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Innovations of 2018

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Re: Innovations of 2018

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Post by ekianjo »

Finch2192 wrote: post #3

This whole 'article' feels a lot like an ad for various consumer products.

And a poor one at that. I don't know about most of the products they describe, but for the Nvidia 2080:

> but watch the explosions bounce off the eyeballs of the characters and it’ll obvious that this is a new era for PC gaming.

Seriously? Followed by a "Buy Now" button, of course. Probably an affiliate link, too.

Yawn.

Re: Innovations of 2018

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Post by tomazz »

My desk got warm from the laptop overheating. No wonder. This page generated close to 900 requests and countless adware. Will we ever get "website optimization" on the innovation list?

Re: Innovations of 2018

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Finch2192 wrote: post #3

This whole 'article' feels a lot like an ad for various consumer products.

I think you and 'ekianjo must have scrolled directly to "Entertainment" section and stayed there. Elsewhere, between space probes, military interceptors and radars, medicine (including IoT medicine; who thought it was a good idea?!) and glass floors on high towers, this article isn't very much about consumer culture.

(Unless you want to say that all those other things are just meant to create a stronger desire in visitors to buy the few things they can buy on this list; given my cynical view of advertising industry, I could believe in that.)

Re: Innovations of 2018

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Post by c1sc0 »

tomazz wrote: post #5

My desk got warm from the laptop overheating. No wonder. This page generated close to 900 requests and countless adware. Will we ever get "website optimization" on the innovation list?

The content payload of that article can be expressed in maybe a few k for the text and then a few more hundred kB for the images. What have we done?!
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