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FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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my favorite drm memory was the record labels finally agreeing to let stebe jorbs sell albums and singles through the itunes store but only if they had drm AND apple to wholly own the drm system (design and build and manage and pay for) - not realizing they had just handed apple the keys to the handcuffs that would lock their users into apples ecosystem and destroy any leverage the labels might have in future negotiations

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FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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eschaton posted:

floptical
magneto-optical

(lol those first next machines)

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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rotor posted:

dont forget Daemon Tools
forgot about dae

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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qirex posted:

nobody remembers mtropolis but it was amazing [by the standards of mid-90s multimedia platforms] unfortunately it was run by idiots and ended up in the hands of quark who tried to make xpress files into a multimedia platform about as successfully as you'd think such a thing could be
lol quark

watching that company burn itself to the ground out of pure hubris was so satisfying

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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SO DEMANDING posted:

*lights up the rotor signal*

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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teen witch posted:

an avid user of tumblr
p good username, there

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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theres a general problem with sex-focused websites (greatly exacerbated by sesta/fosta) that the content means a hard ceiling on how big they can grow. advertisers dont want to deal with you, you have trouble getting your app carried, its hard to promote yourself. once you reach a certain size you stagnate, and the money people begin pushing you find a way to make number go up (because number must go up). usually this means pivoting away from the porn and sex work and towards the mainstream, except that almost never works because 1) your old users are going to walk away, 2) theres no guarantee youll get any new users, and 3) your reputation as a former porn site is going to make your pivot to the mainstream extra difficult

i assume this is what is going on with patreon and onlyfans - theyve hit a ceiling and trying to figure out how to keep growing, and that usually means giving the adult-oriented content and members and users the back of your hand

if you work on the adult entertainment side of the internet you should just assume youll be completely upended and migrating to a new platform every few years

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

or you can just lean into it like pornbub? I don’t think they’re hurting
that requires understanding and accepting that youll never be more than a niche player and your reward will be running a nicely profitable business for years and years instead of a giant acquisition or ipo payout

for every company that is capable of doing that there are dozens more that point to the growth chart and chant "number must go UP"

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

if i could go back in time and tell people in the 1990s that the biggest internet companies of the 2020s make their money by breaking the law they'd poo poo

  • jitney cabs, NOW WITH THE INTERNET!

  • illegal flophouses, NOW WITH THE INTERNET!

  • loansharking, ON THE INTERNET!

  • human trafficking, BUT NOW INTERNET!

  • propaganda from authoritarian states, INTERNET-ENABLED!!!

and the government gives zero shits about any of it

because lol, turns out laws only matter when poor people break them
you missed the biggest one: gig economy jobs (uber, doordash, etc) breaking every employment law and protection, with an app

p much all "disruptive" "innovative" internet businesses are about finding weak/unclear/unenforced parts of the law and crashing into them, hoping to become big and influential enough to buy off legislators once the authorities begin to take note of them

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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hell yes mylo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tb3RLqY9Xo

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

BeOS owned though. in the days of windows 95 and 98 it ran fantastically and multitasked waaaaaay better than anything else. I loved it and used it as my primary OS for a while at college

it’s too bad their ceo got greedy with Steve Jobs. BeOS could have been OS X
apple buying beos means no ceo stebe 2.0 means apple goes out of business in 2001 and decades later nerds still get misty eyed about the beos macs they demoed before shutting down and what might have been

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I think they could have made BeOS into something equally good. remember that the early versions of OS X were pretty terrible too
they absolutely could have

the issue is that the next acquisition got them not just the next-gen os they wanted, it got them the ceo they desperately needed to stay alive

buying beos gets apple a good os and then a court-appointed liquidator a few years later

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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when blackberry finally got impelled enough to produce an all-touchscreen phone the result was the blackberry storm, a legendary piece of poo poo dsyp

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Plank Walker posted:

microsoft yo! for business enterprise edition
will it integrate with my yammer beer pong table?

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Volmarias posted:

Congrats on developing the JRE several decades after it might have been meaningful to do so?
itym 1970s hottest computer technology, the ucsd p-system

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Jonny 290 posted:

for a while i was considering namechanging to what would have been my italian middle name and our pre-emigration last name, and i would end up Giovanni Barzini

aka giovanni 290
Tattaglia is a pimp. He never could have outfought Santino. But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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the paths not taken at the dawn of the pc era are infinitely fascinating

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Progressive JPEG posted:

resubmitting the aol cd request form like 25 times and then having the mailman knock the door and ask my mom about it
thats not actually why the mailman was calling on your mom

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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PIZZA.BAT posted:

it feels like he was the last gasp of that kind of tripe going mainstream
90s "lad culture" (maxim magazine, etc) was a hell of a thing

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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President Beep posted:

if we waste anymore time on peggle we’ll be bankrupt by the end of the month!
did someone just say "peggle?"

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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'cause i think i just heard someone say "peggle."

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

lmao i would like some more detail about this
dell launched an android tablet line called the dell streak (which yospos immediately dubbed the dell steak)

like a lot of early iphone/ipad competitors the marketing was built around being tough rugged manly machines for REAL MEN to do REAL WORK on, unlike those sissy oh-so-elegant la-di-dah limp-wristed apple products

so the dell streak team did an internal marketing stunt (to get people at dell excited about this whole new products) by hiring a bunch of dudes dressed as bikers to wander around the main dell campus yelling at people and demanding to know if they were pumped about this kickass new tablet

but they forgot to notify or clear it with site security so when a bike gang rolled onto dells campus and a bunch of tattooed bikers jumped off their bikes and started screaming at people and stomping into buildings welp here comes the swat team

the product ended up being about as well thought out as the marketing plan

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

transmeta crusoe
imagine a beowulf cluster of them!

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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the htc facebook phone

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Raluek posted:

wasnt that 'ios'
it was both, op

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2855570/remember-when-cisco-sued-apple-over-the-iphone-name.html

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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President Beep posted:

i’m going to get you.
what are you going to get him, beep?

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Mr. Nice! posted:

its a major component of us military comms. irc is useful as gently caress at sea. much easier than any other form of communication.
it also lets the military do comms in microsoft comic chat i.e. the jerkcity universe

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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eschaton posted:

HyperCard ruled except for only supporting 512×342 black & white for way too long and for not having any way to make real Mac apps

they should have also made a Pro version that was project-oriented, let you design windows and menus and stuff against an application framework and write HyperTalk against the Mac Toolbox itself, and save out an app

if that was 1988-9 HyperCard, Visual Basic would have been DOA and Windows 3 would’ve gone nowhere
1990s apple was pretty much "missed opportunities: the motion picture"

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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klosterdev posted:

Microsoft Silverlight
lmao

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I can do one better.

supporting enterprise healthcare apps written on Silverlight
LMAO

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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rim built its playbook tablet around using adobe air as the development environment

adobe cancelled air the same week the playbook shipped lmao

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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https://twitter.com/IzzzyzzzArt/status/1438299561517203456

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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gruber remembered some funy tech poo poo from 2013 today

Larissa Faw, writing for Forbes in January 2013 posted:

Ultimately, in the eyes of today’s youth, massive popularity has watered down Apple’s coolness. “Teens are telling us Apple is done,” says Tina Wells of the youth marketing agency Buzz Marketing Group. “Apple has done a great job of embracing Gen X and older [Millennials], but I don’t think they are connecting with Millennial kids. [They’re] all about Surface tablets/laptops and Galaxy.”
ah those mid 10s kids who couldnt get enough of their surface laptops

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Sagebrush posted:

God I miss when all electronics were built this way. You could literally use this board in an electronics 102 course
heathkit :allears:

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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The_Franz posted:

there was a very narrow period just before cuda debuted where the cell was useful for that kind of thing, and per-unit the ps3 was way cheaper than an ibm cell blade
it also had a much larger library of games

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Sagebrush posted:

to expand on this, now that i'm out of class, sometimes the exact opposite is in fact true. maybe the toilet paper on a stick was specifically designed for 600 pound lardasses to be able to reach around and wipe their rear end. however, hyper-obesity -- though it is a disability -- is much more stigmatized than, say, having a congenital arm deformity, or bad arthritis. so they market it for people with arthritis but with a knowing wink that it will sell well among the morbidly obese.
see also: neck massagers, vcr head cleaning fluid

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Jonny 290 posted:

they gave several kids Legionnaires' Disease lmao
:xd:

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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Martytoof posted:

It’s like Oregon Trail except instead of dying of dysentery you die of boredom
canada has a rich history of accurate video game simulations of itself



Captain Foo posted:

No it’s the one for the apple ][
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FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

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lol at the five hot minutes when pico projectors were going to be the next must-have cellphone feature

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