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Huh.Thirteen, so at least I'm technically allowed to be here!
My son's age. He turns 14 in late October.
No he is not on the forum.Is he on the forum? And he he into PPC Macs?
Up until two years ago he didn't even have email. Knowing what I know and having been 15 when I first got involved online this is something we limit him on.
Your recent travails with other forum members is a perfect example of why we limit certain things. But, he has plenty of other things to keep him occupied and the time is coming when I feel he will be old enough for this.
He is in to PowerPC Macs by default. It's the only type of computer we've ever had in the house. He started on an iBook G4 when he was 5, got a Titanium DVI later on and now is using a 15" PowerBook G4.
He does a lot of SNES emulation on the PowerBook to play Nintendo games. And for that he's entirely capable of using Google.
But he's also familiar with PCs. Since 7th grade the STEAM program in our school district has issued HP laptops. Because they use Google docs it required him to get his second email account.
He'll be attending Maricopa Institute of Technology for the next four years so I'm pretty sure he'll be getting more laptops and more accounts.
Seriously. We should have option to hide the "related threads" too; I nearly revived a very old thread in a phone forum last week.
I could say that too and not exactly be lying. If I say I'm 29 again enough times to cover the truthiness of that assertion though, it will sound like I needed speech therapy at least a few decades ago.
Think I've been on the planet much longer than MacRumors has had a website. I remember solving math problems with a slide rule. It's easier being in my 70s and asking Siri.
I still have my slide rule.
We no longer have an age restriction here at MRThirteen, so at least I'm technically allowed to be here!
And we can see the effect of that in Politics, Religion, Social Issues!We no longer have an age restriction here at MR
Actually if more 10 years old participated in the PRSI, it would raise the maturity levelAnd we can see the effect of that in Politics, Religion, Social Issues!
Actually if more 10 years old participated in the PRSI, it would raise the maturity level
Well done.
Ah, but can you still remember what it's for?
That's my problem these days, jump in the car and take off hell bent down the street only to forget where it was I wanted to go.
Most days I can still find my way back home though.
My vote is that it's easier doing most things then asking Siri no matter how old you are.
The only worse thing is trying to ask for directions from the navigation systems in cars.
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or 6/30/1990 if you use the more logical date format that is used in the United States
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Yoiu may be right! I do also still have my sliderules. And I don't ask Siri to fire up my spreadsheet app ever since I requested that one day, or thought I did, and she launched a track of rumba music from iTunes... rumba, numba, Numbers? I dunno. File under "she did the best she could under the circumstances". Maybe I mumbled.
I expect that Siri and her counterparts will become ever better at what they can do for us, and also more robustly protected from malicious interference, if not from the inevitable misunderstandings of us when we mumble at her.
31 here.
I find age is something that I don't usually judge people on because of personal experience. Some people just don't learn and some people are just incapable of thinking of anyone but themselves.
On that negative note, I've found the PSRI forums to be unpleasant - dabbled a while but I don't think I'll go back.
Found these forums to be a lot of fun - talking about tech is something I enjoy doing a lot.
I find age is something that I don't usually judge people on because of personal experience. Some people just don't learn and some people are just incapable of thinking of anyone but themselves.
On that negative note, I've found the PSRI forums to be unpleasant - dabbled a while but I don't think I'll go back.
Found these forums to be a lot of fun - talking about tech is something I enjoy doing a lot.
or 6/30/1990 if you use the more logical date format that is used in the United States
Hmm... I always figured really logical date format would be year month day. When I sort stuff with filenames prefixed by some absolute /arbitrary tag plus a date tag like that, then the list presents chronologically.
I used to rename podcasts of the Charlie Rose show that way since their producers' interns didn't have a consistent presentation, just piled the guests' names in there and maybe a date if it didn't truncate in the old iTunes...
Exactly. Precise-A-Mundo. Not to derail the thread further I squash up my "further" part...
This stuff is my pet peeve of the 21st century. We all had computers by its beginning. And yet everywhere I roam in my laptop's document collections I run into evidence of companies' complete ignorance of how to name a godblasted file.
All my utility providers, although allowing me to select any of maybe ten years' worth of bills, call each and every one of them names like "Phone bill" or "Utility bill" if you allow the download to take the default name offered. Who are these programmers who never pushed back with "Shouldn't we offer to generate the date into the filename of the bill they select?"
All my utility providers, although allowing me to select any of maybe ten years' worth of bills, call each and every one of them names like "Phone bill" or "Utility bill" if you allow the download to take the default name offered. Who are these programmers who never pushed back with "Shouldn't we offer to generate the date into the filename of the bill they select?"
I'm 70 and had a circular slide rule inherited in HS from my father! Thing must have been 20 years old when I got it in the early 60s.
Along SIRI lines, had an acquaintance working at Bell Labs in Murray Hill the early 70s on speech synthesis. An incredibly bright woman.
And have always thought that filenames including YYYYMMDD format dates was the most logical way to find and sort things chronologically.
Along SIRI lines, had an acquaintance working at Bell Labs in Murray Hill the early 70s on speech synthesis. An incredibly bright woman.
And have always thought that filenames including YYYYMMDD format dates was the most logical way to find and sort things chronologically.
I've generally stayed out of them.
I'm here for the various little things that I am interested in that this site covers and the interactions with friends.
Not here to engage in futile screaming matches where each side firmly believes they are right. I know what I believe and that's enough.
On top of all that the PRSI forums don't count for post count. Not that I'm here to rack up my post count but if I am going to engage in a screaming match over politics it should count for something. Currently it doesn't.
WHAT?! All that pain and suffering and it didn't count for my post count?! !!!!!!!!!! Now I REALLY have a reason for not being there, lol.
Yeah, agreed with your post. It just isn't worth it. My blood pressure is high enough.
Thirteen, so at least I'm technically allowed to be here!
Really! I always thought you were in your twenties!
...Well, I'm already here, so I might as well make an input. I'm almost sixteen. In terms of date, I'm also a whole lot like @Lotta Lumina, who has posted here a little earlier, but does not seem to be online anymore...
Another thing, I happen to be largely more old fashioned than many my age, and generally cannot refrain from political arguments and conversations.
Either way, it's good to see this many youngsters with this much of an interest in old computers. Very... Technologically resourceful of them.