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Rev. Bleech_ posted:...with bonus pseudo-Bob Dobbs in the video Does "Pre-internet weird culture" like the Church of the Subgenius count as obsolete? To what extent can there be in-jokes like that when anybody can GIS Bob and find out the whole thing?
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BuddyChrist posted:paper clips are easy to remove and reuse but don't hold well. As someone who has had to deal with a lot of paperwork in the past seven or so years, the main problem with paper clips as opposed to staples isn't that they don't hold well (though they don't) but the fact that they will neatly snag up sheets that are not supposed to go together, resulting in hilarious 40000 € gently caress-ups.
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Antifreeze Head posted:
On the other hand, the new Yes album is so bad that it probably works as a case against albums anyway, and music as a whole. 
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Jul 18, 2014 20:34
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I'm confused, but probably shouldn't be.
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Jerry Cotton posted:...but the fact that they will neatly snag up sheets that are not supposed to go together, resulting in hilarious 40000 € gently caress-ups. Even if you have to keep details anonymous I'd love to hear this story 
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Jul 18, 2014 20:37
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Sham bam bamina! posted:On the other hand, the new Yes album is so bad that it probably works as a case against albums anyway, and music as a whole. I've yet to see a single 70s band release a recent album that didn't suck. Not getting my hopes up for the new Pink Floyd one.
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Jul 18, 2014 20:38
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karl fungus posted:I've yet to see a single 70s band release a recent album that didn't suck. Not getting my hopes up for the new Pink Floyd one.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:He's just agreeing with me, you huge dork. That is the definition of both the words "emptyquoting" and "yes" (which sometimes is actually not used in reference to the band). Ditto. Also, Funzo posted:So they're less useful binder clips? I had never even heard of those before. Ya know how binder clips have those handles to allow you to pry them open? Take those off and try to apply it. Welcome to clam clips. They were adopted by the US Navy, probably other branches of the military too, so if you work for the massive bureaucracy that is the US government you'll probably see them too. karl fungus posted:I've yet to see a single 70s band release a recent album that didn't suck. Not getting my hopes up for the new Pink Floyd one. Not that Roger Waters is a genius or anything, but given Pink Floyd's track record without him I'm not expecting greatness. Instead I'll hope to be pleasantly suprised. After the live 8 thing I kind of hoped they could come together, but it sounded like even that was strained. What is it about tension and strife in a band that seems to make them produce a better product?
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Remulak posted:Does "Pre-internet weird culture" like the Church of the Subgenius count as obsolete? To what extent can there be in-jokes like that when anybody can GIS Bob and find out the whole thing? Frankly, you'd have to be aware of the name Bob Dobbs and/or that this random 1950's-looking, pipe-smoking, chainsaw-wielding dude in this particular Weird Al music video is a reference to a specific thing rather than just some goofy throwaway imagery to google it, and I find it highly unlikely that someone is going to randomly come across that sort of information without either being into Devo and/or Weird Al to be interested in trivia about them or knowing someone else who is that interested. So no, I'd say in-jokes like that aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
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Tracula posted:Even if you have to keep details anonymous I'd love to hear this story It's pretty much just "stack of documents gets shuffled around, one-page documents get snagged in multi-page documents (or multiple documents) held together with paper clips, people don't check everything in a given bundle of documents is meant for the same customer, some local contractor's stuff ends up being air-shipped to Cyprus and/or some stuff that should've left in a container to Lithuania ends up in the back of some dude's van.". The usual. Not always that dramatic but it all kept adding up so much that I just took to throwing away any loose paperclips or boxes of paperclips I found. (A 40000€ gently caress-up isn't even particularly major in this business. Unless it can't be corrected by the end of the fiscal year.)
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Jerry Cotton posted:Where's the blabbing give us the blabbing! whoops, here's the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HLFDgVKUnE Kind of reminds me of Ulililia vids. I honestly don't care at all what they are talking about, but it's kinda cool and oh okay I guess I'll watch that... where did the last 15 minutes go?
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Remulak posted:Does "Pre-internet weird culture" like the Church of the Subgenius count as obsolete? To what extent can there be in-jokes like that when anybody can GIS Bob and find out the whole thing? "Bob" may be a charlatan, liar, thief and philanderer but in today's hustle-bustle world he's everything but obsolete  It's also the only thing I've found that will make born-again co-workers quit witnessing to me.
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Video of a guy with an old modem from 1964: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE
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Zeether posted:Video of a guy with an old modem from 1964: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
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In the same vein, this is an example of how a long-distance call was made in 1954. Adjusting for inflation, this call would have cost around $12/minute in current dollars.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:"Bob" may be a charlatan, liar, thief and philanderer but in today's hustle-bustle world he's everything but obsolete Well, it is the best of all the One True Religions.
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Jul 20, 2014 07:29
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madpanda posted:This probably got posted before but whatever mrkillboy posted:A guy I knew in high school brought this thing to school a couple of times and showed off the game to our group of friends. I seem to recall that we were all pretty impressed by it but he would never let us actually play it for ourselves. Mine still works! It runs on two AAA batteries and has a third CR2032 lithium battery that powers the built-in clock and keeps the memory going even if the AAAs punk out. It actually was pretty useful for its time way back in 1994. It had a full calendar, world clock, settable alarm, currency converter, random fortune teller, and matchmaker functions. God knows what they used for an algorithm, but you would enter your birthday, then that of your SO, and it would tell you how compatible you were on a scale of 1-10 hearts then it'd say some random statement about the partner. That guy in high school probably didn't want you scrolling through their phone database. It had a public and a passworded phone database.
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That red keyboard is a Famiclone (one of those sloppy NES on a chip deals), probably with some knockoff Windows-esque software on the cartridge.
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Here's another post about some mildly-interesting mid-twentieth-century crap I own. In the mid 1930s, the Homer Laughlin China Company, a pottery maker based in West Virginia, introduced their new line of dinnerware, called Fiesta. It's still made today, though there was a hiatus in production from the mid 70s-mid 80s. They made a ton of different shapes, from ashtrays and egg cups to enormous serving platters and specialty items, all available in different colors. The various shapes were made, discontinued, and new ones introduced as peoples' taste in food changed over the years. The idea was you could set a table with a lot of pieces in different colors, but it would still look decent together. In 1936, the best way to make a rich red-orange glaze relied on one ingredient: raw uranium metal. (Edit: I was working off memory and was wrong, it was not uranium metal but was an oxide of uranium. thank you gents for the correction.) Here's a bowl I picked up a while back, it's from circa 1936-1938.   This color was abandoned around 1942, because the United States had a better use for uranium than glazing plates. At some point the US government took Homer Laughlin's uranium supply for unspecified reasons which we now know was the Manhattan Project. Later they made Fiesta ware with depleted uranium from industrial sources. I picked up this bowl earlier this year in rural Georgia, hoping to make some money off it. A few years ago any red Fiesta piece was worth ~$75 since there was an interest in them for some reason. It's currently worth little more than the $10 I paid for it but is another cool little curiosity. Red Fiesta always was more expensive than the other colors, and to this day the color in certain patterns, especially those that weren't particularly popular can command a large premium over the same piece in a more common color. It's still apparently pretty radioactive, but since the uranium is sealed in glaze it's not dangerous to have around and only emits alpha (?) particles which can't penetrate the body, so it's relatively safe. Not sure on the whole physics of that and don't really care; you can research that if you do. Hope this was moderately enlightening. pants in my pants has a new favorite as of 06:38 on Jul 26, 2014 |
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two forty posted:In 1936, the best way to make a rich red-orange glaze relied on one ingredient: raw uranium metal. 
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Uranium is an alpha emitter; a bunch of things below it on the decay chain are beta minus emitters and many forms of alpha/beta decay are followed up by gamma emission due to the daughter particle being left in an excited state; for instance Cobalt-60 is a beta minus emitter but it is manufactured specifically for the fact that it emits two gamma rays immediately after decay, making it good for situations where you need gamma rays like radiation therapy. Oddly enough I just finalized a design for a tiny and cheap Geiger counter and throughout development I used shards of old Fiestaware to test it out.
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This almost feel like a sort of technology that never was and I might be misremembering it: Tom Laughlin, I think, tried to promote a home video distribution plan that pretty much was paperboys delivering VHS tapes. I guess the notion was a proto-Netflix, in a way. You'd subscribe to a service and a neighborhood kid would come around on a schedule and drop off and pick up movies from your home. They imagined it would have picked up really quickly since I think the time they were pitching it that newspapers were still very popular for home delivery. I can't find anything on it, now. I used to think I might have seen it referenced on the Billy Jack website, but there's almost literally nothing there now but a photo and a link to an estate sale.
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Boiled Water posted:Glorious People's republic? Bottom three are soviet stuff, Нафаня is a ZX80 clone, БК01Ц is a production made version of a hobbyist DIY PC based on a soviet i8080 clone from the 1980s.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:And as someone else pointed out, his style parodies are way way better and don't age as badly as his song parodies. Example: Is this a parody of "the White Stripes"?
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JediTalentAgent posted:This almost feel like a sort of technology that never was and I might be misremembering it: Tom Laughlin, I think, tried to promote a home video distribution plan that pretty much was paperboys delivering VHS tapes. Iirc they were pretty successful until streaming services became good enough and killed their business model.
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two forty posted:
They can't penetrate the body, no, but if they get in through other means, like, say...injestion...they can be dangerous. But I'm sure there's no need to worry about ingesting alpha particles from things you put your food on, right? That being said, my mom has a metric poo poo-ton of Fiesta-ware. I'm 90% sure it's all from after my parents were married (possibly gotten as wedding gifts?) so sometimes in the 70's before they halted production in those years. Is it only the red color that has uranium in it? For some reason, I thought I remember hearing that the yellow color was slightly radioactive as well from my high school chemistry class.
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two forty posted:
Nah. Uranium oxide. It's yellow (or black), uranium metal's just metallic-colored and if you tried to grind it fine enough to use in a glaze it'd burst into flame and turn into uranium oxide anyway.
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b0nes posted:Is this a parody of "the White Stripes"? Yes.
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My grandma used to really like orange fiestaware, maybe it was red, hmm.
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karl fungus posted:I've yet to see a single 70s band release a recent album that didn't suck. Not getting my hopes up for the new Pink Floyd one. Deep Purple's last two albums have been great. Also Black Sabbath's reformation album got many good reviews. On an individual level, Bob Dylan has been on a rare run of form and I've still to hear anything by Paul Weller that wasn't worth listening to.
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DrBouvenstein posted:They can't penetrate the body, no, but if they get in through other means, like, say...injestion...they can be dangerous. Unless you are grinding up the plate or eating something very acidic off it you aren't going to ingest anything.
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Irradiation posted:Unless you are grinding up the plate or eating something very acidic off it you aren't going to ingest anything.
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DrBouvenstein posted:They can't penetrate the body, no, but if they get in through other means, like, say...injestion...they can be dangerous. Eating alpha particles isn't the issue; if it's emitted and caught in your food it's just helium at that point. The vast majority of helium on Earth is from alpha decay from uranium and thorium. It's if something happens to turn the glaze into a powder and then you eat that and the alpha particles are emitted right into your internal organs is when it becomes an issue. Also the fact that uranium itself and a bunch of things on the U-238 decay chain (radioactive isotopes of lead, mercury, thorium) are heavy metals and you don't really want those in your body either.
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BattleMaster posted:
That said, the specific activity of natural uranium is approximately gently caress-all, about 25kBq/gram. For comparison, you have about 4500Bq of radiopotassium and about 3700Bq of radiocarbon in you right now.
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Not to restart old copy protect chat, but Master of Orion had as ship on each page with a name, and you had to identify it to progress in the game. We remembered that there was a penis shaped ship called the penetrator, so we'd just play until we got that one as a question. I rather liked the CD key method. Except with the key was on the manual and your mom throws them out.
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CD keys probably are the best we've come up with in terms of ease of use. And they're effective enough to prevent casual 'hey man just install it off my disks' piracy, especially in multiplayer games that will refuse to work if multiple players try to use the same one - what's the point if you can't play with your friends?
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DrBouvenstein posted:Is it only the red color that has uranium in it? For some reason, I thought I remember hearing that the yellow color was slightly radioactive as well from my high school chemistry class. Nah a couple other colors used uranium as well, above-background radioactivity has been detected in most of the colors actually. The Fiesta Red is by far the most radioactive of the line but it's pretty present. e: Leeching I think was attributed to most of the problems. Similarly, there's some evidence that the heavy use of leaded crystal by upper class jerks in the ~17-1800sish era led to an increased rate of gout because rich guys liked to keep alcoholic things in leaded crystal decanters, and the alcohol proved very effective at leeching the lead out of the crystal
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Keiya posted:What's the point if you can't play with your friends?
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WebDog posted:StarCraft (and Diablo?) had the right idea with that share with friends installer. No b.net with the same cd key.  Which led to some serious chicken and egg poo poo. Try to log in, "this key in use,Chad is currently playing LoD!"Well, gently caress. Time to call Chad and tell him to get off my poo poo. But wait, his phone is busy cause he's dialed up playing LoD! 
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