Tech Geezers vs. Young Bloods 768
Lam1969 writes "Robert Mitchell talks about how technology is dividing him from younger generations: "The technologies I've watched grow have shaped an entire culture of which I am not a part." Adds Dinosaur: "Ask them [members of the younger generation] HOW the things work, and they have no idea. They are really riding on the backs of the 'old folks' like us that built the goodies they enjoy.""
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Re:Obligatory Simpson Quote... (Score:3, Funny)
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How things work... (Score:1, Funny)
That's what repair shops and 1-800 numbers are for.
Posters are just as stupid. (Score:1, Funny)
Excluding CyberBill of course. He's smart. So all you stupid people should agree with him.
Actually, the above quote... (Score:5, Funny)
Dana Carvey, Grumpy Old Man
Sounds more like my wife...and you have no idea how much trouble I'm in for saying that (not to mention how depressing it is to discover that your wife is a grumpy old man)
Re:That's how it's supposed to work (Score:5, Funny)
Depends... are the sticks USB-enabled?
I sometimes envy the young. (Score:5, Funny)
One such time was at work, probably around 1995 or 1996. In order to increase the productivity at our firm we installed several Internet-enabled workstations for various managers, secretaries and workers.
After a while we noticed some rather work-unrelated web sites showing up as being accessed from a particular workstation, which happened to be in the office of one of the young guys in finance. They were rather peculiar fetish sites. In any case, some of us in IT thought that we should alert this worker's higher-up to what was happening.
It was decided that several of us would discuss the matter with him. So we headed up to his office, and knocked on his door, and opened it. Much to our surprise, he was there with a massive boner, ejaculate all over. He must have been in the middle of it when we knocked, because he was quickly trying to clean the mess off of the keyboard and his pants.
It didn't bother me that he was whacking his cock in the office, or that he got his semen on the computer's keyboard. What bothered me was that he was able to get an erection, and I wasn't. So even though I knew far more about technology than he did, he was able to get a boner and I couldn't. I was trumped.
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real tuff questions (Score:5, Funny)
Steam Locomotion -- easy: burn something to heat water resultant expansion pushes piston/turbine to make motion
Similar to above except uses small amount of gas which is ingited with a spark, or diesel fuel which is ignited through pressure and the resultant locomotion is powered through the driveshaft to turn the wheels. All the accessories are run off of a belt system from the driveshaft: water pump to keep the motor cool, alternator to keep the battery charged and the sparkplugs popping...
Electricity -- similar to above except instead of turning a wheel or drive shaft a magnet is spun inside a coil of wires and the electricity is produced and transmitted across a grid of wires and transformers to your home. Alternately, running water, nuclear fusion and wind can do this too.
Telephone: it's basically like pulling the tail of a cat and at the other end the cat screams.
over the air broadcast system -- same as above, but without the cat.
Wheel of Fortune -- Vanna White is the oracle of the goddess Fortuna and the wheel intereprets your fate.
any other smart questions whippersnapper?
Re:Stupidity? (Score:3, Funny)
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And when we didn't, we made do with A!
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Re:Screw new technology... (Score:5, Funny)
1. User drops load into toilet
2. User operates flush lever
3. Water gizmos and channels create various bits of suction
4. Shit clogs stupid low-flow toilet, lacking sufficient water to lubricate and push/pull it through
5. User applies plunger, which fails to seal over odd-shaped low-flow orifice
6. Unsealed plunger in angry user's hand, while not pulling shit back up, does manage to push shit through the toilet, resulting in complete flush.
Optionally,
7. Angry user in fit of rage operates flush lever again before step 6 is completed, resulting in shit raining down in basement onto clean laundry
That's a sufficiently detailed technical explanation of the flush cycle. Tell me again why residential toilets can't go "WHOOOSH!!!!!" like commercial toilets?
Re:Old people are just as stupid. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Grumpy Old Man (Score:5, Funny)
We had no zeros at all and had to use twigs for ones!
Re:It isn't like this is unexpected (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Grumpy Old Man (Score:5, Funny)
And how many hardware engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
We'll fix it in software.
Re:That's how it's supposed to work (Score:1, Funny)
I can, I can... I use these things called "matches"
Re:Grumpy Old Man (Score:3, Funny)
It's "ring and tip" , young'un :)
Yeah? Well in myyyyy day.... (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah? Well, in my day, on the way to my punchcard programming job, I'd have to walk to work in 6 feet of snow, in my bare feet, only stopping to warm them in fresh cow-pats along the way!
Re:Yeah? Well in myyyyy day.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This reminds me... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:They were never any golden old days (Score:3, Funny)
The computer systems from the mid 1990s will have retired long before the High Priests who know how to maintain them (re: paper MCSE's and Bachelor-degree holding *nix geeks) are gone.
Old retired COBOL guys got a little "bounce" during all the panic over Y2K, but that "crisis" merely provoked a lot of companies to realize the need to move on from those old, cobweb-covered "big iron" mainframes.
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He wasn't reading. He was just looking at the pictures then.
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Why, I remember when... (Score:3, Funny)
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