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Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet

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On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 14:46:30 -0400, Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Found this on the Toobz.
>
> [link]
>
> Last sigting of an XP machine was in the bar at the back
> of a Mexican restaurant I like to frequent.  It runs the
> till, and probably is not connected to the net, so why
> bother upgrade?

s/sigting/sightin/

You're such a tease!  From the subject of your post,
I thought they were going to mention Forth.

Floppy disks are still useful for booting and setting
up OS installs for machines, even for Linux, and
especially for Linux recovery.  Many OSes simply won't
boot from a USB stick or drive.

The chip-and-pin method isn't used anywhere in the U.S.
They're issuing chip-and-pin cards now, but no ATMs or
EFTPOS machines at stores or gas-stations are activated
to use the "new" chip-and-pin cards.

Dial-up is still needed in many rural areas because
fiber, ADSL, and cable-broadband simply aren't available.
The only other option is satellite internet which has
better download speeds, but requires dial-up for
uploading and bi-directional internet protocols.  The
video's announcer basically criticized AOL's dial-up
users for being stupid or ignorant of broadband, but
if someone only needs email access, then dial-up is
much cheaper.  Elderly retiree's and rural people don't
need much from the internet, perhaps email, maybe
Facebook to view grandchildren's pictures, and maybe
a bit of online banking or Amazon.  They aren't
researching stock, reading the N.Y. Times or Wall
Street Journal, watching YouTube, or gaming competitively.

They mentioned telegrams as obsolete, but didn't mention
the over 500 Billion USD remittance industry selling
money-orders and wire transfers.

The one they *really* got wrong though was VHS tapes.
VHS tapes are *much* better for easily recording shows
than DVDs and DVRs, have long record times on EP, and
have high-quality recording on SP tape settings. If you
want to replay a second or two because you couldn't tell
what they said, it's very easy, not like DVD players.
DVDs aren't as responsive and can be sketchy or botch
the recording to the optical disk.  VHS tapes may have a
bad spot with lousy video, but won't fail to record the
rest of the show for a bad track or sector like optical
disks do.  DVRs are unbelievably complicated just to get
them to start recording and require a large amount of
time to copy from their internal HD to a DVD.  The fact
that DVRs have a single button to start recording like
VHS is cruel, sick, and twisted joke.  They don't work
that way.

I'm surprised they didn't mention music CDs which are
still a huge industry in Japan, or vinyl records which
are making a modest comeback worldwide.  I still prefer
CDs since they're so easy to use and CD players are still
everywhere.  Streaming music is convenient, but I find
digital music players to be difficult to use, problematic
to load music, and consume batteries very quickly, etc.


Rod Pemberton

-- 
Just how many texting and calendar apps does humanity need?

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Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-15 11:46 -0700
  Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2015-09-15 19:39 +0000
    Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-09-15 21:46 +0200
      Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2015-09-16 01:00 +0000
        Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2015-09-16 09:19 +0800
          Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-15 18:52 -0700
          Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2015-09-16 02:07 +0000
            Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2015-09-16 12:44 +0800
              Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-16 15:00 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today-- TopTenzNet "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-16 23:24 +0000
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2015-09-17 12:53 +0800
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-16 22:24 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Michael Barry <barrym95838@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-16 23:06 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-16 23:32 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Michael Barry <barrym95838@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-17 00:17 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-17 02:19 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-09-17 10:31 +0000
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-09-17 07:20 -0400
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2015-09-17 06:36 +0000
  Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-09-15 21:50 -0400
    Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-09-15 22:04 -0400

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