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WCDT: 2196-2200 (28 May - 1 Jun 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 30 May 2012, 00:42 ---Whereas us of the old school...
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Pah! I google incessantly, using my iPhone if I'm not at a computer. As your memory gets more... senior, it becomes an increasingly useful tool, quite apart from it's utility in any case.
TinPenguin:
Last panel is another great example of Jeph using hair to show surprise/confusion.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 May 2012, 01:08 ---
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 30 May 2012, 00:42 ---Whereas us of the old school...
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Pah! I google incessantly, using my iPhone if I'm not at a computer. As your memory gets more... senior, it becomes an increasingly useful tool, quite apart from it's utility in any case.
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Paul, you are either young at heart, open to new uses of technology, or both.
Googling something up instead of relying on my once formidable power of recollection just makes me sad. May be I get used to it one of these days? The feeling is not so strong, when I'm looking up something I never had any need to learn, but using it to refresh a memory feels awful. And the fact that for many it is the default way of learning a bit of trivia makes me shake my head.
Mr Farmer OTOH probably never uses google search. He apparently defaults to asking his daughter, when he thinks she would know.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 May 2012, 01:08 ---As your memory gets more... senior, it becomes an increasingly useful tool, quite apart from it's utility in any case.
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"it's" - oops, another senior moment...
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 30 May 2012, 01:49 ---Paul, you are either young at heart, open to new uses of technology, or both.
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I've been using and programming computers since 1966 (I used one as a student to help with analysis of my engineering practicals), went into the business in 1971, and was an early adopter of the Internet (before the web started to become mainstream with the introduction of Netscape). I actually get a bit irritated by people who whine about computers as if they're something new and mysterious.
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 30 May 2012, 01:49 ---Googling something up instead of relying on my once formidable power of recollection just makes me sad.
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Are you also sad that people spend more time taking photos of places on holiday than absorbing enough of their essence to remember for real? I am, actually, even though I'm also an avid photographer.
Boomslang:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 May 2012, 02:01 ---I actually get a bit irritated by people who whine about computers as if they're something new and mysterious.
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I get the impression it's more that they were ignoring it all in the hopes it was a passing fad and would just go away, and now they're confronted by the fact that they were completely wrong, should have admitted to being wrong years earlier, and now they have to spend additional years learning how everything works because that knowledge is no longer optional.
I boggle at the though of what things I will later regret not getting into when they were still hobbies and not a requirement for employment.
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