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What Tech are you thankful for?

RoguetadhgRoguetadhg Member Posts: 2,489 ■■■■■■■■□□
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I'm thankful for 30" Monitors!
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    kriscamaro68kriscamaro68 Member Posts: 1,186 ■■■■■■■□□□
    I am only thankful for 24" monitors. icon_sad.gif
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    TackleTackle Member Posts: 534
    Aww..15.4" here. allout.gif

    Thankful for phones with 4g.
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    sratakhinsratakhin Member Posts: 818
    23" and 19". Don't even need more, although it would be cool to have a Retina display for my desktop :)
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    ptilsenptilsen Member Posts: 2,835 ■■■■■■■■■■
    As much as I love monitors, I'm feeling most thankful for flash media. SSDs have completely and finally changed the computer experience, which had largely been stagnant since the first quad-core processors came out. There was simply little need for faster processors and more RAM. I think we'd largely be content with 4GB of RAM and a dual-core processor to this day if it weren't for SSDs.

    Other devices have similarly come a long way as a result of flash. Remember when portable music players had hard drives? Heck, remember when there were portable music players? Cheap, fast, reliable flash made the smartphone and tablet possible just as much as the progress of ARM CPUs.
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    DevilWAHDevilWAH Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Spell checker... it might not look like it but bad as my spelling is here, it is 100 times worse with pen and paper.

    I would never have got through Uni or a Job with out a computer to help. when I started at at uni I would write out an essay 4 or 5 times (final draft) before I was happy it was OK to go. Now with a computer I can type out my thoughts as fast as the come and then go back to tidy it up later.

    Yep defiantly the word processor and what it has lead to.. that and google of course. :)
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    forestgiantforestgiant Member Posts: 153
    I'm thankful for streaming audio, MP3s, audio books, and whatever devices that play them. My commutes and slow times were more productive because I could actually learn something new whenever and wherever.
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    RouteMyPacketRouteMyPacket Member Posts: 1,104
    I am thankful for the printer that prints my paycheck!
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    ptilsenptilsen Member Posts: 2,835 ■■■■■■■■■■
    RouteMyPacket wrote: »
    I am thankful for the printer that prints my paycheck!

    You still get a physical paycheck? I think I've received maybe five or six in my life. It takes a pay period or three for direct deposit to kick in at most companies.
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    jmritenourjmritenour Member Posts: 565
    RouteMyPacket wrote: »
    I am thankful for the printer that prints my paycheck!

    On that note, I'm thankful for the automated transaction process that shifts funds from my employer's bank account to mine via direct deposit.
    "Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible; suddenly, you are doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi
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    wd40wd40 Member Posts: 1,017 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I am thankful for Internet on mobile phones, remember the days that you had to go to an internet cafe to browse the net?
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    MickQMickQ Member Posts: 628 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Controllable combustion. Yeah, call me old school.
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    nosoup4unosoup4u Member Posts: 365
    DevilWAH wrote: »
    Spell checker...

    Oh man so true! I'm not a native English speaker and I really need it sometimes!

    The built in spell checkers from firefox and Microsoft are ok, but I just copy my horrible attempt at words and paste them into Google and 97% of the time it knows!
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    AkaricloudAkaricloud Member Posts: 938
    I'm thankful for cheap tablets. My $160 Nexus 7 has proven to be perfect for CBT Nuggets and reading books almost anywhere.
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    veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    The Internet!
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    Dakinggamer87Dakinggamer87 Member Posts: 4,016 ■■■■■■■■□□
    My smartphone and 25" monitors :)
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    W StewartW Stewart Member Posts: 794 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I'm thankful for the internet. It's been such a great resource to me and it's removed so many limitations on knowledge and communication.
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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Mostly thankful for the thing which boils my tea-water :p
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    YFZbluYFZblu Member Posts: 1,462 ■■■■■■■■□□
    jmritenour wrote: »
    On that note, I'm thankful for the automated transaction process that shifts funds from my employer's bank account to mine via direct deposit.

    This! And the internet.

    Also, nice thread Rogue.
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    ZorodzaiZorodzai Member Posts: 357 ■■■■■■■□□□
    Virtual Machines...... I can test so many things in the office that would have otherwise required me to travel to a client site.
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    pizzaboypizzaboy Member Posts: 244 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Definitely the internet and the direct deposit transaction
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    cyberguyprcyberguypr Mod Posts: 6,928 Mod
    Commodore 64. That was the one device that got me interested in computers at an early age.
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    SteveLordSteveLord Member Posts: 1,717
    Solid State Drives. From my desktop to my laptops both at home and at work. Next stop...getting some to put in our VMware environment at work. ;)
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    xocityxocity Member Posts: 230
    im thankful for the TE community, and youtube, and wifi icon_cool.gif
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    BlackoutBlackout Member Posts: 512 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Youtube, netflix, Direct Deposit, Samsung Galaxy S3, Jelly Bean, Solid State Drives, Good Headphones, I seriously could go on and on.
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    the_Grinchthe_Grinch Member Posts: 4,165 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Smartphone. At this point I don't think I could get through my day without it.
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    FloOzFloOz Member Posts: 1,614 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Definitely gonna go with the smartphone
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    RomBUSRomBUS Member Posts: 699 ■■■■□□□□□□
    E-readers, tablets and smartphones (GPS and mobile email capability mostly)
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    WebmasterWebmaster Admin Posts: 10,292 Admin
    USB sticks/flash storage. Two decades ago I used to take two bags to school, one for books, one for floppy disks. Great for frequent data backups, moving data, reliable and secure.
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    petedudepetedude Member Posts: 1,510
    Lots of tech.

    The Internet-- it has been useful in ways that would be beyond words to express.

    My "new" Cruz PS47 tablet-- does everything I've needed an Android tablet to do (and quickly!), even if it doesn't support Google's apps.

    Smartphones-- I've been able to keep up with lots of things in my world lately that I would have been lagging on before.
    Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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    Danielh22185Danielh22185 Member Posts: 1,195 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I'm thankful for Air conditioning, without that I would not have survived this many Texas summers, plus it keeps our computing equipment cool! icon_wink.gif
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