does no one remember having to delete messages cause yr inbox was full ffs people
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
companies charging for or just not offering forwarding!
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
lock in!
spam remember spam
you are all so spoiled, forgot where you came from
i bet the government has some really nice drone maps already, but maybe google could sell them info on what people are searching for like jihad or gun control or w/e then the gov could drone them, they could even automate it
― lag∞n, Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:13 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol point taken, at the end of the day google really is a company for consumers and the money there is in ads or devices. i still think there's something about how good they've gotten at massaging a lot of data to fill a need, maybe they can sell that skill to other need contexts with a different kind of money in them, or maybe there are other companies in those contexts who are actually doing the equivalent or better but don't gain anything from being visible to the general public.
xp yeah unlimited storage was a huge deal (and still is imo)
― In The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears, Van Cleave makes unforgettabl (Matt P), Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
man 'people just need more free space' was so not the dominant narrative, it was 'are you cool enough to have received an invite to this exclusive new thing'
― iatee, Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
i agree that googles data skills/cache could conceivably lead to new huge money (the internet of things?) but i just dont see them doing it cause theyre a mature company w an existing business to tend to, also even w/o that inertia its just really hard to hit it big twice, its v rare to do it once
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
― iatee, Sunday, March 17, 2013 2:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
eh this is just the nerd story, i mean it was opened to the public and then lots of people who had no idea still switched cause it was better, i mean having some buzz helps but if the products not better no one is going to bother to change
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
i only cared because 10 gb but i was a nerd (lol xp). it's true that past a certain point people don't actually care about unlimited storage, they just want to not have to do the deleting themselves and want it to look pretty (hence Facebook)
― In The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears, Van Cleave makes unforgettabl (Matt P), Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
and free space was def a big deal when it launched
― lag∞n, Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
fb's early exclusiveness was also huge, people at low ranked colleges were so jealous they couldn't join the club
― iatee, Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
The worst, worst Java implementation I've ever used was SAP's. Sun really should have had most credit for making it a useless desktop platform. 99% of the use of it is on the server side these days, which is a lot more the fault of Oracle, IBM, and SAP than anything. Fine platform for server development, especially with ilx's tomcat approach (open software stack, for the most part) except for the fact the companies holding the software are so wrong-headed and slow-moving and unable to work with any organization under a thousand people
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
like, we complain about facebook and google, but in the backend, there are systems with mediocre security that manage your paycheck, insurance, bank transactions, and those of large companies and they're relying on these big companies that do not make consumer software
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Amazon - helps destroy local retail, treats workers like shit, fucks suppliers over
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
wal-mart 2k13
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
capitalism 1700-
― In The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears, Van Cleave makes unforgettabl (Matt P), Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
Apple, because they have fooled everyone
― Let's talk more my bunny! (doo dah), Sunday, 17 March 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor
― mookieproof, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
the good news is Amazon just bought a robot company last year so they can hire fewer people to move things around warehouses
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
i actually voted amazon fwiw
― Woody Ellen (Matt P), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
silby is actually a robot iirc
― iatee, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
it's true I have a cold metal heart
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
By market cap, for the curious:
AAPL: 416.62BGOOG: 268.44BMSFT: 234.83BORCL: 172.04BAMZN: 119.01BFB: 63.47B
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
Facebook clearly the worst at being an enormous tech company
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
SAP: 100.85B
ahem
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, and IBM is 239.53B and they don't really make computers anymore, they are basically in the same line of business as Oracle and SAP. So much money to be made off of making miserable accounting and ERP software.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
sap and oracle are horrible but they don't really work well w/ the rest of this group as a set, like they're not about to release a social network or a delivery service or w/e
― iatee, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
oracle and sap and ibm can have their own poll
can't believe all these companies are making so much money of clouds, tbh, you can get free clouds just condense some water droplets in the atmosphere
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
we could poll telecom equipment companies: cisco, lucent, juniper, nortel, fujitsu, HP, etc
― Mordy, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
you should save that one for the future court cases xp
― iatee, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
plz yes we need more boring polls
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
veg otm
― Mordy, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
facebook is just crm software with data entry done for you
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
let's poll internet backbone providers like Level3
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
also can we plz poll utility companies
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
I don't even know who the main ones are anymore! Back when I knew their names mci and sprint were still entities
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
ooh and dental insurance
idk, ILM polls musicians who are virtually identical, down to country, style of music, age, and gender. at least these companies provide diff services
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
I'm pretty sure my dental insurance comes from someplace like "Dental Insurance, Inc."
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
like beatles or rolling stones, they're both full of white british dudes, who gives a shit
amazon are a monopoly, dodge taxes, aren't even that cheap any more because they rely more on creaming off the wild west that is their marketplace (which is rife w/ incredibly suspicious sellers operating on an industrial scale) & bully even the biggest publishers for more margin incredibly blatantly. everything milo said too.
― ogmor, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
sorry mh guess I touched a nerve
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
idk, I think the "clever" people who have been stating that "if you think amazon is a company that sells books or even material objects, they are winning" might be on to something
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
not really I just find most ilm talk interminably repetitive
:)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
amazon are prob the most objectively evil, which is funny cause everyone loves them
― iatee, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
I did find a large poster in a Microsoft product box I was throwing out this week, though. Not going to wallpaper my cubicle with it anytime soon, though.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
but iatee
they send me stuff
in the mail
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link