On 21/09/2013 8:10 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 09:11:47 +0100, Stephen wrote:

>
> Indeed.  Douglas Adams had a theory about that:
>

Pity, he did not have a theory about keeping deadlines.

> "Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary
> and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's
> invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting
> and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything
> invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
>

It sounds like a good theory but I don't really think that it cuts the 
mustard.

> I'm now 43 (as of a couple weeks ago)

Belated happy birthday.

> - I think the ages aren't
> necessarily set in stone, but in principle, this makes sense.  You
> eventually get to the point where keeping up is too much of a bother, and

Yes, but at midlife?
I've reached the stage where keeping up with domestic computer tech is 
too much bother. I don't think that it is because I'm nearing retirement 
age but that the effort is not worth the return. Especially, when 
changes are done more in the spirit of selling new products rather than 
for innovative functionality.

> things were "always" better "back in the old days". :)
>

I see the smiley. And I hear it often.
It falls into two categories, IMO.
Life was better when I was young, people were better educated, more 
polite and had time for others. Better quality of life etc.
And: Technology is too complicated, things were better when you could 
understand how they worked. Such as a baud rate of 9600, RAM memory 640 
kB. Cars that did not have ABS, seat belts, crumple zones. I cold go on.

I've heard it since I was a kid and if you extrapolate backwards...

>
> One of a couple things my parents did when I was a kid that drove me
> crazy. Another was deciding when the one TV programme I wanted to watch
> that day was on that *that* was the time I needed to be told to go clean
> my room/take out the trash/whatever. 30 or 60 minutes later wasn't good
> enough, it had to be done *right then*.
>
> Before we had a VCR, it was even worse.
>

As long as you didn't repeat their mistakes.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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