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Capers
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: DieCommie]
#22325909 - 10/02/15 08:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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DieCommie said: you may not be able to get that on paper either.
For the uses I need it for you can. USGS and NatGeo publish excellent topographical maps with all sorts of details about local landmarks and services. I see your point about GPS telling you where you are, regardless of whether you're on a trail or road though. But if you stick to your map, you ain't gonna get lost in the first place 99+% of the time.
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
#22325917 - 10/02/15 08:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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They don't make electronic versions of those maps? If not, they will eventually.
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Capers
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: DieCommie]
#22325925 - 10/02/15 08:58 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't know if they do or not, but I don't think I'd be interested in them, unless they were completely waterproof, and either held a charge for long as hell, or could be efficiently charged with a cheap, lightweight solar charger.
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DieCommie

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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
#22325936 - 10/02/15 09:00 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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akira_akuma
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: DieCommie]
#22325946 - 10/02/15 09:02 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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D.M.T
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: DieCommie]
#22325947 - 10/02/15 09:02 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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DieCommie said: Seems like a GPS would be more useful than a map if there are no names on the roads. GPS will tell you where you are whether you are on a road or not. Without names on the road, what is a map going to do?
I'm saying you'd have to use the map on the GPS to put your destination into it.
Atlas' have proved more reliable for me time and time again. Like I said, GPS tried taking me onto a racetrack one time. Another time it took me into an abandoned construction yard that wasn't actually a road. Then of course the time in Mexico where the roads weren't even listed on the GPS at all. As in, they didn't show on the map part of the GPS.
I had to zoom in on satellite mode to navigate the GPS that time. I said fuck this and got an atlas for Mexico and it was a lot easier than trying to figure out how to work the GPS.
GPS need to improve their functionality for me to keep using them. Plus they are big targets for theft/robbery, and if they get stolen you're out of luck without an atlas.
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: D.M.T]
#22325952 - 10/02/15 09:04 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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and who would steal that?
DMT is right. electronic only any information sucks.
it needs print. cartography for the win, too...we need more old-timey maps.
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Capers
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: DieCommie]
#22325954 - 10/02/15 09:04 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wow, cool!
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DieCommie

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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: D.M.T]
#22325964 - 10/02/15 09:06 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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D.M.T said: Atlas' have proved more reliable for me time and time again. Like I said, GPS tried taking me onto a racetrack one time. Another time it took me into an abandoned construction yard that wasn't actually a road. Then of course the time in Mexico where the roads weren't even listed on the GPS at all. As in, they didn't show on the map part of the GPS.
Let me nitpick a little. That is the fault of your navigation algorithm. Different companies have different ones and some may be crappy. GPS itself does not tell you where to go... it tells you where you are. You can buy some units that will guide you to an address like a garmin for a car, but that functionality is beyond and different than a mere GPS.
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: DieCommie]
#22325970 - 10/02/15 09:08 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Call me old-timey but I just like things that are so simple any idiot can use them, such as maps. I still use a hand-cranked blade sharpener too.
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psi
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: DieCommie]
#22325974 - 10/02/15 09:11 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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The GPS itself can have a pretty huge margin of error at times though too, depending on atmospheric conditions etc.
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: D.M.T]
#22325991 - 10/02/15 09:14 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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DieCommie

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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: D.M.T]
#22325999 - 10/02/15 09:15 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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D.M.T said: Call me old-timey but I just like things that are so simple any idiot can use them, such as maps.
That is funny... because I love maps and always have. Reading one is a no brainier for me. I recall once tossing a paper map to my passenger while driving and I said tell me where I am. Passenger couldn't do it. I don't think an idiot can read a map... It doesn't take a rocket scientists but it takes something that not everybody has.
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: DieCommie]
#22326002 - 10/02/15 09:16 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, some people can't read 'em. It's weird.
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: psi]
#22326030 - 10/02/15 09:24 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Anyone remember the smell of those classroom handouts fresh from the Mimeograph? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph I don't think carbon paper is used much anymore, either.
Also, 8mm smokers, ( oldskool porn movies, often in B&W)
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: vinsue] 2
#22326071 - 10/02/15 09:45 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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oh remember these nifty little gadgets for ur gameboy consoles

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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers] 1
#22326076 - 10/02/15 09:48 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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336 said: > Also iPods; with the way cellphones are now iPods are essentially pointless.
just saw this, and this is totally not true. cellphones use up wayyyy more battery than the old skool ipods do. i think even the newer ipods use up way more battery than like the gen 5 ones.
my cellphone lasts for a day on STANDBY. you know how long it lasts when playing music? 8 hours...
my 5gen ipod plays music nonstop for days on end
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
#22326090 - 10/02/15 09:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Bill_Oreilly said: Books LOL
How can you say books are not relevant anymore? Unless you are using a kindle or whatever or e books then I guess...but I'd still consider that a book.
I'd say VHS/walkman/discman/floppy disk/ are pretty much the biggest ones for me.
I still do use my digital camera sometimes, but most of the time I just use my cell camera.
Calm down man I was just making a joke how hardly anyone reads nowadays.
Yes, I was so uncalm
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: sh4d0ws]
#22326117 - 10/02/15 10:05 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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The day when your watching TV your kid and he says " what's a video store "?
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: MagicMush123] 1
#22326120 - 10/02/15 10:06 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Does anyone remember when Blockbuster Video was fraudulently charging people rewind fees for DVDs?
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