What's wrong with playing Quake on that rig? :o

what you really should do is buy roland sound hardware and play monkey island

My technologies....

I have a computer, it's the big chunk of plastic thing sitting on my desk. People tell me they make them where you can walk around with them and surf the internet from anywhere without even having any wires connected to them.

I have a phone. You know what I do with it? I make phone calls! I don't websurf, email, text message, listen to music, follow it's directions to my destination, send porn to my buddies, or take photos of danowat's girlfriend naked.

I did finally get broadband. It wasn't available to me until 2005.

I listen to music on a radio, from a radio station broadcasting free programming with real live DJs. I don't pay a subscription fee and I have to listen to commercials. If there's nothing decent playing on the radio, I put these shiny disk things in a slot and listen to that. I listen to the radio in the car and when I'm home. The music comes from a set of speakers. I don't walk around aimlessly with these earbud things stuck in my ears.

I have a TV. It's not widescreen, it's not HD, it's not LCD, it's quite large. It's a 27 inch CRT that I got in 1996. It has digital input and looks damn nice watching the hockey games. I don't understand all the HD crap that's happening and the $1500 televisions. I paid $239 for my TV. I like it very much. I already pay an arm and a leg for satellite broadcasting and refuse to pay even more for HD.

I don't know what I would do if my TV broke. They don't have normal TVs available any more. Everything is widescreens. Again, I am not planning on paying another monthly fee for HD. So, why would I want to pay $1500 for a TV that I can only use half the screen. A guy at work insists that 4:3 format television broadcasts fit fine on a 16:9 format TV. I'd like to know how. I've seen the LCD widescreen TVs when displaying non-HD signal and it looks horrible. Either the picture is stretched out, cut off, or it displays in the middle with black bands on either end. Why would I want to pay $1500 for that?

I've tried to watch a hockey game on an LCD TV (the only thing I watch). It can't be done. It was terrible. The picture couldn't keep up with the action. It was like trying to play LFS at 10 FPS.

I REALLY hate cell phones. I don't have one. Everyone is replacing their landlines with cell phones. Then they call me and they say, "Hi, h..w...re....ou doi.....I jus....g..t my ne.....ll ph..n...How do..s it s...nd?" If cell phones are so great and have come such a long way in the quality of the signal, why is it every time someone calls me I haven't a clue what they are saying from the signal breaking up? Great technology there...


I'm 36 years old. I'm not afraid of technology. I just think technology sucks. Everyone bandwagons onto the technology train and the tech that is released hasn't even been perfected yet before the new tech comes out to replace it.

Screw technology. Give me a car that I have to actually do the braking, and the throttle control, and shift the gears, and turn the AC on and off myself. Give me a phone I can actually use to talk on without having the person I'm talking to guess what I'm saying because they can't hear me.

I can keep up with the new technology quite easily, it's not far enough removed from what I am used to. I'm sure when you have nano computers in your skull, and need to think in certain ways to get them working, I would struggle.

I do however see a lot of useless technology, simple things being totally over engineered. For example I was at the gym last week and wanted a bottle of juice, so I put my money in the vending machine and expected the drink to just drop to the bottom of the machine for me to pick out myself. Instead a big robotic arm swung into place, grabbed the drink and placed it into a box, then a Star Trek style door wirred open so I could take my drink, and at that point I realised why it cost me £1.40 just for a small bottle of Lucazade energy drink.

Its like the world is being forced on new things. I remember when the first big screen tv's came out,it was like 10 000 $ few bought it only,than a few years later it became popular,now every 1 is buying them saying: well every 1 has,i need it too.




@nighthawk: thats wierd,maybe your unlucky with the products,or u seen the cheap quality,everything i have works great

I don't think the world force you with new things, the mainstream marketers feed you with them true, but I can still find perfectly working VCRs and such very very cheapy, although second handed or third handed, those things were damn reliable. but then I am converting all my f1 review tape to DVDS, because VCR will wearout, and DVD virtually won't.

and nighthawk..i dunno about your state, but in my place cellphone signal breaking up is something that only happens in the 90s.......so I guess what sucks is the lack of technological improvement in your area.

Quote from mrodgers :

I've tried to watch a hockey game on an LCD TV (the only thing I watch). It can't be done. It was terrible. The picture couldn't keep up with the action.

I have a feeling you haven't seen any sports at HD resolution and 60/50Hz, because there's absolutely no comparison. Especially for hockey I'd assume. But whatever floats your boat I guess.

Your 4:3 TV won't do much good when all channels broadcast in 16:9 though, and that will happen for SD channels too eventually (over here almost all OTA broadcasting is in widescreen already, and soon to be digital only).

Quote from wien :

I have a feeling you haven't seen any sports at HD resolution and 60/50Hz, because there's absolutely no comparison. Especially for hockey I'd assume. But whatever floats your boat I guess.

Your 4:3 TV won't do much good when all channels broadcast in 16:9 though, and that will happen for SD channels too eventually (over here almost all OTA broadcasting is in widescreen already, and soon to be digital only).

Problem is, I already spend $70/month for the satellite, no premium channels. To add HD, it would be another $$ per month when I already pay a ridiculous amount for TV. Nothing is broadcast OTA in widescreen where I am. We are going all digital in February, but that won't affect me. I'm already digital as 99% of everyone else is with cable or satellite.

Quote from mrodgers :

To add HD, it would be another $$ per month when I already pay a ridiculous amount for TV.

Oh, I wouldn't pay for it either. Waaay too much money for the little time I spend in front of the tube.

I just wanted to point out that the quality of a 720p60 broadcast will kill any SD TV dead when we're talking fast paced sports like hockey. The doubled framerate makes the picture oh so smooth. That's why I have a feeling what you saw was a normal SD signal upscaled to fit the LCD screen. That does look horrendous compared to a good CRT.