The Best and Worst Technologies of 2003?

Phoe6 asks: "Last year, at Hexadecimals discussion group we shared a news that Worst Technology of 2002 was TIA (Total Information Awareness by DARPA). What is the Worst Technology of 2003? For the Best, Time Magazine seems to have adjudged Steve Jobs' iTunes as the Invention of 2003. What are your ratings?"

Comments

Re:Worst Technology.

[operagost]

Replacing Punch-card "hanging chad" voting by Democrats.

Re:Al Gore invented it

[mabu]

You are a stupid bonehead. Stop propagating that dumbass political propaganda!

Re:It isn't even the best of 2003!

[xenoandroid]

"Internet TV implementation runs easier than I've seen with any other program" That's called bulk. If I want to watch Internet TV I'd download a program specifically designed for it. "Throw in all the customization possibilities as opposed to iTunes limiting look, and the strong community support with plug-ins for nearly anything imaginable" iTunes supports plugins, I don't know what the limits are, as for skins, that's something Apple has always seemed to not try to implement on anything. I'm not bashing Winamp, it's been around for a while, but my last experiences with Winamp 3 (I stopped using it after that) were horrible, not only was I forced to mess around with technical settings to get rid of an annoying hiss in the background but in my opinion the sound quality of Winamp at that time was worse than Windows Media Player. Custom skins and visualizations are nice, but the primary function of the program is more important to me. Maybe things have changed since then but now I use the rendezvous (did I spell that right) features of iTunes to allow me to stream my music from my powerbook to a desktop PC that's connected to full powered speakers (since I'm too lazy to keep unplugging and plugging in stuff). I prefer to conserve hard drive space and not have to worry about syncing libraries. The only other place I have my music is my iPod which dispite what Apple says, you can get your music library back off of without 3rd party utilities (unix terminal works). As far as I can see, even with the features you mentioned, The Winamp developer's only invention was clashing features and improving on problems with their software previously. Just remember Winamp has been in development for a lot longer than iTunes for Windows has, you can't expect Apple to optimize and have every feature Winamp has within the first major version release, that's asking too much.

hahaha funny newsgroup replies

[jared_hanson]

Run a google groups search to get some fun comments from thinkit's days of newgroup trolling. Or, click this link if you're lazy.

Google Group Search on comp.lang.c: thinkit

Man, give it a rest. You've been at this for years now, mabey a good resolution would be to give up. You've been banised to trolldom everywhere you post. I'm off to go drinking, woohoo!