You Know You Are Old When

[JasperFrank]

When you have learned to work smart. And to time things. And you are old when you are the one that says, "This" has to come first, before we do anything else, from experience.

 

[MoKelly]

Supposedly using the chip is more secure.
Yet your experience is one reason I always have enough cash to cover any purchase I'm making.

We don’t offer Apple Pay at the tennis club.

When I tell kids that, they practically drop over.

One kid (say 18) asked, “well, how am I supposed to buy a drink”?

I said - “cash, credit or charge your account”.

He says “I only have my phone”.

Ok - then charge your account?

He says - “my Mom prohibits me from charging to her account. What am I supposed to do”?

Well - here is an idea - use your phone to call your Mom and get permission to charge the account.

He left without a drink.

Interesting dynamic going on.

 

[Williy]

I can remember when we used the flap on the
book matches to set the points cars/trucks and
lawn mowers

willy

 

[Eagle1]

Still use that one to set coil gap on BS engines

 

[BravoXray]

IMHO, the last Windows OS that was a genuine improvement over the previous version was Windows 7. Since then, newer versions are just different and more annoying. The hoops that I currently have to go through just to NOT back my data up to the cloud are ridiculous.

I'm still running WIN7, and have had to help so many friends with trying to get rid of all the spyware and bloatware in WIN10 and WIN11, I will migrate to a distro of Linux before I install them on one of my machines.
I have a drive in my computer that I regularly image my C: drive to, just in case I have a failure or a crash.
Actually, I liked WIN XP after they got the bugs worked out of it. Smaller memory footprint and not so much of a resource hog. They just keep adding more features that no one needs or wants, but it keeps the programmers making big bucks.

 

[goeduck]

Supposedly using the chip is more secure.
Yet your experience is one reason I always have enough cash to cover any purchase I'm making.

My understanding is that there is an antenna along the perimeter of the card that excites the chip, so both inserting and tapping use the same chip. Antenna read range should be less than 2". Physical card skimmers (like on gas pumps) don't work on contactless, but I do worry about that 2" bump range.

 

[ultrarunner]

I was happy win win98 and the programs I had and it was simple.

Every time I open the win10 after a few weeks it slows to a crawl as it goes through all the updates.

At work the it’s always 5 minutes each morning from turn on to ready to use and then good for the day.

 

[goeduck]

I was happy win win98 and the programs I had and it was simple.

Every time I open the win10 after a few weeks it slows to a crawl as it goes through all the updates.

At work the it’s always 5 minutes each morning from turn on to ready to use and then good for the day.

Work laptop was 9 minutes. Home laptop about 30 seconds.

 

[WinterDeere]

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Admittedly, I was only a kid when this was the cast, but I'm having trouble with the pair between Carol Kane and Bill Murray. Is it a young Dan Akroyd and Laraine Newman... or Gilda Radnor? The rest are pretty obvious.

I think Murray replaced Chevy Chase, so this is not the original cast, but close to it.

 

[goeduck]

Admittedly, I was only a kid when this was the cast, but I'm having trouble with the pair between Carol Kane and Bill Murray. Is it a young Dan Akroyd and Laraine Newman... or Gilda Radnor? The rest are pretty obvious.

I think Murray replaced Chevy Chase, so this is not the original cast, but close to it.

Dan Akroyd and Gilda Radner. I would not have recognized Carol Kane? or is that Laraine Newman?

 

[CalG]

I can remember when we used the flap on the
book matches to set the points cars/trucks and
lawn mowers

willy

A book of matches, a ten spot and a drop of Hi-Test!

 

[CalG]

I recall when the coming Ice age was the real deal

Now we are concerned about seconds

 

[JasperFrank]

I'm still running WIN7, and have had to help so many friends with trying to get rid of all the spyware and bloatware in WIN10 and WIN11, I will migrate to a distro of Linux before I install them on one of my machines.
I have a drive in my computer that I regularly image my C: drive to, just in case I have a failure or a crash.
Actually, I liked WIN XP after they got the bugs worked out of it. Smaller memory footprint and not so much of a resource hog. They just keep adding more features that no one needs or wants, but it keeps the programmers making big bucks.

Win 7 was MS's Swan Song. Yet still, I could crack admin passwords in about 8 minutes.

 

[CalG]

I was 9yo, but somehow this hit a memory spot.

Blame it on TV I suppose. ABC , NBC, or CBS. channel 4 6 or 11, it had to one of them ;-)

 

[Sigarms]

I was 9yo, but somehow this hit a memory spot.

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Blame it on TV I suppose. ABC , NBC, or CBS. channel 4 6 or 11, it had to one of them ;-)

I've gotten old enough to understand that generally when a politician makes a speech worth remembering (in a good way LOL), generally someone else wrote it for him

 

[Sigarms]

We don’t offer Apple Pay at the tennis club.

Last year on vacation in California, I remember some place only accepting Apple Pay or some other payment via your phone (couldn't believe someone wouldn't take cash or a credit card).

Our 18 year old son had to use his phone to buy it LOL

Worst I got with technology was pay pal, gave them up due to their "rules" on what you could and could not buy using their services.

 

[sixdogs]

I was happy win win98 and the programs I had and it was simple.

Every time I open the win10 after a few weeks it slows to a crawl as it goes through all the updates.

At work the it’s always 5 minutes each morning from turn on to ready to use and then good for the day.

Friends of mine tried for years to get me over to Apple but I resisted, mostly because of inertia. Finally I bought an Apple and just love it. Why didn't I do this sooner? Like from day one?

My Windows stuff took forever and with constant updates and silly things became counter-productive to even using it as a computer. And I had Norton Security to block all the garbage and intrusions.

I got a MacBookPro at Costco and may I suggest to others to take a look?

 

[MossRoad]

I was happy win win98 and the programs I had and it was simple.

Every time I open the win10 after a few weeks it slows to a crawl as it goes through all the updates.

At work the it’s always 5 minutes each morning from turn on to ready to use and then good for the day.

Why is it ever turned off?
At my old job, we'd force updates and maintenance down to PCs at off-times. They were set to go to sleep to save energy, but we'd wake them up remotely to do the maint.

 

[WinterDeere]

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I recall when the coming Ice age was the real deal

Now we are concerned about seconds

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Wouldn't a redistribution of mass from the poles to the equator cause the earth to slow down, not speed up? I'm not a physicist, but I did do well enough in high school and basic college physics to remember that the speed of rotation is proportional to moment, and moment is proportional to radius of mass.

 

[MossRoad]

Admittedly, I was only a kid when this was the cast, but I'm having trouble with the pair between Carol Kane and Bill Murray. Is it a young Dan Akroyd and Laraine Newman... or Gilda Radnor? The rest are pretty obvious.

I think Murray replaced Chevy Chase, so this is not the original cast, but close to it.

Left to right... pardon me if I spelled them incorrectly.

Garret Morris
Jane Curtain
John Belushi
Lorraine Newman
Dan Akroid
Gilda Radnor
Bill Murray