The Roku box was one of the good ones… about ten years ago. Though maybe this is just a TV thing. TIL Roku makes actual screens.
In the past few years especially, I’ve seen so many unshakable “good ones” go bad. Some, in the worst possible way.
cups side of face in my hand
Say it ain’t so!
The resulting lights display is great, but the carbon footprint and the bad blood between neighbors is not.
My personal favorite is the Christmas decoration wars.
Calling the stage units prototypes is being nice. The reality was that at that point the iPhone had barely gotten to a proof of concept stage. Months before this event, the developers were still using a giant desktop tower to simulate the phone’s hardware.
That the photos of the phone were real and not concept art, that the stage units weren’t just unusable rubber dummies was a magic trick itself.
When the developers revealed years later that the iPhone presentation (just the presentation, not even the actual launch) was a make or break moment for the company, they absolutely were not kidding.
And then they went from “should not even be working” test units to fully functional production units in six months!
Whatever your opinion of Jobs or Apple, credit where credit is due.
One of the best lines from Armageddon:
“Sir, the override. It’s been overridden.”
“If this is your first night at Mozilla.social… you have to fight.”
And the oversized Reese’s coffee mug he rode in on.
That’s not what Grandfathered means. Basically, original subscribers are being forced onto a new contract.
Wow, an actually useful SOS feature.
Not an “Oops, I butt-dialed the police again” button.
The ones I can remember…
But the biggest one, I mean roaring applause, was an advanced showing of Galaxy Quest. I’ve never had a theatrical experience like that before or ever again.
Just like how if you put a shattered CD in an apparatus, you can still use a laser reader to recover any data on the undamaged sections.
Though, because data is recorded in a circular pattern at high speeds, you won’t get much. Or what you get will have lots of corruption. I wonder what pattern of storage these plates use? If it’s similar to SSDs, then large files can be nested in a very small area of space - increasing the chances of recovery.
Well, not really.
So AIM was built on an existing chat protocol called OSCAR. The same protocol used in other services. So people eventually figured out how to make chat clients that could log into many different IM services on one app.
This was not sanctioned by AOL, but they allowed it at first. Then they decided you HAVE to use the official AIM client to talk to people on AIM. The third-party developers ignored AOL, so they entered into a tug-a-war match for a while.
Because AOL was using known software to make AIM work, there was only so much they could do to keep their client working while also blocking everyone else. Eventually it became too much of a hassle, so AOL relented and third-party clients kept working until the service was shutdown.
They even made a series of movies about it.
I remember the mini-war between AOL and third-party IM clients. There were days where AOL would send 15kB patches to AIM multiple times a day to break compatibility with the other apps. And they would then fix it within hours.
In the end, AOL gave up.
Vimeo: “Today is the day!”
Hell yeah. Ever since I was a kid, yellow peaches have been one of the best foods I’ve ever eaten.
board room filled with parasites
“Ssssss, the humanssss are coming for our jobssssss!”