Comments on: I Fell Behind

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:34:30 +0000

I was with you for a long time then Two TV’s blew up so I replaced them with HD’s. I had to go get the HD cable converter to go with them, thats an extra twenty a month for what boils down to a lousy picture on all but a few channels and the channels I actually get in HD don’t look that much better than the standard TV. The movie studios came up with this junk just to cram copy protection down my throat and sell me old movies in a new format. But I’m not gonna buy that until My DVD player breaks.

By: Eric Burke

Eric Burke — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:38:49 +0000

@Bob – “All your stuff is 3 years old?”

What blog did you read? Because I did not say that. Do you work for CNN?

And I find it amusing you mention “…unless you are a…digital photo/video editor/creator…” which is pretty much EXACTLY THE POINT. If I were to upgrade other components in my tech arsenal (like my camcorder or even a multi-megapixel camera), that would cascade down to the PC, because then I’d need enhanced editing capabilities with a faster CPU, more drive space, etc.

By: ohng

ohng — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:54:21 +0000

lmao @ Brad and your comment about bother vs. brother. In an attempt to pick nits, check “higlights”.

But a context checker is a neat idea. And patents on software are silly.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:29:00 +0000

All your stuff is 3 years old? And you talk about it like it’s archaic? My computer is about that old, and it’s working just fine. It’s way faster than I need. Multi-core means one more core to sit idle 99% of the time. More than a gig means most of the RAM is idle at any given time, unless you are a heavy gamer, digital photo/video editor/creator, or Vista user.

“In the end, the more I know about tech…the less I want this crap. It’s all just too damn expensive, too closed, too complex, and too shitty.”

Right on. I’m totally with you there.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:16:04 +0000

Actually, you’ve found the great Policy for those in the know: Use what you have for as long as it lasts, then replace it with the newest of the newest and use that until it falls apart again. On average, you’ll be average-to-quite savvy, can uphold the old (…!) *real hacker* attitude of (pretending to!!!) doing the most wonderful things on old clunky hardware, and not needing the newest gadget whilst using only 0.0001% of the potential functionality of that.
If you’d jump on any the latest bandwagon, chances are that 9 out of 10 of those bandwagons are dead ends and you’ll lose your tech prowess for certain — new toys come with crappy instructions; RTFM won’t help. Learn/hack to use, then use for a long time…

[OK, now try to find a telex to send this to some paper editor...]

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:38:08 +0000

I almost came to the same conclusion, then I looked at my ’stuff’ and found everyone still watched the TV, everyone still listened to the hifi, no one still used the camcorder, the computers were just fine and my 4 year old camera still took great pictures….

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:18:55 +0000

Hmm…I guess this is probably not the place to talk about how I’m thinking about replacing my 61″ 720p DLP HDTV. Well, I need another HDMI port for the Playstation3 I’m using as a Blu-ray disk player. All right, I’ll go ponder on that elsewhere…

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:53:23 +0000

“brother”, not “bother”. Instead a spell checker, how about a “context checker”. If it finds 100,000 instances of “with you brother”, but 0 of “with you bother”, it higlights. the text. Patent time..

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:50:32 +0000

I’m right there with you bother. I’ll go with you on the shopping trip and help you load the van. Oh.. wait.. you still own a minivan? We all drive “crossovers” now..

My 1994 Sony CRT keeps on chugging. I keep hoping to sneak HD into the house via a laptop that plays 720p DVDs.

By: Eric Burke

Eric Burke — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:24:24 +0000

I build my own computers. NewEgg is awesome.