Hehehe, it does look like a miniature washing machine.

>> ^Pring4:

Did they really buy that mini washer just for this video?
Damn it, it's a subwoofer

That washing machine belongs in Requiem for a Dream!

>> ^conan:

What? First Computer built in Iowa? Yeah Yeah Yeah, everything was invented in the US. It's like when we had exchange students from the states, asking us beforehand their trip if we have cheese and washing machines. First Computer was built in Berlin by Konrad Zuse. Bitches think they know IT :-)


You criticize Americans for claiming to have invented everything and then turn around and do it yourself. Zuse's claim to having the first "computer" is as tenuous as the Iowa claim. His Wikipedia article even says: "The first electronic computer (though not programmable) was the Atanasoff machine developed at Iowa State University during 1939-41."

Also, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware#Early_electronic_digital_computation which has a nice table of early computer features and has this disclaimer: "Defining a single point in the series as the "first computer" misses many subtleties"

Clearly there is a continuous progression of more and more modern looking digital computers during this era. I mean look at the Wikipedia articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_Computer -- was the first electronic digital computing device.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_%28computer%29 -- was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computing machine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer -- was the world's first electronic, digital, programmable computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC -- was the first general-purpose electronic computer.

A similar thing happened in aviation, and I'll admit it's a bit silly that we Americans give the Wright brothers such ambiguous credit when there were so many researchers around the world doing nearly the same thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_aviation_-_20th_century

>> ^conan:

What? First Computer built in Iowa? Yeah Yeah Yeah, everything was invented in the US. It's like when we had exchange students from the states, asking us beforehand their trip if we have cheese and washing machines. First Computer was built in Berlin by Konrad Zuse. Bitches think they know IT :-)


Again, define "invented" and "computer". I really don't think any one individual or even group can be said to have invented the computer, as it was a gradual evolution of ideas.

What? First Computer built in Iowa? Yeah Yeah Yeah, everything was invented in the US. It's like when we had exchange students from the states, asking us beforehand their trip if we have cheese and washing machines. First Computer was built in Berlin by Konrad Zuse. Bitches think they know IT :-)

Growing them fat in China I guess...in America we can fit at least two of our fat kids in a washing machine.

>> ^quantumushroom:
You do know most of the American "poor" are well fed, own their own homes, have two vehicles, 3 TVs, cable, computers, appliances, etc?


Give me a break dude. I don't make very much money but I'm certainly not impoverished. I share one car with my wife, rent a house, watch all my TV on my 17 inch monitor and my prized possessions are my food processor and my washing machine.

Thank you for the quality!

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*quality Hans, as always

>> ^poolcleaner:

>> ^luxury_pie:
Don't tell me you didn't know that!
Where do you think all the ninjas went?

Funny story, true story -- ninjas were the inventors of the washing machine. It was originally intended to be a booby trap that would pull hapless victims into a spinning, burning death, but it turned out to be better at washing clothes. Thus the true ninja empire was founded on the washing machine. Not many people know that. Those who do usually die (unless they're ninjas).
Don't tell anyone I told you.


Disappearing-Socks-Mystery solved I guess...

>> ^rottenseed:

I wouldn't recommend putting books in the washing machine.


I bet your washing machine doesn't have hands though.

>> ^luxury_pie:

Don't tell me you didn't know that!
Where do you think all the ninjas went?


Funny story, true story -- ninjas were the inventors of the washing machine. It was originally intended to be a booby trap that would pull hapless victims into a spinning, burning death, but it turned out to be better at washing clothes. Thus the true ninja empire was founded on the washing machine. Not many people know that. Those who do usually die (unless they're ninjas).

Don't tell anyone I told you.

I wouldn't recommend putting books in the washing machine.

I want book dispensing washing machine too.

This is so wonderful. It's truly awe inspiring to see the amazing utility of technology we can so easily take for granted. I know that I had never really before in my life thought of the washing machine in quite the way he presents it.

It's actually supposed to be a front-loader washing machine. ("sen-ta-ku-ki" is washing machine; "kan-so-u-ki" is dryer)