Life without computers

Many of you probably have never lived without a computer, but some of us have. What I find odd is how dependent we are on them now. The net goes down and I feel isolated from the world.

Sigh...

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Nov. 6, 1971: "I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals"

- John Kerry, a Presidential Candidate

I just can't imagine the world without the internet and computers...but it was once like that.

Without the net and a computer I used to read a lot. I actually went to the library every week when I had my first apt without a computer and the net (no tv either).

Now I can't read.

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Nov. 6, 1971: "I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals"

- John Kerry, a Presidential Candidate

I used to read a hell of a lot, and then, like you, I got 'net access and at pretty much the same time, satellite TV. Lose either and I feel lost. Haven't read a good book for months.

Might go down the bookstore tomorrow and try to change that. You've just given me a good reason.

<font color=blue>"We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought." - Bobby Robson</font color=blue>

Imagine being around before calculators & everyone could add, subtract, multiply & divide!!



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I remember going to the supermarket and watching the checkout girls used to memorise the prices and type the prices in. That took some doing. Now all they do is scan and press a damn button at the end, it even tells them how much change to give, how easy is that?

I don't use a calculator if I can help it, I can work sums out pretty quickly in my head. Guess my Dad being an accountant helped in that respect. He's the fastest mathematician I know.

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I just remember calculators coming more than computers, myself! I can remember the day my Dad brought home that first TI calculator!! Just couldn't wait to do some math to press the keys on the magic machine!! Never felt that way with computers, at least to me.



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I love to screw with them! Like, give them change to get back even money!! They roll there eyes & look for the buttons!!



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My wife's Great Grandmother was like that. She grew up before WW1 and remembered so much. Was fascinating talking to her. There's a photograph in our local pub of the anchor that was used on the Titanic (was made about 500 yards from my Dad's place) being transported across county, and she was in it! Lining the route. Mr father-in-law always smiles when he sees that picture.

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That's pretty cool

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Nov. 6, 1971: "I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals"

- John Kerry, a Presidential Candidate

If you're looking for a good book, I just got finished with Longitude by Dava Sobel...Interesting if you're into nautical or astronomical history (which I am). Also read a book about a guy named Shackleton form the UK. He wad trhe captain of a boat called the endurance. Totally amazing story....

If an argument can't be settled in one or two paragraphs, perhaps you're anal and should just let it go...

True. I read a ton on the net.

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Nov. 6, 1971: "I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals"

- John Kerry, a Presidential Candidate

Same for me, but still I can read a lot.

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Funny that, I thought many people develop arm-ache more easily when their computers are ON the 'net...

Hmm.. I wouldn't have too much problem finding entertainment without computers & the 'net. I have a few other interests & I still do enjoy reading a good book.... My main problem would be finding a new job - not much call for programmers in a computer-free world. probably end up working in a bike shop or something.

On the subject of books, if you like Sci-Fi at all Peter F. Hamilton's done some good books.

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What you posted is so true!

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Some people just need to go outside. Seriously, it sounds like it's time for an interaction break.

Uplug from your machine, and go outside an interact with humanity. Be sure to wear sunscreen because that orb in the sky like to toast your skin.

The computers, the internet, and yes RC even calculators are all great, but the thing is to incorporate them into your life, not invest your life in THEM.

BTW, input is so much more reqarding when it involves another person.


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lol, without computers, thing would not be bad at all. There r 2 cases to consider, one where the world has no concept of a computer and the other where things r still run by comps but we don't have a personal comp.
The latter would be great. Having spent tons of time studying lately, the only time I'm on the comp is when studying. Otherwise I'm out and as far away from a comp as possible...beginning to hate the things- they bore me! Without comps kids would be out on the street playing and having real fun, not getting fat and becoming l337 pwnx0rs in games. Comp geeks would actually get gf's or do something useful. Overall, we'd find a different form of entertainment that could quite possibly be much better.
Which would u rather do:
Sit in front of a comp playing CS or whatever.
Or chill with a few friends, have some food and drinks and blow stuff up.

SEX is like math. Add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs, and hope you dont multiply

I guess it depends on how old you are!! I was born well before the Microwave oven so if it goes down and the wife is out and the cable goes out I am not as screwed as some of you other younger guys.

I can get a coal oil lantern out and heat water to make a cup of coffee and read a book. Just like childhood regression nice and quiet and familiar.

I recon if you guys lose the internet and electrical power you have to drink Prozac dry without water after you stumble around in the dark for 40 minutes looking for it and you just inadvertently took your wife's Birth control pills. Culture shock to the young ones.

Still I guess they still got the telephone or perhaps a cell phone but how to you validate a 911 call for something as silly as no internet and electrical power?




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If I've learned anything from the Simpsons it's that birth control pills taste like ovulisious strawberry. Prolly makes for good candy!

SEX is like math. Add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs, and hope you dont multiply

///BTW Have you got your bike out yet this year? I've been wondering. I'd sure like to have one myself.




Yes but right now shes got a dead battery, tried recharging it but it wouldn't sustain the charge, so I'm just going to get a new one, don't want to take a trip and then it decides to quit.

RC I am thoroughly ticked off, personally I think Far Cry up to the point these dumbass monsters started popping up, was one of the best Jungle Warfare games I'd ever played. Now theres monsters everywhere killing the mercenaries before I can get to them, this is really not what I thought I was getting, I should have stuck with Aliens vs Predator, is the entire rest of the game like this??? Do you understand what I mean??? I was enjoying the heck out of the realism of the game, but this monster crap added to the mix, destroys the whole reality aspect of it for me, that doesn't mean I'm not going to finish the game, just play it like Serious Sam.

What a friggin disapointment!!!






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I felt the same way as you Ryan the first time I hit the ghouls. They are to hard to kill, for the most part. I told my kids the very same thing, you said.

I'm about through the second time on the next harder level now, & it doesn't seem to bother me as much. I just learned how to control everything when I got through the first time.

I feel a few things with the game:
1. It's to hard in places, but other places are a cake walk.
2. I'd of liked to have seen it just with people, not mutants, as you said.
3. To many controls to be effective at times.
4. Saves are a joke, really.
5. You are seen to easily by the enemy, even in prone position.
6. There's places that you can see the guy your shooting, but the rounds won't hit until you expose yourself more, sucks!
7. There's places that you can't hit anything form where your at.

That's a few of the things I can think of right now. I liked the SOF series better, I believe. Only thing FC has going for it are graphics, but even then, most don't have a vid card good enough to see it. I know I don't with a TI4600. So maybe the game is ahead of it's time. I feel that way. I don't think I'll really feel the game until I can buy a new vid card. I still say, I've never had a new released game put such a hurt on one of my machines.

Like I said before, I'm ready for PainKiller now. Read some good reviews on it. It's more like Serious Sam, & I loved both Serious Sams!!



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