Zitat des Tages über Obsolet / Obsolete:
In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.
I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
As traditional job descriptions become obsolete, people will need to collaborate in new ways with increasingly intelligent machines.
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.
We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.
Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
The Lone Star Card will make food stamp coupons obsolete.
My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.
Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Our machines increasingly do our work for us. Why doesn't this make our labor redundant and our skills obsolete? Why are there still so many jobs?
When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now.
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.
I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
