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Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It
Esther Schindler writes "Some products just didn't deserve to die. But they did, because the companies made bad business decisions. Dearly Departed, revisits several favorites — from minicomputers to software utilities — and mourns the best and brightest that died an untimely death. What companies or products would you add? Which of them deserved to go?"
spread across 19 pages DESERVES TO DIE!!!
Since the story was submitted by Esther Schindler, can we call this Schindler's List?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
There is nothing
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as i have learned from reading slashdot, dilbert, and hanging out in the 'linux community', all non-tech staff at a corporation are useless dead weight, hangers on with dragging knuckles and pea sized brains. if only they could be eliminated, society would become a technological utopia. marketing, sales, management, HR, and so forth, are all worthless wastes of time.
and yet, here you come, now telling me that marketing, sales, and management are somehow 'important' and should be payed 'attention to'?
hogwash. we all know that the perfect corporation would make products that we give away for free, have no management, HR, marketing, sales, or customer service staff, and uhm. yeah. we could all live off our wives or in our parents basement.
i for one, will never abandon the True Software view of reality.
if you get paid.
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Amiga
Philadelphia Phillies
Curling in the US
Proper grammar any more
Frosty Paws for dogs
Fried food as a food group
Dvorak as a writer
the Pet Rock
any Stehpen King movie adaption
Babylon 5's 5th season
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
> Since the story was submitted by Esther Schindler, can we call this Schindler's List?
You mean that these companies are all still surviving in a bunker or warehouse somewhere? Send my love to WordPerfect 14, wherever she is!
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Screw this thread. Let's go out and do some crimes. Like - let's order sushi and not pay!
Thank $DIETY that they open-sourced it.
Well, since the $DIETY is involved, hopefully they managed to trim some of the fat from the code.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Ok, you named the first of the items from the top ten of lame top ten lists on Slashdot. So what are the other nine items? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Norton's utilities used to be THE answer to almost anything
Ah the days of manually editing the FAT. The days of writing down a chain of blocks for a file before marking those blocks as bad in order to hide data... Now *that* was cool.
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ad-laden? Bin-laden's brother?
spoonerize "magic trackpad"
By the time Robert Palmer took over, it was not clear to anyone at the time that DEC would ever again be relevant.
But DEC was simply irresistible!
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
Where have you been hiding? We're already there. Mistyped a url lately? Found a result in google that's sold the domain? And what about this guy?
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I thought "Greek Fire" was what happened after you had anal sex with someone who'd been eating jalapeño peppers.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Now wonder they went bust, I mean, he could sing alright, but being a rock star just gives only so little preparation for leading a high-tech company. I am glad that trend got stopped soon enough!
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> ad-laden? Bin-laden's brother?
No, bin-laden's brother would have to be src-laden.
They were called Schindlers Lifts
No, src-laden is the father of bin-laden
Wasn't there a "top 10 ways to get your article posted on Digg" list floating around recently ?
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