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Bonzo posted:Nah...the scanner will just measure how far away the ring on your finger is from your rear end in a top hat. But...what if you aren't married? 
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Jedit posted:There would probably be someone in there 24/7 from the sealing of the vault. The guy inside comes out when his shift ends and the next guy on shift goes in. Correct, the vault is never empty. The whole casino is open 24/7.
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leidend posted:Correct, the vault is never empty. The whole casino is open 24/7.
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mystes posted:What if the building had to be evacuated for some reason? (Incredibly unlikely, I'm sure, but still.) Didn't some people get trapped in a vault, or at least a secure door, in Atlantic City during hurricane Sandy? Maybe it's "Look kid, here's a bottle of water and some canned ravioli. If you have to pee use the bottle. If you have to poo poo...don't poo poo."
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mystes posted:What if the building had to be evacuated for some reason, or the person inside had some sort of medical problem? (Incredibly unlikely, I'm sure, but still.) I dunno, I wasn't the sucker who had to stay in the vault. But there were cameras everywhere in there. I got written up for closing my eyes for three seconds while waiting for the vault person. It would be a very good place to have a heart attack, really. On a related note, a surveillance guy went "Hey _____!" to me years later on the train. I had never seen him before in my life, but he had watched me for 10 hours every day.
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leidend posted:I dunno, I wasn't the sucker who had to stay in the vault. But there were cameras everywhere in there. I got written up for closing my eyes for three seconds while waiting for the vault person. It would be a very good place to have a heart attack, really. The real question is, how did the first person ever in the vault get in the vault? Did they build the vault around him? Shame Boy has a new favorite as of 18:11 on Dec 3, 2012 |
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:The real question is, how did the first person ever in the vault get in the vault? Did they build the vault around him? Yes, that's is what I want to know.
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I'm pretty sure they don't build vaults with the door closed. They built it, he walked in, they closed the door.
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The building was originally part of Expo 86, and wasn't converted into a casino until 2003 or so, so that would've been a long wait for the first guy. Speaking of Expo 86, and to get back on subject, you don't see good McDonald's boat restaurants anymore. 
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Totally Reasonable posted:
Those Butt Sets are not really obsolete. Probably won't be completely useless for another 50 years at least, given the unreasonable dependency people have on Fax machines and other analog line technologies. I work in IP telephony, and I still have to use an analog butt set on nearly ever install I do, for one reason or another.
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leidend posted:Speaking of Expo 86, and to get back on subject, you don't see good McDonald's boat restaurants anymore. There was on in St.Louis in the 80s. Anyone know if it's still there?
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blugu64 posted:There was on in St.Louis in the 80s. Anyone know if it's still there? Its not.  it's hard to pin down when it closed because the people I've heard about it from we're in college at the time, but it probably closed in the mid 00's.
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blugu64 posted:There was on in St.Louis in the 80s. Anyone know if it's still there? It's not.  I got a Hot Wheels with my meal the last time I went, so I'm pretty sure it never reopened after the "Great Flood of '93." eddiewalker has a new favorite as of 19:43 on Dec 3, 2012 |
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eddiewalker posted:It's not. That's the Vancouver Expo 86 one I just posted about, and it's still floating in that same Pacific ocean inlet to this day.
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Not technology, but it's obsolete outside the US, and in October 2014, this becomes obsolete in the US:
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Veotax posted:I'm pretty sure they don't build vaults with the door closed. They built it, he walked in, they closed the door. The vault was empty when it was built so there was no reason to have it guarded. So you built the vault, place the person inside, then fill with money. My wife worked in casinos for 10 years in Ontario. The surveillance people were not really allowed to socialize or interact with other employees and were always hired outside of the organization. They were afraid that people would not turn in people they were friends with.
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Toast Museum posted:You're in luck, kinda: I know this is a couple pages back, but daaaamn. I really, really want this. Descent was a game I cut my teeth on as a kid, along with Tie Fighter, X-Wing, and oddly enough, Hexen. I would shell out all sorts of money for a real successor to any of those sim games (save Hexen, which is FPS and not a sim.)
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There was a feature in Perfect Dark called "Perfect Head" which allowed you to use photos taken on the GameBoy camera and use on multiplayer models. This was cut out of fears that school kids would paste on faces of other kids they wanted to kill. This has the transfer pack and the camera pack stuffed in so that would have made for a frustratingly hefty controller at the best of times. More info on how it worked
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WebDog posted:There was a feature in Perfect Dark called "Perfect Head" which allowed you to use photos taken on the GameBoy camera and use on multiplayer models. This was cut out of fears that school kids would paste on faces of other kids they wanted to kill. Yes, because that's what teenage boys would do with such technology. LOOK OUT IT'S THE DICKFACE MONSTER!
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einTier posted:Yes, because that's what teenage boys would do with such technology. You have to remember that for most of a decade after Columbine, teenage boys were assumed to be plotting to kill us all until proven otherwise.
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Oh man, the gameboy camera. I thought this was so cool in 1998. Hilariously there is a games shop in town that has a boxed gameboy camera and a box of printer paper for sale!
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It did see some use as headquarters in the last blade film.
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einTier posted:Yes, because that's what teenage boys would do with such technology. I remember being really upset when this was cut because I really wanted to run around and shoot people as my butt. Ah youth.  Wasn't this supposed to be used in another game as well? I want to say Majora's Mask but I don't really remember.
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VogeGandire posted:
I will vouch for it. Mine is a T23 and the only thing its good for anymore is burning DVD's and running VAG-COM. I was going to give it to my daughter but it wont play youtube videos for poo poo.
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Jibo posted:I remember being really upset when this was cut because I really wanted to run around and shoot people as my butt. Ah youth. This is WAY earlier than Majora's Mask (1983) but here's Journey: The Arcade Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3BDXlMtyUo Yes, THAT Journey. The original idea was the cabinet would have a camera on it and you would be playing as yourself. Sometime in testing, the inevitable happened and one of the testers took a picture of his balls. Incidentally, that wasn't even the first official Journey licensed video game; there was Journey Escape for the Atari 2600 two years prior.
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thenick posted:I will vouch for it. Mine is a T23 and the only thing its good for anymore is burning DVD's and running VAG-COM. I was going to give it to my daughter but it wont play youtube videos for poo poo.
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Physical posted:What is VAG-COM? I don't feel safe googling it at work. Volkswagen diagnostics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAG-COM
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redmercer posted:This is WAY earlier than Majora's Mask (1983) but here's Journey: The Arcade Game This is the best thing ever. It's like something Videlectrix would make for Limozeen. VV You mean videogames weren't always 3D shooters and MMO's?  VV
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:This is the best thing ever. It's like something Videlectrix would make for Limozeen.
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Physical posted:What is VAG-COM? I don't feel safe googling it at work. The porno spoof of X-COM.
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Hello bachelor friends. I've finally caught up on this thread, after many days of Nair, and urine bidets, and all sorts of horrible antics. I'm half drunk on Deviant Dale's reading this thread and the NMD Ska thread at the same time while listening to Trampled By Turtles, I think I'm doing ok. I've also just found a bag of Chex Bold Party Mix that I shall eat shortly. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Shrapnac posted:Hello bachelor friends. You know you're drunk when you respond to the bachelor thread in the obsolete and failed technology thread.
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treiz01 posted:You know you're drunk when you respond to the bachelor thread in the obsolete and failed technology thread. My life...
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Shrapnac posted:My life... Don't worry man, I made sure to put your post where it belongs.
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eddiewalker posted:Volkswagen diagnostics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAG-COM Similarly, my mechanic still uses a bunch of T2x Thinkpads to run Peugeot Planet 2000 (  ) for the same purpose. They're reliable and can take a beating. Perfect for mechanics.
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Christ. I was catching up on this thread and came across the Zen. I had a Zen. It was very fragile, apparently, and when it died after I dropped it or some jackhole knocked it out of my hands or something (I honestly don't remember anymore), Creative "offered" me the "opportunity" to drop $200 on a new one. I haven't had a portable music player since. I remember being super excited about my first laptop. It was heavy and thick and frankly kind of a piece of poo poo, but goddamnit, it was mine. My first desktop had a 2 GB hard drive. I was ridiculously proud of that. It was top of the line. Now I have a 2 TB external HDD sitting on my desk that probably cost me less than the 2 GB would have at the time.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:My first desktop had a 2 GB hard drive. I was ridiculously proud of that. It was top of the line. Now I have a 2 TB external HDD sitting on my desk that probably cost me less than the 2 GB would have at the time. I remember a group of about six kids going to a friend's house because his dad just bought a 100mhz Pentium computer in the early 90s. "Pentium" was a huge loving deal even if we didn't know what it meant. And we were just regular guys, not what you would call computer nerds. We spent most of our time playing hockey (another obsolete thing ).And my dad, who is a big computer nerd, told me he'd never need another hard drive again after buying a 1gig one before most people had even heard of gigabytes. To be fair, I still don't know how people manage to jam so much stuff on their drives. I've got 700GB of 1TB free right now.
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leidend posted:To be fair, I still don't know how people manage to jam so much stuff on their drives. I've got 700GB of 1TB free right now. It's pretty easy if you're not big on streaming. I'm just shy of 4TB in audio and video files.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Christ. I was catching up on this thread and came across the Zen. I had a Zen. It was very fragile, apparently, and when it died after I dropped it or some jackhole knocked it out of my hands or something (I honestly don't remember anymore), Creative "offered" me the "opportunity" to drop $200 on a new one. I'm still using my sister's old Zen Stone (Creative's answer to the iPod Nano), and it's gotta be pushing 6 years old now, and it still works great.
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