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Internet Explorer.
Outdated things that have stayed
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Both screens use the same form on detection, which is a capacitive. A stylus designed for the iPhone would work for an HTC device. Just look for generic capacitive stylus on any online retailer and you should find several options.
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True, I bet most people on GTP use either Chrome or Firefox now. I use Chrome. Another one is writeable disks because most people just use Memory Sticks or SD cards now.
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When you have a job, you use Internet Explorer.
At work...Or at least, just the "work-related" stuff.
My left wrist is tan-lined too much, such that if I'm not wearing a watch, it's really obvious that I forgot it or perhaps it was jacked by a thief with awesome taste in $25 watches. Plus, after 30 years of doing so, I feel out of balance for the day...
At work...Or at least, just the "work-related" stuff.
My left wrist is tan-lined too much, such that if I'm not wearing a watch, it's really obvious that I forgot it or perhaps it was jacked by a thief with awesome taste in $25 watches. Plus, after 30 years of doing so, I feel out of balance for the day...
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Yup, this ^. I use Chrome at home and IE at work, to be honest, I notice ZERO difference between the two (except chrome is more colourful), and prior to using Chrome I tried firefox, which had no appreciable difference either - except it refused to display HTML HR tags in the correct fashion.
Phones and mail programs use envelopes, closed and open, to show message/mail status... outdated?
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There isn't much wrong with the current Internet Explorer. Competition has forced Microsoft to improve it greatly.
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Camera film? I don't know a whole lot about photography but with digital SLRs being what they are these days I imagine that film cameras must be in some sort of decline.
As for the watch thing, I know that even though my phone tells time (as does most everything else I look at these days), I'm also so used to my watch that I'm thrown completely off whenever I forget it. For some reason I have an easier time managing without my phone than I do my watch, but oh well.
As for the watch thing, I know that even though my phone tells time (as does most everything else I look at these days), I'm also so used to my watch that I'm thrown completely off whenever I forget it. For some reason I have an easier time managing without my phone than I do my watch, but oh well.
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I use Internet Explorer at home and I'm proud of it.
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As my grandfather used to tell me "You aren't dressed well enough unless you've got your watch in your pocket, lad" (In his case it was a pocket watch on a chain).
I don't think watches will ever be outdated, especially with the super high-tech pieces you can buy today. They are moving well with the times, and the functions (especially on sports watches) are becoming more and more impressive.
I largely rely on my GPS watch when I go hiking and climbing - obviously I still take a traditional map and compass in more remote/hazardous areas, but the watch is a great, feature-packed, quick reference that leaves your hands free to deal with terrain or other equipment.
I also use another sports watch synched with a heart-rate belt and footpod (measures strides and distance covered) for my running, which is fantastic and helps optimise my short, but intense, cardio sessions.
Other than that I have a few dress watches and a few everyday watches, which either help set off a sharp suit, or are just cool with enough function to still be useful day-to-day.
Outdated? Small, independant fresh produce stores, fishmongers and butchers that sell imported stuff. Supermarkets sell better quality food, that is often more local, for a cheaper price. Pretty pointless, which is why they're disappearing rapidly.
I will support my friendly local independants that sell true fresh, local produce until the day I/they die, but I couldn't care less about 'pretend' traditional independants.
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Install Google Chrome on a flashdrive, no longer required to use IE. It's how I get around the stupid filters at work that prevent me from doing my job. Instead of having to complain to the IS department over and over again, I just pop my jump drive in and run Chrome. Works like a champ.
I wouldn't admit that in public.
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Yes, indeed they are. There's something of a "lost art" about film photography though. They require a lot more careful consideration with exposure and composition of the shot. They're a great learning tool.
Large format cameras are even better in this regard, apparently. They take a lot longer to set-up, and consequentially, give the photographer more time to think about the shot before he takes it. They can also be taken advantaged of with their unique tilt-shift capabilities, without having to acquire an expensive tilt-shift lens for an SLR.
Much like a first generation 911 is a useful learning tool for driving - learning how to countersteer and use the right foot to control the traction of the rear wheels during oversteer. Outdated due to TCS and other electronic aids, but still useful in a way. If one can conquer a vintage 911, they can drive just about anything.
Manual gearboxes could be considered outdated as well. Even though some drivers can shift pretty damn quickly with them.
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I think check-out lines at the grocery store are outdated. Just put RFID chips on everything and let me walk out through a scanner. This would probably work better at wholesale stores where you have to be a club member to even get in the place. But that would effectively eliminate the absolutely useless "loss prevention" job. And at those stores you don't bag anything anyway, so you could just bag your groceries at the car or grab a couple used boxes like they provide anyway. You could bring totes and just put your food right in as you shop. Bring a cooler for the meats and beers, etc. It would be great. It would save so much time.
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They tried that in a whole mall in Germany, Omnis. Turns out, it's so easy to scam the codes with a cheap bit of kit (I've researched it for cloning bus cards, as an experiment, of course) that it would cause more trouble than it would prevent.
My first pair of 501 were the nuts, navy blue new, naturally faded from years of wear and tear and work. I bought them at 13 years old, and being a rather tall teenager, wore them proudly up until they developed a tear in the knee about 6 months ago (from an arrow, when I was an adventurer?) and I had to buy a new pair.
After weeks of hunting for the right style (I'm picky about my clothes and won't wear anything in fashion) I discovered the greatest pair of jeans ever, only find they were Levi's with a zip.
I still bought them but am curious to see how long it takes before I really need to pee and rip the zip off thinking it's a set of buttons.
My first pair of 501 were the nuts, navy blue new, naturally faded from years of wear and tear and work. I bought them at 13 years old, and being a rather tall teenager, wore them proudly up until they developed a tear in the knee about 6 months ago (from an arrow, when I was an adventurer?) and I had to buy a new pair.
After weeks of hunting for the right style (I'm picky about my clothes and won't wear anything in fashion) I discovered the greatest pair of jeans ever, only find they were Levi's with a zip.
I still bought them but am curious to see how long it takes before I really need to pee and rip the zip off thinking it's a set of buttons.
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Every workplace is different. Besides, I don't need the flashdrive, but many of Microsoft's applications just run better in IE, and a great deal of my work portal will honestly not run on anything else. I really don't care, the only gripe I have with IE is that there's no AdBlockPlus for it, and probably never will be.
I did rescue an entire service department from boredom by installing FF 2.0 (this was a while ago), because everything through IE was blocked, save about four sites...Presently, this is kind of a moot point, because my work laptop has various browsers to choose from, but the massive employee portal has its way.
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Yeah that's agreeable in a sense. You don't have to be concerned about the loss of your phone if it's plugged with the main instrument, though the widget with a receiver is not at all portable(or too large to always carry with you like what the mobile phone was a couple of decades ago).
And I don't think people will stop reading printed books or they are completely taken the place of by newly invented electronic devices as common belongings in the house, no matter they become popularized around today's world since it doesn't change the fact that reading printed letters on the pages is far more traditional than doing the same thing through current multifunctional machinery.
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Not to mention impressing people by stacking books you've never read on your shelves.
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I love books. Despite having an e-book reader on my phone and having access to a Fire often there is nothing that can take away my little paper treasures. How many e-books have you seen with frayed edges, bent corners, tea cup stains on the cover and annotations? I love paper books and will always treasure them.
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Large format has a huge advantage over most digital SLR cameras simply because the resolution is insane. Even medium format blows anything my 5DmkII can manage away in terms of resolution, and it is a 21mp full frame sensor dSLR.
Film is still used quite a bit. As mentioned above, large and medium formats provide incredible resolution and color over most digital sensors, and can be had for much cheaper - a medium format digital back is usually a 5 figure investment.
Film SLR's are also much cheaper to pick up, along with film and older lenses, than most dSLR options. Makes them ideal to learn on for students; I'm quite glad I learned on film and printing in a dark room, taught me quite a bit.
Finally, depends on application. Film still captures more color than digital setups, and handles light for long exposures differently. It is very nice, when you have the time to develop and print, for fine art prints and landscapes, etc. Digital is quite nice on the other hand when you want to have images up immediately for viewing, and with rapid on site print setups.
Honestly, I don't think film will die or really be outdated. It will be like those painters that still use real oil paints or paint in Illustrator or Paintshop Pro, where the results can be very similar but there are subtle differences than can change the feel of the final product.
Nothing tops having a large range of older science and math texts on shelves. People just assume you're smarter regardless if you've read them
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That's like saying restaurants are waaaaaay outdated now we have decent ready-meals available in supermarkets.
Cinema tickets may be increasingly expensive, but how much does a large flat screen TV and half-decent 5.1 system cost?
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Maybe in addition to this thread someone should open a thread about things that disappeared but still would have their place? It would clear this thread a bit, as this thread seems to tend more to that direction
i would rather eat a kosher piece of meat, then those industrial cheap mass-produced meats. How the industry produces food nowadays has nothing, but absolutly nothing to do with nature, natural growth, farming,.... You know all the deaths in US because of E-colli from meat is because cows are fed with not natural food.
If they would eat grass for the last 2 weeks of their life, there would be no Ecolli contamination. But that is too expensive to guaranty a 1dollar hamburger.
A lot (majority) of people still have not the knowleadge to know what food is good and what is bad.
Industrial food is bad, even though it gave us the possibilty to eat meat everyday
i would rather eat a kosher piece of meat, then those industrial cheap mass-produced meats. How the industry produces food nowadays has nothing, but absolutly nothing to do with nature, natural growth, farming,.... You know all the deaths in US because of E-colli from meat is because cows are fed with not natural food.
If they would eat grass for the last 2 weeks of their life, there would be no Ecolli contamination. But that is too expensive to guaranty a 1dollar hamburger.
A lot (majority) of people still have not the knowleadge to know what food is good and what is bad.
Industrial food is bad, even though it gave us the possibilty to eat meat everyday
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Not to mention, when you're waiting on a plane for 45 minutes, waiting to take off due to some sort of silly delay...can't use any electronic devices, then.
I keep the small-format phone book we get every year, and ditch the big one. We also have an old plug-in analog phone (we have no dedicated phone line service, but dialing 911 is supposed to work in an emergency, even without service). Because when power is out after a hurricane, your internet, cable, and cell towers are lame and typically unresponsive. Fortunately, they have collected dust for the past few years!
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