What happened to ingenuity?
What happened to ingenuity? Posted on: 26.05.2012 by Darren Teboe Sort of a rant here...What happened to ingenuity? I see a lot of posts on here with kids asking what seem to be somewhat crazy questions. An example that I keep seeing reoccur is people asking how to hook up speakers. Now granted, I understand certain pro-audio applications can get a little out of the ordinary, but c'mon man! I remember as a kid, I used to jury rig just about anything and everything. If there was an electronic piece of gear I wanted to use, short of hacking it apart (which is by no means unheard of), I always was able to figure out how to get things to work. Not just me either, but just about everyone one I ever knew could accomplish what always seemed to me like pretty simple stuff. Asking how something as simple as a speaker hooks up is the old school equivalent to me of your mom or grandma asking you to set the clock on the VCR back in the day. C'MON KIDS! GET ON YOUR GAME!!! | |
| Evalyn Voges 26.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by 3heads
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| Marshall Aby 26.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by Pearce161
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| Shay Wyche 26.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by 3heads
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| Darren Teboe 26.05.2012 | Sort of a rant here... What happened to ingenuity? I see a lot of posts on here with kids asking what seem to be somewhat crazy questions. An example that I keep seeing reoccur is people asking how to hook up speakers. Now granted, I understand certain pro-audio applications can get a little out of the ordinary, but c'mon man! I remember as a kid, I used to jury rig just about anything and everything. If there was an electronic piece of gear I wanted to use, short of hacking it apart (which is by no means unheard of), I always was able to figure out how to get things to work. Not just me either, but just about everyone one I ever knew could accomplish what always seemed to me like pretty simple stuff. Asking how something as simple as a speaker hooks up is the old school equivalent to me of your mom or grandma asking you to set the clock on the VCR back in the day. C'MON KIDS! GET ON YOUR GAME!!! |
| Celestine Porebski 26.05.2012 | Yeah, but does that mean one should match colors? Or do opposites attract (as it's often the case in our world)? |
| Evalyn Voges 26.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by 3heads
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| Georgina Schatzman 26.05.2012 | I love you guys, I really do. And people wonder why I have little tolerance for people on here. |
| Marshall Aby 26.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by Pearce161
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| Shay Wyche 26.05.2012 |
Originally Posted by 3heads
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| Celestine Porebski 26.05.2012 | But of course there's more stuff on here which is equally confusing. Why do people record 15min mixes? What is the purpose of that? And to go further: why do they post stuff like that? |
| Antoinette Bradshaw 26.05.2012 | lol^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| Jonathan Chiuchiolo 26.05.2012 | Sos my music won't play, please help?!!!!!!!!!!! ... Hey we can't use all capitals in posts ? just pretend that was in caps |
| Celestine Porebski 26.05.2012 | Those cabling questions always confuse the hell out of me. What is not to be understood. There are inputs and outputs. Both have their function in their names. When people aren't able to figure that stuff out themselves, what are they actually able to do? |
| Antoinette Bradshaw 26.05.2012 | I believe to a certain extent that it is ok to ask, aslong as they add pictures/details/how it happened...etc... None of this "wahhh my speaker broke" and hoping for someone to fix it |
| Nedra Fresneda 26.05.2012 | A lot of people are not interested in how it works or why, it doesn't they just want it to work. It's the information age after all. Personally, I only ask something after I've tried every posible solution that crosses my mind. |
| Darren Teboe 26.05.2012 | Just to clarify... this is in no way bitching about threads/duplicate threads/not searching the community s. I say go for it whatever you are asking around here. I'm just confused as to how people are asking about what seems to be such remedial problems. |
| Nannette Doniger 26.05.2012 | its the google syndrome i'm afraid.....the attitude is why try and figure something out when can jus 'google it' bit worrying with regard to learning I believe cos you dont have to work to find something out and imo your probably less likely to remember it |
| Jonathan Chiuchiolo 26.05.2012 | ...back in my day, we used to walk fifteen miles to get to the hardware store to connect our speakers, we didn't have these fancy electronic stores that have insulated cable, we used barbed wire instead! kids eat some concrete and harden the f@#k up! All jokes aside it's pretty shocking that they a) can't be bothered looking for an answer b) don't try and figure stuff out the old fashion way... trial and error Everyone want's to have their voice heard so I understand duplicate topics, but the "my headphones aren't working" is getting really old considering how easy it is to set up and the amount of similar threads on djing community s. |
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