{"id":788,"date":"2006-12-21T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T16:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/d31884cecf9010c741a6ce91932eb0a2"},"modified":"2006-12-21T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T16:42:58","slug":"technology-expires-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Technology expires eventually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I've been clearing up the office, finishing up some of the final touches in terms of removing power supplies and things I don't need (to save those precious watts and lower the electricity bill while helping the environment) and clearing out some old equipment I haven't used in weeks or months. <\/p>\n<p>The list of removed items looks like a list of the last few generations of technology: <\/p>\n<ul >\n<li >A VCR - it hasn't actually been used as a VCR for years, I've been using it as an input switching device between the digital TV box, DVD player and XBox on one of the TVs in the office. <\/li>\n<li >A Minidisc player - I loved minidisc, and I still do love the concept, but I moved all of my audio to MP3s and AAC months, perhaps now years ago. I will miss the tiny discs, but not the space they or the player occupied. <\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=N6xjNl\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=N6xjNl\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/64687419\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;ve been clearing up the office, finishing up some of the final touches in terms of removing power supplies and things I don&#8217;t need (to save those precious watts and lower the electricity bill while helping the environment) and clearing out some old equipment I haven&#8217;t used in weeks or months. <\/p>\n<p>The list of removed items looks like a list of the last few generations of technology: <\/p>\n<ul >\n<li >A VCR &#8211; it hasn&#8217;t actually been used as a VCR for years, I&#8217;ve been using it as an input switching device between the digital TV box, DVD player and XBox on one of the TVs in the office. <\/li>\n<li >A Minidisc player &#8211; I loved minidisc, and I still do love the concept, but I moved all of my audio to MP3s and AAC months, perhaps now years ago. I will miss the tiny discs, but not the space they or the player occupied. <\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=N6xjNl\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=N6xjNl\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/64687419\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}