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steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
id make a snarky reply, but im too busy making spreadsheets on my phone to do anything else these days

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Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

chaosbreather posted:

Did you know computer used to be a job title for human women? Those Bletchley Park gals what smote Enigma were 'computers'.

I think the term is you're looking for is "mentats."

Dinosaurmageddon
Jul 7, 2007

by zen death robot
Hell Gem

Applewhite posted:

Computers were huge back in the 90's but I never see them anymore.

Dinosaurmageddon
Jul 7, 2007

by zen death robot
Hell Gem
also YOSPOS is leaking bitch

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month
lol just lol if you don't use a literal Mainframe at home

The Dennis System
Aug 4, 2014

Nothing in Jurassic World is natural, we have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth.
gently caress tablets. I don't know how you can do anything without a real keyboard.

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013
Beep bleep boop! Whiiirrrrr! Haha, just kidding!!

But that's what they sound like tho. XD

for fucks sake
Jan 23, 2016

Computers were a mistake

ConstantDelays
Jan 1, 2013
Eh probably not. Computers were overhyped. Give me a good modem, and I'm happy.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
yeah my cousin has one

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Apr 8, 2012

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I have to use a computer.. my hands are too big to browse on a phone because i am a 'real man'

Dinosaurmageddon
Jul 7, 2007

by zen death robot
Hell Gem
I think it's time to launch Internet 4.0, which would really put computers ahead in the game

Tablets are for babies and phones are for people with social lives (teens, women). I for one compute every day, God willing, and I hope to do even more in the erotic cyberverses of 2020.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
That's a nice phone you got there bet it don't have a GTX 1080 with 2560 CUDA cores.

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

i hope computers stay gone this time

TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flf7ZtDvMew

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010






John Denver Hoxha
May 31, 2014

What a persistent nightmare!
....but enough about my posts
The computer cokeback is strong... This forum even has a totally unfunny name based on them now

Muscadine Wine
Feb 13, 2009

The Dennis System posted:

gently caress tablets. I don't know how you can do anything without a real keyboard.

video streaming and pretty much nothing else

Muscadine Wine
Feb 13, 2009

ConstantDelays posted:

Eh probably not. Computers were overhyped. Give me a good modem, and I'm happy.

give me room full of abacuses, blackboards, and people to use them

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy
Computers are still hip!

kikkelivelho
Aug 27, 2015

If you don't have sick rig you're not really living

Chubbs
Feb 13, 2008

In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved, and what can't be avoided will be.
Grimey Drawer
Hey guys, remember "Cyberspace"? And the "Information Superhighway"?




R-Type
Oct 10, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
After fatigue sets in from handling gay apple products, the pc is there, like a warm plump boob full of milk.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

H.H posted:

lol just lol if you don't use a literal Mainframe at home



What is that and why is it so ugly

je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

Y-Hat posted:

there's a special place in hell for websites that optimize for mobile browsing while making them harder to navigate on a computer

ie half the popular websites

gently caress you Gawker, Politifact, MSNBC, Rottentomatoes, CNN, and NHL.com. Watching these websites evolve via the Internet Waybackmachine shows them gradually blowing up images, adding more autoplay videos, and pushing more and more information off-screen.

When revenues are measured in clicks and scrolls, then the website design team is incentivized to remove more information from the homepage. "Responsive" design is just slang for "we were too lazy to make and maintain two versions of a website". But hey browsing a website with your smartphone is universally worse experience, so why not make the desktop versions look and feel more like it?

Nathilus
Apr 4, 2002

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.
No. Give it ten or twenty more years and there won't be discrete "computars" anymore. Everything you own will have microchips in it so you can boss it around, but there will no longer be a box under or on your desk that you recognize as the source of your binary powers.

Its fine I think I'll wear my thinking devices hub as an emerald ring instead. I feel like it would make sense thematically.

psychokitty
Jun 29, 2010

=9.9=
MEOW
BITCHES

can't play world of warcraft on phone or tablet or console

Neutrino
Mar 8, 2006

Fallen Rib
I'm hoping one day that Unix Terminals will become popular again so I can pull out my VT100 and amaze everyone.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
"Computer??" I hardly knew her!

Stinky_Pete
Aug 16, 2015

Stinkier than your average bear
Lipstick Apathy
computers?

ha, more like dumb-puters

as in, a dumb fad kind of dumb

Joust
Dec 7, 2007

No Ledges.

Withnail
Feb 11, 2004
personally, I'm about done with all this poo poo


except for the porn

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!

Holy poo poo, the girl from Lazytown is morphing into one of the puppet kids!

Either that or the Supermarionation techniques of the next Thunderbirds series is crossing over into the uncanny.

JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Aug 19, 2016

Jukeboxblues
Jul 29, 2015


Grimey Drawer
lol could you imagine? "Hey Erika pass me the CD-ROM so I can install age of mythology" hahaha it will never come back for reals. Its just a fad.

Cerebral Mayhem
Jul 18, 2000

Very useful on the planet Delphon, where they communicate with their eyebrows
5 1/4 floppy disks are gonna make a comeback, I just know it.

Tarquinn
Jul 3, 2007

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you
my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.
Hell Gem
Lol computers!

I am posting this from my fridge like God intended!

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Feb 11, 2007

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sounds like nerd poo poo. *slams carriage return with a musical ting, unspools paper from typewriter, licks envelope, addresses TO: SOMETHING AWFUL FORUMS, from: GOOD POSTER, adds Joe Montana commemorative stamp, walks to mailbox in underpants*

cnut
May 3, 2016

I'm on a real computer, gently caress yer phablets and fancy watches!

Jesus Christ
Jun 1, 2000

mods if you can make this my avatar I will gladly pay 10bux to the coffers

H.H posted:

lol just lol if you don't use a literal Mainframe at home



how do I get a job designing cases for high end IBM gear? I can poo poo retard polygons out my dick all day

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cnut
May 3, 2016

Jesus Christ posted:

I can poo poo retard polygons out my dick all day

pix pls

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