2010 is out with the old in with the new.
http://www.macworld.com/article/145309/2009/12/10_technologies.html
I still buy cd’s so I dont agree with that one, I need something physical. Plus you can always transfer the contents of the cd into your ipod and have both mp3 as well as the cd .
I agree for the most part.
I haven’t bought a CD in over 3 years. Useless pieces of plastic catering to nostalgic people.
Even vinyl is useless to buy considering it too can be ripped.
I haven’t bought a CD in over 3 years. Useless pieces of plastic catering to nostalgic people.
Even vinyl is useless to buy considering it too can be ripped.
BOOOOOOOOO!
Late,
grmpysmrf
I agree with the first three and the last one anyway. I think I bought 1 cd last year and maybe 2 or 3 the year before that. Its not that I don’t like them, I might even prefer the quality of a cd transferred to an mp3 than a direct download. But technology changes and we move with it so they will fade even more but 2010 is maybe too soon. Actually I might go and buy a cd this week. Any suggestions?
I like old technology, boo to these elitist fuckfaces.
Actually I might go and buy a cd this week. Any suggestions?
Shrinebuilder if you can find it.
Even vinyl is useless to buy considering it too can be ripped.
It can be ripped but it simply doesn’t sound as nice. Plus you can’t play around with the ripped music on a pair of turntables.
Also what happens when your computer poops itself?
Shit, watch out carmangary is gonna kick your ass!
Yeah now that I think about it, the person who came up with this list could only be a 16 year old who values stupid high tech shit and doesnt appriaciate the good ol stuff. But the list makes sense if your young and dont use any of those technologies. Plus I smoke in the car so I need that lighter fucker.
Any suggestions?
hmm… suggestions you say? Well I suggest a well oiled machine, you cant go wrong with…
BURNOUT AT THE HYDROGEN BAR [:/][shocked][:P]
I agree with carmangary whoever wrote this is basically a dumbass, not everyone has a computer and the latest gizmo that will in itself be obsolete in 6 months. Plus how does that old adage go… you can’t roll a joint on a download. [:)] I don’t even smoke and I know that one.
I have a lot of music as mp3’s, wavs, flac, and while it is convenient to have the ease of your collection at your fingertips, I don’t think that it is a real replacement ever for the physical object. Same with ebooks, and the such.
Fuck this guy. I was actually kind of agreeing with it until I got to business cards. You can’t digitalize everything, generations are already getting more hopeless by the minute, fucko. God forbid you go out in the world and do physical things.
I’m kind of all pissed off now.
Let’s kill’em all!!!
I say, let’s quit this forum and start writing letters to each other!!!
Actually I don’t buy Cds because they’re expensive as hell. At least here.
But it’s not the same thing. You don’t own the album you just can access it, it’s a different story. You can’t impress chicks with a mp3 but you can with a CD or even better with vinyl.
Cybernetic Oblivion sounds like a Re-Constriction comp from the early/mid 90s.
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Even vinyl is useless to buy considering it too can be ripped.
It can be ripped but it simply doesn’t sound as nice. Plus you can’t play around with the ripped music on a pair of turntables.
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Regarding sound quality - this is at the very least a topic that lends itself to a lot of discussion. The few advantages that an analog recording has over a digital one (no anti-aliasing and dithering, no clipping etc.) I think are easily overshadowed by the far more noticeable (to the human ear) advantages of digital. I’d say that a vinyl recording ripped through state of the art equipment to a 24 bit 192kHz file would sound entirely indistinguishable when played on the same sound equipment to 99.99999% of people. Usually, people claim vinyl sounds better because they are more used to the sound characteristics of this medium and because they tend to have better sound equipment connected to their gramophones than to their computers. The might also be using cheap sound cards and over-compressed mp3 files, making their comparison of vinyl vs. mp3 completely flawed. Overall, I’d say the love of vinyl has more to do with a particular sound signature, rather than with sound quality.
Modern CDJs usually support mp3s, so no need for vinyl there either.
As for hard disks dying - its really not that hard to backup your data. What happens when your vinyl breaks or your CD is scratched?
Cybernetic Oblivion sounds like a Re-Constriction comp from the early/mid 90s.
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God forbid you go out in the world and do physical thing
Yeah especially the part about video rental stores. Are people really that damn lazy? They dont want to wait in line for a movie that they’ll take home and watch THAT DAY. They rather wait a few days for it to arrive in the mail. What fuckin line are they talking about anyway, those places are usually empty. Hopefully our society doesnt start resembling the movie Surrogates. This decade will be exciting & frightening at the same time
Business cards will not be outmoded, they are immortalised by that scene from American Psycho, if not for their obvious perennial practicality.
Also I don’t get nostalgic over much but I do miss renting videos. It was a highlight of the week in my childhood, esp. getting an 18s film when you’re about 12 years old. There’s only the franchise rental shops left and all they try and do is sell you phones and other shit when you want to just rent a video because they’re not making enough money from the rentals anymore.
Business cards will not be outmoded, they are immortalised by that scene from American Psycho, if not for their obvious perennial practicality.
Also I don’t get nostalgic over much but I do miss renting videos. It was a highlight of the week in my childhood, esp. getting an 18s film when you’re about 12 years old. There’s only the franchise rental shops left and all they try and do is sell you phones and other shit when you want to just rent a video because they’re not making enough money from the rentals anymore.
I still see some “indie” video shops around in Melbourne… used to be a really good on in North Melbourne that stocked lots of arthouse and anime shit… maybe it’s still there I dont know. I always drive past one and want to go look but the Civic up the road is closer (sorry!)
But I still enjoy video shops… fo sho.
RE: Losing the WWW. prefix. what a load, not everything automatically loads that… and sites like dimeadozen… if you lose the www. you end up a different site. That article sucked.
I admit that I use netflix, but hell a good video store was just the shit. You’d actually get relavent to the interest suggestions on movies, not just random links. And those stupid things in the supermarket(redbox or whatever) only have like 40 movies at a time. Blockbuster though is a joke. I hadn’t rented a movie there for a few months and they tried conning me into resubmitting for a card as there’s a rental limit or some nonsense (this was a year or so ago) and they’re like you guys said, more interested in selling you shit and everything else possible BUT renting you movies.
one reason the lighter jack won’t go away is they have car battery jumper/starters that plug into those so you don’t need to go under the hood.
The list is definately shit. Off the top of my head I think something like the computer mouse would be more likely to go away than a business card or fax machine. Apple is set to reveal the touch screen computer soon.
I played with a Dell touch screen computer recently, I dont know if it’s because it was the demo model and was covered in grubby fingerprints, but there was a lag in the touch, so scrolling through icons you would be ahead of the item you wanted… bit odd. Not a huge delay… but enough to make me want to wait for improvements before being wowed.
Speaking of blockbuster… I thought they were all “family friendly” (so to speak) video stores until I saw Cannibal Holocaust sitting in the “new releases” section a few years ago rofl. I suppose it’s all franchised and the owner can get whatever they want in.