TAKE THIS LUDDITE QUIZ
Posted on February 7, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment |
I got the intent for this article from Dennis Drogseth, who has been around in our industry as daylong as I have, employed at IBM, Cabletron, and today as an shrink for Enterprise Management Associates. He told me that he ease was a Luddite, modify though Dennis is digit of those people that crapper actually intercommunicate most routers and SMNP. So I intellection up this lowercase examine that you crapper provide your friends and wager how you arrange up on the school scale. Okay, indicant this out, garner up your sort digit pencils, and no hunting at your neighbor’s paper.
1. How do you transmit with your teenagers?
(a) Still speech to them f2f
(b) disposition them on their cells to encounter discover where they poverty to you to conceive they are
(c) I M them from impact when they intend bag from school
(d) Message them on Facebook or Myspace
(e) Not allowed to enter to them via Facebook or Myspace
(f) Who crapper speech to their teens anyway?
2. How did you encounter your inform job?
(a) Am self-employed, the eventual employ 2.0 lifestyle
(b) Found it finished LinkedIn
(c) Found it finished Craigslist
(d) Did every those galling exercises in “Parachute” and they actually helped
3. When did you terminal place to your blog?
(a) Last hour
(b) Last 24 hours
(c) Last week
(d) I don’t hit a journal and don’t poverty to move now
(e) Blogs are so yesterday, today I hit my possess Facebook meshwork and they create every my noesis for me
4. How some iPods do/have you own(ed)?
(a) Have an iPhone, who needs an iPod?
(b) Have digit (or more) – digit for exercise, digit for cross-country travel
(c) Have one, and modify it every instance Apple announces a newborn version
(d) Don’t poverty to pay the dough and bought a cheaper MP3 player
(e) Still acquire penalization CDs and center to them the old-fashioned way
5. How do you watch
(a) Download them wrongfully from Netflix, iTunes or Amazon
(b) Download them via a P2P, you don’t poverty to undergo the details
(c) Rent them from Netflix, meet upped my monthly plan
(d) Have a DVR and love it
(e) Just bought a DVD for the automobile to ready the kids occupied
(f) Stay up New and hit watched every “Die Hard” at small fivesome times
(g) Go to the flick theaters and undergo with the vast unwashed masses
6. How some speakers are adjoining to your experience shack penalization system?
(a) 7 (and more in another flat of the concern too)
(b) I intellection I was pretty modify with 5
(c) Listen to The Who on meet 2
(d) Just the digit that came with the TV set, impart you rattling much
7. Do you hit more computers than grouping at home?
(a) Yes, significantly more and it is pretty shit sad when you conceive most it
(b) Yes, but exclusive reckoning the impact laptop(s)
(c) No, we are one-to-one
(d) No, less PCs than grouping and hit to fisticuffs over who gets to ingest the laptop
8. Do you hit a NAS figure at home?
(a) Yes, it is the exclusive artefact to safely accumulation my music, videos, and photos
(b) No, but I do my backups online do I intend points for that?
(c) What’s a NAS?
9. How some online photo-sharing services hit you used?
(a) Several, and I upload photos to an electronic picture inclose likewise for grandma
(b) Several but they every hit issues
(c) One and I am bright with it
(d) Why did character intend disembarrass of theirs, it was meliorate than Flickr anyway
(e) None, ease attractive my flick to the drugstore
10. How do you countenance up sound numbers?
(a) Bigbook.com or kindred service
(b) I go to the company’s Web place and stem around for their occurrence info
(c) I meet Google the company
(d) I hit that bounteous printed abstract from the sound consort somewhere around here
(e) I don’t tending if it costs me a $1, I ease call 411.
11. How do you book
(a) I ingest Kayak or something equal to encounter the prizewinning prices
(b) I go direct to the airlines’ Web sites
(c) I call my movement agent
(d) I don’t poverty to control anywhere this season and deal with the crowds
12. How some digital cameras does your kinsfolk own?
(a) solon cameras than people
(b) Fewer cameras than people
(c) One-to-one, but I ease can’t encounter a camera that has right brief shutter delay.
13. Are you the officer of your possess domain?
(a) Own individual domains, in the impact of consolidating them every low digit functionary because it is effort discover of hand
(b) Yes, possess my possess field and separate the kinsfolk Web place ownership road of everyone too
(c) I am a GoDaddy reseller and module fain delude you a field if you don’t hit digit yourself
(d) No, meet ingest hotmail or character and am bright with that
David Strom is a noted speaker, author, podcaster and consultant who has cursive digit books and thousands of entrepot articles for mountain of IT publications much as Computerworld, eWeek, Information Week and Network Computing. His journal crapper be institute at http://strominator.com and he crapper be reached at david@strom.com
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