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well, at least its not newspeak, or doublethink...
Amen to that brother. (late form reply, but since you just mentioned my favortie book of all time, i couldnt help it)
rather than curiosity at a new technology.
Call it curiosity at an old technology then - a perfectly respectable pursuit. Give it another few years and someone will end up writing a Sociology thesis on l33t sp33k's calculator-sp33k origins, and spawning a whole new field of study. Social Anthropologists will be beating a path to your door when you're an old man, as one of the last native practitioners of the art
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Yes, yes... I am still older, but you're right we are not thaaaat far apart in age. I was interested in computer stuff when it began with basics, but... heh... I have tought myself everything I know, my school notes weren't good enough to have me considered a candidate for attending college even. Dumb teachers. Oh..oh.. revealed some secrets now.. :O
Yes, yes... I am still older, but you're right we are not thaaaat far apart in age. I was interested in computer stuff when it began with basics, but... heh... I have tought myself everything I know, my school notes weren't good enough to have me considered a candidate for attending college even. Dumb teachers. Oh..oh.. revealed some secrets now.. :O
i've been going on the internet for a few years now. i think i am the youngest on this site ( i am 14)
Old age and treachery always beat youth and skill...
as one of my fencing coaches say. hes 84 and will tear anyone apart. ;P
as one of my fencing coaches say. hes 84 and will tear anyone apart. ;P
You might well be the youngest 'serious' bot-builder (ie: you actually are putting serious development into your bots, and contribute to the forum discussions,) but I expect there are younger lurkers who just log in to chat to bots.
Anyway - keep it up! It's a good time to be young - you are going to have some awesome AI technology to play with over the next few decades (not that I'm planning on getting too old to enjoy it in a hurry!)
I wonder how old the oldest PF regular would be - any silver surfers out there?
Anyway - keep it up! It's a good time to be young - you are going to have some awesome AI technology to play with over the next few decades (not that I'm planning on getting too old to enjoy it in a hurry!)
I wonder how old the oldest PF regular would be - any silver surfers out there?
I found the youth most often thinks only people under 40 surf and chat and do things and create etc. The rumour is wrong. There are just as many silver liners around!
That's very true - my parents are both over 70, and they're doing amazing things! Really. Now, if I can only teach my mother the difference between a file and a folder, she'll have so much more success editing the video from her new HD camcorder...
i remember spelling things on calculators, for example G0 2 hELL, and other things.. unfortunately, i'm only 16, so this should be classified under immaturity, rather than curiosity at a new technology.
Call it curiosity at an old technology then - a perfectly respectable pursuit. Give it another few years and someone will end up writing a Sociology thesis on l33t sp33k's calculator-sp33k origins, and spawning a whole new field of study. Social Anthropologists will be beating a path to your door when you're an old man, as one of the last native practitioners of the art
..all you kids with yer hippity-hop music and your gaming consoles with more computing power than NASA used to use to get to the Moon... why, when I was young we'd play 'Pong' on a black-n-white TV that weighed a couple-hundred pounds, with a 17" screen and you had to wait for the tubes to warm up for a minute or two before you could even play.
Pong... two vertical lines (well, 3 counting the 'net'...) and a dot.. man oh man, it was like a video version of 'Air Hockey'~~ but I'm just rambling on now, as an old man should. (Oh yeah,forgot to say "and we LIKED it!!)
I know I'm in the wrong forum for rambling, but I'm mid-ramble now so let me just... eh, ramble a bit more about this. Madden Football? Pffft, we had electronic football games too; well, electric, anyway. Little plastic players with magnetic feet, 'running' across a green field of buzzing metal... buzzing because it little more than a vibrator under there, acting as the hardware, software, player control... (wait for it) and we LIKED it!!
Big-screen tv? Who needs it; we had the high-tech wide-screen answer in our living room... basically a plastic magnifying glass- kinda lens-dealie that you put in front of that 17" tv, and suddenly it's home-theatre time! Looked almost like 20" or so, at just the right angle... just ignore those headaches, it's worth it for the space-age experience of watching... well anyway, and we LIKED it!!
Car phones? No need, C.B radio...
Cell phones? What, ya never heard of a walkie-talkie?
DVD players? We had a few V.D. players, but~~ oh sorry, the orderlies here are telling me it's my naptime now. Ahh, naptime... some things will always stay the same.
(What the heck were we talking about? Oh right, calculators. No need, ten fingers & ten toes, there's your 'Metric system' for ya... ooh, the Rx is kicking in now, Grampa SubliminaLiar will now be counting sheep and sawing logs.
To anyone who even read half of this post, sorry for your 3 minutes you've just wasted. The check's in the (e)mail
Pong... two vertical lines (well, 3 counting the 'net'...) and a dot.. man oh man, it was like a video version of 'Air Hockey'~~ but I'm just rambling on now, as an old man should. (Oh yeah,forgot to say "and we LIKED it!!)
I know I'm in the wrong forum for rambling, but I'm mid-ramble now so let me just... eh, ramble a bit more about this. Madden Football? Pffft, we had electronic football games too; well, electric, anyway. Little plastic players with magnetic feet, 'running' across a green field of buzzing metal... buzzing because it little more than a vibrator under there, acting as the hardware, software, player control... (wait for it) and we LIKED it!!
Big-screen tv? Who needs it; we had the high-tech wide-screen answer in our living room... basically a plastic magnifying glass- kinda lens-dealie that you put in front of that 17" tv, and suddenly it's home-theatre time! Looked almost like 20" or so, at just the right angle... just ignore those headaches, it's worth it for the space-age experience of watching... well anyway, and we LIKED it!!
Car phones? No need, C.B radio...
Cell phones? What, ya never heard of a walkie-talkie?
DVD players? We had a few V.D. players, but~~ oh sorry, the orderlies here are telling me it's my naptime now. Ahh, naptime... some things will always stay the same.
(What the heck were we talking about? Oh right, calculators. No need, ten fingers & ten toes, there's your 'Metric system' for ya... ooh, the Rx is kicking in now, Grampa SubliminaLiar will now be counting sheep and sawing logs.
To anyone who even read half of this post, sorry for your 3 minutes you've just wasted. The check's in the (e)mail
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