Retards you say?

I don't know about you guys but all the Engineers here use RPN.. Including me. Guess that makes all our HP calculators obsolete?
 
That definitely makes me obselete and most the people I have been working with over the years. Thanks for the link.
 
Mr. Classic

Ken Moore said:
Glance trough the list, I still do at least on item under every letter category.

One man's obsolete, is another man's classic ( I hope anyway)
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This list made me both laugh and cry. Just call me Mr. Classic!!
 
I just turned 31. Here are the things on that list which I have used in the last year:

* Analogue radio listening and tuning in
* Biasing vacuum tubes
* Burning and Erasing EPROMs
* Building a computer from individual components
* Changing vacuum tubes
* Cleaning the balls inside a computer mouse for better traction
* Compiling source code by hand
* Counting back change
* Cranking up or down a car-window
* Creating useful websites?
* Cursive handwriting
* Cuff links - you needed them then to a party
* Debugging hexadecimal dumps
* Degaussing a CRT monitor
* Dewey decimal system
* Freethinking
* FTP from a command line
* Getting off the couch to change channels on your TV set?
* Going outside? (instead of editing pointless Wikis)
* Having Cash
* Hexadecimal arithmetic in your head
* Jumpers on a Motherboard
* Licking stamps or envelopes?
* Long-Distance Phone Calling
* Long division
* Look for a job in the classifieds
* Percolating coffee
* Raising an antenna?
* Reading a dictionary or encyclopedia
* Reading a paper map
* Reading Moon Tables or Tide Tables
* Remembering passwords
* Remembering telephone numbers
* Resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board
* Setting a baud rate, parity and stop-bits
* Setting up a modem using AT commands?
* Setting up a screen saver to avoid burned in image on the CRT?
* Sharpening a pencil?
* Starting a fire by striking flint onto flint-steel?
* Surveying land using a theodolite?
* Switching from TV mode to Game mode on the box behind the tv?
* Thinking for oneself
* Tuning a radio
* Tweaking your AUTOEXEC<dot>BAT and CONFIG<dot>SYS files?
* Untangling the cord of a telephone?
* Upgrading to a 16550 UART?
* Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Select-Start in Konami games
* Using a fax machine
* Using a microfiche
* Using a newsreader
* Using a pay telephone
* Using a pointer stick as "mouse" on laptops
* Using carbon paper to make copies
* Using a DOS window on a computer
* Using the Dewey Decimal System
* Walking long distances
* Whipping cream with a whisk?
* Wilderness Survival?
* Winding a watch or clock
* Worrying about important things? (unlike this Wiki)
* Writing email whilst offline and going online to send

Kids these days...
 
Ah Thac0, I remember it better than I should admit to...

But I clearly remember it was a massive improvement over Gygax's #^#$%^ to-hit charts!

We're lucky he was a game designer. In our field, he'd have set us back 30 years by pure obfuscation.

If you ever wonder what became of Thac0, check out www.goblinscomic.com. Just make sure nobody you respect is looking over your shoulder to mock you.

TM
 
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THAC0 got phased out in DnD 3.0 in favour of DC. Now the higher your AC is, the better. The same with your attack. The higher the better. You roll a d20 and if your result is higher than the AC you hit.

What can I say? I still play DnD. I've got some 20-year-old dice in my kit.

For DnD 3.0 / 3.5 comics, you can look at the Order of the Stick.

Can this thread actually GO off topic? If so, what would we talk about, PLCS?
 
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I had to group some to get int on one page A4:


  • Adjusting the tracking on a VCR
  • Analogue radio listening and tuning in
  • AT commands for dial-up modems - Setting up a modem using AT commands
  • Autoexec.bat editing - Config.sys editing
  • Balancing the tonearm on a turntable
  • BASIC
  • Booting off a floppy disk
  • Burning and Erasing EPROMs
  • Cleaning the balls inside a computer mouse for better traction
  • Cutting and setting parquet
  • dBase IV
  • Drafting with pencils and T-square
  • Fixing a Disk using a hex editor
  • Formatting a floppy
  • Handwriting
  • Interpolating logarithms
  • Licking stamps or envelopes
  • Lining up paper on a dot matrix or line printer
  • Long division
  • Map Reading - Reading a paper map
  • Multiplication using a Sliderule - Using a slide rule
  • Navigating using a compass - Using a compass
  • Operating an Overhead Projector
  • PASCAL-TurboPASCAL
  • Popping corn in a pot with oil
  • Programming in Java
  • Putting a needle on a vinyl record
  • QBASIC
  • Raising an antenna
  • Reading a Vernier Scale
  • Reading Moon Tables or Tide Tables
  • Reckoning arithmetic without aid
  • Remembering passwords
  • Removing perforations off fanfold paper so it looks like normal typing paper
  • Repairing small appliances
  • SCSI HD configuration - SCSI ID select, Termination enable disable
  • Sending a letter
  • Setting a baud rate, parity and stop-bits
  • Setting the correct time on a VCR
  • Spelling
  • Swapping floppy disks
  • Thinking for oneself
  • Triangulating your position
  • Tweaking your AUTOEXEC<dot>BAT and CONFIG<dot>SYS files
  • Using a Logarithm Table - Using a Log Table
  • Using a DOS window on a computer
  • Wearing a hat (I do it every day during winter)
I have to say that I consider some of these so-called obsolete skills rather advanced skills. If the battery on your GPS (I still don't have one - I dislike the darn things) goes dead, then mapreading, triangulating a position and using a compass are skills most people can't master anymore.

On the other hand, I don't consider wearing a hat a skill. It's a habit at most.

Kind regards,
 
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