| Author | Message | ||
     Dave Supporter Username: Dave  Post Number: 10721 Registered: 4-1997  |
AOL at the top, then RealPlayer. Microsoft Millennium at #4. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125772-page,2/article.html | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4775 Registered: 7-2002  |
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| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 10724 Registered: 4-1997 |
URLs with commas suck. http://tinyurl.com/ozy88 | ||
| tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 5739 Registered: 5-2001 |
IE6 ... of all the crappy pieces of software this one is still ubiquitous five years later. Do you think that maybe, just maybe, if the antitrust suit had played out that Microsoft would have had to maybe get up to, oh, version 7 by now? Or, at the rate that competition was driving the market before they waxed Netscape, version 11? | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4777 Registered: 7-2002 |
I have IE 7 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 15562 Registered: 1-2003  |
That's a really great list, and well told. IE7 has been out for a while. It might still be in beta. I recommend against it. There is no way to downgrade if you change your mind. | ||
| tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 5743 Registered: 5-2001 |
You're right, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx advertises it as "Release Candidate 1". Not something I'd want to develop against. But 7 has these radical new concepts: tabbed browsing; integrated RSS; search boxes; and security features (any kind of security would be a relief). Maybe version 8 will offer "skins." | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 10726 Registered: 4-1997 |
Tabbed browsing, rss and search boxes. Woohoo! Let's party like it's 1999. | ||
| Ligeti Man Meat Citizen Username: Ligeti Post Number: 796 Registered: 7-2002  |
Cell phones. Blackberries. Wide screen TVs. Aspect ratio way off. Bigger is not better. Anthony Perkins is not supposed to have a fat face. Radios with digital tuners instead of dials. Less equals less. Bagless vacuums. Fortunately, these toxic devices are being phased out. I can whip them all with a vintage Hoover. Digital watches no one can figure out. Useless GPS devices that conventional paper folding maps simply blow away. Those silly blinking blue headsets that Type A men strap onto their ears. They look like water bugs. Internet. Just look at how lazy and distractable our culture has become. 5 seconds into anything, we lose focus. Books are much better. TVs in SUVs. | ||
| Jason Citizen Username: Jason Post Number: 178 Registered: 3-2004 |
I'm going to go old school here - worst gadget of all time, check out the flashback on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shJqIiNl5HU | ||
| argon_smythe Citizen Username: Argon_smythe Post Number: 935 Registered: 5-2001 |
That doesn't look all that bad actually, assuming it didn't destroy the records. Totally dig the party girls too. How about The Clapper? | ||
| Jason Citizen Username: Jason Post Number: 180 Registered: 3-2004 |
... you hit exactly the issue with the record cleaner. Far from cleaning records, it has a reputation for destroying your favorite LPs. Of course, it was easy-to-use  | ||
| tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 5780 Registered: 5-2001 |
No wonder, the way the talent manhandles LPs in the commercial. That hipster in the turtleneck made me almost scream towards the end. His LP had no dust jacket, he grabbed the face of it with his fingers instead of holding it by the label or edges, and he CRAMMED the album in at an angle, probably scratching the hell out of the one side. Why bother cleaning it if you're going to wreck it before you even turn on the machine? | ||
| TarPit Coder Citizen Username: Tarpitcoder Post Number: 132 Registered: 12-2004  |
Kinda disagree with quite a few of the choices. AOL as #1 is stupid IMHO. Nobody forced you to use AOL. It was a choice. Did AOL mess up in terms of missing opportunity - absolutely. But did anyone here try MSN when it first came out over dialup? It took minutes to even get to the home page... --Tarp | ||
| Case Citizen Username: Case Post Number: 1930 Registered: 2-2005 |
GEnie was even worse. But let's be honest: AOL blows goats. And I'd like to state categorically and for the record that if anyone out there enjoys carnal knowledge of goats, I acknowledge that it is their own life choice and no one's business but their own. And the goat's, I guess. | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 15640 Registered: 1-2003 |
I agree about AOL, but for people who have little aptitude for learning how to use computers, no one else comes close. I cannot recommend to some people that they switch away from AOL, as bad as it is, for all the reasons stated above. | ||
| Rastro Citizen Username: Rastro Post Number: 3806 Registered: 5-2004  |
The one that I disagree with is CueCat. How else could one get a free easily hackable bar code scanner? |
