merbig Suspended 13178 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "I've bought four brand new cassette tapes this year. Zero CDs." |
Fucking hipster scum.
[Edited on June 17, 2012 at 9:50 PM. Reason : .]6/17/2012 9:49:37 PM |
vinylbandit All American 48079 Posts user info edit post |
It's not like I had a choice. Said releases only exist on cassette. 6/17/2012 10:09:46 PM |
BlackJesus Suspended 13089 Posts user info edit post |
Baseball 6/17/2012 10:10:23 PM |
LaserSoup All American 5503 Posts user info edit post |
I was going to post pagers but doctors still use them. I found some punchcards at work one time. Wire recorders Curb feelers Rotary phones 6/17/2012 10:13:36 PM |
sumfoo1 soup du hier 41043 Posts user info edit post |
I can understand on record cause vinyl had a unique flavor. But fucking tapes ?? Shit degrades bro. 6/17/2012 10:26:07 PM |
ncsuapex SpaceForRent 37776 Posts user info edit post |
More like: cassettetapebandit. Amirite? 6/17/2012 10:28:50 PM |
El Nachó special helper 16370 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "I was going to post pagers but doctors still use them. " |
It sounds to me like some of you people need to learn the difference between obsolete and 0 still in use on the face of the planet.
I can go to historical Williamsburg and see people hand churning butter, but that doesn't mean that butter churns aren't obsolete. Just because a small group of people still use pagers or some shitty band that only 6 people have heard of releases their shitty music on tape doesn't mean that they aren't obsolete.6/17/2012 10:43:29 PM |
LaserSoup All American 5503 Posts user info edit post |
^Yeah, this shit is fucking serious. Get with the program, what's the due date on the list? 6/17/2012 10:59:48 PM |
BobbyDigital Thots and Prayers 41777 Posts user info edit post |
paging networks use simulcast messaging, meaning that the message is sent from every transmitter in the network at the same time. This is far more failsafe than cellular/SMS networks that are easily overloaded in times of crisis or high utilization.
Also paging is far more reliable. Often times I get SMS messages from my wife that are delayed by anywhere from 20 minutes to several hours (rarely), but even several minutes can mean life or death in a hospital. combining the simulcast with multicast (sending pages to a specific group) is easier and more reliable, and everyone gets the same page at the same time. This is critical when codes are being called.
Pagers (the ones used in hospitals anyway) are receive only. Cell phones are duplex devices, and can't be around certain types of medical equipment without disrupting it. Pagers don't have this restriction.
So yeah, while it seems obvious that cell phones should obsolete pagers, it's definitely not the reality of the situation, at least in hospital environments.
[Edited on June 17, 2012 at 11:20 PM. Reason : .] 6/17/2012 11:06:30 PM |
EMCE balls deep 89771 Posts user info edit post |
^ That's much of the same reason that we can't use the same SMS technology for datalink... basically text messaging for aircraft. Too unreliable.
[Edited on June 17, 2012 at 11:18 PM. Reason : f] 6/17/2012 11:17:43 PM |
qntmfred retired 40726 Posts user info edit post |
Pantyhose 6/17/2012 11:27:13 PM |
dmspack oh we back 25536 Posts user info edit post |
porno magazines. 6/17/2012 11:29:45 PM |
settledown Suspended 11583 Posts user info edit post |
pantyhose are still worn daily by millions of people
millions of porno magazines are sold each year] 6/17/2012 11:34:00 PM |
KeB All American 9828 Posts user info edit post |
Circuit City Gift Cards 6/17/2012 11:38:14 PM |
Big4Country All American 11914 Posts user info edit post |
The newest and best computer, or cell phone from last year. 6/17/2012 11:41:10 PM |
Fermat All American 47007 Posts user info edit post |
fax machines. yet they are still used all the time by gov and old business types. They are garbage, clunky, unreliable transmit flawed data use phased out transmit protocol are still the only "wire" transmissions legal types will accept. These same people have multiple email addresses capable of accepting secure pdf files. that send more data instantly with no artifacting and super low chance of tampering. yet its always "fax me this information instead of scanning it and emailing it. I dunno who has a fax machine either. this is our way of keeping our workload down and telling you to go fuck yourself, vicariously of course" 6/18/2012 7:13:43 AM |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
^I hate when companies ask me to fax something/say they can fax me the documents. I always ask about email, and they either say 1) We can't email these documents (bullshit) or 2) We can't scan them to email ( ) 6/18/2012 8:11:39 AM |
Skack All American 31140 Posts user info edit post |
ZiP drives.
6/18/2012 9:38:04 AM |
Arab13 Art Vandelay 45180 Posts user info edit post |
Shortwave Radio by and large. CRT monitors (though some super hardcore/cheap folks still use them). Videogame arcades. Busy signal. TV Static. Typewriters. (largely) Dot matrix printers. Answering machines. Calculator watches. Pay phones. Rotary phones. Car phones. Video tape. Laser disc. 8 tracks. (audio cassettes in general) AOL cds. Carbon copy paper. Phone books. Boomboxes. Main frames. Mini computers. 6/18/2012 10:21:10 AM |
gunzz IS NÚMERO UNO 68205 Posts user info edit post |
palm pilots but i guess that can fall into your mini pc category 6/18/2012 10:33:45 AM |
umop-apisdn Snaaaaaake 4549 Posts user info edit post |
Bachelor's degrees. 6/18/2012 10:47:09 AM |
Skack All American 31140 Posts user info edit post |
CrazyJ nael 6/18/2012 11:07:25 AM |
JLCayton All American 2715 Posts user info edit post |
pay phones 6/18/2012 11:10:35 AM |
EMCE balls deep 89771 Posts user info edit post |
Car phones Bag phones 6/18/2012 11:14:55 AM |
bronco All American 3942 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Milk man, paper boy, evening tv" |
gg, sir6/18/2012 12:07:06 PM |
afripino All American 11425 Posts user info edit post |
american citizenship
yeah....I went there
Politicize all the threads!!!!!
[Edited on June 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM. Reason : </sarah palindrome>] 6/18/2012 12:16:54 PM |
sparky Garage Mod 12301 Posts user info edit post |
The Bible 6/18/2012 1:21:00 PM |
BobbyDigital Thots and Prayers 41777 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "
^I hate when companies ask me to fax something/say they can fax me the documents. I always ask about email, and they either say 1) We can't email these documents (bullshit) or 2) We can't scan them to email " |
i was pleasantly surprised that this time around in closing on a house I was able to scan all the signed documents with my phone and email 'em back. last two times, I was faxing. slowly but surely we're getting there...6/18/2012 3:20:52 PM |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
^yeh; I was told to FAX HANDWRITTEN letters of explanation for certain things to my loan company... I typed up letters in word, printed to PDF, inserted my digital signature, and emailed them Haven't been denied yet. haha 6/18/2012 3:23:01 PM |
JLCayton All American 2715 Posts user info edit post |
the abacus 6/18/2012 3:23:45 PM |
Bullet All American 28417 Posts user info edit post |
I recently signed some documents for a home purchase... i find it a bit troubling that you can just choose the signature that most looks like yours and insert it in PDF. Really takes the point out of having to sign something. 6/18/2012 3:24:28 PM |
Shaggy All American 17820 Posts user info edit post |
funfact: Faxes (and pages) have special status under HIPAA that allows them to be sent unencrypted. Because healthcare orgs are both incompetent and cheap most of them stick to using faxes for patient data communications because secure email is too hard to setup/use and webservices are unproven future tech in their eyes.
The best tho is that most of the larger healthcare orgs have fax gateways so the workflow usually goes email -> fax gateway -> unsecure phone liune -> destination fax gateway -> email to destination mailbox. Also, since there is no way to do destination confirmation the sender has no idea if they're sending it to a wrong number. If they are told that they've sent patient data to the wrong number the most common next step is to try to send it again to the same wrong number. 6/18/2012 3:34:26 PM |
LaserSoup All American 5503 Posts user info edit post |
Video stores 6/18/2012 3:34:33 PM |
justinh524 Sprots Talk Mod 27840 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "as far as i've heard , leeches are irreplaceable for small-extremity reattachment procedures" |
Like your penis?
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH6/18/2012 9:12:00 PM |
theDuke866 All American 52839 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "News flash: ALL forms of physical media are obsolete." |
CDs are still bought by audiophiles who don't want a lossy format.6/18/2012 9:39:00 PM |
El Nachó special helper 16370 Posts user info edit post |
That doesn't change the fact that they are still, without a doubt, obsolete. 6/18/2012 10:24:37 PM |
years25apart Veteran 216 Posts user info edit post |
Scrambled porn 6/18/2012 10:59:52 PM |
LaserSoup All American 5503 Posts user info edit post |
Tiger lcd games 6/18/2012 11:53:51 PM |
El Nachó special helper 16370 Posts user info edit post |
I saw one of those at a yard sale last week, so clearly that means that they are still very popular and not obsolete at all. 6/19/2012 12:04:08 AM |
BubbleBobble Super Duper Veteran 114363 Posts user info edit post |
how are CDs obsolete when they're still being produced and sold? 6/19/2012 12:07:41 AM |
El Nachó special helper 16370 Posts user info edit post |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolescence
Quote : | "Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior in one or more aspects. Obsolete refers to something that is already disused or discarded, or antiquated.[1] Typically, obsolescence is preceded by a gradual decline in popularity." |
3/36/19/2012 12:10:28 AM |
justinh524 Sprots Talk Mod 27840 Posts user info edit post |
i still buy cd's. partly because i like actually owning something tangible and partly because i live in the middle of fucking nowhere with a shitty internet connection (thanks for that promise of rural high speed internet, obama) 6/19/2012 12:13:57 AM |
BubbleBobble Super Duper Veteran 114363 Posts user info edit post |
ob·so·lete/?äbs?'let/ Adjective: No longer produced or used; out of date.
ob·so·lete (bs-lt, bs-lt) adj. 1. No longer in use
obsolescent does not equal obsolete
unless you want to get into some kind of semantics argument (which I know you do, because you're an asshole like that), you might consult every single dictionary's first entry on the definition of obsolete again 6/19/2012 12:14:49 AM |
BubbleBobble Super Duper Veteran 114363 Posts user info edit post |
basically you're saying CDs are no longer in use, or being produced
and you would be wrong
so you can keep trying as hard as you want, but you're still incorrect 6/19/2012 12:15:35 AM |
El Nachó special helper 16370 Posts user info edit post |
So go ahead and name one thing that is obsolete by that strict definition. Because so far every single thing named in this thread is still being produced in some quantity.
[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 12:18 AM. Reason : also double post suspend/ban/terminate/90th trimester abortion plz.] 6/19/2012 12:17:14 AM |
BubbleBobble Super Duper Veteran 114363 Posts user info edit post |
actually, the part you didn't bold kinda proves you wrong
"Obsolete refers to something that is already disused or discarded, or antiquated."
you MIGHT be able to argue that they're antiquated
but they're certainly in fairly heavy use and not discarded 6/19/2012 12:17:15 AM |
LaserSoup All American 5503 Posts user info edit post |
Money Laundering: To channel money through a source or by an intermediary. 6/19/2012 12:18:05 AM |
El Nachó special helper 16370 Posts user info edit post |
you guys, this thread can stop now. Bubblebobble has spoken. Nothing is obsolete because a small number of people still use everything that has ever been made. 6/19/2012 12:20:06 AM |
BubbleBobble Super Duper Veteran 114363 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "So go ahead and name one thing that is obsolete by that strict definition. Because so far every single thing named in this thread is still being produced in some quantity." |
laser discs.
and you're the one trying to give me a "strict definition"
of the wrong fucking word
boy was this worth the time it took6/19/2012 12:21:20 AM |
El Nachó special helper 16370 Posts user info edit post |
I'm sure somebody still uses laser discs. Keep trying.
[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 12:24 AM. Reason : wait, did you say wrong word? You are so fucking beneath me, never the fuck mind. moron.]
[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 12:25 AM. Reason : I refuse to ever belittle myself by acknowledging your existence ever again. peace out dumbass.] 6/19/2012 12:23:24 AM |