A short drive in Canada's capital (Ottawa)

[MobileGlances]

From downtown Ottawa to (and on) the Gatineau municipal dock across the Ottawa River. Music added for entertainment value.

 

[kamkar]

I never got more than a walk and a fjew days in Montreal with my ship in 1990, would love to have a closer look one day.

 

[Dashcam Georgia]

We drove (1966 VW Squareback pulling tent trailer) from Marietta, Georgia to Montreal in 1967 for Expo '67. My Dad, who is colorblind (red and green) was confused by the horizontal traffic lights; kept asking us about whether or not the lights were red.

 

[MobileGlances]

Ahh, Expo 67 ! great souvenirs ! the world seemed like it was ready to bloom into something very special back then ... (not saying it hasn't). Probably because as a young lad, it would be easy to be overwhelmed by such a worldly display.

 

[Gibson99]

My Dad, who is colorblind (red and green) was confused by the horizontal traffic lights; kept asking us about whether or not the lights were red.

This is why they make lights the way they do in the US - vertical lights always have red at the top and green at bottom, and horizontal lights have red at left and green at right. I think those lights with red at both ends are just confusing, even if you're not color blind.

 

[DT MI]

...I think those lights with red at both ends are just confusing, even if you're not color blind.

Yeah, I never could understand why they do that. The only logical explanation (if one wants to think a government agency would use that as a criteria) is if the bulb burns out you still have a second 'red light'.

 

[Gibson99]

Yeah, I never could understand why they do that. The only logical explanation (if one wants to think a government agency would use that as a criteria) is if the bulb burns out you still have a second 'red light'.

Well when they do that here, (usually on a turn lane) both reds are together at the top or left. Keeps it consistent.

 

[kamkar]

hehe in the old days Danish traffic lights could be controlled from a hidden location, and you could morse messages with them in case the evil russians ruined everything else.
O and "our" Nukes was in a bunker just on the other side of the DK/German border.

 

[Dashcam Georgia]

Ahh, Expo 67 ! great souvenirs ! the world seemed like it was ready to bloom into something very special back then ... (not saying it hasn't). Probably because as a young lad, it would be easy to be overwhelmed by such a worldly display.

Yeah, one of the things that's stuck in my head all these years was the computer in the US pavilion; if you typed your name on the keyboard, it would repeat it back to you, something like "hello ___; how are you today?" or some such nonsense. Probably required four pages of machine code to do that (what would nowadays take a few lines of FORTRAN or C).

 

[Gibson99]

Yeah, one of the things that's stuck in my head all these years was the computer in the US pavilion; if you typed your name on the keyboard, it would repeat it back to you, something like "hello ___; how are you today?" or some such nonsense. Probably required four pages of machine code to do that (what would nowadays take a few lines of FORTRAN or C).

Basic was around in the 60s wasn't it? Something like that was one of the first little programs I ever did to lean how strings worked.

 

[Dashcam Georgia]

I googled it; BASIC was developed in 1964, so it's possible that BASIC was used, but not likely I think. They used a computer at the pavilion to control opening and closing of the geodesic shades and it's likely that the public use/display terminal was merely echoing output from the same mainframe, in which case, the public display program would have been written by a professional programmer; BASIC would probably not have been used in that case. I also googled "expo 67 us pavilion computer" but so far haven't found any info on it.

 

[kamkar]

I tried Basic programming on my Z81 way back then, after a fjew days i was like " O hell no"
Then i was on the DOS bandwagon a little later as a novice user ( launching games ), and i stayed there untill WIN98SE
I cant do any code if my life depended on it.

If some one pointed a gun to my head and said make a weppeage with white background color and your name in black on it or i kill you, i would have to ask him to pull the trigger now and just be done with it.

 

[Dashcam Georgia]

If some one pointed a gun to my head and said make a weppeage with white background color and your name in black on it or i kill you, i would have to ask him to pull the trigger now and just be done with it.

LMAO; I'm just the opposite. I'm not a programmer by profession, but often need to code for my job (aircraft stress engineer). For me, it's like reading a good book. I can't put the code away (typically FORTRAN, but occasionally C) until I get it to work.

 

[kamkar]

Kids these days are stupid, make me wish i was able to turn off all wifi in the world for a week or 2.

I know of fortran and many of the other languages, seem like young ppl today got nothing out of the internet

 

[Dashcam Georgia]

They make it sound like Windows 3.0 never happened...

 

[Gibson99]

They make it sound like Windows 3.0 never happened...

Microsoft OSes are always horrible when they first come out with a new major version.

Win3.0 was just OK, but 3.1 fixed a lot of major issues and 3.11 added networking
win95 (v4.0) was actually pretty lousy when it first came out. wasn't until 2 years later when OSR2 came out that it finally got stable - that's when i switched to it
win98 (4.1) was really just a minor skinning/tweaking of win95 osr2.5, so it doesn't count.
winmill (4.7 or 4.9?)) was again another skinning of win98.
windows 2000 (NT 5.0) was pretty solid out of the box but lacked a lot of features and didn't feel finished till sp4 came out
windows xp (NT 5.1) also lacked stability and features, but once SP2 hit, they fixed most of that and it became usable and more mainstream
Vista (NT 6.0) was horrid. SP1 only marginally better. Win7 (NT 6.1) is really just Vista sp2 with a slightly tweaked skin, and win7 has done great
win8 (NT 6.2) was broadly hated and despised and they tried (halfway) to fix it with 8.1 (NT 6.2) but finally got it right with win10 (originally NT6.3 but now 10.0)

of course now their versioning system is all sorts of weird. oh wait, no it's not. it's normal for windows. just look at the stuff above - only really old versions had an actual version number in their name.

only reason i know all those internal version numbers is because it's part of my day job. When scanning the network, the client doesn't report back "windows 7" it says "Windows NT Workstation 6.1".

so it's true you shouldn't upgrade to a given MS OS till it's been out a while. and technically, win10 isn't new. it's just a minor update to win8.x, which was itself a minor update to win7.

 

[Gibson99]

Kids these days are stupid, make me wish i was able to turn off all wifi in the world for a week or 2.
seem like young ppl today got nothing out of the internet

oh they got plenty. FB, porn, twitter, porn, snapchat, instagram, porn, lolcats... you get the idea.

 

[kamkar]

Yeah all the stupid S...

I will argue any day that social networking was better before facetwitt and all that stuff, but some kids today make it sound as if before facetwitt there was no social networking, when in fact it was much better.

But as a long time bachlor i have to admit porn have become so much better with the internet, and i am told if you are willing to pay for it then it get even better.

I cant belive there is a app called whatsapp ???? im like who what WTF

I still have not come to term with MS renaming my programs to APPs

 

[DT MI]

...I still have not come to term with MS renaming my programs to APPs

Don't blame MS for that - blame Californians. APPs is short for Applications which in turn is short for Application Programs. Californians hate multi-syllable words (or they are extremely lazy?) so everything gets shortened. Application programs become APPs, radical becomes RAD, etc.

 

[ThePro]

That YouTube channel is cr**. It's all scripted.

There's no way they didn't experience at least a Windows 98 computer in elementary school.