[pbradley]

Let's see, I remember typing classes with old school IBM computers that were extremely boring in everyway with the floppy, floppy disks. Not the latter hard disks called floppy disks. And then I remember taking a required "how to use the internet" class in high school, spent the whole class playing flash games.

[touch me i'm sick]

oh man the typing classes were sweet. we had some turtle program that taught us how to write really simple programs to move a turtle on the computer

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

since nobody has used it, i'll do it:

i belong to the blank generation and i can take it or leave it each time.

oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo...

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[uhler]

Originally Posted by pbradley

Let's see, I remember typing classes with old school IBM computers that were extremely boring in everyway with the floppy, floppy disks. Not the latter hard disks called floppy disks. And then I remember taking a required "how to use the internet" class in high school, spent the whole class playing flash games.

i remember those typing classes. in middle school we used typewriters still (and i'm not THAT old). i never had an how to use the internet class before.

[m1rr0r dash]

Originally Posted by Dead-Air

Gen Y were the dotcommers and Web 2.0 kids

exactly.

i'm taling about the Web 0.5 set... we were using telnet message boards before the internet had been invented... telnet was great for instant messaging also, since cell phones hadn't been invented either.... "which computer lab are you at? i'll meet you over there - we should go out later."

i mean, what does Rob I. do for money? helpdesk for a law firm. everyone i know who's not in school or an architect does that... "oh, i fix the computers and scanners at the Kinko's" ... "oh, i do IT for an architecture firm." .... "oh, i do the digital x-rays at the hospital." ... "oh, i run the server at an independent political library." ... "oh, i manage the database at a co-operatively owned video rental store." ... "oh, i work for IBM." ...my brother manages the video conferencing setup and voice-over-IP at an investment firm.


give a slacker a computer and they're just gonna slack digitally... and occassionally get paid a fuckload of money. short of that, why bother working at all?

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by m1rr0r dash

give a slacker a computer and they're just gonna slack digitally... and occassionally get paid a fuckload of money. short of that, why bother working at all?

ha ha ha ha

i dropped out of the phd to do just that

sorta

[✌➬]

I am the "ME" generation.

[pbradley]

Originally Posted by ✌➬

I am the "ME" generation.

More like Windows ME generation.

[✌➬]

Sorry I have a mac.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by ✌➬

Sorry I have a mac.

macs = shit

macshit

[hat and bread]

 

[Dead-Air]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

macs = shit

macshit

You and Macs are about as interesting as Adam and the Magick Markers.

[Dead-Air]

Originally Posted by m1rr0r dash

....of course there's a grey area there, and any "generation" or "category" is a generalization.... but i knew plenty of people older than me - real "slacker" type gen X'ers who were in the process of slowly dropping out of grad school when it occured to them that if they actually took the money their boss at the Kinko's was offering to help him build a computer, they would be able to buy groceries for the group house with a bunch of psychopaths in demi-famous punk bands... next thing you know they're doing the same thing for ibm.... BIG BLUE... they'd never admit it... if you ask them they work for The Atlanta Arts Cafe (web design start-up - No Art, No Coffee - The Arts Cafe) or Macquarium... and they did... before IBM bought them up. now they wear suits and are "vice-presidents" or this that and the other, but what they do is build cutting edge interactive display units - R&D for Big Blue.... picture a touch screen like an ATM but built in to a projection unit... 2d image on the wall - any wall it's pointed at, but you can point at the wall and the projection registers a click... and there's a 3d space in front of the projection - how far away you point from the from wall registers as a different click than pointing directly at the wall....


how different is corporate R&D from welding some crazy contraption made from a car and a toilet and a catapault together in in the backyard of the group home for the amusement of the psychopathic punkers?

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exactly.

i'm taling about the Web 0.5 set... we were using telnet message boards before the internet had been invented... telnet was great for instant messaging also, since cell phones hadn't been invented either.... "which computer lab are you at? i'll meet you over there - we should go out later."

i mean, what does Rob I. do for money? helpdesk for a law firm. everyone i know who's not in school or an architect does that... "oh, i fix the computers and scanners at the Kinko's" ... "oh, i do IT for an architecture firm." .... "oh, i do the digital x-rays at the hospital." ... "oh, i run the server at an independent political library." ... "oh, i manage the database at a co-operatively owned video rental store." ... "oh, i work for IBM." ...my brother manages the video confrencing setup and voice-over-IP at an investment firm.


give a slacker a computer and they're just gonna slack digitally... and occassionally get paid a fuckload of money. short of that, why bother working at all?

Fair enough, plenty of my friends went that route too. I somehow just missed it by djing '80s hits until I woke up one day as a supervisor for a state Attorney General's Office in the Consumer Protection Division. Which sounds so much more important than those jobs at Intel and Microsoft that pay three times as much.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Dead-Air

You and Macs are about as interesting as Adam and the Magick Markers.

yeah? then do one better. come on. say something interesting. do it.

[Dead-Air]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

yeah? do one better. come on. say something interesting. do it.

I hope I do fairly often. I honestly try to, which I hope counts for something.

That's not the trick though, the trick is to say the same uninteresting thing over and over as if that somehow makes it interesting.

You have plenty of worthwhile things to say, your broken record anti-Mac tirade just isn't it.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Dead-Air

I hope I do fairly often. I honestly try to, which I hope counts for something.

That's not the trick though, the trick is to say the same uninteresting thing over and over as if that somehow makes it interesting.

You have plenty of worthwhile things to say, your broken record anti-Mac tirade just isn't it.

well i just spent half of my weekend trying to connect a macshit to the internet (it only takes 1 WEP key). and getting it to print (no official drivers for laserjet 1020). and realizing it's the slowest fucking computer i've used in years. the little spinning color wheel keeps idiots enthralled while they endlessly wait for apps to launch. so i have plenty of material. mac are shit-- superior marketing, mediocre product. there.

[Dead-Air]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

well i just spent half of my weekend trying to connect a macshit to the internet (it only takes 1 WEP key). and getting it to print (no official drivers for laserjet 1020). and realizing it's the slowest fucking computer i've used in years. the little spinning color wheel keeps idiots enthralled while they endlessly wait for apps to launch. so i have plenty of material. mac are shit-- superior marketing, mediocre product. there.

And I suppose if the Magick Markers are in town, then Adam won't miss them either so he can tell us all about it too. I rest my case.

[m1rr0r dash]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

well i just spent half of my weekend trying to connect a macshit to the internet (it only takes 1 WEP key). and getting it to print (no official drivers for laserjet 1020). and realizing it's the slowest fucking computer i've used in years. the little spinning color wheel keeps idiots enthralled while they endlessly wait for apps to launch. so i have plenty of material. mac are shit-- superior marketing, mediocre product. there.

tell me more about the hackintosh.

- have you tried it, or known someone who was?

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by m1rr0r dash

tell me more about the hackintosh.

- have you tried it, or known someone who was?

no but i read some company was offering a clone for $400 this past weekend

the one i got is the 17" macbook pro. what a piece of crap. but anyway, i'm back at my chunky pc keyboard-- sweet punching of the keys.

but i digress. find this shit here

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Dead-Air

And I suppose if the Magick Markers are in town, then Adam won't miss them either so he can tell us all about it too. I rest my case.

you have a mac don't you? and you think it's the greatest thing ever, right? confess.