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JoelJ
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Posted: 27th Jul 2009 06:12
What's the worst technology you have ever used?

I'm sure there's worse, but the hockey-puck mouse Apple put out many years ago:


It was AWFUL. I can't imagine ANYONE would actually think that was a good idea.

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Posted: 27th Jul 2009 06:13 Edited at: 27th Jul 2009 06:15
A mac? I can't get used to the one button mouse interface, though. Drives me mad.

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Posted: 27th Jul 2009 06:22
Yeah, 1 button FTL. I have.... 7 buttons and 2 scroll wheels. Muahahahaha. All are utilized!

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Posted: 27th Jul 2009 06:27
Er...so why do you think it only has one mouse button still?

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To make it easier for the average computer user? Also, apple wants everyone to follow their interface guidelines; and contextual menus can still be opened with a Ctrl+click? Plus, loads of keyboard shortcuts?

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Posted: 27th Jul 2009 06:58
Quote: "Er...so why do you think it only has one mouse button still?"


Because Mac users are elitists and pretend it's good just so they don't have to look like they gave in and copied PCs

(yes, this argument is full of holes but I thought it would be funny to post and, well, essentially the elitist remark is true)

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Posted: 27th Jul 2009 07:48
What the heck... one button? The first mice had only one button... that's going backwards not forwards.

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Pretty soon we'll eventually get here with the Mac mice.
The worst piece of technology that I've used... Hm... I had a $10 USD digital camera that took 1MP pictures, had a small fake LCD screen and could only hold 3 pictures. It also drained through batteries like no other.

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Posted: 27th Jul 2009 08:56
Quote: "To make it easier for the average computer user? Also, apple wants everyone to follow their interface guidelines; and contextual menus can still be opened with a Ctrl+click?"


Why would I want to actually use effort to raise me left hand (to press control) when I could just right-click? That seems inconvenient, not easier. Also, what if you want to scope in a FPS? Do you have to press control?

Yes I realize that Apple has just recently discovered the ingenuity of the *gasp* two-buttoned mouse, but frankly I'm surprised they have taken so long to switch.

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Posted: 27th Jul 2009 13:42
Thxs Gunn3r

Got a few laughs out of that.
A cd palyer that only read backwards, it sounded bloody freaky. Linking park 'in the end' disturbed me, seriously try it.

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Posted: 27th Jul 2009 20:25
Quote: "Er...so why do you think it only has one mouse button still?"

I have a mouse with 3 buttons and a scroll wheel on my Mac. one of the reasons they come with 1 button, I assume, is so developers know that they can't depend on everyone using 2 buttons. It forces developers to make everything accessible without the 2nd button. That way, they don't hide everything in a context menu.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 02:00
Quote: "A cd palyer that only read backwards, it sounded bloody freaky. Linking park 'in the end' disturbed me, seriously try it."


W. T. F???

Coming on from that, the worst thing I have ever heard of is a CD/DVD rewinder.


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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 03:20
lol @ Gunn3r

That parody was great! For 5 minutes there, I was partly convinced there was a macbook wheel due out.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 03:25
Quote: "Worst tech you have ever used"


Windows

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Windows"


Good one! I would have named the Mac but it's not good enough to be considered 'technology'...

/joke

Sorry about that. It's just that I get mad when I see such ignorant remarks...You obviously want to start a flame war.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 03:40 Edited at: 28th Jul 2009 03:42
Quote: "Good one! I would have named the Mac but it's not good enough to be considered 'technology'..."

You'd be surprised, if you'd let off from Windows a while, forget everything you learned with Windows and switch to Linux and use it. True, they are very different but that is the point. Linux != Windows. And when you see that, you will see how simple Linux actually is and how crap Windows were.

Also, btw.

For Mac, i would not say it is bad. It is really good actually, but the price is ripoff when considering it is using Unix and possibly lots of loaned code. Also it perhaps simplifies computer using too much


On topic, my worst tech too is Windows. After being locked out from OS that i purchased, it felt shocking.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 04:00
Quote: "You'd be surprised, if you'd let off from Windows a while, forget everything you learned with Windows and switch to Linux and use it. True, they are very different but that is the point."


Actually, I have tried this, and from what I have figured out you are dead wrong. Linux is terrible compared to windows.

Windows is much much easier to use... and you can pretty much do the same stuff.
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I haven't tried Linux, so I can't say much. However, if I have to run Windows applications in Wine (or whatever it's called) why bother? All I will get is a performance hit...

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 05:29
I'm waiting for the first guy to say "I would give an honest answer, but its not appropriate to do so in a 13+ forum".


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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 05:47
My question up there ^^^ wasn't asking why Apple decided to have a one-button mouse, I'm wondering why you people think that they're still using it.

They've had two buttons on their mice for a while. Like I'm thinking ten years. So it's great how you guys are making fun of a 10 year old concept.



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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 05:49 Edited at: 28th Jul 2009 05:51
Quote: "They've had two buttons on their mice for a while. Like I'm thinking ten years. So it's great how you guys are making fun of a 10 year old concept."


Well the only "Mac" mouse they sell at my local stores are the plain white one button ones. You can use most USB mouses with a mac though.
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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 08:51


These?

Because those have I think three or four buttons.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 08:59
Inspire, I have one of those and they only have 3. One for left and right respectively and one for scroll wheel.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 09:00
It has 3.

The base, press in the wheel then click, and squeezing the two side things.

My school uses those, I cannot stand them. The mouse, ball, thing, is so awkwardly placed, I found a few broken, the wheel breaks easy, and they are not cheap.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB111LL/A/Wireless-Mighty-Mouse?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg&mco=NzQxNTc

I mean, comon! $69 for it!? My mouse is better and I paid $10 for it! (Lasted me about 5-6 years, the school has had their mouses for about, a year to 2 before they started to break.)

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 09:27
The worst tech I've ever used? The pencil. Unlike the stylus it wears down, you have to constantly sharpen it and eventually you have to buy another one. Not to mention the paper you use to do your homework on only to have the dog grab and eat it...

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 09:47
Quote: "These?

Because those have I think three or four buttons."


Yup, those are the ones. I didnt know they had a wheel or side buttons. Sorry. But they do only have one top button!
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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 14:40
Nice link Gunn3r, that would be a terrible laptop!

And for those who think you need 7 button mice, real computer nerds know how to operate a computer faster without a mouse.

Worst tech I have used are Oracle interfaces.... or Vista.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 14:56 Edited at: 28th Jul 2009 14:56
Hmmm, worst tech....

This

Didn't work. Played sound, but didn't want to do what it was supposedly designed for, record sound.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 14:57 Edited at: 28th Jul 2009 15:07
Quote: "Sorry about that. It's just that I get mad when I see such ignorant remarks...You obviously want to start a flame war."


Obviously you've used nothing but Windows if you find that insulting. Who's ignorant now?

Quote: "The mouse, ball, thing, is so awkwardly placed, I found a few broken, the wheel breaks easy, and they are not cheap."


Yeah, they really do suck. It's a shame too, because the default keyboard is brilliant (nice spacing, good 'feel' etc.). Why they bogged the peripherals down with that crummy mouse is anyone's guess

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db just kidding. lol

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Quote: "And for those who think you need 7 button mice, real computer nerds know how to operate a computer faster without a mouse.
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It's not that I don't know how to operate a PC without a mouse, but how is it physically faster to adjust volume, mute, back forward in a browser and alt-tab when you have to lift your left hand to hit buttons when everything is right there on the mouse only the distance of a quick micrometer move by a finger? Makes for nice relaxing times browsing the internets.

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Quote: "micro$oft windows lol"


Quit jumping on the bandwagon. At least David R can put forward an opinion as to why he thinks that.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 18:00
Quote: "At least David R can put forward an opinion as to why he thinks that."


I'm still waiting for a valid reason as to why Windows is the "worst tech you have ever used". I can name about 25 devices I've owned over the years that are much worse, such as my old AudioVox cell phone that continuously froze and gave French error messages.

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Quote: "I'm still waiting for a valid reason as to why Windows is the "worst tech you have ever used". I can name about 25 devices I've owned over the years that are much worse, such as my old AudioVox cell phone that continuously froze and gave French error messages."

Then let it be that way. It's just a personal taste.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 18:27 Edited at: 28th Jul 2009 18:27
Quote: "Then let it be that way. It's just a personal taste."


No kidding it's a personal taste. This thread is obviously purely subjective. But I'd still like to know how it can rate lowest of all tech someone has ever tried.

I would probably rate Real Player as one of the lowest tech's I have ever dealt with, with Yahoo Messenger a close second.

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Realplayer indeed is quite an alltime low. I mean, if Jeku and I agree about something, it's usually so.


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Quote: "Realplayer indeed is quite an alltime low. I mean, if Jeku and I agree about something, it's usually so."


I agree here too, it was annoying back in the Windows days. Good those real player only format are on the lose nowadays. Phone version of real player works bit better but with really bad quality :/

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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 19:38 Edited at: 28th Jul 2009 19:42
Quote: "I'm still waiting for a valid reason as to why Windows is the "worst tech you have ever used"."


Quite simply, it's the worst I've used. Practically all the tech. I've used over the years has been great - sure they have their ups and downs, but the only thing that has consistently annoyed me is Windows. All the other things had issues, sure - but they were forgivable (either due to their age or low price) or their flaws were expected to some degree (second hand stuff). Windows was obviously not forgivable on either of these counts, so that's why it's definitively the worst piece of tech I've ever used - from a personal standpoint, and also for the amount of times I've had to fix other people's machines because Windows tied itself in a knot. It's got to be one of the most fragile high-profile pieces of technology/software, so that's my reasoning.

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Windows is good enough. It's a bit overly complex and its very easy to screw up a Windows install, but for the most part it does what it has to do.

What I really don't like is Microsoft. They've done some very intelligent things with Windows. Especially with all the security stuff with Vista which, if anything, encourages piracy. I can't do one Google search about a Windows product without turning up something that says "new torrent for (the Microsoft product) that gets around (whatever new security feature Microsoft made up)" or something like that.

I'm very much opposed to Piracy myself, but the fact is that it will always be there and they'll always find a way to get around new security features. The only new security features do is (when there's some kind of bug) lock people out of their OS even when they bought it legitimately. That actually happened to a friend of mine when he first got a Vista machine.

But anyway, now that my little rant is over. Windows, although it does have it's issues, is definately not the worst piece of technology I've ever used. I'd have to say the worst pieces of technology mankind has created are cars. I hate cars. They're loud, smelly, expensive, and dangerous. Plus, people are idiots when they drive!

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Quite simply, it's the worst I've used. Practically all the tech. I've used over the years has been great - sure they have their ups and downs, but the only thing that has consistently annoyed me is Windows. All the other things had issues, sure - but they were forgivable (either due to their age or low price) or their flaws were expected to some degree (second hand stuff). Windows was obviously not forgivable on either of these counts, so that's why it's definitively the worst piece of tech I've ever used - from a personal standpoint, and also for the amount of times I've had to fix other people's machines because Windows tied itself in a knot. It's got to be one of the most fragile high-profile pieces of technology/software, so that's my reasoning."


Way to keep being vague - if you don't mind, we dislike mac smuggery and prefer to stay away from enless arguments such as those you are presenting before us. Get off the thread if you want to start a flame war, otherwise you can keep your opinions to yourself without trying to provoke people.

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Skype telephones. Awesome idea but they just don't work. They seem to break down all time and have all sorts of other annoying problems.
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If a sniper rifle counts as a tech, then that's the worst that I've ever used.

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Quote: "Obviously you've used nothing but Windows if you find that insulting. Who's ignorant now?"


Umm...not me. I've used a mac before. I had to use one for a video editing class. That term was pure torture.

Anyway, I didn't like what I saw. *For instance* (notice I give specifics...) the aforementioned control+click, the flashy interface, the lack of native support\delayed release for many windows games and apps, outrageous prices from Apple, the limit of ONE hardware vendor, etc. One vendor = monopoly = high prices.

I'm betting I could get a $500 PC that is better than a $1000-$2000 Mac. I know those are just words, but I bet I can prove it.

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Posted: 29th Jul 2009 05:47
Quote: "I would probably rate Real Player as one of the lowest tech's I have ever dealt with, with Yahoo Messenger a close second."


I use Realplayer and I like it. Idk. I do HATE yahoo messenger and Internet Explorer because of how they start. Its so slow.
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Quote: "If a sniper rifle counts as a tech, then that's the worst that I've ever used."


What? Sniper rifles are amazing, they've saved many lives (sounds very ironic!), more recently the rescue of Captain Phillips by that Navy SEALs team.

Either you're stupid or you're trying to sound cool by talking about firing weapons.

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The worst tech i used was a calculater i programed when i first stated programming.


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Quote: "The worst tech i used was a calculater i programed when i first stated programming."


Lol. I programmed one of those awhile back as well...

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Quote: "Sorry. But they do only have one top button!"


No, they have two. I'm currently using it. It's great.

Quote: "Anyway, I didn't like what I saw. *For instance* (notice I give specifics...) the aforementioned control+click, the flashy interface, the lack of native support\delayed release for many windows games and apps, outrageous prices from Apple, the limit of ONE hardware vendor, etc. One vendor = monopoly = high prices."


What kind of Mac were you on? Because only the old ones have to do control+click.

Flashy interface is a bad thing?

The lack of native support and delayed release of Windows games and apps is because they are built for DirectX. Microsoft made DirectX. Apple uses OpenGL. The fault is on the developers, not Apple.

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Posted: 29th Jul 2009 10:03 Edited at: 29th Jul 2009 10:04
When I said control+click I was talking about the Mac's one-button mice problem in general. I was using one of the newer Macs, although I don't know the name. All I know is it had a 19(17?) wide.

Why should it matter to me whether it's Apple or the developers' fault? I just want an OS that can run what I want to run when I want to run it.

I notice you didn't mention the price.

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Quote: "Way to keep being vague - if you don't mind, we dislike mac smuggery and prefer to stay away from enless arguments such as those you are presenting before us. Get off the thread if you want to start a flame war, otherwise you can keep your opinions to yourself without trying to provoke people"

Quote: "Umm...not me. I've used a mac before. I had to use one for a video editing class. That term was pure torture."


Who mentioned anything about Macs? I certainly didn't

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