Outdated things that have stayed
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So, yes.
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I've been trained to believe that a paper copy or a mechanical version will never been outdated because electronic alternatives tend to fail when you need them most. So when the ISP cuts your service because you didn't pay your bill or a squirrel chewed the line, you still have that phone book. Hard copies might not be totally relevant to you land lubbers but when I'm flying my ass across the plains at night under a new moon and my iPad batteries die, you bet your ass I've got paper charts in the back so I can still find my way.
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The Nucleon was never a functioning car if I remember correctly. I do think nuclear energy would be great to power a car. The thing that is holding a company from trying to produce one is that people generally get the wrong idea of anything nuclear. They associate it with stuf dat go big bewm and getting radioactive sickness. This is why nuclear energy only powers stuff people can't see. Such as submarines. I also thought of another contribution- arcade machines. I was playing mine right now and I found out how useless it is. You can play all the games I have one the arcade machine in a PS3 or 360, which probably weighs about 95% lighter than the arcade machine.
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I agree - as portable as an iPod may be it can't hold a candle to traditional, full-scale audio devices, even with a good set of headphones. Compression ruins sound - I just hope that they keep making and selling good-quality CDs. And since most of the music I like is older it seems to find its way to the discount racks!
It's great when I can pay $2 for a gently used CD or record at my local thrift stores that I wouldn't be able to get anywhere else.I have both a high-end turntable and SACD player in my room and love them both dearly. It feels good to just be able to put on a record or CD and have it sound almost exactly like the artist originally intended it to sound. If you can find a good-quality turntable from a respected make I would HIGHLY recommend you pick it up - you won't regret it!
I refuse to believe that CDs or even vinyl is outdated - they both still have lots to offer in terms of high-fidelity sound that you simply can't get anywhere else.
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Thank you! You summed up what I was gong to say almost to the smallest detail. 👍
👍 CD's are great. At least then you're getting the booklet and the artwork that comes with it.
Wait, what!? Headphones aren't outdated. The earphone is flawed massively. The sound quality isn't very good, they fall out all the time, break too easily and always find a way to awkwardly tangle up!
But it appears the Walkman is outdated now. Everyone has moved onto MP3 Players, which is logical because they're a lot smaller and play music. People will probably say landline phones are outdated, but they're not. Next they'll say the tree is outdated!
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Didn't think you thought that one through too well, I guess. You think chopsticks have been around longer than knives?
Paper phone books are outdated. Digital replacements have...replaced them. I still keep one though, so do many people I know. The same with regular note books.
Pencils. I've got a pen and correction fluid and/or ink erasing fluid, why do I still keep a pencil on my desk?
Watches. Every device I carry has the time on it. Every device from the cooker to the fish tank in the home has a clock on it. Why do I still wear a watch that serves only the purpose of telling the time and nothing else? I still wouldn't leave home without it.
2 Stroke motorcycles. Still being made (barely) despite being inefficient and polluting. Why. Because two strokes are awesome!
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Since when does humanity have the power to haverst nuclear power?
We're not. We are boiling water with the heat generatated from it. But not getting the energy from source material.
That would be like boiling water with gasoline, putting the fumes in cans, burring them and telling nobody and saying, patrol products are clean energy.
Hard copies, and analogue technology will stay, at least till the 80's generation dies.
Germany (probably not the only one) has abolished in their emergency(catastrophe) services all analogue technology. Which surely has it's + side. But if energy shortage comes during a catastrophe, they screwed, no telephone, no internet, no cooridinance because no good olde CW!
Another one for the list:
Jersey Shore and all of the copies. Burn'em
Basiclly they're ****ed!
And you still allowed to live in Germany???
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Edit: At the hotel we were at this weekend, my 6 year old kept telling me to fast-forward through the commercials. I had to explain to him that I couldn't.
It's not just my kids then. My 5 year old daughter has known nothing but TV's you can pause and rewind. She even asks if we can rewind songs on the radio. Has anyone done that with DAB?
Outdated things that have stayed: Well McDonalds are still helping to kill people.
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No. You completely missed his point, but that's normal for you.
They are all online now.
I haven't used a hard copy phone book for years.
Also. Fax machines, only piece of electronic equipment that hasn't changed since the 80's
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Also outdated (in my opinion) is the iPod Classic. Sure, some people may still want physical buttons and stuff but that era ended a long time ago.
Tube amps. You can get the same sound from a solid-state with a bit of EQ and you don't have to worry about tube rolling. Also, whoever said CDs are outdated, While they still suffer from the loudness war, it's great knowing you can just rip into flac's and have that on your hard drive. Compared to an mp3 downloaded from iTunes or pirated which is often 256kbps or less.
And iPod classics are great. Massive storage for lossless rips, physical controls, a better DAC/amp section than an Ipod Touch and easy to mod.
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Actually, earphones and headphones are pretty much equal but used for different purposes. Custom In Ear Monitors (upwards of $1000) sound fantastic, never fall out, are built like tanks and in my opinion equal to $1000 headphone counterparts.
While they still suffer from the loudness war, it's great knowing you can just rip into flac's and have that on your hard drive. Compared to an mp3 downloaded from iTunes or pirated which is often 256kbps or less.And iPod classics are great. Massive storage for lossless rips, physical controls, a better DAC/amp section than an Ipod Touch and easy to mod.
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Actually, earphones and headphones are pretty much equal but used for different purposes. Custom In Ear Monitors (upwards of $1000) sound fantastic, never fall out, are built like tanks and in my opinion equal to $1000 headphone counterparts.
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It reminds me of The Kraken at the end of Pirates 2.
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Electric will be the future. Just an FYI.
And as for CD's, I got tired of jewel cases after I had to move. And I honestly can't be bothered to rip a CD to my computer, then copy it over to my mobile devices. I've just been using Spotify for the vast majority of my music and it works quite nicely with my smart phone and numerous computers and tablet.
Tesla, I rarely have issues finding flac these days. When I want it at least, as none of my setup really benefits from anything beyond 256kbps anyhow.
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I personally wouldn't have much of a problem doing away with discs etc. either to be honest.. sometimes it's nice if it's special, but for the most part it is an inconvenience. But at the moment, I can't buy music online in an uncompressed fashion with full bit rates, which is what I want to do, and until that happens I'll keep buying CD's.
I've ripped most of my CD's straight to the computer as WAV's (owing to the age of some of my software), I'm not convinced by FLAC yet, mainly as I've not had the need to compress anything (storage space is cheap!). But mostly when I'm listening to music from the computer it's only as background whilst I work, through an old AV amp and a pair of old Ruark epilogues. Since I've only just moved into a bigger flat, once I can be bothered, I'll hook it up to my main system, but that'll probably require a decent soundcard in the computer, as basic HP desktop audio output probably isn't great!
More on topic, what about desktop PC's, have they become out-dated with the popularity of portable computing?
Most people that I know that have bought an ipod classic, is for its vastly superior storage size. Iphones and the likes still seem a time away from having 160gb's of storage. Most haven't even gone to 64gb models. I'm currently at 16gb of space free on my iphone and my itunes library only has 1300 songs. I know people with 12,000 songs. It would fill their iphone and then some not even taking into account apps and what ever else.
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Cursive - is there any point in it (is it still even taught in schools)? Seems, to me, just like a useless discipline now.
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