Thread: If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

omfg. I want to cry. Looking back, I can't believe i survived through the 80s.

Cook me some dinner, MOM, while I go decide if I'm going to play xbox 360, watch a movie on my blu-ray player, HD-tivo, or watch whats on any HD channel now, or get online wirelessly and look at porn. Screw it, I'll do it all at once while eating a cheat meal! Hurry up with that cheat meal (dinner) MOM (aka Jodi)!

Yeah, but at least MTV played music videos all the time.

Originally Posted by maniclion

Yeah, but at least MTV played music videos all the time.

Look at all you old people. You've become your parents. You're boring me to tears about how hard things were when you grew up.

What's honestly harder, not having computers or the internet when you grew up or learning how to master something like Excel when you're a kid? Go outside and play with rocks, or format a scatter plot with a linear correlation including the r squared value and compare the coefficient of variation for multiple data sets? Give me the rock, and i'll hit you with it.

Originally Posted by gococksDJS

Look at all you old people. You've become your parents. You're boring me to tears about how hard things were when you grew up.

What's honestly harder, not having computers or the internet when you grew up or learning how to master something like Excel when you're a kid? Go outside and play with rocks, or format a scatter plot with a linear correlation including the r squared value and compare the coefficient of variation for multiple data sets? Give me the rock, and i'll hit you with it.

your second year stats class isn't impreesing anyone!

Originally Posted by Jodi

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing

up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning...uphill BOTH ways..yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in heck I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it But now that...I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy!

I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter ... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up!

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! !; We had the Atari 2600! With games like Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! ... Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little brats! And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up. We had to use the stove or go build a freakin fire... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that Stupid JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot. That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled.

You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,

-The 30 Something crowd!

And you wouldn't have lasted in the 60's.

Over 50 crowd

Originally Posted by MyK

your second year stats class isn't impreesing anyone!

Your ability to recognize STATISTICS not statstistics isn't impressing anyone, Canada.

Originally Posted by gococksDJS

Your ability to recognize STATISTICS not statstistics isn't impressing anyone, Canada.

Originally Posted by gococksDJS

Look at all you old people. You've become your parents. You're boring me to tears about how hard things were when you grew up.

What's honestly harder, not having computers or the internet when you grew up or learning how to master something like Excel when you're a kid? Go outside and play with rocks, or format a scatter plot with a linear correlation including the r squared value and compare the coefficient of variation for multiple data sets? Give me the rock, and i'll hit you with it.

Translation:


I'm reciting some shit I learned in class this week. I'm not sure what it all means, but it sounds cool, even though I'll forget it in a few months time.

Originally Posted by BigDyl

Translation:


I'm reciting some shit I learned in class this week. I'm not sure what it all means, but it sounds cool, even though I'll forget it in a few months time.

No idiots, the translation is that technology might make some things easier, but you still have to learn how to use it all, unlike a rock. I think it's time for me to depart this board. bye

Originally Posted by gococksDJS

No idiots, the translation is that technology might make some things easier, but you still have to learn how to use it all, unlike a rock. I think it's time for me to depart this board. bye

Originally Posted by gococksDJS

No idiots, the translation is that technology might make some things easier, but you still have to learn how to use it all, unlike a rock. I think it's time for me to depart this board. bye

Looks like someone is upset.

Originally Posted by gococksDJS

No idiots, the translation is that technology might make some things easier, but you still have to learn how to use it all, unlike a rock. I think it's time for me to depart this board. bye

Wow. Touchy aren't we? I mean, come on man, you can't just slam the "old crowd" and expect to not get jabbed back? I'll have you know that I only played with the HIGHEST quality rocks when i was your age.

My TRS 80 was comprised of the absolute best quality 128k machine that had single-sided double density disks. Yea, Tandy was the SHIT back then. Cutting-edge DOS and filespec syntax strings written at it's most basic and unrefined levels. YEa... good times.

Now go on back to your "Linux-for-dummys" point & Click easy-made proggy clique and redefine Operational, Denotational and Axiomatic languages so the next generation can look upon you and make fun of your "rock"

Oh... and GREAT post Jodi!!

DOS - Most kids never had to learn DOS. You know what I hate more than anything in my career is talking to a tech that doesn't know DOS commands because they only know "windows"

Oh or how about Systems Admins that have no clue what Novell is and these are supposedly "certified" admins They are the ones we call Paper Admins

Originally Posted by Jodi

Oh or how about Systems Admins that have no clue what Novell is

That's a french novel right?

Hell I grew up on DOS and i'm under 30 my 286 with 1 meg of ram wouldn't run windows.

There are alot of sysadmins who don't know much about unix based os's.

does anyone remember the Commadore 64...???? I used to type in programs to make the puter say whatever I typed in...now THAT'S old school....

My first 'puter... Circa 1979...



The Apple II Plus had a total of 48 kilobytes of RAM, expandable to 64 KB by means of the language card, an expansion card that could be installed in the computer's slot 0. The Apple's microprocessor could support a maximum of 64 KB of memory, and a machine with 48 KB RAM reached this limit because the machine had an additional 16 KB of read-only memory. For this reason, the extra RAM in the language card was bank-switched over the machine's built-in ROM, allowing code loaded into the additional memory to be used as if it actually were ROM. Users could thus load Integer BASIC into the language card from disk and switch between the Integer and Applesoft dialects of BASIC with DOS 3.3's INT and FP commands just as if they had the BASIC ROM expansion card. The language card was also required to use the UCSD Pascal and FORTRAN 77 compilers, which were released by Apple at about the same time. These ran under a non-DOS operating system called the UCSD P-System, which had its own disk format and included a "virtual machine" that allowed it to run on many different types of hardware.

Originally Posted by BigDyl

There are alot of sysadmins who don't know much about unix based os's.

Yes there are a lot of sys admins around that know nothing about Linux or Unix, and Jodi is correct they are just Paper Admins.

Originally Posted by Jodi

Oh or how about Systems Admins that have no clue what Novell is and these are supposedly "certified" admins They are the ones we call Paper Admins

NetWare, great stuff , the most rock steady file server we have is a NetWare box, OS never hangs or freezes it's always the hardware, although I can't gripe that Novell is now going SuSe full force.

I learned Linux about 5 years ago - but now work wants me to get certified in HP-UX. I'm not thrilled about this

Originally Posted by Witmaster

My TRS 80 was comprised of the absolute best quality 128k machine that had single-sided double density disks. Yea, Tandy was the SHIT back then. Cutting-edge DOS and filespec syntax strings written at it's most basic and unrefined levels. YEa... good times.

Bah..........What a piece of CRAP! My Atari 800XL was da shit. External floppy drive that used DUAL sided disks. High res dot matrix printer that was faaaaaaaaast......two page per minute. Had a "12 Sony black and white T.V. for a monitor. I was Bill Gates before he even existed.

My Vic-20 was awesome. With that tape drive that would take 20 minutes to load a 2.5k program into memory... and then 15 minutes into the load, it would eat your tape.

Fun times

I tried to write a handwritten letter on paper the other day with a pen. It wasn't easy.

Originally Posted by Jodi

I learned Linux about 5 years ago - but now work wants me to get certified in HP-UX. I'm not thrilled about this

Wah, work wants me to keep up to date, wah.