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Stupid kids?`

Sea Moose

Sea Moose

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I was doing HVAC work in a class room. And i was listening into the class. They were talking about technology.

Teacher asks

"can anyone tell me what this is?"

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Kids didnt know


Discuss
 
old stuff is old.
I'm 18 and I had the chance to see them.
If they're 14 they probably haven't seen them.
 
Who the heck cares if the kids knew what it was? Its old, not in use, and probably not be in use commercially ever again. So, just because a kid didn't know what it was they are stupid? I guess the OP can be identified in the same way, because I doubt he/she knows about everything, too.
 
I know someone who still uses cassette tapes often. They're not completely obsolete.
 
Soundmanred said:
It's always idiots that try to make others seem dumber.
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This. It's called projecting. They are trying to make themselves feel better about themselves by making others feel inferior, to make up for their own inferiority complex.

Humans are funny. And dumb. Sometimes.

The trick is to find ones that aren't and listen to them. We call those scientists. They are quite fascinating with what they come up with sometimes. Too bad most people can't understand them. Fucking scientists, how do they work?
 
disappoint said:
Humans are funny. And dumb. Sometimes.

The trick is to find ones that aren't and listen to them. We call those scientists. They are quite fascinating with what they come up with sometimes. Too bad most people can't understand them. Fucking scientists, how do they work?
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Pure win :^D
 
considering that cassette tapes were pretty much obsolete by the mid 90's, even if this was high school and they were 16-18, their knowledge of them would be pretty limited.

I was born in 1981... I just barely remember my dad's 8-tracks and he was playing them at least into the mid-80's (when his old VW bug died and he had to get a new car that came with a cassette tape player)
 
There's plenty of things that used to be common place that none of us would recognize. Someone not recognizing an object that they've never seen in their life does not make them stupid.
 
Sea Moose said:
I was doing HVAC work in a class room. And i was listening into the class. They were talking about technology,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.
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My grandfather talked about stuff that I had never heard of. He was a pilot and talked about engines that were developed back in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s,,,, that were obsolete by the time I was born.

As for the cassette player, I'am not surprised that the kids did not know what they were. Give it a few more years and kids wont even know what a VHS is.
 
So said:
You know what this is?
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That's a wire reel from the 40s - before things were recorded to tape.

Age has nothing to do with it. Knowledge of history does. 😉

IronWing said:
Here's what the internet has to says about it:
Also, some enterprising soul is offering to sell 4 of the tapes for US$38.88.
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Sony tape is good for wearing out your heads too. 😀

There's not much good I can think of coming from Sony these days and from the past actually. Their TVs, monitors, DVD/BD players, speakers, digital cameras - are all bad!
 
Rubycon said:
There's not much good I can think of coming from Sony these days and from the past actually. Their TVs, monitors, DVD/BD players, speakers, digital cameras - are all bad!
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I dont know where your getting your sony stuff, but I have a sony digital camera that is 5+ years old and still working fine. It takes great pictures, even though they are 5 megapixel.

Their is a guy in the local photography club that sold his canon and nikon gear and bought all Sony. And he takes some great pictures.
 
Even as early as 1995, nobody in the entire world bought cassette tapes. That's the year I bought Nirvana's Nevermind album on CD 😀

Ruby is right about Sony sucking ass. My stereo and my Playstation 1 would random turn off because the power cord is very poorly secured. It doesn't really clip in and it's not a very tight fit. A slight change in the moon's gravitational pull will wiggle the cable enough to turn things off.
 
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Texashiker said:
I dont know where your getting your sony stuff, but I have a sony digital camera that is 5+ years old and still working fine. It takes great pictures, even though they are 5 megapixel.

Their is a guy in the local photography club that sold his canon and nikon gear and bought all Sony. And he takes some great pictures.
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I've tried Sony cameras and cannot stand them. They over process the image effectively ruining it.

Also remember it's not just the camera that makes the pictures - it's the person clicking the shutter. 😉

I just prefer a camera that does not over process the data before saving it. Also memory stick? :biggrin:

Megapixels mean nothing. I have an old Canon SD20 5MP P&S from 2004. I compared pictures from a 12MP Sony P&S and it was night and day. The indoor low light shots on the Sony looked like oil paintings! The sensor noise was so high and the processing over compensated to cover it up it was just awful! My iphone 4 does better. 😀
 
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