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General discussionKids nowadays, dont know thier born.(46 posts)(46 posts)
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Posted April 03, 2016
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phaolo: Why, who's Thier Born?
It's bornography featuring César Thier, a brasilian goalkeeper...
Posted April 03, 2016
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nightcraw1er.488: Nope, not me just moaning, saw this on the bbc:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35890450

Just reminded me how far computing has come in such a short time. I remember writing code on a bbc micro to control a circuit board traffic light. Dot matrix printers, although punch cards had just gone out when I was learning. Or the first internet we got, watch the boobs appear 1 pixel row at a time. And now I am typing this out on a phone which probably has more power than a spaceship from that era!
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JDelekto: OK, I get the reference to Iron Sky there!

In all seriousness, even though computers might be prevalent in society, while it might change the wording of the interview questions, it certainly doesn't change the validity of questioning one's knowledge on computing or computers in general.

Everything didn't become the "internet of things" overnight, but it's still a process going on of which people may choose to be "blissfully ignorant".

...and the first boob we got wasn't 1 pixel at a time. Back in the day when daisy-wheel printers generated type-writer like print-out, there were some rather good artists who could create some really good photos using only ASCII characters on a single font.

Sometimes you just had to take a step back to appreciate it.
You saw my other post in the meaningless post didn't you with this link
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/xyz/xxx.txt
Posted April 03, 2016
Oh dear... People nowadays don't seem to know they're grammar. :-P
Posted April 03, 2016
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nightcraw1er.488: Nope, not me just moaning, saw this on the bbc:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35890450

Just reminded me how far computing has come in such a short time. I remember writing code on a bbc micro to control a circuit board traffic light. Dot matrix printers, although punch cards had just gone out when I was learning. Or the first internet we got, watch the boobs appear 1 pixel row at a time. And now I am typing this out on a phone which probably has more power than a spaceship from that era!
I am trying desperately to figure out what the hell the thread title is supposed to mean, but I seriously have no clue whatsoever.
Posted April 03, 2016
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blakstar: Oh dear... People nowadays don't seem to know they're grammar. :-P
So that's who the nazis are after nowadays.
Posted April 03, 2016
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blakstar: Oh dear... People nowadays don't seem to know they're grammar. :-P
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WBGhiro: So that's who the nazis are after nowadays.
Well, to be honest, I didn't bother to point out the misspelling either. :-)
Posted April 03, 2016
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Randalator: Even a greeting card with a small doodad playing Happy Birthday has more computing power than Apollo 11...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mTepIBykd4?
Posted April 03, 2016
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blakstar: Oh dear... People nowadays don't seem to know they're grammar. :-P
I most certainly am not grammar.

(Oddly enough, your sentence is actually well formed, even when replacing "they're" with "they are". This doesn't usually happen with this particular common grammar mistake.)
Posted April 03, 2016
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dtgreene: (Oddly enough, your sentence is actually well formed, even when replacing "they're" with "they are". This doesn't usually happen with this particular common grammar mistake.)
Every sentence can be well formed... if you treat words as being of a different class than what they're intended to be. Ignore the misspelling of "their" and imagine "born" in the thread title to be a noun rather than the likely intended verb that is actually defined in English. Now you need to figure out what the noun "born" means.
Posted April 03, 2016
You know, kids these days are probably thinking similar thoughts about how older folks can struggle with new technology. Goes both ways.

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WBGhiro: So that's who the nazis are after nowadays.
Are Grammar Nazis outlawed in Germany? ; )
Posted April 03, 2016
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nightcraw1er.488: watch the boobs appear 1 pixel row at a time
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sunshinecorp: You can emulate this by rolling up a page from Playboy magazine and slowly opening it like a scroll.
Ha! And you have to stop just before you get to the nipples to emulate how the image loading would crap out.
Posted April 03, 2016
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sunshinecorp: You can emulate this by rolling up a page from Playboy magazine and slowly opening it like a scroll.
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SCPM: Ha! And you have to stop just before you get to the nipples to emulate how the image loading would crap out.
Nah, that's where it stopped because the pages were stuck together. :P
Posted April 03, 2016
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dtgreene: (Oddly enough, your sentence is actually well formed, even when replacing "they're" with "they are". This doesn't usually happen with this particular common grammar mistake.)
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Maighstir: Every sentence can be well formed... if you treat words as being of a different class than what they're intended to be. Ignore the misspelling of "their" and imagine "born" in the thread title to be a noun rather than the likely intended verb that is actually defined in English. Now you need to figure out what the noun "born" means.
But that doesn't solve the mystery of "dont". Is "dont knowing" different from regular ol' garden-variety "knowing"?
Posted April 03, 2016
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HunchBluntley: But that doesn't solve the mystery of "dont". Is "dont knowing" different from regular ol' garden-variety "knowing"?
I don't know, but it's close enough to "don't" that I attribute it to a mistype.
Post edited April 03, 2016 by Maighstir
Posted April 03, 2016
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HunchBluntley: But that doesn't solve the mystery of "dont". Is "dont knowing" different from regular ol' garden-variety "knowing"?
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Maighstir: I don't know, but it's close enough to "don't" that I attribute it to a mistype.
Come on, which is more likely: that he accidentally mistyped TWO words in a six-word topic title, or that he is proposing that children have developed some kind of alternative thought process relating to a person named Thier Born? Your typo theory just doesn't make sense!
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