Depends what you are hacking though. Better get a good GPU if you want to do crazy fast calculations and participate in this Folding@home hackerfest thing.

Yeah remember that this dates back to 2001. Internet users these days are more informed and less ignorant.

Yeah remember that this dates back to 2001. Internet users these days are more informed and less ignorant.

in 1999 or so, over here I think there was a wave of murders involving a women meeting some guy she met IRL after meeting him via chatrooms. In one case, they found the women body completely dismantled. When this and the many occurences of credit card fraud became mainstream a lot of people sweared that they would never let Internet get into their home, even if their kids wanted to pay the entire bill. People were just too scared of it. However, once they use it properly they realize it's not that bad and can be very useful. Same for programming, I guess.


I also noticed the same thing about calcs lol. Back in 1999-2005 we didn't have TI-BD nor WikiTI, so the typical calculator user was sometimes pretty ignorant about the true capabilities of the calc. This resulted in some akward answers to people's questions and misleading info, especially LCD-related stuff. Even some hardcore ASM coders thought that a GB emulator would just be plain impossible. There were also some strange projects and achievements too that resulted from this.

Over here people who are technology illiterate are still very common and companies that are owned by very old people tend to not have a Twitter or Facebook still. My local shopping mall have both, but sometimes they don't tweet anything nor update their wall for months (although their facebook has been updated more often in recent months, but their last tweet dates back in 2012). Of course, some people just can't stand computers, though.

Oh, so it is satire after all

Indeed. I'd even say they're over 90000.

Quote from: bb010g on April 27, 2014, 12:13:22 am

There's a Wikipedia artice about Adequacy.org; the site was started by some Slashdot trolls. I just read through a fair bit of their stuff and some of it's golden (like this article). This article was one of the few things on the internet to truly make me laugh out loud.

Actually that article is a satire of what the website was about: Serious discussions on the world's most important matters. People who say this is satire don't know what satire is about.

Given that the website is filled with articles like these, I'm pretty sure the entire site is satire.