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I've never seen an IAE (in-airplane-entertainment?) system that wasn't poop. poo poo screen, unbearably poor sound quality, terrible touch screen. It's fair enough that it's ancient, though, planes go through a ridiculously long design phase and have strict requirements, so they can't just plop in an Android tablet. That's why I bring one myself and/or a laptop. Some planes even have 220V power jacks under the seat now, and an USB plug in the headrest in front of you.
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I just wish there were a way to see the map they put on the lovely touch screen on my tablet.
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Pilsner posted:I've never seen an IAE (in-airplane-entertainment?) system that wasn't poop. poo poo screen, unbearably poor sound quality, terrible touch screen. If they have such trouble making a decent video player, it makes you wonder what they've got in the cockpit controlling the drat plane.
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Nov 10, 2014 21:58
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I'd rather their money was going on the cockpit over improving the IFE to be honest.
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Nov 10, 2014 22:14
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Good news! Pneumatic tubes are making a comeback. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSBS2F9VXaE
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Tunicate posted:Good news! Pneumatic tubes are making a comeback. This video is loaded with GIF possibilities.
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Tunicate posted:Good news! Pneumatic tubes are making a comeback. Yay! Time for the office hamster to go on a factory racing tour again.
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Tunicate posted:Good news! Pneumatic tubes are making a comeback. Did they just build a water slide for fish?(!)
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Tunicate posted:Good news! Pneumatic tubes are making a comeback.
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cheerfullydrab posted:So many things could be delivered with pneumatic tubes! Whole fish, pairs of glasses, cell phone batteries, burritos, souvenir replicas of the Empire State Building, t shirts, toothpaste! Donnie think vacuum. 
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blugu64 posted:Did they just build a water slide for fish?(!) The technical term is 'salmon cannon'.
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Can someone splice the fish-highspeed-vaccuum-tube into a gif with the canned chicken that comes out of that ladies back end I need it for a friend
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Nov 11, 2014 06:02
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Fish'n'Slide or bust
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blugu64 posted:Fish'n'Slide or bust Salm'n'Slide
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Guy Axlerod posted:I use Airplane mode when I go into a foreign country to avoid roaming fees. Roaming fees – particularly in Europe – are also going to be obsolete in a year's time, after the European Parliament voted in April to abolish them all as of December 2015. Unsurprisingly, UKIP voted against this. 
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TinTower posted:Roaming fees – particularly in Europe – are also going to be obsolete in a year's time, after the European Parliament voted in April to abolish them all as of December 2015. Coming over here, using our phone signal...
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drat gypsies roaming all the time.
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twosideddice posted:Coming over here, using our phone signal... This is a Stewart Lee reference, isn't it? mng posted:drat gypsies roaming all the time. Well, the preferred term is Roma.
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Trifecta! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12380027
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Oh, the Rome in Italy. That Rome. Thanks for clarifying that, BBC.
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Could be the one in upstate New York. Lots of gypsies in that area.
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cheerfullydrab posted:So many things could be delivered with pneumatic tubes! Whole fish, pairs of glasses, cell phone batteries, burritos, souvenir replicas of the Empire State Building, t shirts, toothpaste! Could be?? Don't forget that the The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel is essentially a pneumatic system.
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TinTower posted:Roaming fees – particularly in Europe – are also going to be obsolete in a year's time, after the European Parliament voted in April to abolish them all as of December 2015. In the UK, there's call for the various networks to essentially pool their networks so anyone with a phone can just connect to any network, thus giving everyone good coverage. Aaaaand Theresa May is against it, because TERRORISM. God drat politicians are rear end backwards over here. And everywhere else.
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Come visit Australia if you want truly backwards pollies.
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I know I've probably mentioned it before but I'll mention it, again, in case I haven't. Probably more of a rant than anything else... Google TV. A pretty good idea, I sort of 'like' the concept, it could have really been something great once the prices dropped to a sub-$100 level... On the other other hand, I don't think I've seen a tech device like this end with somehow consistently LESS features and support during its lifecycle than it launched with. Seems sort of strange because it just feels like between Google's success with tablets, Chromecast, Chromebooks, and a reimagined/rebranded "Android TV" on the horizon to replace it, GTV has just felt like it has never been handled well from any angle.
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Slime posted:In the UK, there's call for the various networks to essentially pool their networks so anyone with a phone can just connect to any network, thus giving everyone good coverage. Aaaaand Theresa May is against it, because TERRORISM. God drat politicians are rear end backwards over here. And everywhere else. She's a Home Secretary; it's her job to run around like Chicken Little and shout "Terrorism!". That said, the plans for domestic network roaming are kinda flawed, especially as they're only limiting themselves to 2G signal.
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minato posted:This is a Stewart Lee reference, isn't it? It wasn't meant to be, but now you mention it, those bloody Huguenots coming over here from medieval France and questioning the Eucharistic symbolism. For those who haven't seen it. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23yv5y_stewart-lee-on-immigration-paul-nuttall-and-ukip_fun
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Bobby Digital posted:Salm'n'Slide High Troutput
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Ron Burgundy posted:I'd rather their money was going on the cockpit over improving the IFE to be honest. There's nothing left to improve there. The biggest dangers in air travel are maintenance and human error.
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Slime posted:In the UK, there's call for the various networks to essentially pool their networks so anyone with a phone can just connect to any network, thus giving everyone good coverage. Aaaaand Theresa May is against it, networkecause TERRORISM. God drat politicians are rear end backwards over here. And everywhere else. I think the main problem is that none of the network owners have a way of recharging each other for local roaming so nobody then knows who owes who what. It's also useless for people in the middle of nowhere becaude nobody is going to build a tower to then have their competitors get money for using it. It's a good political idea that's also a poo poo practical idea, so no surprise there.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I think the main problem is that none of the network owners have a way of recharging each other for local roaming so nobody then knows who owes who what. It's also useless for people in the middle of nowhere becaude nobody is going to build a tower to then have their competitors get money for using it. Tracking local roaming sounds like it would be trivial, and arranging some exchange system to pay each other isn't outside the realm of possibility either. The huge problem would be to get everyone to agree on the prices...
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This is less 'obsolescence' and more marvelling at the progress of technology. In my first year of high school we had to have a USB flash drive, and I bought a 1GB drive for about $25. Today, I just got a 16GB USB 3.0 flash drive for a little under $10.
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In my first year of high school we were still using floppies.
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MondayHotDog posted:In my first year of high school we were still using floppies. Same, floppy floppies (5 and a quarter) or hard (3 and a half)?
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MondayHotDog posted:In my first year of high school we were still using floppies. SAME Aristophanes posted:In my first year of high school we had to have a USB flash drive, and I bought a 1GB drive for about $25. Today, I just got a 16GB USB 3.0 flash drive for a little under $10. I still have a 64mb flash drive floating around. The first time I saw a full 1gb flash drive advertised it cost something ridiculous like $1000.
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MondayHotDog posted:In my first year of high school we were still using floppies. In my last year* of highschool we were still using floppies. To be fair though the size of the files I was dealing with wouldn't have required any more than 1.44 MB anyways, certainly not enough to justify the $50+ price tag for a 8 or 16 MB thumb drive. *2001
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titties posted:SAME I remember when I bought my first digital camera, it came with a whopping 16 MB memory card.
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10", you young whippersnapper.
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MondayHotDog posted:In my first year of high school we were still using floppies. We were using floppies and ZIP disks in 2004 at my high school.
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tribbledirigible posted:10", you young whippersnapper. When I was in high school. we didn't even have computers. 
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