Arsenic Lupin posted:

Based on the dot-com wave, stockholders buy expecting Facebook-style (at the time it was Amazon-style IIRC) growth, and they panic at any sign that the growth curve is tapering off. If you can't become rich holding the stock, better sell it off and buy something that *can* make you rich. Lowering your earnings expectations is a classic way to panic investors. (Earnings predictions are such a crazy dance anyway; back in dot-com it was expected for companies to inform finance insiders of their *real* predictions, leading to the "whisper numbers". I have no idea if this still happens.)

e: I just encountered the Gartner Magic Quadrant and now I have a stabbing pain in my insides.

icantfindaname posted:

Autistic, sociopathic robot

computer parts posted:

That is the future of technology, and arguably it's already started to happen with computers right now. In the future, computers will be appliances like microwaves or refrigerators - maybe they cost a reasonable amount, but they're very simple and closed off to the general consumer. When it breaks, you either hire a specialist to fix it or buy a new one. This scares people for some reason.

blowfish posted:

No that's my supervisor. Putting a control panel shortcut on the desktop and installing classic shell fix objectively bad UI decisions that make computers harder to use

Still, UIs staying the same unless a new compelling development that actually serves a purpose comes up is good, because I don't give a gently caress about how my computer looks beyond "not a complete eyesore" and "not so confusing it becomes hard to use" and don't want to spend effort on getting used to change for the sake of change.

Paradoxish posted:

lol if you don't launch literally all apps by just hitting winkey and typing (a feature which has been a part of the OS since vista)

Avalanche posted:

Would agree with you if it wasn't the fact that upgrading an OS in an enterprise environment or even just installing basic rear end updates can sometimes non-stop break some old as poo poo programs the enterprise relies on for day to day usage. Yea, it's more of a problem of companies running programs with code being held together by scotch tape than the OS though.

The issue becomes less severe in non-networked equipment like a lot of portable medical imaging equipment. What is the point in upgrading an endoscope system for example (something used to look down a person's throat) if the company software works flawlessly on XP, the image quality looks good on XP, and the only result in upgrading the system to win 10 is the possibility of incompatibility issues, and performance issues with the systems older hardware?

I don't know if something exists already, but it would be cool if a future version of windows incorporated VMs that ran off of virtual hardware configurations so all a companies dogshit legacy software could be spooled up in separate VMs running older OS versions independent of the higher level OS.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Let's just say that I wouldn't be surprised if some of those VC's get some very interesting visits if they dare back out.

Subjunctive posted:

I don't think many 8 year olds were tuned into pets.com.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

In America it isn't about enjoying anything it's about having it. If I have a Benz and a $600,000 house while you have a Toyota and live in an apartment I am better than you. That's all that matters; if I need to work 80 hours a week all year every year to get that then it Is Worth It because it means I'm better than most Americans.

Granted I'm probably also miserable and have an addiction to feed because of the stress but thems the breaks.

BiggerBoat posted:

The same way it determines and knows everything else I might want to buy or what my habits are. You just have to put as much as effort into identifying problematic combinations as you do "man, this buyer sure does purchase a lot rope and books on lynchings". So instead of automatically suggesting instructional manuals on building a gallows, maybe program it to identify serious issues like the article talked about. It was popping up suggestions for other products that help facilitate suicide. Yes?

Not sure I follow you here.

karthun posted:

Ya, I use my father in law's 3/4th ton to tow our camper. Visibility is pretty bad. I imagine this full ton truck is even worse.

BiggerBoat posted:

It absolutely blows my mind how well Teslas continue to sell. It seems like buying and owning one is the most inconvenient and expensive means of transportation that a person could choose.

Watermelon Daiquiri posted:

nft games are just an excuse to become landlords

TACD posted:

The fact that advertising is a viable way to fund so much creative content when the vast majority of ads are at worst being viewed by bots or blocked outright, and at best being ignored by uninterested humans should really be a clue that there’s a huge amount of money sloshing about that could just be directly gifted to creators without all the extra unproductive steps of creating, targeting, and displaying ads.

Eventually the industry will come to its senses and collectively realise that adtech provides no value and the entire adtech sector will come to be seen as the greatest con of the 21st century. It probably won’t happen until after we all have tracking nanobots in our retinas to analyse the profit potential from every saccade though

Sagacity posted:

This is not just any animation, though. It's (and I quote) the "defining work of this era".

PhazonLink posted:

^
but they have punisher skull face masks?

I mean its a balaclava / skimask so its not going to stop Roni particles and will be hot as gently caress and if its not winter, lol at wearing it.

KozmoNaut posted:

I jokingly suggested "executive summary" as the name for our super simplified, boil down everything complex to a couple of simple graphs type of reports, which we created for middle and upper management at my old job, to give them some pretty colors to look at.

They absolutely loved it, and for all I know, they're still using the report format I designed. I feel dirty for that.

Arivia posted:

My 7600k is blacklisted from running Windows 11 and Microsoft won’t say why despite it meeting their CPU requirements in every way. All electronics companies do this poo poo to one degree or another. I’ll get less than 10 years of support for Windows on my desktop because of this, so yeah, we can all make comparisons to make whomever sound better or worse.

Antigravitas posted:

Mister Facetious posted:

Thank God, Windows XP is back

Kaal posted:

Classic Start solves all the UI issues from the newer tabletized Windows OS'.

Less Fat Luke posted:

Don't miss the trailer for Green's project if you like cringe!
https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1529205304478420994

Cabbit posted:

This seems like a good time to remind everyone of who the second largest stakeholder of Twitter is after Elon Musk:

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1593428819070914560?s=20&t=5SGCAXbjyX8wEMJiqcmZrg

By the time this is over I would not be surprised if the KSA has a.) a controlling stake in Twitter and/or b.) a controlling stake in Elon Musk's head.