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We never had a touch tone phone. Ours were pulse dialling, right into the 2000s. For me the sound of dialling the phone will always be pu-pu-pu-puh. pu-puh. pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puh.
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Something that looks like it should have bee obseleted and I just found out is still actually current is the handset lifter: It works in conjuction with some wireless headsets for phones and gives a very distinctive whirr noise when you're hanging up with a person using it. It had me thinking one of my vendors had a robot arm, but the reality was much less cool.
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Jun 17, 2015 17:40
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Yeah those handset lifters aren't obsolete at all. They exist for the sole purpose of allowing companies to buy cheapass voip phones that don't support a 3rd party headset with the handset in the cradle. loving garbage.
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tribbledirigible posted:Something that looks like it should have bee obseleted and I just found out is still actually current is the handset lifter: Ironically, the very phone that they used in that picture, a Cisco 7962, has an AUX that can be used as an electronic headset hookswitch control. Assuming that is a 7962. The 7960 and 7961 look almost exactly the same. Digital_Jesus posted:Yeah those handset lifters aren't obsolete at all. They exist for the sole purpose of allowing companies to buy cheapass voip phones that don't support a 3rd party headset with the handset in the cradle. Actually, the current reason for using them is for remote control of the phone with a cordless headset. Press a button on your wireless headset and you phone goes off hook or on hook. Lowen SoDium has a new favorite as of 19:14 on Jun 17, 2015 |
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Jun 17, 2015 19:11
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:Counterpoint: You can't play Trade Wars, Legend of the Red Dragon, Global War, or Cripple Fight over Usenet. Tradewars has a standalone server now. I have registration codes for it, but I haven't run a server for ages. So yeah, there's plenty of servers out there. They're just mostly put up and run by spergy shitlords.
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Jun 17, 2015 19:15
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Lowen SoDium posted:Actually, the current reason for using them is for remote control of the phone with a cordless headset. Press a button on your wireless headset and you phone goes off hook or on hook. gently caress using soft phones amirite.
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Jun 17, 2015 21:44
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GreenNight posted:gently caress using soft phones amirite. My company is testing using softphones for our call center, the the cost of a USB headset versus the cost of a hardware desk phone and a plantronics headset is a big deciding factor. But we probably won't replace all the deskphones company wide for a few reasons. Deskphones work when the power goes out (as long as the switch closet UPS's hold), you don't have to log in to a PC to use a phone, and users are just used to using a physical phone. User resistance to change is probably a bigger factor than anything.
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Jun 17, 2015 22:03
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GreenNight posted:gently caress using soft phones amirite. The Avaya softphone we use at work randomly decides it doesn't want to take any microphone input. My USB headset works perfectly well in other applications, but with the softphone it's completely random.
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Jun 17, 2015 22:04
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The Cisco softphone works fairly well except it leaks memory like a sieve (obviously since it's a Java app) and you need to restart it every other day.
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Jun 17, 2015 22:21
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Lowen SoDium posted:My company is testing using softphones for our call center, the the cost of a USB headset versus the cost of a hardware desk phone and a plantronics headset is a big deciding factor. Yeah we're also testing softphones for our call center. We're testing wireless Jabra headsets. So far we're getting about 8 hours talk time.
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Jun 17, 2015 22:26
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tribbledirigible posted:Something that looks like it should have bee obseleted and I just found out is still actually current is the handset lifter: Ha! That's what I have at work. Occasionally, the lifter will operate on its on raising and lowering the receiver over and over again.
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Jun 17, 2015 23:01
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tribbledirigible posted:Something that looks like it should have bee obseleted and I just found out is still actually current is the handset lifter: I have one in my home office. It rocks. The real challenge will be replacing my two line phone with corded handset and true full duplex speakerphone.
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Jun 18, 2015 06:13
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Lowen SoDium posted:Actually, the current reason for using them is for remote control of the phone with a cordless headset. Press a button on your wireless headset and you phone goes off hook or on hook.
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Jun 18, 2015 08:28
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tribbledirigible posted:Something that looks like it should have bee obseleted and I just found out is still actually current is the handset lifter: I thought it would be some janky no-name company that would undertake such a risky device. Nope, loving Sennheiser, so it's GOTTA cost a lot of money.
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Humphreys posted:I thought it would be some janky no-name company that would undertake such a risky device. Nope, loving Sennheiser, so it's GOTTA cost a lot of money. Nah, they are about £25
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Jun 18, 2015 15:07
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Mister Kingdom posted:Ha! That's what I have at work. Occasionally, the lifter will operate on its on raising and lowering the receiver over and over again. Near any other strong radio signal sources? Or it's just working out and one day will fling your handset at you, thus signalling the start of the Robot Revolution.
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Jun 18, 2015 18:44
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tribbledirigible posted:Near any other strong radio signal sources? No radio sources that I'm aware of. And nobody else's headset does it.
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Jun 18, 2015 22:46
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Mister Kingdom posted:No radio sources that I'm aware of. And nobody else's headset does it. Ghosts. Get a priest.
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I remember living in a town when I was twelve or so (say, 1993ish?) and for local calls we didn't even have to enter the prefix, just the final four digits. The joys of living in a backwater Oklahoma town of 800 people served solely by a two-county telephone cooperative, I guess.
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Jun 21, 2015 06:16
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Same in our town of ~20k in the early '90s, though we used 5 digits. Looking at it now, we apparently had a system where a complete number was always 8 digits, but the region code / local split varied between 2+6 or 3+5. We've had 8-digit numbers for everyone since 1993, though. (Norway. There's just 5 million of us, anyway.)
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When they launched the first-gen mobile network here (NMT) everyone had 6 digit numbers. A few years later they had to expand that to 7 because they underestimated how many customers they would get. I've stopped remembering phone numbers, but for some reason I still remember my dad's NMT number even though it hasn't been in use for 15 years. Collateral Damage has a new favorite as of 07:53 on Jun 22, 2015 |
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Jun 21, 2015 12:02
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In rural central Ohio in 1981 we still had a party line.
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Jun 22, 2015 01:17
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I think it was in this thread - but whoever recommended the documentary 'Side by Side' about Film vs. Digital...WOW what a great story. Loved it. Also: Halt and Catch Fire is into the new season!
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Jun 22, 2015 13:13
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Magnus Praeda posted:Nope. Regardless of if I'm calling from a cell phone or a land line, if the prefix of the number is "local" (i.e. it shows up as a number from this city), I just dial the 7-digit phone number. If I am calling a number from a different city, I have to add the area code. I do live in one of the few states that only has 1 area code--I don't know if that makes the difference. Had this happen a couple years back in Nebraska when they put in a new area code prefix - even locally I have to dial an area code, places more than 45 minutes away require 1+area code even if the area code is the same
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:In rural central Ohio in 1981 we still had a party line. My mom and her boyfriend live in the boonies in VA, and in 2015 still have a party line.
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Humphreys posted:I think it was in this thread - but whoever recommended the documentary 'Side by Side' about Film vs. Digital...WOW what a great story. Loved it. It was me, and I'm glad you liked it. I really thought it was amazing too.
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Jun 23, 2015 01:28
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Non Serviam posted:It was me, and I'm glad you liked it. I really thought it was amazing too. I enjoyed it too but I wish Keanu Reeves wasn't in it. He was a distracting and annoying presence.
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Chrtrptnt posted:My mom and her boyfriend live in the boonies in VA, and in 2015 still have a party line. Christ almighty, really? I thought we'd moved past that as a society.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Christ almighty, really? I thought we'd moved past that as a society. I bet it works great when one of the people on the party line use their modem to connect to AOL.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Christ almighty, really? I thought we'd moved past that as a society. Honestly a loving minute phone would be better than dealing with a party line. Don't let the inbred backwoods booger eating cousin fuckers run the phone company.
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Ultimate Mango posted:I bet it works great when one of the people on the party line use their modem to connect to AOL. I remember one of the neighbors would constantly listen in on everyone's conversations. She'd listen in on my dad talking to my granddad, and that's how I learned how to swear.
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Delaware has one area code for the whole state, and it's not in the middle of nowhere or sparsely populated. I mean people per square mile, not total amount of them. Plenty of Delaware signage/ads for businesses just list seven digits for the number.
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Vanagoon posted:Honestly a loving minute phone would be better than dealing with a party line. Dude, chill, that's my mom. They both have cell phones, the party line was there when they bought the house and I have no idea who pays for it and how it may be split up. I'm pretty sure they are younger than the other dozen or so people (I think there are maybe 5 houses total right there) by at least 30 years. Maybe the phone company is just waiting for them all to die to scrap that copper.
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I was trying to poo poo on the phone company, not your family. Sorry.
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I have a friend whose parents in rural Massachusetts are still on a party line that nobody else is on anymore, but they save money by still paying the party-line rate for what is now effectively an individual line. (At least, they were still on it as of a few years ago, when I hear they were fighting with the phone company about it. Maybe I'll ask my buddy about his folks' current phone situation next time I see him.)
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DNova posted:I enjoyed it too but I wish Keanu Reeves wasn't in it. He was a distracting and annoying presence. I liked that he was in it - instead of some random jackass, it was an actor that the DPs etc knew from working with. I think it made their answers more kandid. And holy poo poo at seeing early AVID, I was an editor for 5 years and seeing the birth of what I used was kinda nostalgic. I also felt kinda hosed over, there are people who JUST do color. poo poo I had to do everything from storyboarding, scripting, filming, digitizing, editing, color grading, exporting and distribution. I knew I was paid over the average, but gently caress that noise. I was doing maybe 4 peoples jobs (and BADLY!)
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:I remember one of the neighbors would constantly listen in on everyone's conversations. She'd listen in on my dad talking to my granddad, and that's how I learned how to swear. Well in Unclefuck, backwoods VA, spreading rumors behind people's backs is probably just about the only entertainment available. Gotta get that juicy dirt from somewhere. And people talk about how small town life is so wonderful because "everyone knows each other". 
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edit: sorry unintentional quote necro
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Woolie Wool posted:And people talk about how small town life is so wonderful because "everyone knows each other". No it isn't. Especially when your dad's a cop and the rest of you mother's family are cops, firefighters, and the county coroner.
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Star Man posted:No it isn't. Especially when your dad's a cop and the rest of you mother's family are cops, firefighters, and the county coroner. Only bad if you are the local drug dealer
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