No contradiction here. I’m a bit biased though, as the guy who wrote all the early versions of it, Jon Ort, is a friend of mine. He was actually headhunted by Adobe to work on Photoshop at one point, but they made the mistake of letting him look at the code. He said it was the nastiest looking pile of spaghetti code he ever saw.
I’m a heretic. Give me Log Cabin, Aunt Jemima or Mrs. Butterworth any day of the week.
CostCo’s “Kirkland” brand is often better quality than the name brand products they carry. Their paper towels are great.
Who ever wrote xnView should get a medal. It’s so much faster than MS’s picture viewer.
Ikea’s yellow batteries last at least as long as the big name brands. When we were still using incandescent bulbs, I’d say the same thing about their lightbulbs. I haven’t been quite as happy with their CFLs.
Oh yeah, and their paper napkins rock. Cheaper than the ones in the supermarket but about a hundred times as sturdy.
Winn-Dixie’s store brand (Crackin’ Good?) of chocolate toaster pastries (the only kind I like) are far superior to Pop-Tarts.
The example that occurs to me may seem silly.
Our 7-Elevens have three grades of playing cards; two expensive plastic brands and a cheaper paper brand (though it’s nice coated paper). I’ve tried all three grades.
The paint fades so quickly on the plastic cards that they can be identified from their backs before long. After some dozens of playing hours, the paint on the fronts is so faded I have to squint to see what card it is! The paper cards work fine.
(Admittedly, I might need to switch to the plastic cards if I played with slobs who crunch up the cards.)
Linux. I’ve used Windows and Mac OS X for extended periods and they go from actively interrupting my work-flow to, at best, being profoundly unhelpful and forcing me to do more by hand. Comparing Linux to proprietary Unix variants is even more hilariously unbalanced in Linux’s favor; only the open source BSDs can manage a draw or, at best, a limited victory on the basis of specific features.
Emacs and vi. This is just barely even close to being fair, given that the commercial world has largely replaced text editors with notably inferior products known as ‘word processors’ and ‘IDEs’. The closest comparisons are nowhere near as capable.
LaTeX doesn’t seem to have any commercial competition. TeX owns the field of professional-grade automatic typesetting, and LaTeX makes TeX convenient on a day-to-day basis.
Firefox. Chrome. Konqueror. Opera. Personally, I pick Firefox, mainly for the extensions.
I feel the same way about Aunt Jemima (etc.), but that’s just because I don’t care for maple flavour; I don’t buy syrup with fake maple flavour, either.
When I needed new tires for my SUV, someone suggested a store that sold ‘off brand’ new tires, of which I was highly suspicious. The store, however, made a pretty reasonable pitch, which is “Michelin, BF Goodrich, Yokahama, etc. all advertise, and their prices reflect that. All tires sold in the U.S. are required to pass safety inspections, so short of specialty racing tires, and other soft rubber/unidirectional models, they really are all the same”. Fast forward several years and my ‘Nexan’ brand tires, look exactly the same as every other tire out there, except they were 1/3 cheaper than every other brand and have actually lasted longer than other brands I have purchased in the past. Perhaps there would be some difference if I lived in an area with crappy weather and huge temperature fluctuations, but here in Southern California, we don’t get any of that. Ergo, I will only ever buy this tire brand from now on.
I’d agree that many generic cables are just as good as the Monster $100 cables performance wise.
But I don’t think that they are “better” in any way.
Given the choice of a generic cable for $10 or a Monster cable for $10 I’d take the Monster just for the aesthetic and build quality.
Whooosh!!!
I’ve never wiped a diaper…wiped lots of ass, but never a diaper.
The cheapest place I’ve ever found for tires was Costco (when they have their every few month sale, I think it’s buy 3 get 4th free or something). I got the same price quoted as my dad’s buddy who owns a tire shop. Plus at Costco you get free rotations for the life of the tire. You really can’t beat that.
I second the Costco wipes (whatever your reason for using them). Also, once you get out of the newborn-type diapers, Kirkland diapers are far better than their brand counterparts.
And this is going to make me sound uncouth and sick, but their sushi is awesome. Sometimes I’ll pick up a tray and my husband and I will make two meals of it.
Right, exactly.
Have I just executed the coveted “Double Whoosh”? I’m going to have to wait to see my score from the Ukrainian judge.
Costco sushi, hmm…hey, if it’s good enough for overly, I’m going to pick some up on Friday.
I’m a big bourbon fan, so I’m not endorsing this as a bourbon to drink, really. BUT, if you want a nice one for mixing, skip the Jack Daniel’s and get Evan Williams. It’s something like a third of the price and tastes much better. In blind taste tests among my friends and relatives, all of them have picked Evan Williams as the tastier option.
I there any difference on the intensity and duration of the hangover?
As for maple syrup, everyone I know prefers the fake commercial versions. The real stuff is too watery.
Kraft Dinner is vastly superior in every way to every other Mac n’ Cheese option out there.
I’ve never had that brand, but I’d hope it would be a better bourbon as Jack Daniel’s is not bourbon, but Tennessee whiskey.
ETA: I am not a Rye connoisseur, but for mixing I’ve heard many dopers recommend Old Overholt. It’s like $10 a bottle.