Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT: Aug 10-14, 2009
Dliessmgg:
There's not much space for an accent in four sentences.
--- Quote from: ysth on 16 Aug 2009, 02:38 ---The effect has been observed before.
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"It's really good when I can just link to TV Tropes, because then I know you'll have hours of reading without me having to do anything else."
Edit: Damn. I tvtropes-trapped myself.
nichidani:
--- Quote from: giant_bug on 16 Aug 2009, 10:20 ---When did drunk-Faye lose her Southern accent?
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i think its just kind of assumed at this point.
ModernRonin:
> Has anyone in the post-Boomer generation brought any significant contributions to the table?
"The transistor is often cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th century, and some consider it one of the most important technological breakthroughs in human history."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor
Wasn't even discovered until '47, and integrated circuits weren't being made in any significant quantity until the 1970's. The Interbutt didn't really come its its own until the early 1990's.
And 15 years later, we have the webcomic QuestionableContent. ;]
bhtooefr:
Still, even the foundations for the Internet would have been laid by boomers...
That said, a huge number of non-boomers won't have had a chance yet to bring a significant contribution to the table.
First off, the US census bureau defines a boomer as anyone born from 1946 to 1964. That's a huge range, and it means the oldest non-boomers are 45.
Second, everyone else got the low-hanging fruit a long time ago. There's certainly room to bring stuff to the table, but it'll be harder to do.
chrisa1:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 17 Aug 2009, 03:25 ---Still, even the foundations for the Internet would have been laid by boomers...
That said, a huge number of non-boomers won't have had a chance yet to bring a significant contribution to the table [...] the oldest non-boomers are 45.
Second, everyone else got the low-hanging fruit a long time ago. There's certainly room to bring stuff to the table, but it'll be harder to do.
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Not sure about 'low-hanging fruit'. Principles of electro-magnetism, and much of electronic paraphernalia into the latter 1900's, were non-trivial things to discover or invent.
I've always approached the issue from my background in artistic expression (music in particular). There's a quote I once heard, though I can't remember the attribution, that says something like: The great banquet of music ended in the early 1900's (post-Romanticism). Now in our age, we are the mice after the banquet, making what we can of the leftover crumbs.
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