XYplorer Beta Club

Remarkable!
Something similar to this is a tactic used in the game of cricket, it's called Sledging.
This is used to diss opponents and break their concentration so that they make more mistakes.
And guess where sledging originated?

So I went and look for a k.e.y maker... If the Key is wrong, you will get the usual BUT If the Key is "correct"! HILLARIOUS!

Server gets an error laughing

This guy has an XY license and he is coming to DO. LOL

I think DOpus have jumped the shark kangaroo* on this one.

Q: What's the difference between Australia and a bucket of milk?
A: Well, if you left a bucket of milk alone for 200 years, you'd expect it to develop a culture.

...and a better sense of humour.

[With apologies to all (other) Aussies.]

DOpus is a good product. But this betrays lack of imagination, not just bad taste. So, if you're a seeking asylum or refuge don't go to Australia, you'll find it very hard to get in and you may die in the attempt. But that doesn't stop one of their software companies from using your plight for marketing purposes. Tacky.

In attempting to create a slamdunk comparison of features which they see as having the edge over XY, they instead come up with a short list of aspects that are mostly irrelevant for most users or, at worst, minor inconveniences.

If your product is so all-round bonzer. You don't need to lure customers away from your competitors with bribes.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark

FeatureCreep wrote:I think DOpus have jumped the shark kangaroo* on this one.

hahaha! weeeeeeeeeeee!!!

FeatureCreep wrote:Q: What's the difference between Australia and a bucket of milk?
A: Well, if you left a bucket of milk alone for 200 years, you'd expect it to develop a culture.

And you think they could make a decent beer.


I tried to get the discount. Didn't work in 3 browsers. Maybe it's my email address? fu@ssh.ole.

FeatureCreep wrote:If your product is so all-round bonzer. You don't need to lure customers away from your competitors with bribes.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark

You nailed it.

And thanks for that idiom (Jumping_the_shark), a keeper in my private dictionary.

No real surprise anymore, but FYI now they stole my downward breadcrumbs:
http://<kangaroo>resource.dopus.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20481#5



PS: Also the "Details with Thumbs" view, and the highlighted Type Ahead Find.

Not to mention TPT

Marco wrote:Not to mention TPT

Sure, but that was taken for DO10. Now they needed ideas for DO11.

Hey, here is another one: The file manager that so desperately wants to be like XYplorer also added Scripting to its new version.



Well, unless they emulate XYplorer completely from scratch they can keep on copying its features. They will never reach XYplorer's level of usability, efficiency and speed. And 2014, when XYplorer finally goes 64-bit, their last pathetic point will evaporate to nothing.

admin wrote:And 2014, when XYplorer finally goes 64-bit

Do I read right?

Marco wrote:

admin wrote:And 2014, when XYplorer finally goes 64-bit

Do I read right?

Maybe Don's been hitting the egg nog early!

Actually Directory Opus had scripting for a long time so I don't know why they're advertising that. Copying so much left them brain dead perhaps?

admin wrote:And 2014, when XYplorer finally goes 64-bit, their last pathetic point will evaporate to nothing.

Impossible! Are you drunk Don?

Is this a part of the newest .NET-talk? I do not plan to switch my WinXP horse any time soon and I do not regard .NET applications as portable. So, I actually do not like the idea, but most probably that way belong to a minority, unfortunately.

The only appealing thing I would see in the .NET idea from a developer's point of view, would be Mono with a multi-platform vision.

I will say that retaining the downward breadcrumbs if they still apply to a new root is a pretty smart idea which I definitely see being useful when navigating similar siblings.

Wish we would have thought of that!