Tech that needs to die

Technology
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I used the digital copies that came via Ultraviolet probably more than the physical discs I got them with. I’m guessing that Movies Anywhere ate their lunch.

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You know, I don’t think I’ve ever downloaded a digital copy of a movie I got on DVD. I haven’t bought (or owned) many DVDs in my life, but still. Anything that I wanted a digital copy of I either ripped from the DVD or (if the copy protection was onerous) found online*.

*“Online” including both torrents, friends, RIT’s DC++ network in the dorms, other non-legal digital means

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Same here, mostly because I assumed those digital copies all had onerous copy protection.

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I’m amazed they kept it floundering for that long.

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This feature only lasted a year. Is this a record?

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Shouldn’t it be called, attempted murderer? cause it didn’t kill it.

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It didn’t do anything. It was just Youtube with a dark background.

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It did exactly three things.

  • Dark background.
  • Home page only shows gaming content for people who only care about gaming…
  • They created URLs like gaming.youtube.com/username/ so people could always go to the same URL to find a particular person streaming.
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I would bet good money that there will be a business oriented implementation of Discord in the next 18 months.

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They could call it Slack!

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I use it at work; it’s called teams. It’s…fine

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When clients send me a teams link. I click it and maybe 30 seconds of faff later. I’m in a call or chat or whatever, it’s great.

When clients send me a skype link, I resign myself to never speaking to them, because not once has that ever worked.

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I have always (jokingly) assumed Slack is fake because literally no one I know uses it. Seriously even my tech friends use Discord at their company and all my legal field friends use Skype at their firms.

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yea, Teams isn’t bad, but it’s not as clear cut as Skype for Business was. Will be fun to get people to use it.

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It seems to be very popular in Newsrooms, I know a lot of journos who are in one or more Slack groups for work.

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I use Slack for Convention communication at con.

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At work, we use Skype for all our IM conversations. The US Government as a whole uses Skype. We can even talk about confidential matters over Skype that we would have to encrypt in our emails otherwise.

Outside of work, I use Slack for convention communication at cons like @Cremlian