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PregNut
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« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2011, 10:30:38 PM » |
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Call me crazy, but I miss rotary dial phones... and typewriters... and 8-track tapes... and carburetors...
Edit: Notice how all eight of those obsolete inventions can be replaced with a single smart phone?
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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2011, 12:41:27 AM » |
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A smart phone can be used as a carburetor?
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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2011, 01:10:47 AM » |
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A smart phone can be used as a carburetor?
The technologies PregNut referenced in his post are not all in the list of eight obsolete items to which Goober links. Moreover, PregNut was also referencing the eight obsolete items in Goober's link to the smartphone technologies we have today. Words for the wise.  Q-" And the unwise"-BE  |
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« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2011, 01:33:03 AM » |
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Why is it that the one thing all these fancy "smart" phones do the worst is make phone calls?
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« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2011, 01:46:08 AM » |
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Why is it that the one thing all these fancy "smart" phones do the worst is make phone calls?
Because they are hand held computers? |
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« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2011, 06:31:19 AM » |
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Why is it that the one thing all these fancy "smart" phones do the worst is make phone calls?
That is true if you are talking about an iPhone under the AT&T network in most major metropolitan areas (esp. New York and San Francisco)  |
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« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2011, 08:52:13 PM » |
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I still have floppy discs in my desk that I refuse to throw away. I guess it's just sentimentality.
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« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2011, 09:05:57 PM » |
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I have 5 1/4" floppy discs of games that I legitimately purchased (I have all the manuals and ancillary materials) that I cannot run anymore since I don't have a drive that will take them. And even if I did, they probably don't run under Windows 7....
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« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2011, 11:05:44 PM » |
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I have 5 1/4" floppy discs of games that I legitimately purchased (I have all the manuals and ancillary materials) that I cannot run anymore since I don't have a drive that will take them. And even if I did, they probably don't run under Windows 7....
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« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2011, 01:10:43 AM » |
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Kodak buffeted by foreign competition, then blindsided by a digital revolution, photography icon Eastman Kodak is fighting for survival after a quarter-century of failed efforts to find its focus.
Kodak actually invented the world's first digital camera in 1975. They just sat on it and continued producing film. Now film is dead. I remember seeing the iconic yellow-and-red K logo everywhere.
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« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2011, 09:03:52 AM » |
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« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2011, 10:46:06 AM » |
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Ayn Rand must have used one hell of a vibrator. Druul "You have to admit, it would explain a lot" Empire V to Kit below: actually, my joke was hardly a superficial one -- I just got done thoroughly and conscientiously plowing my way through all 1168 pages of Atlas Shrugged in my Atlas Shrank thread down in Off-Topic, and in my proverbial book anyone who has earnestly paid those dues to just about any project of equal size is entitled to their own flavor of levity. 'Twas most educational, and I learned three things: 1) Taken absolutely straight, some details of her book seem to be in direct opposition to what some of her fans claim to get out of it. 2) For all her volume (size as well as stridency), Rand is peculiarly mealy-mouthed -- the terms of the "strike" are never plainly stated, and we glimpse a rewriting of the American Constitution snuck in at the very end. 3) I hate her worse now than I ever did, precisely because I did not gloss over her. It drives me nuts when left-of-center folk dismiss it as merely one woman engaging in near-r@pe with a sequence of men. Told one way, that might actually have possibilities. The full truth is far worse. The term "pornography" is applicable to far more than just sex, in ways I find far more hazardous, and I can think of no better example than Shrugged. |
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« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2011, 12:32:40 PM » |
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Except that Rand wasn't a satanist, or even a theist for that matter. And though I disagree with her conclusions, I admire her love of rationality, and her willingness to suggest ideas she knew would not be popular.
Though I admit the mental image of Rand 'typing away' is slightly less disturbing than the image of Anton LaVey wringing out a few pages.
I have a small assortment of 'toys'... I had no idea I was taking dictation the whole time. I must have published at least a novel or two in hell by now.
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« Reply #14 on: December 26, 2011, 10:06:52 PM » |
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Kodak buffeted by foreign competition, then blindsided by a digital revolution, photography icon Eastman Kodak is fighting for survival after a quarter-century of failed efforts to find its focus.
Kodak actually invented the world's first digital camera in 1975. They just sat on it and continued producing film. Now film is dead. I remember seeing the iconic yellow-and-red K logo everywhere.
Tyson, for us old-timers Kodak has been the subject of considerable study forever, or at least since the 1890s. George Eastman's original business plan was ingenious (Sell the cheap camera with film inside; require the loaded camera to be mailed back to the factory for development) but, as he knew, not sustainable. European camera makers produced quality cameras that could be reloaded, so Eastman shifted to producing standardized film sizes along with his cheap cameras, and he had little competition until the Japanese and Germans entered the low-cost camera market after World War Two. What makes the company a study in business disaster is their early use of out-sourcing, mixed with a policy of total incompetence in top management. In the 1970s they dominated the world film market and had a strong presence in the low-end camera market. They also had a world-class R&D department. In 1979 I owned a few shares and I read the annual report, which included an upbeat letter from the then-CEO about how the company was going to cut costs by offshoring much of their film production to Mexico, and how he had no interest in digital technology. I found out later that the entire R&D had been laid off, long after I sold my shares. By 1995, when the growth of digital technology could no longer be denied, Kodak tried to get back in the market, but after 20 years of sitting on one's thumb, it was too late. Scuttlebutt is that management will wait until early January before filing bankruptcy. |
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« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2012, 09:20:36 AM » |
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Yesterday I went to a local electronics/media store (Fnac, for those familiar with it) and discovered that they still sell 3,5'' diskettes. Made me all nostalgic and stuff.
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« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2012, 04:45:56 AM » |
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Except that Rand wasn't a satanist, or even a theist for that matter. And though I disagree with her conclusions, I admire her love of rationality, and her willingness to suggest ideas she knew would not be popular.
Though I admit the mental image of Rand 'typing away' is slightly less disturbing than the image of Anton LaVey wringing out a few pages.
I have a small assortment of 'toys'... I had no idea I was taking dictation the whole time. I must have published at least a novel or two in hell by now.
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