|
ugh whatever jeez posted:LED bulbs suck, still so much more expensive, often have weird color temps, get dimmer over time and break just as well, even expensive ones I love how LED bulbs have gotten affordable and good. No more indirect heat, low energy cost, and you don't have to feel bad about leaving them on around the house. Such a great technological boost for everyone. At my office we have replaced incandescent -> halogen -> small LEDs lamps -> huge 20x20" LED panels that give off a very uniform, wholesome light with little energy usage and good color temperature.
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2017 23:13
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 21:08 |
|
|
Trabant posted:The Russians used a 
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2017 23:15
|
|
|
Please don't post that lovely comic tia
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2017 23:53
|
|
|
Metal Geir Skogul posted:Please don't post that lovely comic tia Now I know your opinions have absolutely no value whatsoever.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2017 00:06
|
|
|
Hirayuki posted:After the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, eastern Japan was conserving electricity on a widespread scale, so they could focus their electricity-generating efforts on getting the Tohoku region back on its feet. Vending machines were dimmed or off, a portion of bulbs/light banks in public lighting installations were kept off, air conditioning turned up (i.e., not as cool), and train cars were stifling in the summer heat. I think it was as a result of that that a customer of ours who I think was based in Tokyo started working shifts or something - like it used to be a Monday-Friday normal office hours job, but they started working weekends and odd hours - and it was something to do with spreading out the power usage. To me that sounds pretty disruptive but then that's because I can imagine that and can't so much imagine going through an earthquake and tsunami 
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2017 00:59
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHCmzvzCmhI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx9Q8PphAVo
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2017 08:44
|
|
|
New Techmoan goodness: The return(?) of reel-to-reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KHSz9Gi-II
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2017 00:34
|
|
|
I'm doing a movie set in 1975, and I just bought a 1970s vintage tape recorder. This is gonna be fun. Edit: Wow this is a lot heavier than I expected. Second Edit: Jesus this thing is huge. chitoryu12 has a new favorite as of 03:43 on Dec 15, 2017 |
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2017 03:39
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2017 03:45
|
|
|
chitoryu12 posted:I'm doing a movie set in 1975, and I just bought a 1970s vintage tape recorder. This is gonna be fun. I'm available as a consultant on the year 1975. I work cheap.
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2017 21:30
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:I'm available as a consultant on the year 1975. I work cheap. How short should the shorts be?
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2017 23:01
|
|
|
Traumatically short
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2017 23:07
|
|
|
chitoryu12 posted:I'm doing a movie set in 1975, and I just bought a 1970s vintage tape recorder. This is gonna be fun. I did a similar thing a while back but we had to use a 50s reel to reel. That thing was heavy af we ended up keeping it and doing fake stereo channel multitracking for band recordings
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 00:23
|
|
|
Wilford Cutlery posted:Traumatically short And 100% polyester with white piping. 
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 02:27
|
|
|
Proteus Jones posted:And 100% polyester with white piping. Yup, just find an old video of the Philadelphia '76ers playing the Celtics in -~'75-'76; that'll give you exact details on how short/tight the shorts should be.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 02:58
|
|
|
A Jefferson recorder is just screaming to have a Jefferson Airplane tape in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0 I have always thought the guitarist looks likes WIllem Dafoe Humphreys has a new favorite as of 05:12 on Dec 16, 2017 |
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 05:09
|
|
|
Humphreys posted:A Jefferson recorder is just screaming to have a Jefferson Airplane tape in it. A Jefferson recorder with a Jefferson Airplane tape in it is asking to be thrown in a bathtub.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 06:09
|
|
|
Humphreys posted:A Jefferson recorder is just screaming to have a Jefferson Airplane tape in it. You know, I can see that... Pham Nuwen posted:A Jefferson recorder with a Jefferson Airplane tape in it is asking to be thrown in a bathtub. You know, I can see that too...
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 07:44
|
|
|
JnnyThndrs posted:Yup, just find an old video of the Philadelphia '76ers playing the Celtics in -~'75-'76; that'll give you exact details on how short/tight the shorts should be. Those shorts were racist. Designed by the white man to keep the blacks from preforming well in basketball. Look at em. Those guys had to run with their knees together to keep those big, fat black hogs from spilling down to their knees. The white dudes had freedom of movement cause of those merely normal dicks. A dick like that ain't gonna go dangling out of some short shorts.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 08:42
|
|
|
Grumbletron 4000 posted:Those shorts were racist. Designed by the white man to keep the blacks from preforming well in basketball. Look at em. Those guys had to run with their knees together to keep those big, fat black hogs from spilling down to their knees. The white dudes had freedom of movement cause of those merely normal dicks. A dick like that ain't gonna go dangling out of some short shorts. speak for yourself, guy I am white and I really suck at basketball no matter how long my shorts are 
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 08:48
|
|
|
Grumbletron 4000 posted:Those shorts were racist. Designed by the white man to keep the blacks from preforming well in basketball. Look at em. Those guys had to run with their knees together to keep those big, fat black hogs from spilling down to their knees. The white dudes had freedom of movement cause of those merely normal dicks. A dick like that ain't gonna go dangling out of some short shorts. Can confirm, I am a white woman and my dick never hangs out of my shorts.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 09:03
|
|
|
T-man posted:Can confirm, I am a white woman and my dick never hangs out of my shorts. The "Clit Splitter" shorts of that era have another thing to say.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 09:31
|
|
|
the greatest fabric technologists of the 1970s: "we have to go further... we have to find a way to bisect a clitoris, but gently" FORTY YEARS LATER "I will eat a handful of mulch for every like and subscribe"
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 10:29
|
|
|
I did steam for several years. That kid is going to be deaf and/or maimed by the time he's 40 from not using proper PPE. A fully fired steam engine is almost as loud as a jet engine. North of 120 decibels, constant noise. It makes your ears ring in the first 30 seconds once the draft is running if you're not using earplugs. Where I was at, we would do mandatory yearly hearing screenings per OSHA, and engineers were automatically removed from the position if there was a noticeable dip in hearing (almost always because the engineer didn't want to wear earplugs). Varance has a new favorite as of 23:08 on Dec 16, 2017 |
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2017 11:18
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:I'm available as a consultant on the year 1975. I work cheap. How accurate is Jaws 2? Because man the clothing and everything else seems so painfully mid-1970s to me.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 04:31
|
|
|
Were the 70s clothes like Jaws 2, or is Jaws 2 the reason you think 70s clothes were like that? Really makes you think.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 04:35
|
|
|
Metal Geir Skogul posted:Were the 70s clothes like Jaws 2, or is Jaws 2 the reason you think 70s clothes were like that? Judging from certain family photos, more the former
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2017 07:07
|
|
|
Honestly that's just how big I think a tape recorder is because there were a lot of similar devices floating around when I was a kid in the 80s.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2017 00:33
|
|
|
Pope Guilty posted:Honestly that's just how big I think a tape recorder is because there were a lot of similar devices floating around when I was a kid in the 80s. I was born in 1992 so cassettes were already out of date by the time I had a concept of music. I still knew how cassettes worked and how to use them (in part because my grandparents had a huge cassette collection of easy listening music, which my grandpa was actually listening to when he died), but it was CDs and VHS tapes for everything. The work I'm doing on interactive theatre and writing has actually led to me using and learning about a lot of obsolete technology like cassettes and phone phreaking.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2017 22:11
|
|
|
chitoryu12 posted:I was born in 1992 so cassettes were already out of date by the time I had a concept of music. I still knew how cassettes worked and how to use them (in part because my grandparents had a huge cassette collection of easy listening music, which my grandpa was actually listening to when he died), but it was CDs and VHS tapes for everything. Look at this fancy son of a bitch who had CD players in the family cars... it was still cassettes by the time I got my own car in 2004ish, and it was loving 2011 before I bought a car that had anything but a cassette player. Cassettes are better for the road anyway, they're more resilient and easier to deal with in general. Just jam half a dozen Chris LeDoux tapes in the glovebox and up on the dashboard and you're good. Now I drive a pickup which is AM/FM only, but some fuckhead ripped the antenna off the other so I mostly drive in silence.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2017 22:31
|
|
|
All the cars I've owned have had CD players but none of them worked.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2017 22:59
|
|
|
Cassettes blew until that that dark time between 2002 and 2006 when everyone had iPods but no one had aux ports. Then you were a golden god because all you needed was that silly little cassette adapter. We bought two cars in 2004 and 2005 and boy did that suck for the next 6 years.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2017 23:10
|
|
|
Grand Prize Winner posted:All the cars I've owned have had CD players but none of them worked. Mine has Bluetooth as well as CD, but hosed if I know how to use it.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2017 23:50
|
|
|
GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Mine has Bluetooth as well as CD, but hosed if I know how to use it. Here's how it works on a 2012 Camry: 1. Hit "bluetooth audio" on the stereo 2. Wait 2 minutes until it decides no already-paired bluetooth device is going to connect 3. Hit the menu button that only now became available on-screen 4. Navigate the menus until you find the "pair new device" button 5. On your phone, open Bluetooth settings and wait for it to scan 6. The car gave up before your phone could find it. Hit the button again 7. Your phone displays a Bluetooth MAC address along the lines of 03:55:7c:58:13:fe. This isn't your car, it's your neighbor's iPhone. 8. Give up and switch to FM
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2017 23:56
|
|
|
i have a lovely rear end bt receiver in my 2009 camry that only does phone calls. i didn't know that when i bouhgt it but i learned the bt receiver with music in that model is so terrible anyway that the "aftermarket" $30 one from amazon that i plugged into the aux port is much better.
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2017 00:02
|
|
|
Pham Nuwen posted:Here's how it works on a 2012 Camry: In my 2005 330Ci it's: 1. Hit "Bluetooth" icon 2. Nothing happens at all 3. Wonder if it actually has Bluetooth optionally fitted or if it's just a button 4. Is it broken 5. Are they all like this 6. Wish I'd bought a CD but I don't have any, or any way to write them 7. Hope I can pickup a pirate station in London or it's some poo poo on BBC radio. Radio 1 is full of hooting retards. GRINDCORE MEGGIDO has a new favorite as of 01:48 on Dec 19, 2017 |
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2017 00:09
|
|
|
My wife's Buick hides the Bluetooth option on the 2nd page after AM/FM/CD and SAT. You can customize the screen somewhat, but I wonder how much SirusXM pays to keep their name on that front page.
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2017 00:11
|
|
|
Why do car manufacturers actively fight you on this stuff? I wanted an aux jack in my car since the 90s.
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2017 00:23
|
|
|
My car's bluetooth was super easy to set up and it's even got RCA aux jacks 
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2017 01:30
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 21:08 |
|
|
McCracAttack posted:Why do car manufacturers actively fight you on this stuff? I wanted an aux jack in my car since the 90s. It’s the sweet spot between charging you through he nose for necessary features and not putting profits towards providing them. Several countries are wanting to switch to solely DAB in the next ten years (Norway already has) but car radios are a major sticking point.
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2017 01:46
|
|
