Wired Releases Annual Vaporware List

alacqua writes: "Wired has an article titled Vaporware 2001: Empty Promises which is a top-ten list of last year's vaporware. 'You've Got Smell!' made it, but the Justice Department did not. Says Wired, 'Speaking of Microsoft, some smart-aleck readers opined that the most vaporous thing in tech last year was the Justice Department's failure to deliver on its promise to punish Bill Gates for his company's monopolistic misdeeds -- but we thought that a bit of a stretch.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone remember that one?

you know...

[Rev.LoveJoy]

Duke Nukem Forever should really be renamed Dikatana2.

Cheers,
RLJ

Re:FPS are, by definition, cookie-cutter

[magicslax]

But 3D Realms CEO Scott Miller wasn't very upset to hear about his product getting the Vaporware top spot. "It's a very ambitious game," he said. "It's not cookie-cutter shooter like most are nowadays If it's another FPS, how can it NOT be cookie-cutter ?

it probably contains an abnormally large amount of vulgarity, nudity, and monsters. perhaps even vulgar nude monsters.

Who came up with the name iSmell anyway?

[bihoy]

I always laugh when I see that name.
I keep thinking of a jingle a colleague
of mine proposed "Pull my finger for iSmell".
Gotta luv it!

Re:Don't forget - Windows XP Security

[Anonymous Coward]

Vaporware implies that there was intent to make it.

That's quite a rant

[Rev.LoveJoy]

... corrupted by the Chomskyist rantings of certain anticapitalist agitators.

I swear I will do my damndest to incoporate this line into everyday conversation tomorrow. I just want to see the jaws drop.

Thanks for the laugh, troll,
-- RLJ

stinky...

[onyxcide]

It's probably a good thing that the iSmell didn't make it last year. I can see a whole new world of disasterous hacking in the works. The ability to make somebody's iSmell give off an iFart whenever you felt like it would probably cost companies billions as all their employees begin bickering and taking constant fresh-air breaks.

Re:stinky...

[Inflatable Hippo]

This is all old hat.

I've been using an HP StinkJet(tm) 630C for years.

They recently issued a plugin for IE94.6 that adds smell to web-sites (if they use whiff-script or Java Whifflets).

The official StinkJet(tm) cartriges are quite expensive, but you can refill the various cartrige resevoirs with tinctures made of household products, old laundry and composting mackerel fillets.

I've noticed I get through a lot of mackerel when viewing www.microsoft.com...

How ironic

[Anonymous Coward]

That Amiga's internet application development is done by a company called VaporWare

Re:Taste Readers?

[jbs666]

I think they call that stuff Easy-Cheese or something.

SimVapor

[RareHeintz]

Hmm... Didn't see SimNeighborhood (or whatever the hell it was that EA & Maxis were going to call the game on the scale in-between SimCity and The Sims) mentioned anywhere. Seems good for at least an honorable mention, no?

Then there was also <insert Microsoft slam here>. And don't forget <insert Sun's latest Java-enabled pipe dream> - I mean, who couldn't see that coming!

OK,
- B

Crumble Ware

[panck]

I hereby coin the term "Crumble Ware" to apply to things like Anarchy Online, that maybe should have been left as Vapor for a little longer. They were sent out into the hands of eager consumers before they were done, and were shoddy and incomplete.

So I'm now nominating the following products into the Crumble Ware top 10:

Mac OS X v 10.0 (10.1.2 is actually quite good)

Xbox (see /. here )

Halo (only on xbox)

AO