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Title: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: dicque on August 16, 2012, 11:33:26 AM
Hey everyone,

Hope someone can help me here because this is driving me a little batty.  Many weeks back, the hosts were discussing the dying medium of newspapers and Mark used a word to describe newspapers.  He said its a thing that people cling to that's inefficient and outdated but still exists for a niche market or just because its always existed and people don't know a remember a time when it didn't.  I've been Googling different phrases hoping to get a hit, and short of listening to all the shows over the last several weeks, I just can't remember the word!  Does anybody out there remember the word or know what I'm talking about?

Whoever helps me receives a giant dose of karma :)

Thanks!
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: Turd Ferguson on August 16, 2012, 12:31:33 PM
Was it "Luddites"?
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: PC Harris on August 21, 2012, 09:15:14 AM
anachronism
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: FreddyFreeman on August 21, 2012, 10:48:47 AM
So the term you're looking for refers to the people who cling to the outdated thing and not the outdated thing itself, is that correct?
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: freeAgent on August 21, 2012, 08:26:12 PM
...antiquated?  I'm not sure.
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: FreddyFreeman on August 22, 2012, 02:27:06 AM
obsolescence?
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: alaric89 on August 22, 2012, 10:15:49 AM
i like to call myself a "fuddy duddy". It is my belief technical progress peaked about '76 or so.
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: Turd Ferguson on August 22, 2012, 01:27:36 PM
I'LL TELL YA WHEN EVERYTHING WENT WRONG RIGHT NOW! ITS WHEN THEY STARTED PUTTING MALT SHOPS IN THE GOD DAMN WALGREENS. YEAH, THATS WHEN THE YOUNGSTERS CAME ALONG WITH THEIR DOPE AND OTHER MONKEYSHINES AND IT WASN'T LONG AFTER THAT THE SYPHILIS AND GONORRHEA SHOWED UP.


DAMN YOU WALGREENS AND YOUR FANCY, NEW FANGLED MALT SHOPS!!!
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: alaric89 on August 23, 2012, 10:52:05 AM
We didn't have no Walgreens. Only refreshment we could get when I was a kid was when the local trading post shopkeep would turn the hose on us.
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: Diogenes The Cynic on August 23, 2012, 02:30:28 PM
We didn't have no Walgreens. Only refreshment we could get when I was a kid was when the local trading post shopkeep would turn the hose on us.

We didn't even have a local trading post. We had to hitch the wagons up, just to get out of town.

(anachronism)
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: Crotale on August 23, 2012, 02:54:59 PM
Hey everyone,

Hope someone can help me here because this is driving me a little batty.  Many weeks back, the hosts were discussing the dying medium of newspapers and Mark used a word to describe newspapers.  He said its a thing that people cling to that's inefficient and outdated but still exists for a niche market or just because its always existed and people don't know a remember a time when it didn't.  I've been Googling different phrases hoping to get a hit, and short of listening to all the shows over the last several weeks, I just can't remember the word!  Does anybody out there remember the word or know what I'm talking about?

Whoever helps me receives a giant dose of karma :)

Thanks!

Archaic? Vintage? Retro?
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: Turd Ferguson on August 23, 2012, 05:10:15 PM
We didn't have no Walgreens. Only refreshment we could get when I was a kid was when the local trading post shopkeep would turn the hose on us.


He only did that because you guys were dirty little monkeys.
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: alaric89 on August 24, 2012, 12:01:27 AM
In hindsight, throwing the poop was probably a bad idea.
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: Bill Brasky on August 24, 2012, 02:31:15 AM
Sibilance, sibilance, sibilance.
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: talkativeshut on September 08, 2012, 03:04:54 AM
I admit I won't be able to help you with finding out the word, but the way he described newspapers is really annoying. It is not outdated offshore merchant account (https://www.nextpay.com/offshore_processing.php), it is just that there are no affordable high-tech mediums available yet that can be bought by everyone from the poor to the rich and that you can safely read as you sip your coffee. Newspapers reach any kind of people and that s why it stays as a good source of the current state of the world
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: Diogenes The Cynic on September 11, 2012, 01:01:48 AM
I admit I won't be able to help you with finding out the word, but the way he described newspapers is really annoying. It is not outdated, it is just that there are no affordable high-tech mediums available yet that can be bought by everyone from the poor to the rich and that you can safely read as you sip your coffee. Newspapers reach any kind of people and that s why it stays as a good source of the current state of the world

I had a pocket pc back when pocket pc's were cool. They had terrible battery lives, and too much casing for the size of the screens. Otherwise, the technology was fine for reading a few articles in the paper. It was a good proof of concept, and were at the point now where only a few bugs need to be worked out before its all gravy though.

I think survivability is the number one obstacle they've never even tried to overcome. A multimedia player should be at least partially waterproof, handle temperature swings, have a screen that can survive exposure to the sun, etc. Beyond that, its not too hard. Whatever you pay for it should in theory be made up by the new cheapness of the new media. So, for example, since newspapers wont have to print anymore, they can make buying a newspaper online cheaper. Magazines too.

I would rather trade down features for reliability, and would prefer that the os stays the same, so I can always read my magazines that I've already bought through the several media players I would own, like a real library.
Title: Re: Clinging to outdated and inefficient things.. What's the word?
Post by: Crotale on September 12, 2012, 04:28:36 AM
C'mon talkativeshut, you gotta admit that newspapers are more redundant nowadays to a lot of people. I mean, some people still use them, but their numbers are dwindling.