You guys are young enough to see this...

10 years ago

A lot of that stuff is already here, or CLOSE. Last I heard, they were still working on the flexible stuff though. The only thing I hate is they will probably declare THIS "a right", and it will be another HUGE expense!

One day, I woke up, in a city in LA county, and found they tore out ALL the old walk signals. They did NOT replace the screen(which would be expensive), or the box(which would have been just dumb), but the WHOLE unit(BEYOND MORONIC). Supposedly they did that because they hosted the olympics. Like foreigners don't understand red, and can't understand "DON'T" or "WALK"!

Another day, I woke up, and the highways were NO different. Same as ever! But NOW they had SIGNS saying that we could thank TARP for them! We pay all this money that is supposed to be for WORTHWHILE PROJECTS on ADVERTISING?

ANOTHER time, I heard of a new highschool that sounds like a giveaway program, healthclub, and SPA! They have a climbing wall, workout center, fancy pools, etc... and will give all the kids laptops, etc.... It is a pity that they are ALSO hurting education.

And here I am still holdng back on the idea of replacing a computer that has a short or something. I plan to replace it on wednesday and, AFTER I am happy with the new system, fix this one to keep for a backup. I am just afraid that the teardown is too involved, and I am going in blind, so I want to make sure all is moved off FIRST. But that is using money from MY pocket.

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serryjw 10 years ago

We pay all this money that is supposed to be for WORTHWHILE PROJECTS on ADVERTISING?

Isn't America Grand!
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10 years ago

I've always wanted to be able to watch porn on my refrigerator. I can't wait for the future.

Seriously though this is astounding I can't imagine what the world will look like when I'm older. At only 18 years old I've seen some pretty awesome shit be developed. In just a single lifetime planes were invented, and then spaceships 40-50 years later. And the first iphone had something like 10x more powerful computing power than the spaceship, with the modern iphone being 240,000x more powerful than that. I'm gonna be an old geyser that lived in the days where we used paper... this is insane.

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serryjw

10 years ago

Do you remember a 'dial' phone? Do you remember a phone party line? Even I'm young enough to remember a dial up computer.

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HeySal

10 years ago

Originally Posted by serryjw

Do you remember a 'dial' phone? Do you remember a phone party line? Even I'm young enough to remember a dial up computer.

LOL - I remember party lines. I hate mobile phones, though. I will never get used to people thinking they have to be connected 24/7. It's not even a small wonder to me that people are going insane at the rate they are. We're natural beings and need natural surroundings. People never even walk outside barefoot anymore and that's very unhealthy for your body's electromagnetic field.

While a lot of that vid is pretty neat, it just looks way too connected for me to want to see it become reality.

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tagiscom 10 years ago

Moving street signs might be cute, but apart from outages, there is the inevitable! :rolleyes:

Damn, leather bondage Zombies!!!!

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10 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

LOL - I remember party lines. I hate mobile phones, though. I will never get used to people thinking they have to be connected 24/7. It's not even a small wonder to me that people are going insane at the rate they are. We're natural beings and need natural surroundings. People never even walk outside barefoot anymore and that's very unhealthy for your body's electromagnetic field.

While a lot of that vid is pretty neat, it just looks way too connected for me to want to see it become reality.

TELL ME ABOUT IT! SERIOUSLY, does anyone know how to make android turn off and on at a specific time? I once had to learn how to get blackberry to do that because someone with alzheimers kept calling me one night/early morning to ask what time it was.

I got a cell phone PRIMARILY because my employment requires it, and they pretty much got rid of pay phones. AGAIN, we are STILL paying the tax for payphones!

And keep the kids away from the stove, etc....

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tagiscom

10 years ago

Yep, putting hackers with zombie fetishes aside, this is overkill!

It is like getting the phone with weather forecast, etc included, (like the fridge, etc) in Australia.

Few would buy it as it is just another complex thing you have to learn.

If l spent everyday doing Ceramics, then maybe, but spending every day with an online business, no way!

If the tech, was, in a See Spot Run format, then probably, but not complex like the bathroom!

Maybe tech, is designed to add more pressure and stress to the population?

Have to keep the patients rolling in?

Eventhough doctors, crap on about sunlight being bad, etc, stress is the main key to all illness.

Probably explains why roof top, tile workers never get any skin cancers, while some stressed out office worker who barely exercises or eats right, is under the doctors knife!

And has too much tech,! :rolleyes:

But this is making too much sence, so l'd better stop!

Sal is right, some of this is fine, but too much will just stress out the population and create new illness, (that is all genetic apparently) so the Phar, company's can continue to get their record profits!

Sorry about the rant, just read an article about this today, and all the positives in getting some decent sunlight. Apparently 4 million Aussies, out of about 25 million, have vitamin D deficiency; and we wonder why people get sick?

Listening to f***headed doctors is the main cause of illness, but it is all out of our hands or genetic!

Ok, rant over!

Now back to Zombie, bondage slaying!

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serryjw 10 years ago

Orthopedic doctors are going crazy with the teens and their THUMB problems from texting. The THUMB was not designed to do this.
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10 years ago

Originally Posted by tagiscom

Yep, putting hackers with zombie fetishes aside, this is overkill!

It is like getting the phone with weather forecast, etc included, (like the fridge, etc) in Australia.

Few would buy it as it is just another complex thing you have to learn.

If l spent everyday doing Ceramics, then maybe, but spending every day with an online business, no way!

If the tech, was, in a See Spot Run format, then probably, but not complex like the bathroom!

Maybe tech, is designed to add more pressure and stress to the population?

Have to keep the patients rolling in?

Eventhough doctors, crap on about sunlight being bad, etc, stress is the main key to all illness.

Probably explains why roof top, tile workers never get any skin cancers, while some stressed out office worker who barely exercises or eats right, is under the doctors knife!

And has too much tech,! :rolleyes:

But this is making too much sence, so l'd better stop!

Sal is right, some of this is fine, but too much will just stress out the population and create new illness, (that is all genetic apparently) so the Phar, company's can continue to get their record profits!

Sorry about the rant, just read an article about this today, and all the positives in getting some decent sunlight. Apparently 4 million Aussies, out of about 25 million, have vitamin D deficiency; and we wonder why people get sick?

Listening to f***headed doctors is the main cause of illness, but it is all out of our hands or genetic!

Ok, rant over!

Now back to Zombie, bondage slaying!

Shane

One person DID make the case that the US, and many other areas, ARE overrun by zombies! Who cares if most are "alive", and don't have decaying whatever. And HEY, he's right! Next 10KMs? I WISH!

But HEY, I have been saying that this place would become a planet of the apes for a while. I thought about it recently and, in large part, it has. Who cares if the apes don't look as depicted in the movies?

Oh well.... Jules verne said much the same. HECK, Heysal did ALSO!

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serryjw 10 years ago

that the US, and many other areas, ARE overrun by zombies!

Have you ever watched congress on C-Span...you'd know they exist.
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MissTerraK

10 years ago

...and then that terrible unexpected storm rips through your area whether it's an ice storm, tornado, hurricane, straight line winds, whatever, knocking out power for miles, you're unplugged, off the grid...what then?

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...and then that terrible unexpected storm rips through your area whether it's an ice storm, tornado, hurricane, straight line winds, whatever, knocking out power for miles, you're unplugged, off the grid...what then?

Terra

Uh, Terra. Do you mean that same storm that knocked over the cell towers.?

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MissTerraK

10 years ago

Originally Posted by BigFrank

Uh, Terra. Do you mean that same storm that knocked over the cell towers.?

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Those towers provide cell phones and the like with the power to function, do they not? Those storms topple everything! What, did you think that satellite signals were really magic?

You just wait til Claude hears about this!

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tagiscom

10 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

One person DID make the case that the US, and many other areas, ARE overrun by zombies! Who cares if most are "alive", and don't have decaying whatever. And HEY, he's right! Next 10KMs? I WISH!

But HEY, I have been saying that this place would become a planet of the apes for a while. I thought about it recently and, in large part, it has. Who cares if the apes don't look as depicted in the movies?

Oh well.... Jules verne said much the same. HECK, Heysal did ALSO!

Steve

Yep, l would keep an eye on trolley collectors, never know? :rolleyes:

Hackers paradise all right, only a matter of time before a 9 year old opens the fridge, that is internet connected, and there is a porn video running!

A crash course in sex education!

Go away for a holiday and come back to porn videos running all through the house. With the police outside your door, issuing a loud noise complaint!

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Those towers provide cell phones and the like with the power to function, do they not? Those storms topple everything! What, did you think that satellite signals were really magic?

OK. I've reread this thread and one of us is confused. lol

I was trying to point out that having a cell phone can be useless after a storm as many cell towers will be left non-functional.

Perhaps you were making the same point. I interpreted your post as saying that one should have a cell phone in case of a major storm.

I do possess a 5th grade comprehension level, so I'll cop to a total lack of understanding. :confused:

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MissTerraK

10 years ago

Originally Posted by BigFrank

OK. I've reread this thread and one of us is confused. lol

I was trying to point out that having a cell phone can be useless after a storm as many cell towers will be left non-functional.

Perhaps you were making the same point. I interpreted your post as saying that one should have a cell phone in case of a major storm.

I do possess a 5th grade comprehension level, so I'll cop to a total lack of understanding. :confused:

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Ha!

Make that two of us!

I thought you were saying those things would still work via satellite like a cell phone if all of the electrical power was knocked out so I stated that cell towers would topple too, lol!

Okay, we're on the same page now...I think, lol!

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10 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

Ha!

Make that two of us!

I thought you were saying those things would still work via satellite like a cell phone if all of the electrical power was knocked out so I stated that cell towers would topple too, lol!

Okay, we're on the same page now...I think, lol!

Terra

Yeah, a lot of people really don't know how cell phones work. They have limited range areas called cells, that use towers to connect phones in the area to the old fashioned phone system. So YEP, CELL PHONES USE LAND LINES. They are basically glorified wireless phones. They just have higher frequencies and a tweaked protocol, so the range is like 2 miles instead of 1000-3000 feet.

ALSO, for the most part, only one tower will be in range. The outer areas likely have overlap, which is where the triangulation idea comes in.

One thing about it though, Phone hardware at least USED to be heavy duty. Hopefully cell towers are also. And there ARE a lot of cheap ways to protect against lightning strikes.

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10 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Yeah, a lot of people really don't know how cell phones work. They have limited range areas called cells, that use towers to connect phones in the area to the old fashioned phone system. So YEP, CELL PHONES USE LAND LINES. They are basically glorified wireless phones. They just have higher frequencies and a tweaked protocol, so the range is like 2 miles instead of 1000-3000 feet.

ALSO, for the most part, only one tower will be in range. The outer areas likely have overlap, which is where the triangulation idea comes in.

One thing about it though, Phone hardware at least USED to be heavy duty. Hopefully cell towers are also. And there ARE a lot of cheap ways to protect against lightning strikes.

Steve

Ok, l thought that cell phones were for texting your friends and walking in front of traffic or playing Angry Birds, and walking in front of traffic? :rolleyes:

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serryjw 10 years ago

we are STILL paying the tax for payphones!

REALLY, Can you post a link!
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serryjw 10 years ago

I am more concerned with Internet of Everything that I have no control over. At least with the technology on the vid, you decide what you want.

BTW, I STILL do not have a cell phone...I may finally breakdown and but one in the next year. I'm an ol' fuddy duddy, I have a land line. I have no idea why anyone should be able to reach me if I am out with a friend. Billions of people raised children w/o cell phone...WHY does a 12 year old need one?
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10 years ago

Originally Posted by Brando95

I've always wanted to be able to watch porn on my refrigerator. I can't wait for the future.

Seriously though this is astounding I can't imagine what the world will look like when I'm older. At only 18 years old I've seen some pretty awesome shit be developed. In just a single lifetime planes were invented, and then spaceships 40-50 years later. And the first iphone had something like 10x more powerful computing power than the spaceship, with the modern iphone being 240,000x more powerful than that. I'm gonna be an old geyser that lived in the days where we used paper... this is insane.

OK, and if you get married, or have the inlaws over.....

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Dennis Gaskill

10 years ago

If that's the future, it's a hacker's paradise. :|

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seasoned

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

If that's the future, it's a hacker's paradise. :|

Yeah, if everything were internet connected, you could in theory turn th stove and heater on full bore, and turn the freezer off. Even if nobody gets burned, baked, or has the house burn down, the place will STINK from all the spoiled food!

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10 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Yeah, if everything were internet connected, you could in theory turn th stove and heater on full bore, and turn the freezer off. Even if nobody gets burned, baked, or has the house burn down, the place will STINK from all the spoiled food!

Steve

Hackers are already targeting "smart" appliances:

Hackers attack home appliances, including your refrigerator

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10 years ago

I did not like it at all

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HeySal

10 years ago

Anyhow - now that Terra and Frank are all caught up, lol.........

If this scenario is to actually take place, they will need to build it on something other than a microwave grid.

With as many people freaking out over "global warming" as there are, I'm surprised they don't "get" that blanketing the earth with EMF might just cook the snot out of it. People are already showing very bad reaction to the amount of EMF we already have. People who live too near these towers are not doing well at all.

I take the time to travel outside of cellphone range as often as possible to let my body's own energy field clean out. Know what happens out there? People get into emergencies that they can't get themselves out of simply because they think if they have a cellphone with them it solves all problems. The result of all this "convenience" and microwaving on humans is already sickness and stupidity. I, for one, wouldn't want to see what humans would be like with a future as presented in this video. I don't think we'd be able to survive into that kind of world -- not unless they were able to find a non-toxic, non-heating energy to use for the technology.

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lalit.burma

10 years ago

I do not know whether these things are going to make our life easier or harder ...

Kid of 6 years old spending his more and more time on iPad instead of going out and doing physical activity.

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Zaman Butt

10 years ago

youtube is not working in Pakistan
unfortunately i am unable to watch it,

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alodie

10 years ago

Hi Serryjw,

All I can say is, "WOW!" Thanks for sharing
that find.

I have to say, though, that just watching that video
for the first time really scared me half to death, if you
please.

And the thing is, I am not quite sure why I am so
frighten.

But I think that a large part of my fright is that I
have not even began learning to use what technology
has already brought us/me, and trying to grasp the
vastness of all that newness, only serves to make my
head spin. ;-)

Oh, well. Get use to it, alodieanne. Tomorrow is
already here. :-))

Thanks once again, Serryjw. I really enjoyed watching
and learning from that presentation.

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tagiscom

10 years ago

Originally Posted by alodie

But I think that a large part of my fright is that I
have not even began learning to use what technology
has already brought us/me, and trying to grasp the
vastness of all that newness, only serves to make my
head spin. ;-)

Oh, well. Get use to it, alodieanne. Tomorrow is
already here. :-))

Thanks once again, Serryjw. I really enjoyed watching
and learning from that presentation.

Alodieanne

Yep, jump in the deep end, like most here do, and then fantasise throwing your Laptop out of the window!

A recent example was, Firefox acting up, or the tab + icon disappearing!

After researching it, and trying half a dozen addons, as well as some dumb code that made things worse, l gave up and tried system restore, (W7).

After trying that, and it not working at all, l reversed it, and FF, was a rightoff!

At this point l was thinking, have all my bookmarks, gone too, but before l thinked the worse, l reinstalled the latest one again, hoping that it would remember my settings.

And thankfully it did, as well as fix the tab issue and some nightmare pink square around certain text issue.

And after fixing Norton for auto signing issues, it virtually purrs at the moment!

That is the most annoying thing about computers is the cliff edge option!

You think that you are deleting a link and before you know it the whole lot is gone!

Then you have to blow a day trying to figure out how to fix it!

But you do learn over time and it gets easier!

Maybe buy an Apple, they seem to have less of this sort of crap?

I think that if l had this crap on my mirror, fridge, etc, l would end up in a padded cell with an ipad!

The human mind can only take so much complexity before going ga-ga!

So l would avoid this like the plague!

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alodie 10 years ago

Hi Tagiscom,

***GRIN*** LOLOLOLOLO :-)))

You had me laughing so hard, it wasn't funny:

<<<Yep, jump in the deep end, like most here do, and then
fantasise throwing your Laptop out of the window!>>>

After all, you are very, very right. :-))

And as you pointed out: "That is the most
annoying thing about computers is the
cliff edge option!"

I agree totally. Sometimes, I think I am
going to lose it, with these computer systems.

But, this is what we may have to put
up with from now on: we cannot live
with them; and, we cannot live without
them. Ah, ah, ah! :- )

Not in this technological age.

Once again, thanks for making me laugh
so hard. It was good for my entire body. ;-)

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imbikinigirl

10 years ago

I give us 5 years and most of that will already be here...

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