The Nokia N-Gage -VS- Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:21 am

i vote babbage

anything with "engine" in the title conjures up images of steam powered kill-machines

plus were talking victorian tech here (even if he barely started it)

maybe if the n-gage was entirely made of wood and string....

Post by **benheck** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:25 am

Man this IS old.

I vote the Analytical Engine since 180 years later people still remember it. Well, more than will know of the N-Gage. Is that thing still going?

-Ben

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:03 pm

I vote for the taco phone

cowsgoquack101 · Post by **cowsgoquack101** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:42 pm

I don't think any developer is doing anything for it.

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Gump-in-space · Post by **Gump-in-space** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:55 pm

LOL, I voted in the poll befor reading that this was a grave dig!

benol · Post by **benol** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:18 pm

if babage never invented the computer, then the N gage wouldn't exist, so they both suck!

Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:58 pm

This thread has caused me to buy an N-Gage on ebay. Hahaha. Pretty cheap too. All the hating made me want it. But really, I just want to screw with Shadow Key and a few others.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:52 am

Kyosho wrote:This thread has caused me to buy an N-Gage on ebay. Hahaha. Pretty cheap too. All the hating made me want it. But really, I just want to screw with Shadow Key and a few others.

how much did you get it for haha? I was gonna grab four games off amazon.com for dirt cheap (less than $3 a game) all from the same seller, but amazon apparently does not combine shipping. No way I'm spending $16 or something outrageous to ship 4 tiny games.

Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 4:07 am

$45, plus shipping. Also, anyone considering an N-Gage should read this. Oh, and it seems that running backups is fairly simple. Yes, backups. Stop looking at me like that.

Anyways, this should be something fun to play around with.

grahf · Post by **grahf** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 2:05 pm

Piracy is really what killed the N-gage. It was RAMPANT, worse than anything ive seen.

Post by **benheck** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 2:35 pm

I heard the Analytical Engine had a lot of piracy too. People kept stealing Babbage's and Ada's punch cards and churning out lots of cheap knockoffs using steam looms in China.

Stuff like "10,000 Math Equations in One!" and "Super Industrial Mario Revolution New Technology Wars"

Really quite sad. Imagine if Charles Babbage and Nikola Tesla had joined forces!

-Ben

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 3:13 pm

benheck wrote:I heard the Analytical Engine had a lot of piracy too. People kept stealing Babbage's and Ada's punch cards and churning out lots of cheap knockoffs using steam looms in China.

Stuff like "10,000 Math Equations in One!" and "Super Industrial Mario Revolution New Technology Wars"

Really quite sad. Imagine if Charles Babbage and Nikola Tesla had joined forces!

-Ben

wow i actually loled or whatever at that

DK · Post by DK » Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:28 am

Ben, I vote you portabalise the Babbage Engine. Now that would be a cool portable

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:04 am

He would first have to find it

No, seriously the N-Gage sucks, but digging up such old threads is even worse.

Post by **benheck** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:51 am

The Analytical Engine was never built, well I think one part was, the "Mill" or the printer or something.

I had an idea for an April Fool's Day portable, can't remember what it was... I don't think it was the Analytical Engine, damn, wish I could remember. It would have been funny. I think it required a backpack.

-Ben

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The Nokia N-Gage -VS- Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

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