PACE OF TeCHnOLOGY??? Where the hell did it go?

Someone tell me what the freakin deal is. 4 years ago, the cutting
edge of technology was at an acceptable grueling pace. Now it has
slowed down to a pitiful, stomach-wrenching crawl and it makes me
sick. Then, for example, we invented the Pentium chip and the DVD
player, now everyone thinks were makin the same leaps by making
existing Pentium chips a few Megahertz faster and a DVD player that
hold slightly more gigabytes. What the hell is the matter with
scientists today. The fact that we haven't colonized the moon yet and
had several manned missions to mars makes me want to puke. What the
heck is takin these chumps so long? I'm so mad.

-Slick

Slickwater wrote:
Someone tell me what the freakin deal is. 4 years ago, the cutting
edge of technology was at an acceptable grueling pace. Now it has
slowed down to a pitiful, stomach-wrenching crawl and it makes me
sick. Then, for example, we invented the Pentium chip and the DVD
player, now everyone thinks were makin the same leaps by making

Wrong. Both were invented far earlier than that. Pentium wasn't
much of a invention really, you should point at PPro which actualy
did contain innovative things.

existing Pentium chips a few Megahertz faster and a DVD player that
hold slightly more gigabytes. What the hell is the matter with
scientists today. The fact that we haven't colonized the moon yet and
had several manned missions to mars makes me want to puke. What the
heck is takin these chumps so long? I'm so mad.

The matter is with you, not the scientists.


-Slick

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(Slickwater) :

Someone tell me what the freakin deal is. 4 years ago, the cutting
edge of technology was at an acceptable grueling pace. Now it has
slowed down to a pitiful, stomach-wrenching crawl and it makes me
sick. Then, for example, we invented the Pentium chip and the DVD
player, now everyone thinks were makin the same leaps by making
existing Pentium chips a few Megahertz faster and a DVD player that
hold slightly more gigabytes. What the hell is the matter with
scientists today. The fact that we haven't colonized the moon yet and
had several manned missions to mars makes me want to puke. What the
heck is takin these chumps so long? I'm so mad.

-Slick

Dear Slick,
You are so far behind the technology curve that it is not funny.
The reason you don't see much work on Pentium and other 32 bit chips CPUs is
because people are busy getting the 64 bit systems ready for mass market.
The fact that you want to puke about our space progress is you are too busy
reading the news releases from the big aerospace companies, not the one
learning how to do it small and cheap (remember where microcomputers started)

But last but not least, why are you wasting your time complaining? Instead
you want your dreams to come true, then get out there and work at it
yourself. Personally, I don't have any more time to waste explaining this to
you as I just learnt how drag pumps work and am now seeing if I can make one
to to get my peroxide processor working to make more rocket grade peroxide.

Earl Colby Pottinger


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(Slickwater) wrote in message . com...
Someone tell me what the freakin deal is. 4 years ago, the cutting
edge of technology was at an acceptable grueling pace. Now it has
slowed down to a pitiful, stomach-wrenching crawl and it makes me
sick. Then, for example, we invented the Pentium chip and the DVD
player, now everyone thinks were makin the same leaps by making
existing Pentium chips a few Megahertz faster and a DVD player that
hold slightly more gigabytes. What the hell is the matter with
scientists today. The fact that we haven't colonized the moon yet and
had several manned missions to mars makes me want to puke. What the
heck is takin these chumps so long? I'm so mad.

-Slick



Would you idiots cut out your marital nagging? If you want to do
that crap, do it under some other post, and addres the issue at hand.
retards, I don't care about the pentuim chip it was merely an
EXAMPLE. Why isn't new stuff like that being invented now, and the
moon isn't exciting, its imperialism. The Monroe Doctrine doesn't
govern space as far as I know, so the US better get up there and
colonized the moon, it's more landmass, an eventual necessity. Now
Jay, i know all these tought about space colonization are overloading
your small brain, that again is an EXAMPLE, i'm mad about the pace of
technology, not the listed instances. Sometimes I just put a little
too much in a post for you miscreants, i'll try to dumb in down to 2
or 3 lines next time. I want a freaking flying car too, there is no
reason its not possible. Quit whining about money or get punched in
the face. Get it done. Thats the problem with this world. GET IT DONE
and quit bitching. Thats why we need to elect Arnold governor, the guy
is rich as christ, people like him GET THINGS DONE, they don't whine
about funding. Pull your heads out of your asses and get something
accomplished. You guys need to read a small book titled A Message to
Garcia, there maybe you'll learn something about nagging and asking
HOW something is supposed to be done. It's only about 30 pages, so you
should be able to handle it. Now, does anyone have a semi-intelligent
to the putrid tech rate?

-Slick

There are almost certainly medications which can help you with your mood
swings. They probably won't improve your social skills, but you can do
that yourself with some determination and a bit of luck. Just remember,
asking for help is the first step.

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On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Slickwater wrote:

Someone tell me what the freakin deal is. 4 years ago, the cutting
edge of technology was at an acceptable grueling pace. Now it has
slowed down to a pitiful, stomach-wrenching crawl and it makes me
sick. Then, for example, we invented the Pentium chip and the DVD
player, now everyone thinks were makin the same leaps by making
existing Pentium chips a few Megahertz faster and a DVD player that
hold slightly more gigabytes. What the hell is the matter with
scientists today. The fact that we haven't colonized the moon yet and
had several manned missions to mars makes me want to puke. What the
heck is takin these chumps so long? I'm so mad.

Colleges and universities are being privatized as well as research
journals. In addition the government is cracking down on copywight laws
and corporate research is vital company information, not to be publically
published.

Besides the most important parmount purposefor us is to make the super
rich so much richer that everybody else will have to declare bankrupcy, to
fight wars of conquest, to convert the world to ChristoDemocracy (ie
Republican capitalism), and spend billions on media public image
management coverups to molify the public into serfdom.

Slickwater wrote:

(Slickwater) wrote in message . com...
Someone tell me what the freakin deal is. 4 years ago, the cutting
edge of technology was at an acceptable grueling pace. Now it has
slowed down to a pitiful, stomach-wrenching crawl and it makes me
sick. Then, for example, we invented the Pentium chip and the DVD
player, now everyone thinks were makin the same leaps by making
existing Pentium chips a few Megahertz faster and a DVD player that
hold slightly more gigabytes. What the hell is the matter with
scientists today. The fact that we haven't colonized the moon yet and
had several manned missions to mars makes me want to puke. What the
heck is takin these chumps so long? I'm so mad.

-Slick

Would you idiots cut out your marital nagging? If you want to do
that crap, do it under some other post, and addres the issue at hand.
retards, I don't care about the pentuim chip it was merely an
EXAMPLE. Why isn't new stuff like that being invented now,

We *know* there's a market for better computers. If you've read other
threads, you'd see the market that requires better spacecraft isn't
blatantly obvious. Investors want to see a business plan, before they
sink their money. Now, I *do* personally make that 'If you build it,
they will come.' leap of faith, but I know full well that people who
control the purse strings want a little more.

and the
moon isn't exciting, its imperialism. The Monroe Doctrine doesn't
govern space as far as I know, so the US better get up there and
colonized the moon, it's more landmass, an eventual necessity.

Specify the necessity. I'm sure they exist, but they require
signifigant up-front costs to develop economical transportation to Earth
orbit, then on to the Lunar surface. You gotta justify that, or at least
settle for doing it very incrementally.

Now
Jay, i know all these tought about space colonization are overloading
your small brain, that again is an EXAMPLE, i'm mad about the pace of
technology, not the listed instances. Sometimes I just put a little
too much in a post for you miscreants,

Flattery will get you nowhere. Again, I suggest reading other threads
for a while.

i'll try to dumb in down to 2
or 3 lines next time. I want a freaking flying car too, there is no
reason its not possible.

But is it practical?

Quit whining about money or get punched in
the face.

Nobody rides for free, Slick....

Get it done. Thats the problem with this world. GET IT DONE
and quit bitching. Thats why we need to elect Arnold governor, the guy
is rich as christ, people like him GET THINGS DONE, they don't whine
about funding.

When you hold government office, you have to learn to work the
system, and get people with differing agendas going in essentially your
direction. This was Ross Perot's problem. In his business background, he
could more easily order things done, and they were. Government doesn't
work that way. Former military officers learn this lesson, too....

Pull your heads out of your asses and get something
accomplished.

If I could pull a couple billion out too, I suspect *I* could get a
lot done. Is it there? Nope.

I'm dead serious. No one sinks the necessary money into space
projects (and we also have to get investors and others over the idea
that it *must* cost what NASA would estimate for the same goal) without
some conviction they'll make it back, and more. I already have the
conviction, but not the money.

You guys need to read a small book titled A Message to
Garcia, there maybe you'll learn something about nagging and asking
HOW something is supposed to be done. It's only about 30 pages, so you
should be able to handle it. Now, does anyone have a semi-intelligent
to the putrid tech rate?

-Slick

You need to lurk some more. Many of your questions are addressed
(with more civility) here, all the time.

'We guys' want off this rock as much as you, but tantrums won't do
it.

Why don't you shut up, and get out there and do it yourself. You want it,
you go out and get it done. Stop whining to us cry-baby.

Earl Colby Pottinger

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Earl Colby Pottinger wrote in message ...
Why don't you shut up, and get out there and do it yourself. You want it,
you go out and get it done. Stop whining to us cry-baby.

Earl Colby Pottinger



OH NO!!!, little earl just called me a cry-baby. please, anything but
that! the last person to call me tha twas some 4-eyed fat geek in
junior high, and I stomped his face in and stole his lunch money. It
was sweet.

-Slick