Quote :

"I've bought four brand new cassette tapes this year. Zero CDs."

Fucking hipster scum.

[Edited on June 17, 2012 at 9:50 PM. Reason : .]

6/17/2012 9:49:37 PM

It's not like I had a choice. Said releases only exist on cassette.

6/17/2012 10:09:46 PM

Baseball

6/17/2012 10:10:23 PM

I was going to post pagers but doctors still use them.
I found some punchcards at work one time.
Wire recorders
Curb feelers
Rotary phones

6/17/2012 10:13:36 PM

I can understand on record cause vinyl had a unique flavor. But fucking tapes ?? Shit degrades bro.

6/17/2012 10:26:07 PM

More like: cassettetapebandit. Amirite?

6/17/2012 10:28:50 PM

Quote :

"I was going to post pagers but doctors still use them. "

It sounds to me like some of you people need to learn the difference between obsolete and 0 still in use on the face of the planet.

I can go to historical Williamsburg and see people hand churning butter, but that doesn't mean that butter churns aren't obsolete. Just because a small group of people still use pagers or some shitty band that only 6 people have heard of releases their shitty music on tape doesn't mean that they aren't obsolete.

6/17/2012 10:43:29 PM

^Yeah, this shit is fucking serious. Get with the program, what's the due date on the list?

6/17/2012 10:59:48 PM

paging networks use simulcast messaging, meaning that the message is sent from every transmitter in the network at the same time. This is far more failsafe than cellular/SMS networks that are easily overloaded in times of crisis or high utilization.

Also paging is far more reliable. Often times I get SMS messages from my wife that are delayed by anywhere from 20 minutes to several hours (rarely), but even several minutes can mean life or death in a hospital. combining the simulcast with multicast (sending pages to a specific group) is easier and more reliable, and everyone gets the same page at the same time. This is critical when codes are being called.

Pagers (the ones used in hospitals anyway) are receive only. Cell phones are duplex devices, and can't be around certain types of medical equipment without disrupting it. Pagers don't have this restriction.

So yeah, while it seems obvious that cell phones should obsolete pagers, it's definitely not the reality of the situation, at least in hospital environments.

[Edited on June 17, 2012 at 11:20 PM. Reason : .]

6/17/2012 11:06:30 PM

^ That's much of the same reason that we can't use the same SMS technology for datalink... basically text messaging for aircraft. Too unreliable.



[Edited on June 17, 2012 at 11:18 PM. Reason : f]

6/17/2012 11:17:43 PM

Pantyhose

6/17/2012 11:27:13 PM

porno magazines.

6/17/2012 11:29:45 PM

pantyhose are still worn daily by millions of people

millions of porno magazines are sold each year

6/17/2012 11:34:00 PM

Circuit City Gift Cards

6/17/2012 11:38:14 PM

The newest and best computer, or cell phone from last year.

6/17/2012 11:41:10 PM

fax machines. yet they are still used all the time by gov and old business types. They are garbage, clunky, unreliable transmit flawed data use phased out transmit protocol are still the only "wire" transmissions legal types will accept. These same people have multiple email addresses capable of accepting secure pdf files. that send more data instantly with no artifacting and super low chance of tampering. yet its always "fax me this information instead of scanning it and emailing it. I dunno who has a fax machine either. this is our way of keeping our workload down and telling you to go fuck yourself, vicariously of course"

6/18/2012 7:13:43 AM

^I hate when companies ask me to fax something/say they can fax me the documents. I always ask about email, and they either say 1) We can't email these documents (bullshit) or 2) We can't scan them to email ( )

6/18/2012 8:11:39 AM

ZiP drives.

6/18/2012 9:38:04 AM

Shortwave Radio by and large.
CRT monitors (though some super hardcore/cheap folks still use them).
Videogame arcades.
Busy signal.
TV Static.
Typewriters. (largely)
Dot matrix printers.
Answering machines.
Calculator watches.
Pay phones.
Rotary phones.
Car phones.
Video tape.
Laser disc.
8 tracks. (audio cassettes in general)
AOL cds.
Carbon copy paper.
Phone books.
Boomboxes.
Main frames.
Mini computers.

6/18/2012 10:21:10 AM

palm pilots but i guess that can fall into your mini pc category

6/18/2012 10:33:45 AM

Bachelor's degrees.

6/18/2012 10:47:09 AM

CrazyJ
nael

6/18/2012 11:07:25 AM

pay phones

6/18/2012 11:10:35 AM

Car phones
Bag phones

6/18/2012 11:14:55 AM

Quote :

"Milk man, paper boy, evening tv"

gg, sir

6/18/2012 12:07:06 PM

american citizenship

yeah....I went there

Politicize all the threads!!!!!

[Edited on June 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM. Reason : </sarah palindrome>]

6/18/2012 12:16:54 PM

The Bible

6/18/2012 1:21:00 PM

Quote :

" ^I hate when companies ask me to fax something/say they can fax me the documents. I always ask about email, and they either say 1) We can't email these documents (bullshit) or 2) We can't scan them to email "

i was pleasantly surprised that this time around in closing on a house I was able to scan all the signed documents with my phone and email 'em back. last two times, I was faxing. slowly but surely we're getting there...

6/18/2012 3:20:52 PM

^yeh; I was told to FAX HANDWRITTEN letters of explanation for certain things to my loan company... I typed up letters in word, printed to PDF, inserted my digital signature, and emailed them Haven't been denied yet. haha

6/18/2012 3:23:01 PM

the abacus

6/18/2012 3:23:45 PM

I recently signed some documents for a home purchase... i find it a bit troubling that you can just choose the signature that most looks like yours and insert it in PDF. Really takes the point out of having to sign something.

6/18/2012 3:24:28 PM

funfact: Faxes (and pages) have special status under HIPAA that allows them to be sent unencrypted. Because healthcare orgs are both incompetent and cheap most of them stick to using faxes for patient data communications because secure email is too hard to setup/use and webservices are unproven future tech in their eyes.

The best tho is that most of the larger healthcare orgs have fax gateways so the workflow usually goes email -> fax gateway -> unsecure phone liune -> destination fax gateway -> email to destination mailbox. Also, since there is no way to do destination confirmation the sender has no idea if they're sending it to a wrong number. If they are told that they've sent patient data to the wrong number the most common next step is to try to send it again to the same wrong number.

6/18/2012 3:34:26 PM

Video stores

6/18/2012 3:34:33 PM

Quote :

"as far as i've heard , leeches are irreplaceable for small-extremity reattachment procedures"

Like your penis?


OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

6/18/2012 9:12:00 PM

Quote :

"News flash: ALL forms of physical media are obsolete."

CDs are still bought by audiophiles who don't want a lossy format.

6/18/2012 9:39:00 PM

That doesn't change the fact that they are still, without a doubt, obsolete.

6/18/2012 10:24:37 PM

Scrambled porn

6/18/2012 10:59:52 PM

Tiger lcd games

6/18/2012 11:53:51 PM

I saw one of those at a yard sale last week, so clearly that means that they are still very popular and not obsolete at all.

6/19/2012 12:04:08 AM

how are CDs obsolete when they're still being produced and sold?

6/19/2012 12:07:41 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolescence

Quote :

"Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior in one or more aspects. Obsolete refers to something that is already disused or discarded, or antiquated.[1] Typically, obsolescence is preceded by a gradual decline in popularity."

3/3

6/19/2012 12:10:28 AM

i still buy cd's. partly because i like actually owning something tangible and partly because i live in the middle of fucking nowhere with a shitty internet connection (thanks for that promise of rural high speed internet, obama)

6/19/2012 12:13:57 AM

ob·so·lete/?äbs?'let/
Adjective:
No longer produced or used; out of date.

ob·so·lete (bs-lt, bs-lt)
adj.
1. No longer in use


obsolescent does not equal obsolete

unless you want to get into some kind of semantics argument (which I know you do, because you're an asshole like that), you might consult every single dictionary's first entry on the definition of obsolete again

6/19/2012 12:14:49 AM

basically you're saying CDs are no longer in use, or being produced


and you would be wrong

so you can keep trying as hard as you want, but you're still incorrect

6/19/2012 12:15:35 AM

So go ahead and name one thing that is obsolete by that strict definition. Because so far every single thing named in this thread is still being produced in some quantity.

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 12:18 AM. Reason : also double post suspend/ban/terminate/90th trimester abortion plz.]

6/19/2012 12:17:14 AM

actually, the part you didn't bold kinda proves you wrong


"Obsolete refers to something that is already disused or discarded, or antiquated."



you MIGHT be able to argue that they're antiquated

but they're certainly in fairly heavy use and not discarded

6/19/2012 12:17:15 AM

Money Laundering: To channel money through a source or by an intermediary.

6/19/2012 12:18:05 AM

you guys, this thread can stop now. Bubblebobble has spoken. Nothing is obsolete because a small number of people still use everything that has ever been made.

6/19/2012 12:20:06 AM

Quote :

"So go ahead and name one thing that is obsolete by that strict definition. Because so far every single thing named in this thread is still being produced in some quantity."

laser discs.


and you're the one trying to give me a "strict definition"

of the wrong fucking word


boy was this worth the time it took

6/19/2012 12:21:20 AM

I'm sure somebody still uses laser discs. Keep trying.

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 12:24 AM. Reason : wait, did you say wrong word? You are so fucking beneath me, never the fuck mind. moron.]

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 12:25 AM. Reason : I refuse to ever belittle myself by acknowledging your existence ever again. peace out dumbass.]

6/19/2012 12:23:24 AM