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 I had a calculator in first grade that was similar to this except it was a little Hispanic kid with a sombrero. Every time you hit equals it would blast "la cucaracha". The 80's were a great time for unrelentingly obnoxious children toys. Edit: Confirmed, today's kids are boring as poo poo. I want to meet the nerd rolling around with a loving tom tom on his bike... http://www.toysrus.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=3250989 Jimlit has a new favorite as of 16:38 on Oct 30, 2012 |
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Win+Arrow keys is great if you're using dual extended monitors, because it means you can snap windows to both sides of the display.
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Oct 30, 2012 16:35
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Tears In A Vial posted:Windows Key is awesome, and anyone that doesn't use it is missing out. Also Win, U, U will shut down the computer. Comes in handy some times.
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Oct 30, 2012 17:32
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 Is this being used anymore? I always assumed it was an East coast thing, I cant remember seeing any of these in California.
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Oct 30, 2012 17:49
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b0nes posted:
I go through about five of those daily where I live in Minnesota. 
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Oct 30, 2012 18:02
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b0nes posted:
Do you mean revolving doors in general, or just those slow-moving, automatic revolving doors? But yeah, the hospital here in town has one of the automatic ones.
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Oct 30, 2012 18:07
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b0nes posted:
I imagine in mild climates there's not so much reason for them, but where you have temperature extremes they save a lot of energy over what hot/cold air can blow through open doors. The last set I went through was in a building only a few years old.
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Oct 30, 2012 18:07
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Tears In A Vial posted:Windows Key is awesome, and anyone that doesn't use it is missing out. Don't forget another one: Win+Pause/Break to go to System Properties. More useful than you'd think. Actually, here's the list of all keyboard shortcuts in Windows. There's some in there I didn't even know about before. Smoke has a new favorite as of 18:46 on Oct 30, 2012 |
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Oct 30, 2012 18:43
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Different book as I grew up later, but you reminded me that I still have my original copy of this wonderful thing: Oh hey, I had that book too. Also had it on CD, with an upgraded version or something coming out half a year after I got the first one. And speaking of the thread's theme ... Encyclopedias on CD. I still have Microsoft Encarta 2000 laying around somewhere. It's even less used than our encyclopedias from the early 80s, which I tend to read in whenever I'm bored. Remembering when USSR was a country, as with Western and Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia. "Good" times.
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Oct 30, 2012 18:53
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b0nes posted:
These are essential to keeping a large lobby warm in the winter. The quickest way to make the receptionists and security guards mad is to unleash the cold wind by going through one of the regular doors.
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Oct 30, 2012 18:56
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Nixie tubes. They had their heyday from mid 1960s until early 70's when they were displaced by much more practical fluorescent displays. Here is the clock I built using tiny 1969 Hitachi tubes scavenged from a broken calculator.
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A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:Nixie tubes. They had their heyday from mid 1960s until early 70's when they were displaced by much more practical fluorescent displays. Here is the clock I built using tiny 1969 Hitachi tubes scavenged from a broken calculator. They still have their place in modern society as being an over-priced clock commodity.
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Oct 30, 2012 19:09
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Jibo posted:They still have their place in modern society as being an over-priced clock commodity. I agree, and also, unreasonably expensive and clocks found on ebay are tacky as gently caress. I got my tubes for free though. 
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Oct 30, 2012 19:13
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Yeah, I've got a Nixie clock too, built with one of the pre-programmed boards and tubes salvaged from an old cash register.
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Oct 30, 2012 19:15
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b0nes posted:
Our Morrisons supermarket has one of these.
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Oct 30, 2012 19:27
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Different book as I grew up later, but you reminded me that I still have my original copy of this wonderful thing:
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Oct 30, 2012 19:36
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b0nes posted:
The hotel I stayed at in Atlanta this summer had a door like this, it was awesome at maintaining the 25 degree difference between the lobby and the outside.
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Jibo posted:Also Win, U, U will shut down the computer. Comes in handy some times.
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Oct 30, 2012 20:11
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b0nes posted:*revolving doors* They're all over Norway at least. Both in malls, airports and at hotels. And I believe I've gone through a couple in hospitals too.
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Oct 30, 2012 20:45
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I have that bear-shaped one for some reason. I think I won it as a prize for doing all my homework in like third grade or something. As far as I know it doesn't make any noise though.
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Goober Peas posted:These are essential to keeping a large lobby warm in the winter. The quickest way to make the receptionists and security guards mad is to unleash the cold wind by going through one of the regular doors. I think their development was also spurred on by the increase in skyscrapers and hotels with large multi-storey atriums at the turn of the last century. They prevent air rushing in when a regular door is opened thanks to the chimney effect and because some doors were almost impossible to open because of pressure differentials.
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Oct 30, 2012 23:58
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Donkwich posted:Are door locks banned where you live? Locked doors are very suspicious in my household
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Airpots all over the East Coast.
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Datasmurf posted:They're all over Norway at least. And Canada. And Phoenix. Basically, anywhere that there's likely to be a large difference in air temperature between inside and outside -- they form a sort of airlock that lets people come in and out without transferring much heat back and forth.
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In Germany, there are lots of them. The one I know most of is used by a electronic shop in my city:  It is by far the stupidest one I know, though. Several times impatient morons have stopped that thing and subsequently trapped themselves in it. (It's slow as gently caress and if you try to push through, it just stops and an employee has to come over and start it up again.) It's funny as long as you aren't one of the unlucky ones getting trapped alongside those idiots. Edit: I just stumbled upon this post while backreading: baw posted:He's also full of poo poo. His Brief History of whatever the gently caress says that glass is a liquid. What the gently caress? If you want to be nitpicky, you should really know that glass is a liquid. Hell, even a glance on Wikipedia showed me two different pages where glass is called a liquid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_liquids_and_glasses Here glass is filed together with liquids -and the references go only back to 2006, latest. So it probably isn't out of date. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glas#Definition The German page even openly cites the thermodynamical classification of glass as an frozen, subcooled liquid: Thermodynamisch wird Glas als gefrorene, unterkühlte Flüssigkeit bezeichnet The German page has references from 2012 by the way, so the chance of something so simple like the definition of glass itself probably isn't wrong here, either. Sorry that I got so riled up about that one sentence, but calling glass a liquid isn't stupid, like you seem to think. And if you had just taken a few seconds of time to look it up, you wouldn't have had me flipping out about it. Libluini has a new favorite as of 18:44 on Nov 1, 2012 |
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Libluini posted:What the gently caress? If you want to be nitpicky, you should really know that glass is a liquid
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MadScientistWorking posted:Its not. Its an amorphous solid. And it is also described as subcooled liquid. That's beside the point. I just saw someone going "Bill Bryson sure is stupid, thinking glass is a liquid, durr!" when in reality, glass is described as liquid or liquid-like even on something easily available as Wikipedia. He could have looked that up himself in seconds flat instead of writing how wrong Bill Bryson was.(I honestly don't remember that stuff about glass from his book, but I only read it in German, so maybe something was changed in translation. Or my memory is bad, one or the other.) That kind of dismissive thinking is just wrong, it irks me. So I edited my post to add a counterpoint. Let's just drop this derail now, before we end up debating glass for pages.
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Does Europe still have a lot of paternosters? As an American I've always wanted to ride one, and I guess the reason they haven't brought them to the states is that they are lawsuit bait. Or they're actually dangerous as gently caress. I don't know.Farecoal posted:Locked doors are very suspicious in my household Yes I see the logic of how much worse it is to be suspected of masturbating than to actually be caught masturbating.
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Donkwich posted:Does Europe still have a lot of paternosters? As an American I've always wanted to ride one, and I guess the reason they haven't brought them to the states is that they are lawsuit bait. Or they're actually dangerous as gently caress. I don't know. I've never seen one of those in my life. I think I'd make a special weekend trip just to ride one.
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Donkwich posted:Does Europe still have a lot of paternosters? Never seen one. Wikipedia says there are very few extant here in Sweden. The ones that are left are in older office buildings, and not accessible to the public.
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The danish parliament still has one.
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So does the Finnish parliament. Always looks hella rad on TV.
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Paternosters make my teeth itch with how obviously unsafe they are.
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Libluini posted:And it is also described as subcooled liquid. That's beside the point. I just saw someone going "Bill Bryson sure is stupid, thinking glass is a liquid, durr!" when in reality, glass is described as liquid or liquid-like even on something easily available as Wikipedia. Also, its actually an entirely appropriate discussion because of how this idiotic myth got reinforced. The myth itself was reinforced by obsolete glass making techniques which resulted in thinker edges on the bottom and thinner middles. Of course the old fashion way of making glass was rather inaccurate which resulted in an uneven distribution of materials but people thought it was because "glass flows". MadScientistWorking has a new favorite as of 20:42 on Nov 1, 2012 |
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Donkwich posted:Does Europe still have a lot of paternosters? As an American I've always wanted to ride one, and I guess the reason they haven't brought them to the states is that they are lawsuit bait. Or they're actually dangerous as gently caress. I don't know. Germany has lots of them, some are even open to the public. Apparently, building new ones isn't allowed since 1974 and the government tried to ban them as early as 1994. For complicated German legal reasons that didn't work out. To confuse matters more, East Germany never tried to phase out paternosters, so they build lots of them even after 1974. Nowadays, as long as the paternosters are always state of the art, no one gives a gently caress. If safety is a concern, they are simply closed to the public. Well, except for the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. They have something called the I. G. Farben Building, including a full-working paternoster which is only half-closed: As long as you are a clerk or a student of the university, you can get a license to use the paternoster. There are regular patrols to control the licenses, though. Solon, a German solar-energy company even succesfully commissioned a new one in 2009 for it's office building in Berlin -they avoided the 1974 ban on new paternosters by simply changing the name of the elevator from paternoster to "Rundlaufaufzug". It works essentially the same as all paternosters, but for legal reasons you can't call it that. Here are some pictures:  The IG Farben paternoster. (The one you'll need a license to use.)  The new Solon- Edit: MadScientistWorking posted:I love how someone is trying to correct going for their PHD in chemistry with a Wikipedia article. One that ironically is contradicted by the English variant of the same article. If you are right most of the solid materials that you handle on a daily basis would be recategorized as liquids namely because glass isn't this special snowflake of a material that has these properties. Polycarbonate is actually a common plastic that is also a glass. Holy poo poo, I didn't know there was an entire myth about this glass-is-liquid stuff. I only know about this because during first semester I had to take a seminar to refresh chemestry knowledge. (I looked up my notes and you are right -glass was described as an amorphous, crystalin mass. Apparently we just discussed how liquid-like glass was with our professor and I confused that with GLASS REALLY IS LIKE SOME SORT OF LIQUID, YOU GUYS! Oops.) On the other hand, in thermodynamics glass is still described as a liquid. Now I don't know what Bill Bryson said about glass, since I only had this to work with: baw posted:He's also full of poo poo. His Brief History of whatever the gently caress says that glass is a liquid. And it could have been that Bryson was talking about the thermodynamical description, even if I account for me being totally wrong on the chemical front. Sadly, I gifted my version of the book to a friend, so it could take a while to reread it. Libluini has a new favorite as of 20:42 on Nov 1, 2012 |
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Libluini posted:(I looked up my notes and you are right -glass was described as an amorphous, crystalin mass. Apparently we just discussed how liquid-like glass was with our professor and I confused that with GLASS REALLY IS LIKE SOME SORT OF LIQUID, YOU GUYS! Oops.) MadScientistWorking has a new favorite as of 21:04 on Nov 1, 2012 |
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MadScientistWorking posted:Its really dam confusing. The only reason why I know this is because of the fact that its come up in the course of my research. The funny thing is, most of my fellow students first reaction was more like "Durr. Glass is hard. Glass is like shiny stone." Luckily, no one of us was studying to become a glassmaker, or there would have been a problem.
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Donkwich posted:Yes I see the logic of how much worse it is to be suspected of masturbating than to actually be caught masturbating. Not worse but just as bad, yes.
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Those paternosters look like a plaintiffs attorney's wet dream.
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Libluini posted:The funny thing is, most of my fellow students first reaction was more like "Durr. Glass is hard. Glass is like shiny stone." Luckily, no one of us was studying to become a glassmaker, or there would have been a problem. I don't know, my friend majored in glassblowing in college and I am 75% sure he told me that glass was a liquid and used the old window thing as the example. The other 25% chance is that I actually brought it up and he corrected me and I'm misremembering it because college.
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