Screwed over by The ManWe once made a flash animation for a record company. They told us it was brilliant and 30 staff gave us a round of applause. They asked us to stick it out without their name on it. Then their legal department sent us a cease and desist for infringing their copyright. How have you been screwed over?
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rob, Fri 3 Aug 2012, 13:46)
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Planned obsolescenceA few years before compact discs hit the market, I graduated in chemistry. The last few lectures were given by the head of the chemistry department and were not about chemistry. One of his observations was that although stereophonic recording had been around since the 1920s and long play vinyl records had been a real commercial possibility since the late 1940s, the industry waited until the market for 78 rpm records was just about saturated. So they introduced them about 1955-56 and dropped 78s. Result! Music lovers went out and bought new phonographs and new records.
FM radio - invented in the 1930s,one FM "trial" station in Sydney Aust. in 1960 but not general until the late 1970s here. Now everybody has an AM-FM radio, let's introduce digital.
Same with television.
Do you want to talk about successive versions of Windows which are not backward compatible?
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No(, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 0:15, closed)
Thought not(, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 1:59, closed)
I'm totally chucking out all my CDs and converting all my music to mp3.Because, of course, there'll be programs capable of decoding those in fifteen years time.
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 9:43,
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