What things will die out in the next 10 years?

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05 Jan 2014, 4:11 pm

-- Dedicated of Video game consoles of the XBO/PS4/Wii-U type
-- Door to door mail delivery
-- Daily newspapers, though Sunday editions might survive
-- Used bookstores

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05 Jan 2014, 4:14 pm

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-- Dedicated of Video game consoles of the XBO/PS4/Wii-U type
-- Door to door mail delivery
-- Daily newspapers, though Sunday editions might survive
-- Used bookstores

That was weird. When I posted this I got some message about "Censored words could not be retrieved from the database." I wonder what in the above counts as naughty?

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05 Jan 2014, 4:43 pm

WorldsEdge wrote:

I got some message about "Censored words could not be retrieved from the database." I wonder what in the above counts as naughty?

The forum software couldn't tell whether it was naughty or not, because it couldn't get the list of censored words.

Don't worry, it's a generic error and has nothing to do with the content of your post.

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06 Jan 2014, 6:57 am

Satelite TV and Cable TV being replaced with Internet TV like Netflix and hulu due to it being cheaper not to mention some free streaming sites as well.

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07 Jan 2014, 10:26 am

Fnord wrote:

Cursive handwriting / Calligraphy

Poetry that rhymes and has regular metre.

The shock induced upon others by "coming out" to them as LGBT or Q.

Hey! Don't tread on my poetry!

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I'm trying to think of things that disappeared over the last 10 years, but can't really come up with any.

The videotape. Who uses a VCR now?

There are 4 VCRs in my house and hundreds of tapes

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07 Jan 2014, 10:49 am

ezbzbfcg2 wrote:

Kurgan wrote:

True. However, since CDs are digital, the digital signal is not a perfect, continuous capture, but a discrete approximation with ones and zeros—and thus, some (usually insignificant) infirmation will be lost. A vinyl isn't bottlenecked by bit depth and sampling rate.

I like vinyl, but it's a lot like a brand new car. It begins depreciating in value as soon as it's purchased. Vinyl, you see, requires more physical handling than a CD, which slowly but surely damages the medium. Also, the whole mechanism by which it is played -- a needle cutting into plastic -- is more destructive to quality than a laser light hitting a CD.

Hmm I wasn't aware the needle is actually supposed to cut the plastic...

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07 Jan 2014, 11:02 am

Sweetleaf wrote:

ezbzbfcg2 wrote:

Kurgan wrote:

Hmm I wasn't aware the needle is actually supposed to cut the plastic...

Its not 'supposed' to.

And doesnt really 'cut' into the vinyl.

But it does put wear on the vinyl because the needle is a physical object moving down the groove of the record. So repeated playing does reduce the sound quality a tiny bit each play. In contrast -the laser beam is not a physical object - so it doesnt put wear on the trace of microscopic pits that hold the data (the equivalent of record grooves) that the laser reads on a CD.

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07 Jan 2014, 3:27 pm

Maybe NTs?

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