"I'm convinced that I will be the last person in America still reading a newspaper."
No, dcat151, you and I will be.
Chandler, if the lights go out for any length of time, I'm still reading my hardcovers (or Tex paperbacks!) by candle or flashlight. Not sure how your stuff holds out for extended time... but books are forever to me.
No, Samantha, I can't read the online stuff because my MAC isn't updated to do it. Hell, I can't even see my county's assessors site because I don't have the newest, baddest, flash installed. And I can't install it because my mac is running on 10.6 ala 2000 mode.
Due to circumstances that would bore most of you to sleep, I don't have advance computers and can't get them anytime soon. Playing catchup for the last 5 years isn't going away overnight and I'm too damned frugal to throw it away on hardware when I could be relieving myself of debt first. But Aaron, I'm going to contact you about shipping AND pre-orders (when it's available).
I'm just not like you all and love the technology. I'm aware it's here but some of us, apparently few it seems, either just can't afford it or don't want to deal with it. Sadly, I am in the middle of these two camps. There, I said it. I'm an old fart and I love incandescent light bulbs too!
No, dcat151, you and I will be.
Chandler, if the lights go out for any length of time, I'm still reading my hardcovers (or Tex paperbacks!) by candle or flashlight. Not sure how your stuff holds out for extended time... but books are forever to me.
No, Samantha, I can't read the online stuff because my MAC isn't updated to do it. Hell, I can't even see my county's assessors site because I don't have the newest, baddest, flash installed. And I can't install it because my mac is running on 10.6 ala 2000 mode.
Due to circumstances that would bore most of you to sleep, I don't have advance computers and can't get them anytime soon. Playing catchup for the last 5 years isn't going away overnight and I'm too damned frugal to throw it away on hardware when I could be relieving myself of debt first. But Aaron, I'm going to contact you about shipping AND pre-orders (when it's available).
I'm just not like you all and love the technology. I'm aware it's here but some of us, apparently few it seems, either just can't afford it or don't want to deal with it. Sadly, I am in the middle of these two camps. There, I said it. I'm an old fart and I love incandescent light bulbs too!
One Mean, Green-Eyed Fitch.
I can understand not having the latest and greatest computer and OS. It's hard to keep up. I used to cling onto to old machines for the longest time too. I loved and named everyone of them.silvermitt wrote: I'm just not like you all and love the technology. I'm aware it's here but some of us, apparently few it seems, either just can't afford it or don't want to deal with it. Sadly, I am in the middle of these two camps. There, I said it. I'm an old fart and I love incandescent light bulbs too!
However I cannot understand clinging onto incandescent light bulbs. The horror!
Samantha
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
silvermitt, I'm an old fart too; I suspect quite a bit older and fart-ier 
but I have been involved with tech since the early 60s, so I do keep up with advancements.
As far as my Kindle goes, it uses extremely little power and doesn't lose anything when it's turned off. In fact it only uses power to download new content and to turn pages. It will run for weeks and weeks without a recharge.
I'm gradually switching all my lighting over to LED. The new LED lighting is fantastic, even better than incandescent. The LEDs produce a more even light and have a warmer glow (but without producing any significant heat) than the old bulbs. At this point in my life, I'm expecting I won't ever have to change the LED lights I'm installing -- I'll be pushing up daisies by the time they burn out.
but I have been involved with tech since the early 60s, so I do keep up with advancements.As far as my Kindle goes, it uses extremely little power and doesn't lose anything when it's turned off. In fact it only uses power to download new content and to turn pages. It will run for weeks and weeks without a recharge.
I'm gradually switching all my lighting over to LED. The new LED lighting is fantastic, even better than incandescent. The LEDs produce a more even light and have a warmer glow (but without producing any significant heat) than the old bulbs. At this point in my life, I'm expecting I won't ever have to change the LED lights I'm installing -- I'll be pushing up daisies by the time they burn out.