The reason I love tech

Angilion · 10 Aug 2017 at 10:36

Evoss said:
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Therefore, the the amount of transistors we can fit on a PCB in 30 years time will be 1,073,741,824 greater. All that extra power = a lot more technology. [..]

Unless it's a GPU from AMD.

Cleisthenes · 10 Aug 2017 at 10:40

Rossi~ said:
After 12 years working in IT, owning and working with the latest tech. I'm sick of it.

I'm only 30, but I just want to move down to the back end of nowhere in Cornwall, with a cottage with enough Internet bandwidth to stream Netflix and comfortably wait to die.

You miserable git

Angilion · 10 Aug 2017 at 10:42

OhEsEcks said:
You say that like the entire space program / space race wasn't one great big self centred circle jerk for no other reason than to do it before the Russians did (and the Russians to do it before the Americans), and that people don't get into it for the feel good factor of "I did that" or "I worked on that" due to id, ego and super ego.

It was more important than that. There were countries that might have gone one way or the other and the perceived success of either side was a factor in that. The USSR promoted its space program as evidence that its approach was better, so it was globally important for the USA to respond. It was a serious political issue with global implications, not just a self centred circle jerk. Ego, yes. Lots of self-centred stuff, yes. But not only that.

Yaayuh! · 10 Aug 2017 at 11:08

Cleisthenes said:
You miserable git

I prefer to call it apathetic nihilism

Cleisthenes · 10 Aug 2017 at 11:33

Rossi~ said:
I prefer to call it apathetic nihilism

You may as well end it all now. Remember me in your will, will you?

Guest2 · 12 Aug 2017 at 23:08

JammieR said:
I want to say that these tips and tricks of creating your own vpn or changing your gate way or IP address are not properly explained to a user. A normal user can not understand these technicality unless they are made easy to understand for layman.

Quite an old post but OcUK now has alerts! ...It's a good job a normal user doesnt know how to 'create their own vpn' or remote access environment or I would be out of a job. 'Creating' a VPN network or remote working envuironemt (be it Citrix or other) requires a great deal of knowledge (and money for the infrastructure)

Tefal · 12 Aug 2017 at 23:44

Guest2 said:
Quite an old post but OcUK now has alerts! ...It's a good job a normal user doesnt know how to 'create their own vpn' or remote access environment or I would be out of a job. 'Creating' a VPN network or remote working envuironemt (be it Citrix or other) requires a great deal of knowledge (and money for the infrastructure)

this may be a stupid wuestion, but I thought lots of home routers now had the ability to easily set up a vpn connection to them.

alexakasloth · 13 Aug 2017 at 11:28

Getting H+ on my phone on an island off the coast of Iceland which has less than 50 people so that I could message people, and not being charged extra for it.

Dirk Diggler · 13 Aug 2017 at 11:36

oxygene said:
So today I was listening to music on my phone. My phone was receiving internet via 4g, 10 times faster then our pathetic home ADSL. My tablet was tethered to my phone. I was using teamviewer to connect to my parents HTPC, and via this I was remotely downloading their favorite (free to view home movies) that had come out last night.
In that moment I sat back and realized just how cool technology is!
What was the last thing you guys did that made you go "wow"?
What was your last "oh god, technology is awesome" moment?

I recently experienced a moment like this when I was hunting through Amazon Music for something to listen to on the train on the way home. As the journey is almost 3hrs, I decided to tether my tablet to my phone and download some episodes of The Americans instead. A memory popped into my head; people used to join Britannia Music Club and get a catalogue through the post. They would then choose a CD that was discounted to £1 and that would be posted for to them to listen to. They then had to choose another half dozen full price CDs throughout the year... The YEAR!

We can now download a year's worth of Britannia Music Club to our phone in less than 5 minutes! The fact is, our modern technology has evolved from things like that music club. Amazon Video evolved from Lovefilm which was a similar mail order service.

Before all of that, it was cassettes and proper piracy. I remember when high speed dubbing came out, and it was a technological revolution for those that couldn't afford full price cassettes.

JBuk · 13 Aug 2017 at 13:19

mrk said:
My phone SPREADS BUTTER.

Whats the app for that?

Does it need access to your photos, emails, contacts etc?

JammieR · 23 Aug 2017 at 15:11

Guest2 said:
Quite an old post but OcUK now has alerts! ...It's a good job a normal user doesnt know how to 'create their own vpn' or remote access environment or I would be out of a job. 'Creating' a VPN network or remote working envuironemt (be it Citrix or other) requires a great deal of knowledge (and money for the infrastructure)

Thanks for understanding my PAIN

Hater · 23 Aug 2017 at 16:36

Having just diagnosed a "common access fault" on a new Lexus, all new tech can go to hell.

mrk · 24 Aug 2017 at 12:33

JBuk said:
Whats the app for that?

Does it need access to your photos, emails, contacts etc?

No app needed.

Quite silly reading back old posts