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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Liberator on May 03, 2002, 11:46:26 pm
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Okay, we don't have a General Discussion forum so this seemed to be the best place to put this.
What, in your opinion, is the best and the worst application of modern (withing the last 45-50 years or so)technology in everyday life. :D
I'm being serious, don't say the mass production of whoopee cushions or some other half-assed smart remark!:snipe:
My best three ...
1. Television Remote Controls
2. microwave ovens
3. Automatic Flushing Toilets in Public Restrooms
My worst three...
1. Remotes for everthing in the house(Why do you need a remote control for your microwave oven)
2. Electronic Fuel Injection(if it ain't broke, don't fix it!)
3. million-dollar Ink Pens(when a pencil works just fine, this just goes to show US Government usually = :doh: , not stupid just dumb)
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um
probably MSPaint
so we could make things like
(http://fc.olaki.net/gilligan.gif)
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Best - Toilet, Computer, fridge
Worst - Things that connect to the net that aren'y computers (think AOLers are annoying? just you wait until these things take off), SMS text messaging (forcing people to type in bastardized english "u" "ne1" "c u l8r" because the keypads on phones aren't efficient enough for people to type properly has destroyed more minds than Scientology), the hold button on telephones.
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Worst are...can't say.
Best are...computer, TV and miniskirt - it makes all days brighter heheheheh ;7
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Transistor chips
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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
Worst are...can't say.
Best are...computer, TV and miniskirt - it makes all days brighter heheheheh ;7
Geee.... you've put miniskirt rather too far, have you not??? :p
anyway: Water closet, TV, cars
worst: AOL, Trespasser, japanese clocks that don't even last a day
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Originally posted by Stunaep
worst: AOL, Trespasser, japanese clocks that don't even last a day
That's why you're always late! :devilidea
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Nah, I've got a good european watch. The problem is, that I seem to lose everything smaller than my head in 2-3 weeks. Go figure
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Lets not forget graphics card that allow us to play realler and realler games!
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Best:
- Microwave/Home Deathray
- Internet (and the thermo-nuclear weapons plans that it brings)
- ID Software in its entirety
[/i]Worst:- Mass produced computers
- Calculator (you lazy ****s)
- Corporate whoreism (I know, vague, but so ****)
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Best:
The supercomputer
HST
interplanetary probes
Worst:
consumer gimmicks :p
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best: computer, MS Word, MS Paint
worst: AOL, Bess, Juno
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Best:
Most electronics leading to high-level logic applications (IE, computers)
DARWIN!! (the 2003 mission, that is, not the evolution guy), although HST comes damn close.
Nuclear Fission power (in 30 years everyone had better get used to running off these or have no power. simple.)
Worst:
Nuclear Bombs. Isn't it just so HUMAN to go and completely pervert what could have pushed us to Alpha Centauri by now?
WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.
"MacDonaldisation". I was talking to a friend a few days ago and he said the first word his counsins' son said was "donalds". I find that repulsive in a really depressing kind of way. Its just the general trend towards a rubbish, plasticy kind of society and the decay of moral fibre that really gets me. Whether its processed cheese, britney spears and Nsync or fast food bars, it seems to unversally piss people off but they still buy it. WAKE UP, WORLD for crying out loud!
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Originally posted by wEvil
Best:
Most electronics leading to high-level logic applications (IE, computers)
DARWIN!! (the 2003 mission, that is, not the evolution guy), although HST comes damn close.
Nuclear Fission power (in 30 years everyone had better get used to running off these or have no power. simple.)
Worst:
Nuclear Bombs. Isn't it just so HUMAN to go and completely pervert what could have pushed us to Alpha Centauri by now?
WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.
"MacDonaldisation". I was talking to a friend a few days ago and he said the first word his counsins' son said was "donalds". I find that repulsive in a really depressing kind of way. Its just the general trend towards a rubbish, plasticy kind of society and the decay of moral fibre that really gets me. Whether its processed cheese, britney spears and Nsync or fast food bars, it seems to unversally piss people off but they still buy it. WAKE UP, WORLD for crying out loud!
Exactly.
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SMS Messaging is great, you just need a phone with smart typing (like mine).
Electronic Fuel Injection is also great. It lets you use less gas for the same distance and lets you turn on your car without any problems even if the temperature is -10C.
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Best technologies: 3D modeling programs (well, obviously), a fission system so simple you really CAN build one from home supplies, the helicopter (I dunno, I just like helicopters. So much better than cars, planes, etc. I want one. A big, ugly gray one.)\
Worst technologies: Chatrooms/IRCs/ICQ. No need for an explanation there- if you don't know why these things are an abomination worse than the feared Pepsi commercial, you're likely part of the reason I hate them. The new, largely Microsoft-spawned demons of the internet such as Macros, enabling script kiddies to hit me without me even opening the email and popup ads to dance obscenely about my screen and conceal their close buttons. And the TV.
My fourth worst would be the car, and my fifth the telephone (though it made the internet possible, the Plastic Bastard jams my DSL line and enables annoying, stupid people to harass me all night long. In fact, rank the answering machine right above the phone, 'cause it means I don't have a good excuse for never returning calls except "I can't stand you, burn in hell." Which isn't too good for business deals.) After that, put genetically engineered viruses and all the other things that make us die horribly along those lines. At least they kill the stupid telephone people, too.
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If you hate phone so much, make a Blotto-Box and electrocute every phone user in yer area.
They senda ****-load of electricity through the lines jumping the V to over 12, making all the phones ring. People pick the phones up and BAM!. Electroshock.
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'S possible. My plan was more a passive effect one. I'd have to keep the answering machine, but it'd be worth it...
"You have reached the 9 house. Please leave a message after the piercing 80Db shriek.":D
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
"You have reached the 9 house. Please leave a message after the piercing 80Db shriek.":D
*goes to rewire answering machine*
You could make it emit the 'Brown Noise'. Or that frequency that makes you sick and dizzy.
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Originally posted by an0n
If you hate phone so much, make a Blotto-Box and electrocute every phone user in yer area.They senda ****-load of electricity through the lines jumping the V to over 12, making all the phones ring. People pick the phones up and BAM!. Electroshock.
It's on my list of "100 things to do before I die" believe me ;)
Originally posted by wEvil
WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.
WIPO are scumbags, along with Hilary Rosen, Jack Valenti and Michael Eisner. I swear never to buy anything that goes into the pockets of those bloodsucking leeches, ever. They would be happy to see the internet commons, a haven for free exchange of information and ideas turned into a content delivery system for couch potatoes.
Chatrooms/IRCs/ICQ
I agree with you to some extent there but there are some limmited uses that Icq and IRC have.
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Originally posted by Top Gun
I agree with you to some extent there but there are some limmited uses that Icq and IRC have.
Yeah like secure chatting (through modification), finding hackable n00bs and planning things.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Best technologies: 3D modeling programs (well, obviously), a fission system so simple you really CAN build one from home supplies, the helicopter (I dunno, I just like helicopters. So much better than cars, planes, etc. I want one. A big, ugly gray one.)\
Worst technologies: Chatrooms/IRCs/ICQ. No need for an explanation there- if you don't know why these things are an abomination worse than the feared Pepsi commercial, you're likely part of the reason I hate them. The new, largely Microsoft-spawned demons of the internet such as Macros, enabling script kiddies to hit me without me even opening the email and popup ads to dance obscenely about my screen and conceal their close buttons. And the TV.
My fourth worst would be the car, and my fifth the telephone (though it made the internet possible, the Plastic Bastard jams my DSL line and enables annoying, stupid people to harass me all night long. In fact, rank the answering machine right above the phone, 'cause it means I don't have a good excuse for never returning calls except "I can't stand you, burn in hell." Which isn't too good for business deals.) After that, put genetically engineered viruses and all the other things that make us die horribly along those lines. At least they kill the stupid telephone people, too.
So many errors, so many screwed up assertions... I just don't know where to begin...
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Originally posted by wEvil
Best:
Most electronics leading to high-level logic applications (IE, computers)
DARWIN!! (the 2003 mission, that is, not the evolution guy), although HST comes damn close.
Nuclear Fission power (in 30 years everyone had better get used to running off these or have no power. simple.)
Worst:
Nuclear Bombs. Isn't it just so HUMAN to go and completely pervert what could have pushed us to Alpha Centauri by now?
WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.
"MacDonaldisation". I was talking to a friend a few days ago and he said the first word his counsins' son said was "donalds". I find that repulsive in a really depressing kind of way. Its just the general trend towards a rubbish, plasticy kind of society and the decay of moral fibre that really gets me. Whether its processed cheese, britney spears and Nsync or fast food bars, it seems to unversally piss people off but they still buy it. WAKE UP, WORLD for crying out loud!
Most of that isn't all that relevant to everyday life.....
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Originally posted by wEvil
Nuclear Bombs
Originally posted by Shrike
Most of that isn't all that relevant to everyday life.....
Soon, my pretties. Soon.
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Originally posted by an0n
Soon, my pretties. Soon.
I don't want to know. I don't want to know. I don't want to know.
WHAT THE HELL??????
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All things considered, I would say that the HST is the best of anything. ;) ;7
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Originally posted by Shrike
Most of that isn't all that relevant to everyday life.....
come back in a couple of years :p
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the WIPO is very related to everyday life, trying to force a corprate funded adn unfair US copyright law on the rest of the world wherther they like it or not.
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Originally posted by wEvil
Best:
Most electronics leading to high-level logic applications (IE, computers)
DARWIN!! (the 2003 mission, that is, not the evolution guy), although HST comes damn close.
Nuclear Fission power (in 30 years everyone had better get used to running off these or have no power. simple.)
Worst:
Nuclear Bombs. Isn't it just so HUMAN to go and completely pervert what could have pushed us to Alpha Centauri by now?
WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.
"MacDonaldisation". I was talking to a friend a few days ago and he said the first word his counsins' son said was "donalds". I find that repulsive in a really depressing kind of way. Its just the general trend towards a rubbish, plasticy kind of society and the decay of moral fibre that really gets me. Whether its processed cheese, britney spears and Nsync or fast food bars, it seems to unversally piss people off but they still buy it. WAKE UP, WORLD for crying out loud!
Yeah and when the aliens/asteriods come, will you still be complaining about nukes?
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Well in that case, why didn't we keep smallpox rampant so it'd be easy to infect the aliens when they arrive here? It's a stupid argument...
Nukes are an effective deterrent for rational leaders of normal nuclear nations. For people like OBL, they're just another weapon. THAT is why they're unsafe. Move past the Cold War, man! :ha:
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Oh, and my best/worst things are pretty much the same as wEvil's. Best:
* Computers - self-explanatory.
* Telephones - stay in touch with the people you love all the time!
* CDs - Mmmm, music.
Worst:
* Corporate culture - WIPO, erosion of rights, co-option of lifestlye as advertising etc all in the pursuit of profits at all cost.
* Free Market Economics - sure to garner a great big [laugh at Kellan] - I'm referring to one-way free trade, the aforemetioned corporate culture and the IMF, World Bank and so on.
* Cars - I know they're damn useful, and I rely on them, but I'm scared of what they can do, and how they make communities drift apart.
Commence the ripping apart, please. :doubt:
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I've condensed my list:
Good :-
Readily available weaponry (under my control)
Bad :-
Readily available weaponry (not under my control)
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I'm not sure if I should be:
1) Amused :ha:
2) Afraid :nervous:
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I think I'm amused and afraid at the same time. :shaking::lol:
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Good way to be, that way you're always nice and confused...
You know, I was just watching TV for the first time in about 2 months (I should have waited longer), and I realized something- I'm in the first generation containing multiple countercultures with a really noticeable corporate sponsorship... I mean, really. Is most rap music/ ghetto culture nowadays more about being black, disenfranchised, and poor or about being white and trying to get a tan?
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GOOD
Internet
Computers
Special FX in movies
Progress in Medicine
BAD
Teletubbies
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
BAD
Teletubbies
*goes to find an axe*
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Telletubies rule!:mad:
Death to Barney the Dinosaur, Antichrist of Childhood!
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Good
Hilarious Comics about FS2
Kickass renders
Content!
Bad
Martha Stewart
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Telletubies rule!:mad:
Death to Barney the Dinosaur, Antichrist of Childhood!
Hmm. You're right about Barney! Should have put that on my list too. But seriously, I had one whole summer in baby sitting my neice where she watched all day, every day the Telletubies, and I couldn't take it anymore, all that "eh oh... Bai baiiii...." or "Oooone.... Tuuuuuu.... Thweeeee!!!" *shudder*
Oh well, thats just me. :nervous:
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Oh, come on, you're complaining about watching walking, babbling homoerotic televisions play with giant mutant psycho killer rabbits on the astroturf under a sun that for some reason looks exactly like the Devil's face?
With a living vacuum that looks like it got stolen from the set of a 70s sci-fi B-movie about the horrific results of mad doctors toying with nature?
OK, so I can sorta see that. Freaked the **** out of me when I first saw it with my friends...
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:lol: Heheheheh....
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
:lol: Heheheheh....
Why did I read that and interpret it as evil and very ominous sounding?
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:lol: :wakka: :lol:
:devilidea
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Because you forgot to take your pills again, damn you!
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Best:
The Internet
Computers
FreeSpace
The Mustang GT coupe
Worst:
Anything that allows idiots to affect my enjoyment of the things on my other list.
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Best:
The Internet
Computers
Worst:
Anything that allows idiots to affect my enjoyment of the things on my other list.
Aren't those the same things then?
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Originally posted by Alikchi
Because you forgot to take your pills again, damn you!
oops :o
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Originally posted by Kellan
Well in that case, why didn't we keep smallpox rampant so it'd be easy to infect the aliens when they arrive here? It's a stupid argument...
Nukes are an effective deterrent for rational leaders of normal nuclear nations. For people like OBL, they're just another weapon. THAT is why they're unsafe. Move past the Cold War, man! :ha:
They do keep smallpox, why do you think our government is buying vaccines for it, although what you say is quite silly, to use it against aliens would not require infecting a planetery population and theres a very large chance it wouldnt effect them. A nuclear warhead is the only thing between us and them, whether it be a near earth asteroid or a alien warship.
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But if you look at the probabilities of aliens and asteroids, and then of nuclear-armed madmen, I think that madmen are more likely. :doh:
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Or Nuclear armed alien madmen that live on asteriods :D
Anyway, I thought this thread was supposed to be about technology. What's so high tech about a guy dressed up as a big purple Dinosaur? Even though he's very irritating.
Just a question to those accross the pond (from the UK); Does Barney's accent sound as irritating to you as it does to us (mind bogglingly irritating beyond belief)? I would say that he is the principal cause of 90% of anti American feelings here because that he's set the steriotype of how an Average American would sound.
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I have never actually heard the Barney accent (only seen some pictures of the guy), although most people in the world sound annoying to me, so my opinion wouldn't mean much. :p :D
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Originally posted by Top Gun
I would say that he is the principal cause of 90% of anti American feelings here because that he's set the steriotype of how an Average American would sound.
There are many, many better reasons to be anti-US than "because we talk funny". If people wanted to hate a group of people for their funny accents, the French would be the most despised people on Earth...
Wait a minure, bad example...:D
And he doesn't particularly have an identifiable accent in the first place. I'd think, if there was a globally recognized "U.S." accent, it'd be a country drawl or summat, not what sounds like a mixture of too much oral anesthetic and a bottle of Valium.
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Best application:
Rechargable batteries. :D
Worst application:
Telemarketing :mad:
:)