General / Off-Topic How time flies
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Excellent. Happy days. Thanks for the link
Yep we are progressing at an ever increasing rate of knots. The singularity is coming!
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
Great list, though I will disagree with them on walkies. Those are still useful and used.
LOL I can remember in the late 60's early 70's at High School punching holes in cards to put into the library state of the art computer.
LOL I can remember in the late 60's early 70's at High School punching holes in cards to put into the library state of the art computer.
A pioneer here
Lived and worked in Japan for 6 years until 2012 when we moved back to my native Scotland.
Fax machines are still in wide use in Japan! Yeah, I was surprised too when I saw it.
Fax machines are still in wide use in Japan! Yeah, I was surprised too when I saw it.
Lived and worked in Japan for 6 years until 2012 when we moved back to my native Scotland.
Fax machines are still in wide use in Japan! Yeah, I was surprised too when I saw it.
I am convinced that many companies in Europe, are still working with Windows 95 and Pentium III
Lived and worked in Japan for 6 years until 2012 when we moved back to my native Scotland.
Fax machines are still in wide use in Japan! Yeah, I was surprised too when I saw it.
Lived there too (4 years, ushima ken) and thought Japan is interesting in terms of culture because one foot in the future but one foot firmly in the past too. Baseball batting centres for instance, are like a trip back to the 1950s (and Onsen is of course ancient!)
[video=youtube;1APRsoJjcjM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1APRsoJjcjM[/video]
I reckon DVDs will be the next to go .. in the future eveyrthing will come on a stick!!!
Indeed!
Wait, which part of ushima-ken were you living in?
For the first year me and mine stayed in a mountain cottage in the middle of nowhere in a village called Miyakoji-mura, Tamura-shi.
Then I bought a newly-built house in Tobu New Town, on the outskirts of Koriyama-shi (I noticed that video is from Koriyama!).
Then that M9 earthquake happened, and all the drama that ensued. My new-build house survived apart from a nasty crack in the ground behind it and the ground all around the house subsided by about 2 inches, and the odd cracks in the wall paper where various wall panels had been shifting around as the house shook. At one point I had a group of American English teachers living at my house for a couple of weeks whilst they decided what they were going to do, plus two of our Japanesefriends from Miyakoji-mura (which was only 20km from ushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant which by that time had went KABLOOEY!).
A bit of good luck was that the radiation cloud from the nuke plant (my house was about 52km from it) got blown North-East towards ushima City, then blown South-West in an inverted V shape which mostly missed my area but hit Koriyama city itself 4km away.
Then the company I worked for decided that radiation wasn't very nice and shut down. Then I managed to sell my quake-proven house with no loss and moved back to Scotland in 2012.
(Sorry for digressing off topic, but it appears Winterwalker was in ushima around the same time period as I was
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What do you mean you only recognised 14 of the items? I recognised all of them. I used most of them as well. The only ones I haven't used are the pager, the minidisc player, and even I am a little too young for the ticker machine.A little more than half of those I recognized right off the bat, 14 to be exact.
I don't if this counts as a "didn't use". I never owned a Leica. but I did have an Olympus OM10 if they are talking broadly about 35mm cameras
(Sorry for digressing off topic, but it appears Winterwalker was in ushima around the same time period as I was
I was based in Shirakawa, South of Koriyama City, but not far. Used to go to Koriyama to see a movie, nearest cinema and baseball practice! I go back a little further, came back in 2003, so don't think we were there at the same time but worked up the mountains in Nasu (doing falconry demonstrations, of all things random).
Though I missed the main Daichi event (and glad you managed to dodge the worst of that disaster) I do have a good story about the Japanese nuclear industry. On trip down to Tokyo Narita, had rare pleasure of picking up Japan Times newspaper in ENGLISH ... (bliss)
So, it seems these two jokers were creating solid fuel, from liquid nuclear something or other. Because it was Friday, and presumably the beer was calling, they decided they could finish early by doubling quantities in the mixer for the last batch of the day. Almost needless to say, doing this created a thermal critical mass and they blew the roof off the building !! .. (( haha )) .. Fortunately, on that occasion too, the wind took the cloud out to sea but I'm still giggling about that one, over a decade later!
Truly good times. Yoroshiku!
(Sorry for digressing off topic, but it appears Winterwalker was in ushima around the same time period as I was
I think it's fair to say that Japan (include South Korea too) is about as hi tech as it gets on Planet Earth? But still, vending machines are a big deal in Japan, and although the taxi doors open for you automatically, your driver wears white gloves. "Home James".
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"And I'm officially wrinkly..."
FTFY
I know you are Ian... But don't worry a facelift could do wonders for you mate.
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Ahhhhh.... now the secret of your hairy back and bald 'spot' is out.... too many facelifts!
Hey, I still use some of those things!
(And I'm not old. Although it's true and for quite some time will be, that I lived most of my life in 20th century. :x)
(And I'm not old. Although it's true and for quite some time will be, that I lived most of my life in 20th century. :x)