dreezy posted:

you've got it down pat.

Professor Shark posted:

Professor Shark posted:

I upgraded to Windows 10 but it wouldn't recognize my iPod, USB, or External but would recognize my iPhone, so that thing got set back to Windows 7 after a quick Google search found that Microsoft's response was "We'll fix that eventually"

Botnit posted:

Japanese people still use yahoo for news and searching, I know this because I dated a Jappo and every time I used her laptop it would open to yahoo and when I asked her why she said so

It's possible she was lying to me and purposely set her homepage to yahoo just to trick an American into thinking Japanese people were idiot rednecks of the internet but I don't think she was capable of such deceit but then again she is Asian so it's highly possible she was but I just didn't notice the signs

Professor Shark posted:

Professor Shark posted:

reallivedinosaur posted:

Did she just happen to go to school in 1997ish where the internet was new to non-geeks, and was taught to use yahoo in her computer orientation class, and was never retrained? I know a few people like that.

Also, Yahoo is fairly big with the fantasy sports crowd, isn't it?

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Yahoo Japan logged 18.4 billion page views and 66 million unique visitors in February, compared with 13.4 billion page views and 62.7 million unique visitors for top rival Google Japan and its affiliates, according to comScore Japan. Those numbers effectively make Yahoo Japan and the sites under its banner the most popular in Japan.

Google Japan’s figures include YouTube, which is 100 percent owned by Google, and Gmail, its email service.

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

no, yahoo is actually huge in japan

The_Franz posted:

Japan seemingly collectively decided sometime in the late 90s that "This is a good level of technology. We will stick with this."

Professor Shark posted:

FishionMailed posted:

I played Halo for the first time as like a 12-13 year old and it was GREAT. Too many sequels later and I don't give a poo poo but I do like to name my phone 'Cortana' as an affectation.

Stupid loving MS now I can't do that because it's nowhere near as 'personal' (yeah I know it wasn't very much so to begin with but still).

Business Gorillas posted:

the execs making these decisions know exactly what they're doing and make changes that short-term profits but gently caress up the company in the long term. the goal is to post the biggest numbers possible from slashing costs as much as possible and then bail before the ramifications from slashing said costs (brain drain, people stop buying your products because they're cheaper and shoddier than they were before) are felt

reallivedinosaur posted:

Also, Yahoo is fairly big with the fantasy sports crowd, isn't it?

Y-Hat posted:

i thought that was the only thing that Yahoo had going for it until somebody said it's still used in Japan.

Botnit posted:

What do you mean somebody? I don't take kindly to you glossing over my threadly contributions

canyoneer posted:

Groupon turning down a $6B buyout from google is the funniest thing, because Google realized "there is nothing Groupon is currently doing that we could not also do (and probably at least as well)"

Professor Shark posted:

redreader posted:

Yahoo owns alibaba (the chinese ebay) shares, so many of them that it's like 15x the value of yahoo itself. They can make a drain into which they throw money daily and still have tons of money forever. Yahoo's web business may not be doing ok but they have fucktons of money. Like more than you could ever spend.

Tim Burns Effect posted:

lol if you think yahoo has any idea how to make money off tumblr

Wicker Man posted:

Speaking of yahoo, a required update or some program I really needed bundled in some kind of integrated yahoo search engine for firefox and IE. The kind where if you typed one word like books into the address bar, it pulls up some yahoo search results page.

I've tried looking around for ways to remove it, but apparently it's a really sticky program.


gently caress off, yahoo.

Professor Shark posted:

Netflix has a pretty horrible selection of cheap Asylum-and-the-like garbage now, with movies that people might actually want to watch being rotated out.

Shomi is starting to do the same thing

Casimir Radon posted:

Old Netflix was great because if something was on DVD in the US they almost certainly had it, and you could be watching it in a day or two. Now with streaming you can watch instantly but there's a bunch of poo poo no one wants to watch, and stuff that seems like a no-brainer to always be available isn't. Bring up the issue in CineD and SMG and his ilk will take a break from huffing their own farts for a minute to tell you you're way too picky about what you watch.

steinrokkan posted:

Promise to shut it down for X billions of $.

TontoCorazon posted:

You have a virus

Wicker Man posted:

Speaking of yahoo, a required update or some program I really needed bundled in some kind of integrated yahoo search engine for firefox and IE. The kind where if you typed one word like books into the address bar, it pulls up some yahoo search results page.

I've tried looking around for ways to remove it, but apparently it's a really sticky program.

TacticalUrbanHomo posted:

or do the opposite, hold it hostage. does anyone remember a few years ago when a few people organised a tumbler convention?

TacticalUrbanHomo posted:

or do the opposite, hold it hostage. does anyone remember a few years ago when a few people organised a tumbler convention? they were unaffiliated with tumbler, they had never held a convention before, they weren't professional anythings, but they still convinced people there was a convention (which at that point they hadn't yet actually organised, and which may or may not have ever materialised) and got loads of people to buy tickets for it. then as the date approached they claimed the convention hall was trying to shut them down for mysterious and unspecified reasons, and that they needed "donations" to the tune of thousands (I think it may have been tens of thousands, but it was definitely thousands at least) of dollars to avoid that (again, for unspecified reasons) which they received from the people who already had paid for their tickets.

George Zimmer posted:

Not really circling the drain, but it'll be a tough year for US railroads. A huge portion of their income came from transporting coal, and we all know what's happening there. I work for a major east coast railroad and their planning big layoffs, almost certainly from the coal department. I work in intermodal (shipping containers) and we didn't do too well either, but will probably be okay.

Grand Prize Winner posted:

Happening where? What? Coal?

Cliff Racer posted:

China actually buys a lot of foreign coal, but they are going through economic troubles now. At the same time American coal plants are facing increased regulation and many are being forced to shut down. The historically low price of natural gas isn't helping either, with a lot of coal plants converting to gas.