Posted on 05/13/2012 10:12:38 PM PDT by DemforBush
From the moment that I found out my wife was pregnant with our first child, a son, I’ve thought of his development in terms of tech...
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Growing up, I loved Reel-To-Reel, I was so good at spooling it, my Dad would call me to do it. The sound was fantastic.
I miss Shortwave Radio, yes the Internet is better, but still, it just isn’t the same thing. It seemed so much more exotic back then to listen to radio stations coming from half-way around the globe.
-—Gee..I feel old and sad right now.——
Don’t go down without a fight. That’s my attitude ;-)
I am reminded of the PS9 “future” commercial.
My father was born in 1906 too. He grew up in rural NW Ohio. (He was A LOT older than me, by the way!:-)). I wish he were still around to hear some of his stories. I do remember him talking about being out in a field, hearing a loud noise, and wishing and hoping that it was a plane he was hearing. It turned out that it was! He was very excited! I know that his family had a car and that at the age of 7 or 9 he drove himself to the dentist in the next town to have a tooth pulled. Life was different then. He was a math teacher. When the first calculators came out, he was amazed that this box, the size of a typewriter, could do what we now consider just the basic mathematic functions: + - × ÷.
One advantage of decentralization like that would be that major outages would be less likely. Now if a transmission line is knocked down by a storm or an out of control driver all of the users downstream lose power. if everyone had their own generating facilities then you don't need transmission lines.
But then how would they be able to charge an "Energy Delivery Tax, or send meter readers around to walk on your petunias?"
I tend to agree with your analysis of the article. I’m not sure what the original author of this article does for a living but he seems to be missing some basic understanding of technology.
Well provided they don't have any scratches on them. One thing I noticed about vinyl back in the day, was that when I played some records where the length of a side was over 25 minutes, the sound deteriorated near the end of the side...I learned that was because to fit the grooves they actually made the width of the groove toward the end smaller so as to fit more music on the side.
They decreased the dynamic range and lower end bass response thus the narrowing of the grooves.
Yep.
What’s that scene from? I’ve seen that before but can’t remember.
Wall-E
But you needed more than just near-perfect recording capability. Electronics and processing power have become so cheap that affordable consumer players will be able to process the recording back into a crystal clear analog signal that will then go to the speakers. Remember that the CD was first released when plain handheld calculators were only for the very rich.
I think the days of analog storage via LPs are numbered. LPs are too easy to damage/degrade and difficult to store and transmit. Vinyl resolution will also always be limited by the tolerance of the equipment that mass produces the LPs.
I was a linotype operator in the print trade back in the ‘50s and knew a typical “little old lady in sneakers” that ran a Heidelberg press. One time she mentioned that her mother had seen Grover Cleveland when she was a child. I asked her to check with her as to what modern invention impressed her the most, thinking of airplanes, radios, TV, etc.
The next day she said, “You’re not gonna believe this. She said that it was the fact that people could water their lawns. She grew up in a Nebraska sod buster home and said they prayed every day for rain for their crops or face starvation - and now people could just walk outside and turn the tap to water grass.”
One forgets about the simple things.
Fair to say this article won’t be in the top ten list of top ten articles.
I think in time, she'll appreciate the miracles she now takes for granted. Especially if she ever spends any time in a third world country.
Remember when a long distance call was a very big deal, and cost an arm and a leg? Today, folks talk face to face on Skype from continent to continent for next to nothing. Miraculous.
It takes a tremendous amount of suppression to hold mankind down, but governments do their best.
I chalk it up to the simple fact that bright, productive people have little interest in working in government, but anti-social personalities are drawn to it like moths to a flame. Government is the ultimate vehicle for anti-socials to control and dominate others, hence, it's thoroughly infested with them.
Governments are raised and constituted by men of character, courage, and good will, but are soon taken over by the least worthy among them. Over time, they subvert the grand goals and purposes upon which their nations were founded, and reduce the job of government to one of robber and slave master.
It's the common denominator of all fallen nations.
Just wait until you've got your own anti-grav vehicle. You'll never know how you lived without it.
Yep. And a saw wasn't just a saw, either. They had saws for all sorts of different purposes. As a youngster, I can remember asking my granddad why he had so many different saws, and he just smiled.
Tell you what, though. He loved his power tools. Up until the end, he always had the best cutting edge equipment.
And amazingly, they'll all still be under copyright
Well, it's nothing new
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. 1 Kings 12 30 - 32
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