"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Why's that? Facebook, regardless of popularity, is still just one web site. I can ignore ONE web site and the rest of the internet should still function.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
I keep having strange urges to "Like" posts on messageboards. Then I get disappointed when there's no button to do that. It's like I have to USE WORDS to express that a post is good. Ugh.
Sometimes the concept of "liking" something can give the wrong idea.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Great Rumbler Wrote:ABF's luddite fears are a constant source of amusement.
The Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Ultimate MvC3 games and DLC are going to be removed from sale on both X360 and PS3 online stores by the end of the year. After that point it'll be impossible to use two of the characters unless you bought them already, because they're download-only. This is a perfect example of the kind of thing we will see a lot more of in the future; there already have been some scattered download only games that vanished from sale, but this is more prominent than most. This kind of thing is awful.
So yeah, keep saying that I'm just being a "luddite", but it's not true.
ABF, I agree, and this is worth talking about but....
What the heck's that got to do with this thread?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
A Black Falcon Wrote:My skepticism of technology might be sorta legitimate in this one small case, therefore my skepticism of every other aspect of technology is perfectly reasonable
That's not what he originally posted at al... wait I get it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
It's strange to me that I've known both of you for going on 14 years and I know almost nothing about either of you. Though, I do tend to play my own cards a lot closer to my chest these days than I used to.
Heck I think I've revealed a lot about my personality, just nothing concretely set in the real world.
Kids are all moving on to Twitter these days apparently. They're sick of being "connected" with their parents on old hat Facebook. That's how it starts...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
There is definitely nobody I've ever found on the internet or otherwise who is just like you, I can say.
I'm glad that we haven't all drifted apart all the way. For some reason I've felt compelled to come around, whereas I went months without even remembering the place existed for awhile.
It's cool to think that this place is definitely among the oldest websites which still exist on the internet, and it's not really that much more or less dead than it's been for the last five or six years. How many other websites from the 20th century are still around these days? It was such a different internet back then.
i mean hay guys, have you seen the new dreamcast pics on dailyradar
no dude, i'm downloading this blink 182 mp3 on napster at 4kbps