Marketplace Tech for Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Complaints are rampant that the video game industry treats female employees and female players as outsiders or worse. But it wasn't always that way. And, remember MiniDiscs? Way better than cassettes, right? But as of this month, Sony says the format is no more. Though Minidiscs were engineered to make imperfect copies, some people clung to it deep into the iPod era.
Complaints are rampant that the video game industry treats female employees and female players as outsiders or worse. But it wasn’t always that way. And, remember MiniDiscs? Way better than cassettes, right? But as of this month, Sony says the format is no more. Though Minidiscs were engineered to make imperfect copies, some people clung to it deep into the iPod era.
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