http://www.dslreports.com/forum/25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23179993 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:24:24 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:24:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23543291 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23543291 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:31:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23515254
The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
These products are so bad, they belong in the high-tech hall of shame.
Dan Tynan

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I agree with their assessment of RealPlayer. Even when I knew even less about computers than I know now, I realized that that program was bad news.

I disagree with their assesment of CueCat. I have a modified one that I got for around $5 on eBay years ago that I use as a bar code reader for my Collectorz.com inventory programs. Works great. I never knew why there were so many of them available though, so it was interesting to learn the history of the product.
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Realplayer sucked ten years ago more than it does today.
what the hell are you guys talking about? Real Player is simply the best media player on the net it plays every format imaginable and it's the easiest medium to load songs into my mp3 player, but I agree that the latest version sucks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23435539 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:52:01 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23199595 --
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Realplayer sucked ten years ago more than it does today.

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Are you kidding bud??

Now its an overbloated piece of crap!!

Its icon looks disgusting and everything!!

Realplayer v8 was the LAST GOOD ORIGINAL VERSION (Before AOL came in)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23199253 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:15:59 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23199110 said by Dude111:

MP3 sounds like crap UNLESS ITS A HIGH BIT RATE (64k and up sound ok)
64k isn't even ok...

I won't stand for anything less than 160k. 192 to 256k is preferrable. I can hear the difference between 128 and 192. as for 64k its pretty much radio quality.
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.ra and.ram were absolutely fantastic codecs, though...until mp3 and divx came along]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23193281 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:50:03 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23192242 said by Zac:

I don't agree with is Number 20. the CueCat...
Me neither. I liked them. :D ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23192242 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:23:11 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23189548
Number 2, Realplayer, Was okay back when it was version 2 or 3, back around the year 99/2000. Then I stopped using it. I wouldn't touch it with a 20 foot pole, and happily use a 'Real' alternative (Included in K-Lite's codec packs) for anything (rarely) that requires the use of realmedia.

As for IE6... Good riddance. Not only was it a pain in the ass to code for, if you designed a website, You'd have to practically hack it to bits with tweaks and such, as a site would look fine in every other browser, but IE would shift stuff, or not display certain things, always had to tweak something to get it to look right. :p

The only one I don't agree with is Number 20. the CueCat, as it can be modified to be used as a standard barcode reader (I have 2 of them.)
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I dont agree with numba 2 or 8 being in the list!

Realplayer was OK up until version 8 when AOL joined realnetworks and totally destroyed the player!! (I have version 8 and love it)

It does not start on boot or try to take over anything.....

People complaining about RP are probably referring to the newer pieces of garbage which are overbloated,have ads,etc.... (Thats the AOL influence (Adding of the ads))

And IE6 is the BEST version of IE in my opinion,looks MUCH BETTER than version 7 or 8!! (They both look like crap and have lots of un-needed garbage in them)

Browsers are only as safe AS THE USER IS! (No need to have the browser being bogged down doing stuff you can do yourself!)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/25-worst-tech-products-of-all-time-23179993 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:21:06 EDT