The Communication Cube


Letting yourself make typos is part of Aol instant messenger culture. There are specific rules to how you do that, and it was to identify people your own age via the mass media syntax everyone used.

Wait. You don't know how to speak television dialect at all do you?

I really am quite sure it was a French firm bought by Sweden or vice versa, and you wanna know how I remember this?

People wouldn't use French tech. The phones made people laugh at you for being a frog. It was a way to kill your social status. So more than likely they now lie about their past, or they were rescued by Swedes. Honest I never followed that.
 
@ashdjones : checked Ericsson's history... and no trace of any French ties. You must be thinking of Alcatel. Or Archos.

You've prompted my memory. The phones were originally single S spelling and the name changed some time around Three Mobile and 3G. If you want to believe the internet then feel free, but in a non google search engine or older rival like Alta Vista you may find different info. In which case your world is lies, all lies.

Sigh. The original web was all people with social issues. American girls all had weight problems and used yahoo voice to sound radio voice cool. You could get one to ring your house phone in a cool speaking voice. I was short of height and nobody listened to what I said in sneakernet. Dutch kids were poor and stuck with a 486 so ran Linux in slowmo and took screenshots, pretending it was an expensive unit. Japanese girls were shy and populated the romhack scene pretending to be american boys or african women. It isn't difficult to spot the old crews. You know going on these rules, Craigx is probably very short. Hence loudmouth tv personality. You never saw a vid of him next to someone else. Standard movie trick. Nearly always sitting down or above waist shots. And now you know.
 
This was from Wikipedia, both EN and FR. They may not be perfect, but it's a sufficiently large article to be checked regularly enough for such facts to be trustworthy.
And I'm not touching the google-is-evul/those-were-good-times debates with a stick. Nostalgia often messes with objectiveness.
 
This was from Wikipedia, both EN and FR. They may not be perfect, but it's a sufficiently large article to be checked regularly enough for such facts to be trustworthy.
And I'm not touching the google-is-evul/those-were-good-times debates with a stick. Nostalgia often messes with objectiveness.

Well i did some yahoo search instead. Ericsson released phones from multiple countries under blank brands and no badge since 1940's, assumed to be clones because everyone wanted to be cool like them. Yeah no, the phones sucked compared to Nokia etc. Hence I'm not inspired to know massively more and there's a limit to my espionage curiosity. Inspector Gadget has a cutoff limit of yawn okay.
 

Agreed. Nokia's were pretty futuristic considering the nearest rival took 5 years to make a backlit fascia replacable unit that sort of size.

Mostly I liked the speakers on the early models. Somehow it could do the same bleeps as my pc powered set. You could hear keytaps in the next house (through a wall). Don't know what dark wizardry was involved there. Possibly Finland has sonic weaponry of some kind. That's badass stuff.
 
Those times were shitty, but that doesn't stop google being evil. I guess that's my pessimistic side showing though.

Google wasn't the first maths based search engine, but the others were dire and you could spend 3 hours digging for what you wanted. And the tiny text adverts were pure heaven compared to banners that took up one third of your monitor, and moved with you. Oh my gosh, and prior to Firefox pop up adverts that would autospawn up to 50 copies, no joke. Normally rude stuff too, but not good rude stuff. Really trashy stuff nobody wanted and they just resorted to browser exploits.

Oh yeah. Click on the wrong one by accident... Installs .exe without asking which is trojan thingy that dials thailand and you suddenly owe 500 pounds for going on the internet normally.

Google were like an angel from the sky. Once.
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All companies turn evil when they get to a certain size, some of them also start off evil and hone their skills over time (Microsoft).

You mean like Openpandora?

Stating the obvious but friendship of the team went downhill. Evil is a measurement of resent to blame. If you didn't do anything but be nice, and get bad treatment that's the evil stage.
[doublepost=1526697509][/doublepost]People think I'm evil for telling the truth, so here's the deal.

Craig is liable to either punch or hug me if we ever bumped into each other in the street. My instinct is he'll probably get stressed, stop for a moment then force me to hug him. And then start rambling about some new scheme.

Thing is, I was merely the spokesperson for a bunch of cowards. The main top devs here slated it on getting the unit. I gave a balanced account based on requests issued. Craig literally asked me to fib, like hey Firefox runs at a million fps type thing. I said it could probably be optimised over say three years. But they needed quick cash, and maybe this would have worked if... Enough people fibbed for Craig for three years. So unlikely. I did the best I could to aid the sinking ship. We're still here. Team members stated suicidal feelings. I may have made it worse. People could have died over this machine! I would be in court explaining why this wasn't manslaughter. Eeek. It isn't worth dying over a bloody keyboard fliptop toy. Maybe why Craig would hug me. Saved his life maybe. Very emo person like that. Anyhow, moving on.
 
built a cage to defend seedlings from birds
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What's new in fringe computer algorithms? (mostly graphics)


This one is from last year and contains some awesome algorithms:
 
I'm stumped as to what to do today. Do I mess about with my Nintendo Switch, I've got it to boot into RCM so far but haven't got round to doing anything further yet, beta test some games or watch some random YouTube videos. /first world problems
 
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