useless

And Buzz and Wave and probably a whole bunch of other great technology that ended up being useless.

Other times, it's as useless as posting a 30 MPH (50 KPH) speed limit on a six-lane interstate highway.

Without wifi it might make the phone kind of useless, especially if you are using it outside of your home country.

My personal sense was that if my hands or my eyes ever became useless (e.g.

I could not get a variance, so I purchased a tiny sliver of useless land from a neighbor.

Pascal's OOP is about as useless as C#'s compared to power of what multiple inheritance + templates give you, not to mention the true Smalltalk-style message passing.

For example, look at how useless Bing is.

Hopelessly useless even for skimming news headlines.

Which makes it useless abroad, for instance.

Don't send useless expensive toys out to interact with people in what you know are poor areas (even if, well, you didn't choose that to be where it went).

They eat up resources, install unnecessary stuff, run useless background apps that east up memory, take over bindings between file types and better applications (really, quicktime?

I used that tool to explicitly tell Google my interests, and started receiving ads about Django IDEs and other useful things, instead of whatever useless junk I'd been forced to see before.

There are a bunch of feature I "like" in ES6 but are ultimately useless in my opinion.

As sibling says, gifts wouldn't be a problem with a "credits" type system, but for someone like me who could ship things to myself at 3+ addresses in a week it would be a no-go unless theres enough credits account for that, which would pretty much make it useless for its purpose of preventing sharing.

Useless hyperbole from both you and the the Joel Kotkin.