Feeling Old
Oct 29, 2016 20:24:56 #
Oct 29, 2016 20:41:03 #
AuntiE wrote:
And the first cell phone was sold 30 years ago, it sold for $4,000!
Oct 29, 2016 21:04:05 #
Worried for our children wrote:
And the first cell phone was sold 30 years ago, it sold for $4,000!
First four function calculators were big bucks too. One of the few advantages I see in the modern age,
technology increases while prices fall, at least for electronics, the stuff doesn't wear out, but more
wonderful and complex makes it throw away. What a way to keep an industry going. Is anything we
as humans do sustainable?
Oct 29, 2016 21:09:24 #
bilordinary wrote:
First four function calculators were big bucks too. One of the few advantages I see in the modern age,
technology increases while prices fall, at least for electronics, the stuff doesn't wear out, but more
wonderful and complex makes it throw away. What a way to keep an industry going. Is anything we
as humans do sustainable?
technology increases while prices fall, at least for electronics, the stuff doesn't wear out, but more
wonderful and complex makes it throw away. What a way to keep an industry going. Is anything we
as humans do sustainable?
So not answering such a question.
Oct 29, 2016 21:13:57 #
AuntiE wrote:
Two to add:
- Grace Jones is 69 years old
- When I started in business Excel had not yet been invented (nor the computer on which the application runs)
Oct 29, 2016 21:18:46 #
bilordinary wrote:
First four function calculators were big bucks too. One of the few advantages I see in the modern age,
technology increases while prices fall, at least for electronics, the stuff doesn't wear out, but more
wonderful and complex makes it throw away. What a way to keep an industry going. Is anything we
as humans do sustainable?
technology increases while prices fall, at least for electronics, the stuff doesn't wear out, but more
wonderful and complex makes it throw away. What a way to keep an industry going. Is anything we
as humans do sustainable?
That's a good question. I'll have to put some thought into that.
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Oct 29, 2016 21:22:55 #
Worried for our children wrote:
That's a good question. I'll have to put some thought into that.
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Smart aleck.
Oct 29, 2016 21:50:54 #
AuntiE wrote:
So not answering such a question.
Okay, okay
I'm hoping to reach the top soon, it will be so much easier when I get to coast!
Five years to the date after George Carlin.
Satisfied?
Oct 30, 2016 09:03:29 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
bilordinary wrote:
First four function calculators were big bucks too. One of the few advantages I see in the modern age,
technology increases while prices fall, at least for electronics, the stuff doesn't wear out, but more
wonderful and complex makes it throw away. What a way to keep an industry going. Is anything we
as humans do sustainable?
technology increases while prices fall, at least for electronics, the stuff doesn't wear out, but more
wonderful and complex makes it throw away. What a way to keep an industry going. Is anything we
as humans do sustainable?
Why yes! H**e is sustainable, stupidity is sustainable ( for a while, then the stupidity k**ls you ), ignorance can last for generations. Geez, the list is quite large.
Oct 30, 2016 09:11:47 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
AuntiE wrote:
The first computers were invented over 77 years ago - they were a room full of women doing calculations by hand. Calculating things like ballistic trajectories, creating the "bible" for bomb sight settings and other stuff. Grab any current artillery officer, give him/her a piece of paper, a pencil and a slide rule ( first, they'll ask "what's a slide rule?" ) and ask them to put a round in a specific grid coordinate - and watch them develop PTSD right before your eyes.
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