Worst Technology Product Ever

[sir_inferno]

Colani1200 wrote:
[So what's so impressive about that site? That you don't see anything if you don't exactly use one of those OS/browser combinations? I can do that easily...

@silverlight

Seamless, fast installation for users

effort...who wants to install stuff

Consistent experiences between Windows-based and Macintosh computers

that's what "STANDARDS" are for

Stunning vector-based graphics, media, text, animation, and overlays

ah, you mean like svg, flash, etc etc

lol...what poop

ed: to add insult to injury, it doesn't work with opera, and it didn't ask me where it wanted to install...

further ed: it's a resource hog...and watching that video, there's nothing but eye candy...poop that i'll never use, and i'd rather they'd have spent the years of development optimising their nt kernel, rather than mucking around with this kinda crap

[Frags]

DonnyEMU wrote:
I prefer Vista because I can do cool apps that improve on what I liked about the Amiga so long ago. I think you'll find that these Vista Apps are really very cool. If you really want to see what Vista does, check out this Video on a Mac with Safari or Firefox or a PC with Internet Explorer..

http://www.sneath.org/tim/wpf.htm

If after you see this you aren't impressed you are probably just a MS hater or you wish the Amiga could do this right now... Either way I'd question your motivations for saying such things..

My motivation is that both times I tried Vista I found it very sluggish and awkward to use - too much gui if you know what I mean.  One of the try-outs was on a nice fast computer as well.  DX10 will draw me in eventually no doubt.

[Fester]

Waccoon wrote:

Motorollin:  What's wrong with QuickTime?

- The last time I downloaded QuickTime, Apple was bundling it with iTunes.  Why the hell do I need iTunes forced on me when I don't have an iPod, or even a portable music player?  

Yes, I find that annoying too.

[Louis Dias]

@Waccoon

I agree with both your posts entirely.  Unbelieveble!

I also refuse to run anti-virus software and have never gotten a virus.

[McVenco]

lou_dias wrote:

I also refuse to run anti-virus software and have never gotten a virus.

How'd you know if there's nothing that warns you when you've been infected? :lol:

[guru-666]

duh , they forgot the lamest of them all... amiganywhere!

[stopthegop]

I also refuse to use anti-virus software.  The one time I tried Norton, it brought my 3Ghz machine literally to its knees.  Its a case of the cure being worse than the disease.  

Speaking of inept products, I did some side work on a neighbor's PC the other day and noticed he had a printer driver installed.  Guess how big it was?  Try 680MB!  Now, that has got to be a record..  

[Speelgoedmannetje]

mikrucio wrote:
Please everyone vote vista... :-)

Haven't tried Vista yet, so I can't vote on that.
Never used ME either.

I missed the option Windows 95. I have very bad experiences with that OS. Especially with cleaning up other's peecees. (And of course Norton Antivirus is the first thing I kick harddisks; bloody standard installations)

[Hodgkinson]

I'll vouch for AOL.
Waaaaay too much slow gfx (Much in the same way as XP/Vista), unreliable, auto-restart feature after it crashes (Shows how much faith AOL have in their browser) and ? knows how many menus.
Not to mention the spyware zapper that performs a useless 30 second scan on boot-up that does nothing execpt to slooow the PC down. And even when the "aolsoftware.exe" is supposed to be running in the background the PC is at least 50% slower than normal...

And im using AOL right now...(Killed the background task off already)

Sigh.

[sir_inferno]

stopthegop wrote:
I also refuse to use anti-virus software.  The one time I tried Norton, it brought my 3Ghz machine literally to its knees.  Its a case of the cure being worse than the disease.

it's a case of using the right cure...namely avg/avast

[Ross1]

I also agree that Norton AntiVirus is just aweful. Have you ever tried to remove it once it is installed.  Norton AntiVirus installs so deeply into the OS and registry that your lucky if it dosent crash your system when you remove it. It crashed my PC so badly several years ago that I had to do a complete reinstall of windows as the registry was totally messed up.

[PMC]

Norton.

It's like a long lost relative who comes to stay, ie it consumes most of your available resources and you can't get rid of the bugger.

[adolescent]

QuickTime here as well.  I can't believe people still support this player when there are tons of better alternatives (players, codecs, and encoders...).

[Louis Dias]

McVenco wrote:

lou_dias wrote:

I also refuse to run anti-virus software and have never gotten a virus.

How'd you know if there's nothing that warns you when you've been infected? :lol:

Anyone who's built their own PC and diables all the un-necessary Windows "services" and can hear their hard drive knows whether or not they have a virus.

Add to that:  Microsoft's automatic updates run the "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool" monthly and it's updated monthly.  Also, in Internet Explorer, I have everything set to "Prompt" before anything gets executed through my browser, even cookies.

It's not hard to live virus/anti-virus free, you just have to actively persue it.

ps,
My QuickTime crashes currently.  It was always slow to launch to begin with.  One of these days, I might care enough to uninstall it and download the latest version.  I do have some .mov files that I care about - unfortunately...  The one I have now installed I-Tunes along with an I-Tunes "service" which I disabled...

[jkirk]

Haranguer wrote:
Sorry.  I can't vote for Windows Vista.  Vista is better than XP, which, in turn, is better than 98, which was better than 95, which was better than 3.1.

That said, it's still barely useable, but still not the worst technology product ever.

I voted for "Anything with DRM".

did you know by voting "anything with drm" you were in fact voting for vista and xp as both contain it. anyway i voted the same "anything with drm"

[X-ray]

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