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The 57 Lamest Tech Moments of 2010
harrymcc writes "When it comes strange blunders, failed dreams, pointless legal wrangling, and other embarrassments, the technology industry had an uncommonly busy 2010. I compiled a list of the most notable examples--including the lost iPhone prototype, the short life of Microsoft's Kin, the end of Google Wave, the McAfee security meltdown, a depressingly long list of lawsuits over mobile patents, and much more."
Endless Top ### lists with no real substance writen by writers who can neither write nor hold their own when it comes down to bare metal technology.
Wake me up in January.
Google Wave isn't dead. It just changed its name to Apache Wave.
Thank you HTC for Alpha testing the HTC EVO on the general public! So many of us were left with a phone that you have to charge every 3 hours, but the charging ports broke within the first few uses!
HTC says their warrantys don't cover physical damage, what the hell good is it?
Sprint says, pay me a hundred bucks for a refurb fool! So you do, and a week later; rinse and repeat!
It was different when it was software, but hardware being beta tested on the public and they eat the cost!? I'm left with only one thing to say: W T F
Some poor /. user might get an iPad from his or her grandmother...and knowing the sentiment around here, that's bound to be the lamest tech moment of 2010 for that poor soul!
(Lame attempt at humor, not trying to troll...)
Why a list of 57? Did you just keep brainstorming lame moments until you couldn't come up with any more? Or is there some significance to choosing to record 57 specifically.
No mention of Gizmodo's password breach?
bah.
My two lamest of 2010, along with 'Duke Nukem Forever (to be Vaporware)'
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
I think we all know what's happening. The technology industry is no longer about technology, it's about bling, brother,
More seriously, we've come full circle with mainframe/cloud and software on phones (javaME)/iPhones. Ideas that don't fly now may fly again in the future but with a different name. I suspect portals will become a lot more important again. A social portal maybe?
Either way, I think the potential value for the web for the general public and our children will be a lot less than it is today. It will be 'dumbed down' and you will have to pay per page.
Slashdot needs Geekcode | Can anyone recommend any good SCIFI? My tastes: Foundation, Startide Rising, CITY, Ringworld,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9WeTv4Q-QY
I know it should not even register a blip in the grand scheme of business'ey things. But the whole application of technology on something so uber-stupid shoud be listed among some of the dumbest tech things seen in 2010... me thinks.
...that way the article could have included itself as number one. Another meandering, poorly written summary of the year.
If you're going to choose an arbitrary number to attach to an end of year list, keep it to ten and focus on the writing. Seriously, 57? I'm reminded of the Jargon File comment about 17 being the "least random number". This is just a blatant excuse to generate ads by breaking up an article; I'm surprised it isn't 57 pages long, in slide show form.
Although Polaroid naming Lady Gaga as Creative Director is pretty strange.
Either that or it is one of those 1 in a million oddly brilliant ideas.
Time will tell..
Hopefully next time the Geeks make it even harder and more difficult to understand in the hopes of having a free platform before the retards figure it out. The internet if easier, would have been destroyed by governments even sooner. Thankfully it takes tards a a couple decades to realize how useful a free platform is.... after they are done with it, it's not longer free, or useful, and they move on to break something else.
I for one, think geeks need to stop assisting idiots in using their toys. Lets make it more complex and harder to figure out. Now they can't break it as quickly.
In a world where idiots learn slow and geeks learn fast.... keep making technology harder, more often :)
Yeah, Google Wave.
What kind of dumb ass converts someone's private email account into a social networking site, letting strangers in their address book see what they do on the web.....without notice, without permission AND expects that people will like it?
Not read TFA but wonder whether these are there:
Aleks Krotoski
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/21/austin-heap-haystack-iran Gregg Kiezer
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/2329249/Windows-7-Memory-Usage-Critic-Outed-As-Fraud
Facebook, the movie. I'd rather watch paint dry than see a movie about some wealthy kid making money by doing nothing of value. It could have just as well been a movie about the Kardashians, except he isn't nearly as interesting to look at.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Apple has promised that the white iPhone will come with a free copy of the mobile edition of Duke Nukem Forever.
MS only gave the Kin about 6 weeks on the market before pulling the plug. WTF? It was actually a pretty good idea and properly pushed and priced it could have taken over the high-school phone market.
I liked the form factor as well. I wouldn't mind having a phone with that form factor, minus all the social-networking gew-gaws.
The problem is the bullies, corporations and the police.
We planted a garden. A wonderful rose garden. And there were people stopping to look at it and say "hey, that's neat!" and we, the good natured fools we are, thought it would be great to open our garden to the public, so they can come in and enjoy it. And hey, who knows, maybe some of them might want to plant a few roses themselves? We can only benefit from it, right?
So we let them in, even showed them how to plant roses. And while they were not really too good gardeners, we handed them a few tools to make the work easier for them. And some of them (ok, a handful of them) actually went and built something nice. Most just wandered about and smelled a few roses. We even built them a few paths they could wander on so they don't accidentally stumble upon that field we built that camo net over, ya know, with our "special spices".
A few came in and trampled all over the roses. We shrugged and grabbed them and threw them out, because we not only know how to plant roses, we also know how to use their thorns to smack those bullies about and give them a wedgie on their way out. We build this garden after all, and we know every plant and every bush here, you can't hide from us! Well, ok, I admit, some of us thought it's fun to make fools out of the idiots that have no idea how to plant roses and snuck into their gardens when they weren't looking (and too stupid to close the door so people can only look but not touch), dyed their roses pink and blue polkadotted, mostly for fun and to ridicule them. It was good natured fun, hey, we did that to each other too and we really had a good laugh!
One cardinal mistake we made is that we built a few paths to the camo net patches, too, because, hey, they're nice folks and wanna have some of the good stuff too, what's the harm in giving them some? Well, there's not really a problem with that, but when the bullies trampled across our fields, they also trampled through the fields of those that can't defend themselves, and these guys started to call for the police. And they eventually stumbled towards our camo net patches and, well, erh... well, they decided that it's a problem, ya know? If we hadn't built paths to them, only we would have found our way to those "special places", through the hedges and the overgrown paths that need machetes to get to. Few policemen had those machetes...
Also along came the corporations who found out that people love to wander in our nice garden and started to built there too. At first, we didn't bother to worry. Like the native americans didn't worry when the first whities came along, we let them settle in our garden. Until suddenly we were told that we can't go to a few places of our garden anymore because that's now off limits. In our own garden! Not to mention that they were crying bloody murder if you went and polkadotted their roses!
And now we're sitting here, in our ever shrinking corner of our once wonderful garden, trampled down by the masses, broken up into lots by corporations with a policemen at every corner making sure you don't plant where you're not supposed to, and of course that you don't try to camo net anything.
If there's any lesson to learn, than that we should not let the masses in next time we build a garden. The seeds will be more expensive, granted, but at least we can grow what we want and keep the harvest.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Touché!
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
Naming Google Wave, and much of its associated development, after the creations of Joss Whedon was just asking for cancellation.
He's the TV equivalent of the RMS Titanic.
Probably a good methodology to follow if you want a lot of depressive, angry 16 year old girls to take up your product, but not if you want wider success.
*applauds*
Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!
Surprisingly, "The Social Network" was actually a good movie because of the human drama that it is intertwined into the story. Its not about how a wealthy kid makes even more money but how and possibly why he did it. Whether or not the events actually took place as depicted in this movie is up for debate but it is a hell of a drama that is well made and very entertaining. I won't be surprised if some it gets Oscars for at least the screenplay if not more.
They wanted to serve it with ketchup.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Can I be seeing this? A down-mod on the Parrot Sketch?!
:(
Netcraft confirms it. Slashdot is dead.
No no, it-it's not dead, it's... it's restin'!
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Well done!
I, for one, welcome our new, garden-analogy-making overlords.
Blah, blah, blah,...wonderful garden... blah, blah, blah...
Is there a car analogy stuck in here somewhere?
That is all.
Mine came with a cover for the screen to prevent scratching, just like palm pilots and probably even Newtons some years ago.
There's been plenty of tablet "competitors" for quite a few years, some with better hardware and software than the Apple one. The success seems to be tied a lot to it being from Apple - how do others match that?
I've noticed with these companies that even when you get the BBB involved, nothing becomes of it.
I've read various articles about the BBB loosing it's and/or has lost its legitimacy?
I'm left with only questions:
1) Where is the consumer to turn? Who sticks up for the working man that spends his/her hard earned cash on these products?
2) What the hell happened to accountability!? If no one has the consumers back, what is the consumer to do when they get screwed?
3) Is their something that we as people can do? I'd be willing to fork out some of my own money to start some sort of organization that can defend people against these corporations. I'm sure their are more people out their that feel the same way!
I'm serious, let me know! I'm actually willing to do something about it!