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Double Punctuation posted:Nicholas Cage gets beaten up at a McDonald's for being a cyborg. The latest hit Disney family film. Inspector Gadget gritty reboot looking good!
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Seriously that dude's a weirdo. Didn't help matters that in every picture of him wearing his bionic eye he appears to be naked or shirtless.  Worst Terminator 2 reboot ever. I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle
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Oct 4, 2017 14:02
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I need your teefury shirt, your new balances and your segway.
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Oct 4, 2017 14:06
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Double Punctuation posted:Nicholas Cage gets beaten up at a McDonald's for being a cyborg. The latest hit Disney family film.
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Oct 4, 2017 16:10
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Krispy Wafer posted:Didn't help matters that in every picture of him wearing his bionic eye he appears to be naked or shirtless. I feel like for this dude it'd be more, 'I need your crocs, your fanny-pack, and your bicycle'.
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Oct 4, 2017 18:12
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adblockers of the future are going to be a fierce and bloodied matter
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Oct 4, 2017 18:19
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Yahoo still circling? Verizon paying $350 for this poo poo lol. Every single account hacked. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-cyber/yahoo-says-all-three-billion-accounts-hacked-in-2013-data-theft-idUSKCN1C82O1
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Oct 4, 2017 18:48
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MikeCrotch posted:I think it was Snow Crash where people used to have HUDs directly in their eyes, until people starting killing themselves when hackers injected pop-up ads into their retinas that displayed 24/7 Even though Neal mostly writes lovely longform factbook cyber-adventures, Snow Crash is still 
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Oct 4, 2017 22:14
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What possessed Dropbox into thinking they're selling OK Soda instead of a file-uploading service? https://www.dropbox.com/
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Oct 5, 2017 10:39
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What possessed Dropbox into thinking they're selling OK Soda instead of a file-uploading service? The most 90s soda, edging out Surge and Crystal Pepsi  I never saw it around here, since I think it never made it past test markets, so I dunno what it tasted like. Edit: The art and design of the cans rule.
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Oct 5, 2017 10:49
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why is "Beverage" in "quotes"
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Oct 5, 2017 16:49
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What possessed Dropbox into thinking they're selling OK Soda instead of a file-uploading service? Don't get my hopes up like that you rear end
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Oct 5, 2017 16:55
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[quote="“Inspector Gesicht”" post="“477073361”"] What possessed Dropbox into thinking they’re selling OK Soda instead of a file-uploading service? https://www.dropbox.com/ [/quote] I'm not a fan of the new design, but I think you'll need a stronger case than some garish CSS to claim they're circling the drain.
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Oct 5, 2017 16:59
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umalt posted:Its like QR codes, nobody's phone ever came pre-installed with a QR code reader so nobody ever used the drat things. Plus they never actually were more convenient than just printing whatever info on a sign or poster instead. I think it's the first one rather than the second. Here in China the main chat apps all come with QR scanners, and maybe as a result there's QR codes everywhere. You can scan QR codes to add contact info, get bus arrival times, or pay at the local store. It's hard to overstate just how ubiquitous QR codes are here.
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Oct 5, 2017 18:32
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I went to a Big Data meetup last night and there were a bunch of startups centred around Bitcoin, Blockchain, and other cryptocurrency stuff. That can't possibly be sustainable...can it? It seems like they're hitching their wagon to a dumb fad.
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Oct 6, 2017 22:31
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I work in advertising and QR codes were DOA in the US because you had to install an app just to use them. Now like 5 years after everyone in the US gave up on the tech Apple is doing something to unfuck it by just building it into their camera app.
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Oct 6, 2017 22:36
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Seventh Arrow posted:I went to a Big Data meetup last night and there were a bunch of startups centred around Bitcoin, Blockchain, and other cryptocurrency stuff. That can't possibly be sustainable...can it? It seems like they're hitching their wagon to a dumb fad. literally 90% of the tech industry is hitching your wagon to the current fad think back to the companies that blew up with facebook but never sustained then again with twitter then again with _____________
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Oct 7, 2017 01:35
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Google glass never took off because the over monied turbo babies who would drop 1500 for a pair of wearable toys were never going to use them for the actual tools that that they turned out to be. The public writ large lacks vision and Google glass was definitely a blind spot that turned out to be really useful in a lot of places that upper middle class yuppies would never dirty their precious "I-whatevers" with. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/google-glass-2-is-here/amp
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Oct 7, 2017 04:48
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Fool and the World posted:their precious "I-whatevers" I bet you say "twatter."
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Oct 7, 2017 05:10
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I bet you say "twatter." It’s like the opposite of those “handegg? Sorry, I don’t follow sportsball” people.
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Oct 7, 2017 05:21
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Seventh Arrow posted:I went to a Big Data meetup last night and there were a bunch of startups centred around Bitcoin, Blockchain, and other cryptocurrency stuff. That can't possibly be sustainable...can it? It seems like they're hitching their wagon to a dumb fad. p much. There are Blockchain(tm) products that are not ridiculous garbage! They're just the transaction ledger with hashes for tamperproofing, like we had with git and its predecessors, and not any of the Bitcoiny distributed currency mining etc rubbish. but they are marketed with the ridiculous and aspirational claims of bitcoin.
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Oct 7, 2017 11:13
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I bet you say "twatter." I prefer the term "fart huffer"
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Oct 7, 2017 16:14
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Haifisch posted:Sears had an entire tower and look what's happening to it. BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Even though Neal mostly writes lovely longform factbook cyber-adventures, Snow Crash is still Fool and the World posted:Google glass never took off because the over monied turbo babies who would drop 1500 for a pair of wearable toys were never going to use them for the actual tools that that they turned out to be. The public writ large lacks vision and Google glass was definitely a blind spot that turned out to be really useful in a lot of places that upper middle class yuppies would never dirty their precious "I-whatevers" with.
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Oct 7, 2017 18:21
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GWBBQ posted:If nothing else, they'll be around as college bookstores for a while. Segways are cool and good to rent btw. Take the Chicago or dc tours.
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Oct 7, 2017 19:30
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Inescapable Duck posted:Have to wonder how different the internet might look if early adopter ad companies hadn't poisoned, shat and dumped radioactive waste in the well. Like managing ad space like every other form of media ever and charging per view instead of by click-through?
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Oct 7, 2017 22:08
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KMart is a turd that won’t flush. “Oh I just need two items I can stop at the one of the four still open KMarts in the Cleveland metro area.” * High pitched violin horror music* Those are turning into Rose’s around here so if KMart is the freshly dead body of retail Roses is the rotten zombie it turns into. Three-Phase has a new favorite as of 20:29 on Oct 8, 2017 |
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Oct 8, 2017 20:23
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Krispy Wafer posted:They turned an old high school into lofts near here. They're awesome. They even kept the hallway lockers. I'd feel pretty weird about living somewhere that advertised KID SEX CHANGE.
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Oct 8, 2017 21:19
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Be careful, D&D might hear you
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Oct 8, 2017 22:02
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Kinetica posted:Be careful, D&D might hear you Show us on the doll where somebody made fun of your anime.
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Oct 9, 2017 16:09
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Seventh Arrow posted:I went to a Big Data meetup last night and there were a bunch of startups centred around Bitcoin, Blockchain, and other cryptocurrency stuff. That can't possibly be sustainable...can it? It seems like they're hitching their wagon to a dumb fad. Remember how in the 90's people would buy the dumb collectible toy or issue #0 comic of the month on the basis that "it might be worth something some day?" The Cryptocurrency market is that, but they cut out the middle man and just sell you the concept of being worth more someday without an actual product attached. It's not sustainable, but there is money to be made off of idiots.
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Oct 9, 2017 22:22
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New Butt Order posted:Remember how in the 90's people would buy the dumb collectible toy or issue #0 comic of the month on the basis that "it might be worth something some day?" The Cryptocurrency market is that, but they cut out the middle man and just sell you the concept of being worth more someday without an actual product attached. It is providing value in the form of laundering yuan and providing a medium for drug and kiddie porn transactions.
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Oct 10, 2017 00:00
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GWBBQ posted:
Well that's kind of my point. A bunch of people without any idea of what actual hands on work looks like, picked up a gadget and said to themselves "gee this looks futuristic. it will be a new toy for people who actively enjoy paying 8 dollars for a coffee" without any regard for what it's actual use was. I was loving excited when GGlass was announced. But techno nerds being who they were wanted a new a iPhone and instead were given something more akin to a laparoscope and the program got shut down for a while.
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Oct 10, 2017 03:48
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Fool and the World posted:Well that's kind of my point. A bunch of people without any idea of what actual hands on work looks like, picked up a gadget and said to themselves "gee this looks futuristic. Like, absolutely the AR benefits to a bunch of tasks would have been good, but that was secondary to disrupting your reality. And the fact that no one considered the privacy concerns was a biiiiiig oversight.
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Oct 10, 2017 04:20
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FilthyImp posted:Like, absolutely the AR benefits to a bunch of tasks would have been good, but that was secondary to disrupting your reality. And the fact that no one considered the privacy concerns was a biiiiiig oversight. It's Google, you say that like it's a bug, not a feature.
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Oct 10, 2017 05:07
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Three-Phase posted:KMart is a turd that won’t flush. That happened to 2 of the Kmarts around here... Both lasted about 2 years before they too closed.
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Oct 10, 2017 05:08
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FilthyImp posted:Dude, you know the launch videos were basically "Show me the layout to this barnes and noble, also where is my buddy in this place", "Hi wife, plz enjoy this view on this work vacation you cant be at" and "Xtreeeeeem lifeblogging". Im agreeing with you. It was designed by techies for techies without any actual thought about the genuine applications for it.
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Oct 10, 2017 05:41
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New Butt Order posted:Remember how in the 90's people would buy the dumb collectible toy or issue #0 comic of the month on the basis that "it might be worth something some day?" The Cryptocurrency market is that, but they cut out the middle man and just sell you the concept of being worth more someday without an actual product attached. Speaking of, how are comicbook companies doing these days? I assume that some of them are fine because of Disney and whatever, but I feel like actual comicbook sales must be doing lovely these days
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Oct 10, 2017 10:57
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I assume Marvel and DC are just IP farms for Disney and Warner these days.
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Oct 10, 2017 11:06
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Three-Phase posted:KMart is a turd that won’t flush. KMart is a very strange case. It is operated alongside Sears- in 2005, it sought a buyout from Sears because it was in such bad financial shape, but it turns out Sears was actually worse, so Kmart bought Sears. Its owner, Eddie Lampert, is a manifesto writing recluse who uses his own fortune to prop the company up. Lampert is a hedge fund guy who has no experience in retail-in fact, he hates the retail industry. What he does is sell the stores to his own property management firm, Seritage, and leases them back to Kmart at below market rates. Occasionally, he gives the company a shot in the arm with some cash from his fund, ESL Investments. Essentially, the company is a dead body, kept afloat by selling off its own real estate- and even that isn't enough, because Lampert has thus far spent around $10 billion of his own money delaying the inevitable.
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K-Mart is weird, because I guess you can't even say Eddie is picking the corpse, not after putting so much of his own money into it.
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