I was thinkng about this very thing the other day. I was talking to someone about how I came to being a developer. After I got out of the army, I did a year of Nursing, then 3 years of anthropology, before finally settling on Computer Science (I had met my now ex-wife...she became pregnant with my oldest daughter and now I had a family to support...you don't know of too many rich anthropologists who weren't already rich prior to being anthropologists hehehe). I got my first job, as a teen, at McDonalds, to buy a Commodore 64...this was 1984 and I was 14 years old going on 15 that October. C64 was pretty bleeding edge stuff at the time. Fast forward to today, I have a Motorola Droid. It has a C64 Emulator on it that I can run all the old software that I had on my old C64. I just think that it is amazing that my cell phone has infinitely more processing power and memory (64k vs 32GB) Technology is so awesome :-D
Eric -----Original Message----- From: denstar [mailto:valliants...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 1:34 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Star Trek (Cat Fight Brewing) The internet is going to *totally* change our culture. I've been on one of those "there weren't any answering machines when I was a kid" trips the last few days. I like to stop and think about it every now and again, because time is such a freaking trip, ya know? I was specifically thinking about watching shows online just now, but come to think of it, I used to use a VCR a lot. And back then, it's not like there were 3 good fiction shows on at the same time very often. *snort* I didn't have cable, but I doubt that would make much of a difference. Having a lot of people in the family could make recordability difficult tho, so... I stand by my statement. "It" is a lot "easier" these days. That's pretty swell. Watching it unfold is like, teh awersome! Babylon 5 did rock. Besides a killer storyline, it had gratuitous CG space-battle-ness, neh? Pretty cool rendering of space-ness, too. Momentum and whatnot. Yum! The rendering power today of a single PC blows my goddam mind. Televised fiction never looked so good! And it's just getting better, faster. Anyways, there's probably more people using quotes from B5 than DS9 for sigs. Those were some cool characters. :Den -- "We were like warriors from the ancient sagas. There was nothing we could not do." "Except keep the holodecks working right." - Worf and O'Brien on life aboard the *Enterprise*, "The Way of the Warrior" On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Todd wrote: > > I completely agree. I am so glad it was allowed to run to the > completion of the story, even though it was rushed because they weren't > sure about a 5th season. > > On 8/8/2010 8:28 PM, Maureen wrote: >> And Babylon 5 rocked!! >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324548 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
