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"Because so far every single thing named in this thread is still being produced in some quantity."

6/19/2012 12:23:59 AM

still being an asshat on every single post I see

and I'll double post all the fuck I want

6/19/2012 12:24:57 AM

Having to put up with this fucktard's posts is now obsolete, and TWW has never been better. How it took me this long to increase the quality of this site by 1,000% I'll never know.

6/19/2012 12:29:06 AM

oh, well I guess he "wins" huh

now at least I can bitch about him having a retarded, contentious argument (for no reason) and I won't get yelled at like a child afterwards

6/19/2012 12:30:01 AM

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"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.]"

heh.

I made someone mad on the internet today.

6/19/2012 12:31:34 AM

6/19/2012 2:13:35 AM

did anyone say Beta Max yet?

6/19/2012 8:45:30 AM

I take major issue with these

1 .Pay phones, they were almost never anyone's primary mode of long distance voice chat. They exist for emergencies and, believe it or not, not everybody can reliable affordable cell phones. Crazy I know. I mean the demonization of the poor by conservatives for being poor and the demonization of the poor for being out of style mostly lead to this ignorance. And when the shit goes down and an X-Class solar flare hits us and fries all our satellites and high tower broadcast points , guess what we'll all be missing really really badly

2.Video tape. As I've discussed before "video tapes" are far more than for storing video images. They are high density magnetic storage with what amounts to ( via surface area) the perfect testbed for zetabyte storage for "hard copy" and back-up mediums. We have not seen the last of mag-tape recording

3. Carbon copy paper. Being there still exist seven billion fucktons of this stuff in use and everyone knows how to use it , and it's effective at what it was designed to do. It might be 20 years before any REAL need to digital media arises

4.Phone books. For looking up local numbers and businesses, phone-books are still unsurpased for their usefulness in locating and discerning which business you wish to patron. Three or four pages of quick reading with no interstitial or surveys? I'll take that option for as long as it's offered.

5.Mini computers. Though their technology and abilities are quickly falling behind pocket devices and camera phones, there exists in humans a desire to sit down and look at a stationary source of data that they are familiar with. The current production of typewriters should provide some evidence as to our need to input data with a physical keyboard and be rewarded with nothing more than what we expect.
DIffering from the other entries I've bitched about, the laptop/mini computer will be here long LONG into the future, no matter how far in the stone-age they may seem. We still wear shoes(most of us) even though it would be a piece of cake to have our heels brined and laser calloused thus destroying the need for foot protection. People are creatures of habit and it would take some leap in fantasy to say the majority of those habits are out of folly


Also: the abacus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIiDomlEjJw

Honorable Mention: Shortwave Radio . You are kidding i hope. Its been little more than a hobby since it's inception, except this hobby has saved countless lives across the globe on several occasions. these signals need minimal broadcast wattage and are mostly left untouched by the FCC and world wide communications authorities for the simple reason that there is jack shit they can do about it other than spend millions mauling signals , but even then, signal skip is reliable enough to communicate OVER these blankets of interference. And unlike the internet, there are codes of conduct observed by the operators and are self policed. Effectively so. Short was operators were by in large the greatest aid during WWII, the Korean conflicts, urban extraction during the Saigon evacuation, the eruption of Mount St. Helens , the last big California earthquake, the Berlin airlift, Cambodian pow extractions, the tsunami in Indonesia, the atomic catastrophes near Chernobyl and the disastrous quake, tsunami, meltdown in japan, the genocide in Haiti.
Pretty much every time of great need for a people that could not communicate through centralized means in last 70 years owe a great deal of their livliehoods to ham/short wave operators.

JUST SAYING

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 6:00 PM. Reason : lol made up the term "C-8 solar flare" turns out its actually a type of flare designation]

6/19/2012 5:41:34 PM

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"Kites"

LIES! Or at least specify...

6/19/2012 5:45:21 PM

your mom

6/19/2012 5:46:29 PM

beekeepers

6/19/2012 5:47:31 PM

Ask the drug dealers down in the hood if pay phones are obsolete.

6/19/2012 5:47:36 PM

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" believe it or not, not everybody can reliable affordable cell phones."

Except, you know, the government pays for cell phones for poor people.

6/19/2012 5:47:48 PM

i was unaware that entails everyone with sporadic income

6/19/2012 5:55:33 PM

dodo saddles

6/19/2012 6:01:52 PM

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"beekeepers"

6/19/2012 6:06:14 PM

Micro Machines

6/19/2012 6:07:09 PM

Micro machines are not obsolete!


Parachute pants.

6/19/2012 6:38:34 PM

just bc people still choose to use something doesn't mean it's not obsolete

6/19/2012 6:49:52 PM

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"Also: the abacus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIiDomlEjJw"

you show a video of genius chinese kids doing large calculations on an abacus as proof that is still in practical use?



these are 50 cents

6/19/2012 6:54:31 PM

clotheslines

6/19/2012 6:57:41 PM

6/19/2012 7:16:43 PM

alchemy

6/19/2012 7:18:12 PM

^^ahahahaha, this thread reached it's peak with that right there.

6/19/2012 7:29:21 PM

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" That doesn't change the fact that they are still, without a doubt, obsolete."

[NO]. Even by your own wiki definition, CDs are not obsolete--they just aren't the dominant format anymore.

8-tracks are obsolete.

6/19/2012 8:33:19 PM

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"[NO]. Even by your own wiki definition, CDs are not obsolete"

yeah, for some reason he decided to completely skip over that sentence and bold the non-relevant parts around it

6/19/2012 9:01:13 PM

^^My bad. Please inform me when your opinion on the subject changes so I'll know the exact date that CDs become obsolete.

6/19/2012 9:36:47 PM

it's a very serious issue, after all

6/19/2012 9:46:15 PM

I consider obsolete to mean that something better has come along AND becomeI established, rendering the existing thing inferior. That has not occured with CDs (SACD failed, nothing else om the horizon). Digital music cannot be cited because it is inferior in every way.

6/19/2012 10:24:25 PM

Inferior in every way except for the only one that actually matters.

And by "digital music" I'm going to assume you meant downloadable music, as CDs are actually digital music as well. There are plenty of forms of lossless formats that are just as good, if not better to CDs.

CDs are a dead format. Anyone who thinks otherwise simply has their head in the sand.

Or do you think that CDs are just waiting to make a comeback? This whole iTunes/Pandora/online streaming thing is just a fad anyway!

6/19/2012 10:28:27 PM

Nobody thinks that CDs are poised for a comeback--the average listener with the average stereo probably can't hear, or at least not really appreciate--the difference.

...and at the notion that the convenience factor is the "only one that matters".

...and my opinion on CDs isn't why they aren't obsolete. If I had a boner for the aforementioned 8-tracks, that wouldn't make them relevant...it would mean I had a fascination with an obsolete piece of technology.

6/19/2012 10:46:25 PM

how the fuck are CDs a dead format

is nacho just a retarded troll and I've just never noticed?

6/19/2012 10:52:36 PM

pretty much.

6/19/2012 10:53:40 PM

and on top of all that, even if CD production came to a total halt overnight, they would still be massively in use for some time to come.

6/19/2012 11:12:34 PM

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"Nobody thinks that CDs are poised for a comeback"

So when does it get your stamp of approval for "obsolete" then? It's already not the most popular way of distributing music, AND it's not going to ever improve. That's obsolete. Something better, and more popular has come along. It really doesn't get any more clear than that.

And I never even targeted only CDs as being obsolete. I said ALL forms of physical media are dead. Currently the most popular way of distributing video games is DVD, and even THAT's obsolete. I can't wait to see you simpletons try and wrap your heads around that one.

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"and on top of all that, even if CD production came to a total halt overnight, they would still be massively in use for some time to come."

...as an obsolete technology. Why is it so hard for you people to see that just because people still use something, that doesn't mean that it isn't obsolete. Unless you want to be like that retard BubbleBobble and say that if one item is still in use it can't be obsolete. At what point does something become obsolete? When 49% of people are using it? 30%? 10? It's not a numbers thing, it's a "something better has come along and caught on and rendered the old technology not as useful anymore" Period.

6/19/2012 11:18:37 PM

what a piece of shit user

6/19/2012 11:34:03 PM

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"no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression. "

even though I have a head unit in my car that supports USB, the general public does not, and even I (with my new technology) still burn cds for my car

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 11:39 PM. Reason : more]

6/19/2012 11:35:57 PM

^^ Truly. Done with thread.

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 11:37 PM. Reason : ]

6/19/2012 11:36:59 PM

No, you guys are totally right. Until there are actually zero of something in use on the entire planet, nothing is obsolete. I don't know what I was thinking before.

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 11:39 PM. Reason : ^Does that mean I won? I think that means I won. I made one of the stupids go away.]

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 11:43 PM. Reason : But for real, I hope you stick around to tell me the advantages of CDs over digital music.]

6/19/2012 11:38:46 PM

Or obsolescence can be viewed as the subjective term that it is

6/19/2012 11:41:12 PM

No, you guys are totally right. Until there are actually zero of something in use on the entire planet, nothing is obsolete. I don't know what I was thinking before.

6/19/2012 11:42:08 PM

The advantage is that it's a more widely available format for listening (at least in a vehicle).

6/20/2012 12:05:42 AM

Mister Green, I would argue that your internet picture of a calculator serves better as evidence that fucking CALCULATORS are obsolete and have been since the abacus easily out does them in speed past 10 digits and god help you if you want to find a boundry set of a Mersenne prime on an lcd display solar powered intellectual prosthetic leg

Oh and thats something those little abacus gooks do before they even get into the higher grades.


EDIT: Oh you changed the argument to "practical use"?


[Edited on June 20, 2012 at 2:26 PM. Reason : brb fag]

6/20/2012 2:02:21 PM

I hate qntmfred for starting this topic

6/20/2012 2:14:19 PM

6/20/2012 2:19:37 PM

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"Mister Green, I would argue that your internet picture of a calculator serves better as evidence that fucking CALCULATORS are obsolete and have been since the abacus easily out does them in speed past 10 digits and god help you if you want to find a boundry set of a Mersenne prime on an lcd display solar powered intellectual prosthetic leg Oh and thats something those little abacus gooks do before they even get into the higher grades."

you're absolutely right. toss away those calculators, gents, time to do math with beads again...much quicker

6/20/2012 2:30:28 PM

^^^^^ and has generally superior sound quality, and comes with liner notes and cover art, and is a physical thing that people can lay their hands on (a plus for some people), and better promotes the idea of an "album", rather than a few singles plus a bunch of shit nobody will ever hear, etc.

my biggest thing is the superior sound quality. Yes, there are loss-less downloadable formats, but they are by far the exception, not the norm.

6/20/2012 9:16:44 PM

I like the amount of anger shown in this thread. I'm pretty good at getting a good trololol going on without really trying. But qntmfred is good....REAL good. I still have much to learn

6/20/2012 9:19:39 PM

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"what a piece of shit user"

Yeah. El Guaco Nacho is a god awful user who has an over-inflated opinion of himself in regards to intelligence in that he thinks he is intelligent.

6/20/2012 9:27:36 PM

ya idk what his issue is

but anyone who thinks that you can win on the internet is clearly the loser.

6/20/2012 9:39:26 PM