EmuVR & videogames & monitors...

[Tomasz Rola]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 02:50:01PM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 1/17/19 12:57 PM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:29:54AM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> >> On 1/17/19 10:04 AM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote:
> >>
> >>> Monolith in a bedroom, anybody?
> >>
> >> Speaks of the generation, I guess--a bookcase with no books.
> > 
> > Just in case you have just judged me: if I post a link it really only
> > means I notice a trend, not that I endorse it. :-)
> 
> It's interesting, is all--no reflection on you.  Maybe paper is obsolete
> and I'm just behind the times.

Ah, ok then. It would not have been a big deal if I was judged but I
needed to know.

O yeah, new shiny colorful tech. Supported by people who are a bit
indifferent to potential problems from using it. So we come to times
when thousands of websites stop loading because they all depend on
piece of code sitting on a server in Antarctic and guess what, the
iceberg... Or let's wire anything bigger than matchbox to the
net. Crazy f*ers. If it sounds like I am overtone, it might be because
I can anticipate (or read a bit). I guess many of them count on
running away before their junk hits the fan - but nowadays, fans are
everywhere and crazies are playing with those, too. Knowing they will
always be under somebody's fan soothes me like hell.

Speaking of paper, I would love to have more of it but my space is
really limited at the moment, my library is spilling over despite
weighting only about two metric tons. I had to slow down buying. I
resigned subscribing a mag with 100-page-no-equations-monthly and
replaced with 20-pages-equations-and-real-puzzles, replaced another
100-pager with pdf of the same. Paper is cool, hardly obsolete. I
would like to learn making my own, one day. But I do not really buy
much into this "love smell of paper and print". It simply is very
practical thing, which is why I like it (taking notes, working with
multiple books etc). OTOH, if I want to read a book and can get it
from gutenberg or wikisources (or bitsavers :-) ), I get it onto my
reader. This way, I can increase my small library many folds with
books which I would hardly be able to buy anyway. Which is good. I can
learn a lot from so called obsoleted tech but I welcome opportunity to
use new tech smartly.

BTW, me mentioning a monolith in bedroom was about Kubrick's "2001"
:-) .

BTW2, the way I understand those things, obsolete tech is not so much
obsolete as it is inapropriate for majority of people, so they abandon
it as soon as they can. There was a thread here about how email is
getting obsolete. But the truth is, when email was all the rage there
were how many users of it, ten millions? I mean, in mid-1990-ties. And
they were majority of all internet users, I guess. But "the majority
of them all" was never very much up to writing anything longer. And
this have not changed. Only "them all" now are connected, too. But
will not want to use email, because in the past they were not willing
to write too much either. The talk about "obsolete" might be just
marketing. Making impression that they are not wrong. Etc.

-- 
Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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