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Originally Posted by Ed Holland (Post 9745161)

CD can sound good, but it takes the Norton sampling theorem to its absolute limit at the highest range of the frequency response, that is: only two samples of the signal per period of it's oscillation. Luckily few of us have ears that can hear 20Khz. Maybe dogs love vinyl :p

Sorry, that should have been the Nyquist sampling theorem. Norton's theorem is entirely different and is on the subject of current flow. It's been a long time since electronics lectures...

and to everyone... Just remember before you talk down today's state of affairs, that this will be the "good old days" for our kids. :)

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Originally Posted by Bam42685 (Post 9740048)

I just got done packing for a backpacking trip I'm leaving for tomorrow which reminded me of another "outdated" technology that I prefer: external frame backpacks. They are the steel framed bicycles of the camping world. Whenever I look at backpacks they try to talk me into the stupid internal frame packs that are heavy and don't have anything to clip all my stuff to. I'm guessing this being a crowd of people that enjoys cycling (an outdoor activity) it's probably not too much of a stretch to guess some people here like backpacking too. Furthermore, this being a thread about not appreciating old stuff, somebody here probably likes external frame backpacks. Or is that too much assuming?

I had to quote this and agree. External frame backpacks work better, unless your crawling around caves or rock climbing, there's no reason to get an internal unless you like back sweat and condensed gear and nowhere to clip your stuff. I love them with all my heart.

And need a new one. Anyone want to ship me one? I'll pay! :D

Oh yeah, and the priceless looks one gets from a phonograph are comprable to the priceless looks one gets when they pull out a fountain pen or smoke tobacco from a pipe... :lol:

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Originally Posted by jet sanchEz (Post 9731847)

Hehe, I had the opposite thing happen to me. I sold a road bike with Ultegra brifters and had to teach the buyer how they worked since he had been riding his '82 Peuguot since.....'82 ;)

Same thing happened to me, only I was the idiot.

Little brother comes over with his new Trek cross bike, with 105 brifters. I take it for a ride, didn't realize you moved the whole brake/shifter lever the other way to shift the other direction.

Then again it felt good to defend the down tube shifters on my Motobecane when he rode it. :)

With that I'm starting to prefer friction shifting to indexed. Most indexed systems take to many double taps - if I have to double tap, why not just move the shifter a bit till its perfect?

That being said, I'm one of the freaks in their 20's. I turned 27 last June. Meanwhile I have cameras, bicycles and a snowboard nearly as old as myself. :) Still have to find a good external frame backpack....

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Originally Posted by Exit. (Post 9733593)

No one uses velcro on shoes past the age of 12. The vast majority of my contemporaries, all of which are in their early 20s or late teens, read regularly. They still teach math in school the way they've taught it forever; you're not allowed the use of a calculator for the vast majority of exams.

You and your ridiculous prejudices can kindly take a long walk off a short pier.

Canadian school system is better than USA