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Obsolete Technical Skills
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Robert Scoble had an interesting post on his blog a few days ago on obsolete technical skills — 'things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us.' Scoble's initial list included dialing a rotary phone, using carbon paper to make copies, and changing the gas mixture on your car's carburetor. The list has now been expanded into a wiki with a much larger list of these obsolete skills that includes resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board, assembly language programming, and stacking a quarter on an arcade game to indicate you have next. We're invited to contribute more."
they still teach asm at uni.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
You were lucky.
When I were a lad we'd have to pile huge rocks on top of each other until we got ten of them stacked up, then double that until we got to twenty, and all the way up to a thousand.
Then we'd have to climb to the top, all seventy of us in our classroom, and sing the lords prayer a million times.
After that we'd stand on each others shoulders until the top one was all the way up into the clouds, and then we'd do a controlled fall.
The last one down had to pack all the rocks away until lunchtime when we'd do it all over again.
We had to do that until the age of twenty one months old.
So all future operating systems will work worse than Vista. We are DOOMED.