no one should be complaining. I don't see anyone complaining when an article discusses a new Microsoft product. Why should it be any different for ISV products?
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People on CP need to quit flipping out every time they see an article that advertises a third-party product as part of its discussion. It's not ethics or morals or anything, it's just excessive political correctness. Seriously, if the product is of interest to us, and the article actually discusses code relevant to the product, no one should be complaining. I don't see anyone complaining when an article discusses a new Microsoft product. Why should it be any different for ISV products?
I think it depends. If I wanted to talk about how much I love Araxis Merge, I see no problem with that. If Araxis started to post here advertising their merge product, then I'd feel differently, even though the product is awesome.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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I think it depends. If I wanted to talk about how much I love Araxis Merge, I see no problem with that. If Araxis started to post here advertising their merge product, then I'd feel differently, even though the product is awesome.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
It'd sorta depend on the substance of the article itself, wouldn't it? If Araxis was talking about how the product works and how to use it rather than just how great it is, is that just an advertisement or does it have at least some value as an article? Hence why I say I'm fine with it if it actually discusses code. On the contrary, if it's blatant advertising, I don't care if it came from Araxis or from one of its fans, it's still nothing but advertising. Think Apple zealots[^].
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It'd sorta depend on the substance of the article itself, wouldn't it? If Araxis was talking about how the product works and how to use it rather than just how great it is, is that just an advertisement or does it have at least some value as an article? Hence why I say I'm fine with it if it actually discusses code. On the contrary, if it's blatant advertising, I don't care if it came from Araxis or from one of its fans, it's still nothing but advertising. Think Apple zealots[^].
Quality link. When you think about it for a moment, the weather at the altidute of the plane, is probably going to be different that the weather on the ground. And besides, who ever trusted the weather report anyway?
My current favourite word is: PIE! Good ol' pie, it's been a while.
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Quality link. When you think about it for a moment, the weather at the altidute of the plane, is probably going to be different that the weather on the ground. And besides, who ever trusted the weather report anyway?
My current favourite word is: PIE! Good ol' pie, it's been a while.
Check out the comments on the page too. It's full of pretentious geeks defending the iPod guy's humanity.
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It'd sorta depend on the substance of the article itself, wouldn't it? If Araxis was talking about how the product works and how to use it rather than just how great it is, is that just an advertisement or does it have at least some value as an article? Hence why I say I'm fine with it if it actually discusses code. On the contrary, if it's blatant advertising, I don't care if it came from Araxis or from one of its fans, it's still nothing but advertising. Think Apple zealots[^].
reinux wrote:
Think Apple zealots[^].
HAHA :) Now I am awake!
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