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Top 10 Disappointing Technologies
Slatterz writes "Every once in a while, a product comes along that everyone from the executives to the analysts to even the crusty old reporters thinks will change the IT world. Sadly, they are often misguided. This article lists some of the top ten technology disappointments that failed to change the world, from the ludicrously priced Apple Lisa, to voice recognition, to Intel's ill-fated Itanium chip, and virtual reality, this article lists some of the top ten technology disappointments that failed to change the world." But wait! Don't give up too quickly on the Itanium, says the Register.
Yes, first post technology never really panned out. It is sometimes funny as a second post though, but the joke really is on the AC there.
No, CueCat doesn't apply. You can only be disappointed by things for which you had some hope.
But did anyone promise that ubuntu would kill off MS or something?
Ubuntu pretty much considers the fact that MS hasn't been killed off, or at least humbled, to be a bug.
Promise? No, but they're trying.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Talk about the most ridiculously overhyped invention in recent memory...for a damn scooter.
My friend, Duke, just read the article, and man is he pissed.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
...it would have included the Internet, since nothing good ever came out of it. Period.
"Now if I could just find a use for all those damn AOL CDs in the attic."
CD FIGHT!!! Seriously it's a lot of fun as long as nobody minds a few scratches. Back, oh god, 10 years ago a friend of mine interned at Microsoft and was on their developer network. If Microsoft made a CD for distribution anywhere in the world, any version, he got it. He had 300+ by year's end. We had about 15 guys in the dorm hucking CD's down the hall and stairwells. Everybody still had the correct number of eyes and nobody needed stitches, just a couple bandaids. And what else are you going to do with Windows 98 OSR 50.2.4.6.A-4 in Swahili?
"Has Ubuntu saved the unwashed masses from the evil empire yet?"
The unwashed masses have been saved from the evil long time ago.
It is the people that wash that are still enslaved.