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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: Nadger on Sat, 08 January 2011, 12:47:01
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http://gizmodo.com/5727698/schoolkids-guess-the-ancient-gadgets-and-get-it-all-adorably-wrong
Though in some parts of the world thats still current tech ;x
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Got to wonder what they'd do with my computers.
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IF they were competently bilingual, they would know what most of it was based on the labels. Too bad their govn't takes such a dictatorial stance in the preservation of their native language. I guess they assume that without being forced, no one would actually speak French.
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Anyone know what the hp trackball was?
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Haha, I loved when the kid called a floppy a camera. That was pretty amazing.
I have to say though, I didn't know what a few of those things were.
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I saw this a couple days ago and found it funny that the subtitles incorrectly list the 5.25" floppy as an 8".
And I still have that Donkey Kong Jr. cart. :D
I don't think there's anything too surprising here. These are items most of us haven't seen in ages. I continue to use 3.5" floppies (extremely rarely), generally because of old utilities or hardware that requires it. It's been 20+ years since Atari and Coleco were common household names.
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I didn't know a few of these things either...
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8in floppies existed, not incorrectly listed.
I also had no idea what the yellow thing was.
The guy telling the kid to stop with the record was hilarious.
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reminds me of this old article where kids review old videogames
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3137498
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I think the yellow thing was some kind of 8-track player, but it was hard to tell. If it was, I have never seen one like that. i have a "History of Music Media" shadow box set with an 8-track cassette called "Best of '69." To bad it wasn't video.
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Anyone know what the hp trackball was?
HP trackball was a trackball.
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Well played, sir.
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I guess they assume that without being forced, no one would actually speak French.
In the long run, that's not an unreasonable assumption. Languages are, after all, tools for communication. If you could go to school and take your lessons in English, if the coolest TV shows and movies came out in English first, if speaking English gave you a better choice of good jobs... then, over time, first people who spoke French at home but learned English very early in life, so they spoke it well, might end up living much of their lives in English, maybe even marrying someone who doesn't speak French, so they speak English at home, and their kids only speak English.
After all, the Quebecois can look around them, and ask how many people speak Inuktitut and don't understand English.
To preserve French in Quebec eternally, Quebec does need to be a country, so that the Quebecois would need landed immigrant status to take English-speaking jobs in Toronto. But they would have to give up the Eastern Townships, they would have to sign treaties with the United States and Canada on the rights of First Nations people (Native Americans), and Montreal would have to be partitioned.
There is no way many ordinary English Canadians would accept that some of its people would become subject to a foreign French government. But some Quebecois have vowed a campaign of terrorist violence if any part of the sacred soil of Quebec were divided from it.
So, instead of becoming an independent country, they stand a good chance, if they vote "Oui" on a referendum, of becoming as independent as the Palestinians are of Israel. (It's by no means a certainty; we don't have many politicians of the type that will fight rather than endure any compromise of freedom. To help ensure English Canadians in Quebec will meekly submit should Quebec separate, we have strict gun-control laws.) But, then, nationalism was never rational.
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IF they were competently bilingual, they would know what most of it was based on the labels. Too bad their govn't takes such a dictatorial stance in the preservation of their native language. I guess they assume that without being forced, no one would actually speak French.
I think the main problem is that they are French not that they speak French.
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'This goes into an iPod' !!!!
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I think the main problem is that they are French not that they speak French.
Im sorry, I dont follow.
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Makes me remember when a customer who received some software called my Dad's (Programmer at that time) Company to tell him how hard it was to unpack those 5.25" floppys T_T. And yeah that was at a time where they were actually standard, so hands down to the kids not trying to unpack them :D.
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Id like to see the same thing except old people vs new tech