Technology that refuses to die

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i didn't want to spring for a rotator, so i opted for a 100' tree-mounted 4-element flyswatter. living 50 miles from the nearest transmitter meant i had to pay somebody several hundred smackers to climb the tree and mount the antenna. but it was still cheaper than the $60 per month cable i had been paying, in terms of paying for itself after a year, and it's been 3 years now. DTV is generaly a drop-out-ridden [non-robust] signal outside of the city, in the countryside. and KCTS [seattle] has the further disadvantage of having their antenna radiation 1]aimed primarily north to where the rich people live [bellevue] and 2] the southern part [token, really] part of their radiation is partially obstructed by KOMO's antenna tower. so half the time i can't get PBS [KCTS-9]. damn.

Hardly superior, every kind of fastener I've encountered has been stripped at some point. However I have been able to use a Robertson tip to extract a stripped Phillips on a few occasions. Along that line I don't think we'll ever see the total extinction of the flat head because the drivers themselves are such good multi-taskers. Pry bar anyone?

My vote for extinction goes to the Can Opener and the archaic tin can that goes with it.

phonograph records like LPs. a technology 3 decades obsolete but for some reason there are legions of surface noise fans who won't let it die.

I agree with you that simple serial interfaces like RS-232 are very useful when hacking with microcontrollers and I even bought a laptop with an RS-232 port on it for that purpose. However, I find it hard to understand why RS-232 is still the prominent data interface on loads of medical devices and scientific instruments nowadays when there are more modern and user friendly interfaces that would probably work better.



80x86 architecture is hideous and it is propped up by Micro$oft. There was a theory in the late 1980s that RISC computers was the way to go but Micro$oft killed it in the early 1990s with Windows that only runs on an 80x86 CPU. The alliance between Micro$oft and Intel is probably the worst crime Bill Gates has committed.



You can still buy cans of meat that open using a key. A potential health and safety hazard.

Florescent lighting, LED's are so much better for a lot of reasons.

You guys are still missing my point: TV is force fed, preprogrammed s**t where the consumer has little to no chance of deciding what to watch. With digital, non broadcasted media, I - the consumer - decide what to watch and when. I can also chose to pause, rewind and fastforward however i like. Since i buy my series on DVD, i also get zero commercials.

Btw: Where i live, you have to pay a license to have a TV. I have lived several years without it and i'm doing just fine thanks to the internet. I get by just fine with purchased series, computer games and surfing the net - for me - television has no right to exist and i see my friends also getting tired of television.

TV is a mass medium with an expiry date. When fast broadband becomes universally available (which is already ARE in northern Europe), TV will become less and less important and will eventually fade into oblivion as the older generations die out.

Eventually, yes.
But all LED lamps that I've seen so far are either rather low-power, or they have a bad color/spectrum, or they're very expensive. (Usually, two of them apply.)

Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6. There are still many businesses using those .

XP's still functional. Oftentimes I miss it. Seven's okay... but it's just not the same. And less stable in my experience.

Agreed, XP and 2K were probably the best products that MS put out. --That being said, after downloading SP3, I had a trojan install itself on a clickthrough screen on Firefox.

Still though, there were no issues after removing the thing, and getting rid of SP3.

Electro-Convulsive "Therapy".

I was under the impression this was already gone?

Aside from young children learning not to stick metal things into sockets and careless electricians>?

Wikipedia is your friend.

< Electroconvulsive Therapy >


No, it's still around ... unfortunately ...

Does it work. If it works it is not unfortunate, it is just ugly.

ruveyn

Both clinical experience and published studies have stated that E.C.T. is effective in the treatment of severe depression, some acute psychotic states, and mania. Its effectiveness had not been demonstrated in dysthymia, substance abuse, anxiety, or personality disorder.

It also has a remission rate between 60 to 70 percent within six months.

It may be effective in the short term for some, but its effectiveness seems to wear off for most in the long term.

Autotune. That is all.