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    Hi Folks,

    In the olden days, when television first came in, it was a novelty for a family to have one of these fantastic new fandangle things...I remember when the broardcasting changed from black and white to colour T.V. and owning a colour T.V. was just the ants pants. Today, most of us personally own at least one screen where we can do a myriad of things. One, not so long ago couldn't even dream of doing....Heck, I remember doing a computer course in circa 2000 and learning it would take a lot of computer power to run a video from your computer and now days we can do much much more from our phones.

    As far as I can detect, one of the most popular entertainment platforms in Australia today has, changed from free to air T.V. to videos on line on platforms such as Youtube.

    Youtube has recently changed its monetization policy hurting the very small creators or or more specifically making it a great more difficult for the small creator to monetize.

    Interesting article here... https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/18/16...eators-changes

    Is this really a sign of a big corporation trying to clean up it's act or not?

    Cheers.

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    Morning BD, I recall the introduction of TV in OZ, crowds of people standing around a shop window looking at a test pattern, a different era.

    YouTube certainly has degraded, clips produced specifically for YT, complete with computer generated voices that drone on and on, I suspect it won't be long before it's replaced by the next (big thing)

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Yelta View Post
      Morning BD, I recall the introduction of TV in OZ, crowds of people standing around a shop window looking at a test pattern, a different era.

      YouTube certainly has degraded, clips produced specifically for YT, complete with computer generated voices that drone on and on, I suspect it won't be long before it's replaced by the next (big thing)
      Are you anti technology I read a lot of negativity around technology in your posts.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by filter View Post
        Are you anti technology I read a lot of negativity around technology in your posts.
        Magnificent introduction to the site. Troll.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Barry O'Speedwagon View Post
          Magnificent introduction to the site. Troll.
          Well look at you.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by filter View Post
            Are you anti technology I read a lot of negativity around technology in your posts.
            I have no idea on Yelta's technological bent but he does seem keen on punctuation and grammar - even when to use a question mark

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            • #7
              I suspect Yelta is like me - not anti-technology but only anti the aspects of it that do not add any real value to our lives, and just unnecessarily over-complicate things.
              In this category, I would list some of the gimmicks on modern motor vehicles that take decisions and skills out of the hands of drivers (dumb us down) and just add a long list of electronic functions that will fail in the short-term and be expensive to fix.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Rocky View Post
                I suspect Yelta is like me - not anti-technology but only anti the aspects of it that do not add any real value to our lives, and just unnecessarily over-complicate things.
                In this category, I would list some of the gimmicks on modern motor vehicles that take decisions and skills out of the hands of drivers (dumb us down) and just add a long list of electronic functions that will fail in the short-term and be expensive to fix.
                Morning Rocky, got it in one.

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                • #9
                  I have been exposed to various computer technology directly or indirectly since I was knee high to a grasshopper, working with mainframes, mini computers, the early model Apple IIs, Macs and IBM desktops through to modern computers. I currently have in my house four computers, two tablets and two smartphones. Having said that, I am always careful not to be an early adopter or get into trendy software. My social media usage is limited to FB and have never Tweeted. I still get out the street directory and plot my journey rather than rely on GPS navigation though I am increasingly turning to Google Maps so I don't have to update my street directory.
                  Having lived through a period up to the 1990s where technology wasn't foremost in getting things done, I can appreciate life without it and often seek to avoid it (I still only read hard copy books). I don't particularly like my movements and shopping activiy being tracked but it is getting harder and harder to avoid it. There are people making money by selling my data to others I have not authorized and don't start me on Privacy policies.

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                  • #10
                    There are some aspects of 'technology' that I just love, what you can do with mobile phones these days is just fantastic and nothing on what is to come, but I don't love technology for technology's sake.
                    Some folks do. They embrace any new technology with a passion, even if it is just a gimmick. I don't have a problem with this - it is their lives - but it annoys me a bit that the technology is often foisted on the rest of us, whether we want it or not, an e.g. being the "stop/start" function on modern cars. You like it, fine, but I don't want it and if I can't disconnect it permanently I won't buy the car.

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                    • #11
                      Lets face it, everyone on Coffee Snobs is into technology, we're all using electronic devices of one form or another to connect.

                      As you remark, some are into it simply because it's the newest and geekiest.

                      I'm still comfortable boiling a kettle or turning on a coffee maker without remote assistance from the internet, just another layer of complexity to eventually cause you grief.

                      I'm still trying to figure out the innovative new espresso machine we've heard so much about over the past 12 months or so, is it a computer that makes coffee or an espresso machine that's also a computer, regardless I'm sure the geeks will love it.

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                      • #12
                        Ha ha ha...I was only just then writing a post on this thread about technology and the power went off!.....

                        My lad came out of his bedroom and asked me "Dad has the power gone off" and I said "yes it's still hot today and the usage would be high so more than likely it's our turn to have a programmed blackout"...

                        We went into the lounge and he automatically picked up the remote control to the T.V. to turn it on and quickly found out the T.V. doesn't work...He laughed at himself and said yeah of course the T.V. doesn't work and walked off...I must admit it does feel strange not to have the use of the technology we are so used to accessing... Same thing goes for the other day when I accidently left my mobile phone home...I felt strange and naked without it....

                        Cheers.

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                        • #13
                          Often wonder what would happen in the event of a major disaster if we lost all power and communications, not talking about an hour or two, but days/weeks.

                          I imagine the more resourceful would get by but the sheeple would be stuffed, frightening prospect but not beyond the bounds of possibility.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Yelta View Post
                            Often wonder what would happen in the event of a major disaster if we lost all power and communications, not talking about an hour or two, but days/weeks.

                            I imagine the more resourceful would get by but the sheeple would be stuffed, frightening prospect but not beyond the bounds of possibility.
                            Yeah, I reckon it could happen...

                            It's happened recently in Australia, but only for a few days and even a week or two...Think the Queensland floods or a major cyclone.... Although maybe not as cathorstaphic as you are suggesting Yelta, I know that people were inconvenienced but did get around it. Oh and we had it here recently for a just few hours when the main interconnector power lines got blown down by several twisters. I remember going to the shopping mall to buy some candles and no one was in the car park....It didn't click until I got to the doors and saw all the shops shut because their cash registers and recording systems did not work lol....

                            Cheers.

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                            • #15
                              The disruption caused by a Cyclone (or similar) is a really effective experience to bring it home to you just how dependent we are on our modern "services" and also on each other.
                              During a recent Cyclone we were without water for 4 days and power for a week. Didn't have a generator at that time, and even if I had, petrol was pretty well unobtainable after the first couple of days.
                              Lots of implications - can you get gas for your BBQ (not after the first couple of days)
                              What happens to the perishables in your fridge/freezer - can you eat/cook them?
                              Can you charge your Mobile? Do you have batteries for a Transistor radio? How do you keep tabs on what's happening Re recovery efforts.
                              How well do neighbourhoods cooperate.

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