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- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -10/+204(spoiler)The top 5:
5. Flop
4. Kiloflop
3. Megaflop
2. Gigaflop
1. Teraflop
wocka wocka wocka! - Dested, on 10/12/2007, -6/+94Even as a joke, installing Windows ME isn't funny dude. Show some respect for the millions who lost their computers to this travesty.
Marked as insensitive. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+55Windows ME (shudders)
- Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43I think ME is the reason why XP became the most pirated OS on the planet.
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37CP/M wasn't a failure. Before the PC clone era, CP/M was the most widely used OS, analogous to Windows of it's time.
- j01101010, on 10/12/2007, -6/+42you forgot petaflop
- EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Someone should let this guy know that 'to' and 'too' are not interchangeable. These constant grammatical errors make his writing appear to originate from an adolescent.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+38How can windows Me be considered a flop?
Sure, it sucked I absolutely loathed it, but I would bet that hundreds of millions of copies were sold or bundled with sold PCs, so how can it be a flop on the same level as OS/2 or the Lisa?
I'll say once again, Win Me sure did suck, but in sales terms is certainly was not a flop by any means! - DougieD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Is that you, Bill?
- chadu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23The Newton may not have set the world on fire with it's sales, but it certainly made things like the Palm Pilot, Windows Mobile, and the Tablet PC possible far sooner than they would have happened had it not been for Apple.
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23huh? I hope that was a joke...
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25The Cube was great! Although I have to admit the urge to pull a tissue from the top whenever I pass one.
- markus941, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20nice list. if i ever make enough money I want to collect all 10 as antique geek art
- jacobd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20We owe a lot to the NeXT cube:
- Tim Bernes-Lee used it to write the WWW protocols.
- When Apple bought NeXT in 1996 the NeXT OS was used as a basis for OS X, the product that revived Apple. - bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I love how he gets pissed about bad spelling then says Newtwon.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16C is probably one of the best languages because it lets you do exactly what you want to do. Unfortunately, it's also one of the worst, because it lets you do exactly what you don't want to do.
- stylerm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20How can you resemble a remark?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I'll vouch for the NeXT cube. It was a great system, and in the aerospace industry at the time you found nothing but NeXT. Boy, could you hack that sucker! The list is more about business-blunder flops than technology flops.
PS Thanks to the NeXT STEP, Window Maker is still one of my top two favorite FOSS desktops. - Dested, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14BURN FOR YOUR SINS
- AM088, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19Wow, Apple is a flop-y company...
- stylerm, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21wtf hammydude. your digg reply etiquette is lacking.
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13There is hardly any language more successul than the C programming language. Not only is it still in wide use today - many other modern languages borrow their basic syntax from it.
- AceTracer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11The Apple Lisa came out in 1983; which he gets wrong the first time but right the second. And..."business's"? This whole article seems half-assed and uninformed.
- decades, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Maybe it just a mistake you tried to learn it, unsuccessfully ;-)
- mybrainhurts, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17All of XP works if you're not a complete retard.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+18Shhh. You'll upset the mindless apple drones!
- cquilliam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11@AceTracer
"This whole article seems half-assed and uninformed."
You must be new here, welcome to digg.com - Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13I think the 20th Anniversary Mac tops the Cube in the area of flops...
- Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -15/+24G4 Cube, anyone?
- NinjAlt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7User illaya is going around spamming this crap on every article he can find. Reported as spam as such. We the users of digg dont appreciate what you're doing illaya.
http://digg.com/users/illaya/commented - Gudath, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9"I resemble that remark" is a classic comedy line. A deliberate malapropism, it was used by the Three Stooges, and by Archie Bunker, and probably goes further back.
- Crucifix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is totally off topic, but I wish the author could learn the difference between 'to' and 'too'. That article simply got annoying to read after the fourth screw-up.
- AM088, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah, so people buy ME, and then they buy XP and Microsoft gets double income.
- reiggin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6NeXT's success was in their operating system, NeXTstep which finally became OPENSTEP (before the Apple aquisition).
While the NeXTcube and NeXTstation only sold 50,000 units, the operating system was deployable on several different platforms.
The company cannot be seen as a failure itself since it was around for a decade and sold for a half billion dollars. - CovardeAnonimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7and the airplane thing is also a mith. check it out here: http://www.digitalresearch.biz/EUBANKS.HTM
- doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The way I heard it, Gary's wife wouldn't sign IBM's non-disclosure agreement. IBM won't tell you the time of day iuntil you sign an NDA.
- FoxHunter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Glad it had a pic of the Xerox machine. I never knew what it looked like until now. Guess that's dumb on my part for never looking it up before. Regardless, I enjoyed the article and learned a few things too.
- CandidateZero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Windows ME, oh yeah, I remember. That's the piece of trash Dell forced on its customers as the only available OS circa 2001. I'll never forgive you, Michael.
- balloot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Agreed...the most relevant piece of information that I got out of this article is that the author couldn't pass 3rd grade grammar.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5the more you try the more you fail
but you also win more than those that do not try - NickYF19, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I looked too and illaya is definitely spamming links in comments. I also looked at the submitted stories by him, and most of them point to the same blog. Spamming Digg with links back to his blog as well.
- rcran, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9The newton, very simply, was not a flop. People STILL use newtons.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Mine still works
- Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -4/+711. Windows Vista
- prophet6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You're right that the GNU/Linux terminology is often misunderstood, but getting too caught up in nomenclature really misses the point. GNU/Linux changed the world, regardless of what it's called.
Richard Stallman is a brilliant man who's basically shot his credibility to hell because of his obsession with this trivial issue.
Like the now arcane hacker/cracker distinction, words change meaning with time. It's just the way language works. - ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4More of Apple's flops:
http://www.lowendmac.com/roadapples/index.shtml
Interesting though that two of Apple's coolest machines are on the list:
G4 Cube: not much explanation needed
Color Classic: a favourite machine to mod and upgrade for its classic form factor. - warragul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There's quite a bit of revisionism in that article. OS/2 was an alternative to Windows; in the 90's I was in an IBM marketing team trying to sell it. There was never a tie-in with the PPC. We were selling Micro-channel 386 PS/2s against clone PCs.
As for stability, OS/2 running on a PS/2 was as solid as a rock. I saw a developer start over 20 simultaneous DOS instances under OS/2 with nary a hiccup. Each ran its own DOS program in a separate thread.
I don't believe you can judge an Os's quality by the strength of an included (3rd party) game. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I remember the sales rep who showed how awesome the Newtons text recognition function was by writing his name, and the Newton interpreted this as "I'm a hotdog".
They don't make PDA's like that any more. - williamhelmick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Thanks for the link, I used it so I could find all of illaya's comments to digg them down.
- DrGonzo1184, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@dancpsu
The Newton can surf the net. I know this for a fact as I have surfed on a Newton before. -
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