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Duracuir1
··Never Used A KodakThere’s google inside these things?
Agree?
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Duracuir1
··Never Used A Kodak
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JwRosenthal
·It’s not synching to the cloud
I can’t get it to drop a pin
It won’t expand view
Piece of shit.
I can’t get it to drop a pin
It won’t expand view
Piece of shit.
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Duracuir1
··Never Used A KodakIt’s not synching to the cloud
I can’t get it to drop a pin
It won’t expand view
Piece of shit.
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janice&fred
·Piece of shit.
Keep laying and playing with your watches on that metal chicken wire table and they'll all be pieces of shit.
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M'Bob
·Keep laying and playing with your watches on that metal chicken wire table and they'll all be pieces of shit.
Patina.
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorKeep laying and playing with your watches on that metal chicken wire table and they'll all be pieces of shit.
Such a good background…👍
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aap
·I still use a "stupid" phone, and rarely carry it with me when I am out of the house. But as I am, regrettably, no longer in the 'spring chicken' category, I can recall signs of this path well before the internet. Decades ago I noticed that (young) cashiers were unable to do the simplest math in their heads, and if the magic number didn't appear on the cash register display, they'd be lost.
I think that the comedian in the original post is being too kind when he suggests that Americans are no smarter as a result of the easy access to quick answers on any topic. Here is some anecdotal evidence, which is simultaneously amusing and damning, to support my view:
https://twitter.com/BomsteinRick/status/1568613300610662401
Didn't know that a five-sided shape is a stop sign!
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sheepdoll
·clicky click click. or not.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.Personally..I love our tech. It’s just amazing. We however have not evolved as a species or a society that can handle this barrage of information. Either we do, or we become a thin, forgotten strata in geologic time.
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M'Bob
·The myth is that it’s a time saver; it’s really a time condenser. We don’t use the efficiency to recreate, or reach out to people. We just jam more stuff into our heads, and our day. No wonder people are constantly frazzled, and exhausted.
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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorWhat gets me is the young ones that have headphones in whilst doing everything. There has to be a few extra deaths a year….nearly ran a guy over the other day even after tooting the horn when he was crossing the road without looking…
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JwRosenthal
·I miss that Sony Ericsson phone.
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SpeedyPhill
·Standards have fallen everywhere ... yes everywhere !
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Tony C.
··Ωf Jury memberFoo2rama said:
I miss that Sony Ericsson phone.
Panasonic Duramax- best phone I ever had. Kept it until AT&T cut off service and i was forced to get a new phone. I could get service analog or digital in the most remote areas.
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johnireland
·I have found similar problems with students coming into my lab in graduate school. My research area can be generalized as “computational physics” so we do a lot of programming to turun physics equations into code to solve them computationally. Every student who comes into my lab has an undergraduate degree in engineering, physics, or some related degree and all have background/experience in at least some programming language (most recently, it is Python).
However, when I start giving them problems to code up in their first year, they don’t know how to do it! They know syntax of the language, they know how to use some canned routines, but they don’t know the basics of good programming - how to take an equation and set up the steps necessary in the code to solve it (including loops, logical statements, reading in different types of formatted data, and writing out types of formatted data). What they were taught was to pull in code that others have written, use it for their homework problems, and that’s all. They have never had to write a piece of code (including all functions/subroutines) from the ground up.
I spend an inordinate amount of time untraining their bad habits and teaching good ones so that when they graduate from my lab and go into their research life afterwards they can actually write code to solve the problem they need to, and not just rely on someone else’s code that may or may not do what they actually need to do.
Considering the state of modern schools, I doubt most of them can actually read a book, and probably don't have the attention span to read the instructions for a microwave oven. They certainly don't think before they vote...and probably have never read the founding documents of our country.
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