Daily on my computer I get messages that say 'we no longer support Windows-7 and others that say the same for IE-11'. These programs work just fine for me and they're all I need.
Quit! Dammit, It ain't broke!
(I remember years ago when Western Electric had a MTTF (mean time to failure) of 40 years for those black dial phones. Look at us now)
Speaking of breaking. The greenie weenies forced us onto LED bulbs. They do make bulbs to fit autos and standard light fixtures, but more and more, light fixtures and headlights are have the LEDs integrated into them. Now when they fail, the whole future gets tossed instead of just a bulb. Good job greenies.
If the economy breaks, it’s the desired result.
Sometimes things are obsoleted. It happens. There is zero analog broadcast teevee today. Tuners built for that technology might work, but there is no signal to receive.
Same goes for 3G. at some point, there won’t be any cell towers that carry it.
A good spot to be in, is to know how, to be flexible.
This guy doesn’t understand much about how things work. There are always alternatives and substitutes, the issue is how much time, cost, and pain will be required to implement them.
“I remember years ago when Western Electric had a MTTF (mean time to failure) of 40 years for those black dial phones.”
My parents have a home built 101 years ago. Original toilets, original sinks, original bathtubs.
When the power went out this winter the radiators still worked; the boiler is powered by natural gas (originally it was coal). Anyone with central heat and air either had to buy a generator or be cold.
A tree about 10 feet in diameter once fell on the house and made it about 2 feet into the attic. The very dense wood of the house frame stopped that enormous tree.
Does anyone here really think our “new” and “improved” housing will last like this?
We really only have one problem.
Liberals.
They have to removed from power or we’re all screwed forever.
I’m still running IE-11 on a Windows 7 machine. I get those messages, too. Many websites are now inaccessible for me. Some features on Amazon and other sites don’t work any more.
Time to fire up that new HP I bought a while back but have been dreading needing to figure out.
Mama, you got to move!
This guy makes a lot of statements as if they were facts, when they are not. Meh.
I see it as a symptom of our abandonment of manufacturing. If you manufacture a piece of equipment, say a computer, in the United States, and manufacture all the parts in the United States, then we (as a country) keep all the profits “in house”. But if we are just reselling computers manufactured elsewhere, then we keep maybe 20% of the profit. So you need to sell a new computer five times as often as you would normally in order to maintain the illusion that productivity is stable.
Yea but MaBell/WE owned those phones. They were on the hook if they broke down.
Bttt.
5.56mm
I HATED the light they exuded...couldn't stand the harshness !
So I went shopping and laid in a store of incandescents which I'm using up now.
However, I was told that there are new LED's on the market now which have a much softer glow than the original. Anyone have any input on this?
Leni
Unless it is a severe tear a patch on the inside will work.