does everyone hate google yet
― iatee, Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
prev: 2k11, what's the worst enormous tech company?
voted facebook, prob google
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
still voting for the 'book. Google and Apple have definitely taken a downward turn in product quality over the last couple years, sure enough. But it's pretty apparent that zuckerberg and crew are out to wreck life for our children and our children's children.
― how's life, Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
amazon, but they all suck in their own way
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Saturday, 16 March 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 March 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
will facebook even be around in 5 years cmon
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 March 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
yes. facebook.gov
― C: (crüt), Saturday, 16 March 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
'fb doesn't exist' and 'fb is the biggest company in the country' seem like equally reasonable predictions
― iatee, Sunday, 17 March 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
facebook will eat your family
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
Actually the real answer to this is "Oracle"
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEyLzA3LzIxLzAwXzQ2XzM5XzY0Ml9maWxl/d1a78840
― buzza, Sunday, 17 March 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
oracle has always been the worst, but only recently have they acquired sun and inflicted their terribleness on so much other tech.
― s.clover, Sunday, 17 March 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
kind of a Bilderberg vibe to that photo
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
lol oracle
Microsoft is still kind of all-time for their business practices over time, though. I'm sure Google and Apple have bought companies just to shelve competing projects, but MS was notorious for buying companies so they could shelve entire ideas that might chip into their marketshare.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
oracle's pretty bad. heard from somewhere they played a key role in setting up the tech side of china's security state.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 17 March 2013 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
nevermind, that was cisco
― Spectrum, Sunday, 17 March 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
if Oracle had set up China's security state the Great Firewall would have a lot of unpatched Java vulnerabilities
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
Photo needs Kanye.
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
lol Oracle, and lol Oracle Financials only running on an insecure no-longer-supported version of Java, as owned by, oh... Oracle
this is an issue at work but whichever management committee decided to spend millions on Oracle Financials when the previous system worked better anyway is way more important than anyone who knows what "malware" is, so IT roll out ancient versions of Java over the top of any newer versions on even non-Finance staff machines and we're p. much not even allowed to talk about it
getting increasingly suspicious of Google (this message posted from Chrome, so, y'know, not bothering to do anything about it) but still voting Facebook
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 17 March 2013 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
ilx does not offer the facility for me to indicate in sufficiently large type how otm this is
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 17 March 2013 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
Haha I was gonna ask where Oracle was in this poll
― Darth Icky (DJP), Sunday, 17 March 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
Mr Veg had to take his dad to a hospital appointment at the "Larry Ellison building" (ugh) He made a point of ranting loudly about Oracle as he walked in
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Oracle measurably lessening my quality of work life every single day. Does anyone itt have to wrestle with its hilariously named Agile application?
― a church not made with ham (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
guys you forgot SAP too
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
well, and good ol' IBM, too
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
oracle sap etc arent really in the same category as the companies in this poll, anyway microsoft forever
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
idk tho microsoft is p fast becoming irrelevant, might be more interesting w/o them, in that case facebook
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
tho facebook isnt nearly as large as the other 3, so maybe facebook should be thrown out
amazon is just a retailer so maybe not them either
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
apple prob shouldnt be there cause they just make devices
the answer is google
amazon send me packages in the mail, I can't stay mad at them
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
google or facebook
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
amazon is pretty amazing, i would never vote for them
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
apple too
google i like gmail i google things all the time
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
facebook i use all the time and despise
microsoft i dont use any of their shit
yeah apple make magic enjoyable devices for wasting my time; and gmail is way better than hotmail i mean come on do you really want hotmail back; and Microsoft idk i use their stuff and it doesn't drive me insane anymore maybe they've worn me down
Facebook give me fun worldwide interconnectedness with my friends while using my data to make cylon clones that will attack us in 10 years mark my words
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
def not true these days
― iatee, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
i knew some one was gonna say that and well lets just say i knew you were gonna say that
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
isn't ilx hosted on amazon
― iatee, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
they retail computer cycles who cares
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
iatee they send me stuff comeon have a heart
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
amazon is kinda evil for taking ubiquitousness-via-undercutting to the next level but i guess that's old hat these days. google's evil is more ambitious and in its early stages imo, has less to do with being cutthroat and more to do with owning a simulacrum of the entire world.
― In The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears, Van Cleave makes unforgettabl (Matt P), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
google makes all their money selling lil text ads, something they got into a decade ago, im sure they aspire toward world domination but its so not gonna happen
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
eh who knows what pies they have their fingers in rn, really who knows, i guess you could try using their search engine to find out..............
― In The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears, Van Cleave makes unforgettabl (Matt P), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
companies generally once they figure out how to make money from one thing arent the best at doing other things, example microsoft w windows/office
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
i mean sure google has lots of products but are any of them really meaningful, have they been successful doing popular new internet things like say social networking, andriod has been very profitable... for samsung, sick burn
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
5/14 in and now I think that Amazon is bad for books too
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 13:55 (ten years ago) link
could someone explain this part to me?'Amazon wanted a payment without having to reveal how many Melville House books were sold on the site'and then later Before the impasse, Amazon had represented eight per cent of Melville House’s sales, more than Johnson could afford to lose
?? so, he did know how many melville house books were sold on amazon?
― just sayin, Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
I think this might mean that he knows how many books he sold to Amazon but he doesn't know how many books Amazon was then able to sell to customers
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
The negotiations probably go
"We need you to pay a bigger coöp fee because your books are not selling well on Amazon"
"Well how many Melville House books are you selling"
"We're not gonna tell you"
":-| Are you gonna tell me after I pay the coöp fee"
"Nope"
":-|"
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
The coup de grâce came last November, when the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service announced a special partnership to deliver Amazon—and only Amazon—packages on Sundays, with the terms kept under official seal.
This is amazing. Why did I not know about this. I love Amazon, and the UPSS
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
xp yep that sounds about right
due to the lack of editing (i actually made it through the whole article) i do wonder how much of this is accurate, but at the same time it's not too surprising - they're doing the same kind of stuff Walmart did
― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 14:18 (ten years ago) link
11/14
Many more shows are in the pipeline (including a New Yorker project developed by Condé Nast Entertainment).
:O
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
I like the sleight of hand that Geogre Packer pulls in turning Random Penguin House into the Friend That Turns To You For Solace When His Father Beats Him instead of the Faceless Corporation That Heelgrinds Promising Authors
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
Mostly it made me fearful for the future of a country where the goal seems to be how to entertain its citizens as efficiently and quickly as possible
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
Finished
Ultimately the point of view this article was most sympathetic to was the viewpoint of the average reader of the New Yorker
I like to think that the germ of this article was planted when, one night, George Packer sat bolt upright in his bed and scribbled on a copy of the Collected Stories of Lydia Davis "If Knopf collapses who will publish Jenny Offill?? ? ?"
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
Suspect this
(Few customers realize that the results generated by Amazon’s search engine are partly determined by promotional fees.)
is untrue. cf Tim Lott in the guardian expressing astonishment that supermarkets might use store layout to try and encourage people to buy more stuff. Even the stupid kids know this.
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:08 (ten years ago) link
― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
lol then amazon be sellin wedd stoked 4 dat
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
just to see the "People Also Bought..."
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
there was some fancy coffee/tea grinder on amazon recently filled with five star reviews from enthusiasts of neither coffee nor tea.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
who grinds tea what the heck
― eric banana (s.clover), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfGuiQM_R9U
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
lol awesome
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
what are these "nugs"
― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
I'm guessing some sort of fast food 'nuggets'.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
Nugs = attractive girlsChillin = hanging outGrindage = food
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
Google Admits Google+ Was Just A Ploy To Track Your Behavior Online
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
http://valleywag.gawker.com/startup-flying-dateable-women-to-san-francisco-like-its-1536122926/
this is pretty gross but i don't think comparing it to military rape slavery is particularly appropriate
― goole, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
yep, fight the real enemy -- hyperbole.
― eric banana (s.clover), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
you said it!
― goole, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
the video is more amazing than the concept i gotta say.
― eric banana (s.clover), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
"it would be great if there were just like a plane full of women, you know"
― eric banana (s.clover), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
well, it would!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
dateable ages
― j., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
http://valleywag.gawker.com/which-is-more-terrifying-google-or-facebook-1552264157
it's a tossup
― I don't care if you're Black Sabbath, James White, or Deep Purple (Karl Malone), Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
i dunno kinda convincingly argues that facebook thrives on our vanity but is too incompetent to really parlay that into replacing human institutions and customs with regulation by some kind of skynet predecessor a la the goog
― j., Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
eh i like google more but
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
meaty.
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
i guess all enormous tech company douchebags shop at the same place for accessories
http://i1.nyt.com/images/2014/05/08/business/08founder-web1/08founder-web1-largeHorizontal375.jpg
― j., Wednesday, 7 May 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
idk he seems cool
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
who is that, the ceo of alibaba?
― markers, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
yeah
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/amazons-big-assist-government
not news but yeah
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/ads-your-fridge-google-says-it-could-happen-n111091
― j., Wednesday, 21 May 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
fuck that
― badg, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/amazon-escalates-its-battle-against-hachette
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 May 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
i think i first noticed something was up when i was looking at dfw's books
― markers, Friday, 23 May 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/article/facebook-tinkered-users-feeds-massive-psychology-e-206324?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview%3A1%3ADefault
I think this is kind of cool, actually
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 27 June 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
That's what they WANT you to think
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 June 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
I am mystified by this result and the margin!
― rip van wanko, Friday, 27 June 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
seems about right to me? facebook has always been openly contemptuous and dismissive in its treatment of its users in an almost rumsfeldian way.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
http://assets.nybooks.com/media/img/illustrations/Bezos_Jeff-071014_jpg_250x1604_q85.jpg
citizen bezos
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/25/new-amazon-terms-book-industry-report-concessions
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
Amazon just affirmed they provide facial recognition technology to ICE. "We think the federal government should have access to the best technology." - Brian Huseman, Amazon VP for Public Policy. In pursuit of profit, they are willing partners in Trump's deportation machine.— Brad Lander (@bradlander) December 12, 2018
― ogmor, Thursday, 13 December 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
no, it only feels like this is his second term
― sans lep (sic), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link