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10 Failed Technology Trends of 2005

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nice-tries dept.

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech's Loyd Case muses on ten trends of 2005 that never panned out. He points the finger at analysts like himself for waxing glowy-eyed at technologies like the BTX form factor and the 64-bit version of Windows XP. On DRM and the Sony rootkit fiasco: 'Hint to the music publishers: It's not going to work. There have been easy workarounds to every system that's been tried, and the more stringent the copy protection, the greater the risk of having angry customers who won't buy CDs. I suggest you start investigating new business models, as the old ones ride off into the sunset.'"

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  1. The list of tech trends that never go out of style by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    One tech trend then will never fail:-

    Vaporware

  2. Re:Sturgeon's Craw by starling · · Score: 4, Funny

    I get so tired of people who quote "Sturgeon's Law" as if it meant something.

    Hear, hear. 90% of Sturgeon's Law is crap.

  3. Oooh, Shiny! by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny
    Notepad is a 64 bit application?

    Sign me up!

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    Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
  4. Re:Why rag on Gmail? by ChrisKnight · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Some people actually work with .EXEs for a living. GMail is worthless to those people.

    Here's a nickel kid, go download yourself a copy of WinZip.

    -Chris

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  5. FINDER IS SUK. by solios · · Score: 4, Funny

    How's this:

    10.3 : Finder kept and displayed Classic MacOS icons. Old photoshop files? 32x32 preview icons, scaled up. Looked like ass but they were there.

    10.4 (WITH SPOTLIGHT!!!1oneoneomfg) : Finder not only ignores Classic MacOS icons for images, it now builds new previes for these images regardless of rather or not they have a classic macos preview icon or not. If the document is a few megs, no problem. If it's more than ten, you get some grind - you get a LOT of grind if it's fifty or more megs, while finder/spotlight shits its pants trying to get an idea of what it's looking at. Not only does this preview-building take for-frigging-ever, Finder DOES NOT CACHE THE RESULT . So every time you roll over that image in column view, grind, grind, grind, GRIND, GRIND...

    The end result is that column view is now vastly less useful in 10.4. Go Apple.

    Yeah, you might care fuckall, but some of us own macs specifically for how the graphics apps handle... and I really do not have the time or patience to reprocess seven years (100+ gigs) of Photoshop documents just to see what I'm fucking LOOKING AT in a modern OS when I had no problems to speak of last year. :P

    It's an issue. We're gaining features and losing functionality. Verily, I am irritated.