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Crazy Achmed posted:so if we did end up with weird bkackberry-likes, what are the odds that we’d have user-serviceable battery compartments? I’d consider that an acceptable compromise those went away with waterproofing so no
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L Computers, the vaporware desktop computer company that promised then-insane technology like a "puram" ssd and probably never shipped consumers a single unit. they did ship a computer to maximum pc that had a rat's nest wiring job and basically none of the things promised in the ads. they still raised millions from dumbass investors
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speaking of which whatever happened to the magic D Wave quantum computer? Was that just a con to scam money out of Google?
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Jabor posted:remember wap, lol wet rear end protocol
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:speaking of which whatever happened to the magic D Wave quantum computer? Was that just a con to scam money out of Google? afaik it is still around and shipping real products which are useful, but only for a pretty narrow set of applications.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:speaking of which whatever happened to the magic D Wave quantum computer? Was that just a con to scam money out of Google? oh yeah when was bob dobbs is dead supposed to reveal it?
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SO DEMANDING posted:reminder that this is what android was shaping up to be in 2006: dont LG tvs run palm os to this very day
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:L Computers, the vaporware desktop computer company that promised then-insane technology like a "puram" ssd and probably never shipped consumers a single unit. they did ship a computer to maximum pc that had a rat's nest wiring job and basically none of the things promised in the ads. they still raised millions from dumbass investors that ram based ssd did come out. iirc, he who shall not be named has a video on it. the limiting factor was the pci bus I guess
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are you thinking of the gigabyte iram because that also existed but was limited by the sata interface
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oh hey this thread, i think this is worth crossposting. love grody old hosed up garbage like this:SO DEMANDING posted:I have vague memories of some grody thing that was socket 754, but with a monstrous daughterboard you could put 939 cpu in. Possibly had to move your memory to the daughtercard as well.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:that ram based ssd did come out. iirc, he who shall not be named has a video on it. the limiting factor was the pci bus I guess who? also read it as varporwave computer and thought the aesthetics were all wrong 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:who? Linus tech tips. I once ate a 6 hour probe for posting an LTT video that was on topic  so I’m careful nowWild EEPROM posted:are you thinking of the gigabyte iram because that also existed but was limited by the sata interface possibly. it’s been a while
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Was WiMAX actually used anywhere by anyone? I remember it was a thing for 15 minutes in like 2005?
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WiMAX, like WISPs, sucks forever.
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Schadenboner posted:Was WiMAX actually used anywhere by anyone? I remember it was a thing for 15 minutes in like 2005?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Linus tech tips. I once ate a 6 hour probe for posting an LTT video that was on topic good
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Wild EEPROM posted:are you thinking of the gigabyte iram because that also existed but was limited by the sata interface
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greg the peanut posted:Headphone jacks on disc drives.. what was the point of them supposed to be? That reminds me, what the hell were those CD ROM audio cables for? I'd been using CD-ROM drives since 1994 up until probably 2012 and never had to use one for anything ever. But every CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and DVD burner drive on the planet included it.  Hell even this BD-ROM burner has the port for it  I don't understand why none of my computers required it, not even this piece of poo poo with a 1X CD-ROM drive:  Jim Silly-Balls posted:I had a Virgin Webplayer that I hacked to run Windows 98, I used it as a media player in my car, since it folded down to such a small size. I used to have a cigarette FM transmitter that was like that. The sound quality was flawless, and you could tune in from 3 cars away. However, mine broke, and by that time the FCC deemed my old one illegal so every single FM transmitter I bought after that sounded like static-y garbage. Is there any company that makes them but specifically ignores the FCC rules? I'm assuming something on ebay or aliexpress. Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Sep 13, 2020 |
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redbook cd audio delivered directly through the soundcard without requiring processing probably not really required beyond a machine from 2000 or so which could just pass it via software
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WilWheaton posted:redbook cd audio delivered directly through the soundcard without requiring processing I am just confused how none of my computers ever needed one, especially not my mid-to-late 90s PCs. Also confused as to why a Blu-ray burner would have one.
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yeah probably weird for a bluray drive to have one as for ancient pc's, I think they could default back to doing it through the IDE bus , but, that would probably have tanked a ton of performance , especially in pre-DMA times. Say you were playing quake 1 back in '96 but half your cpu cycles were going to cranking the audio bits from the cd drive to the sound card via your cpu , when it could have just... not been doing that and just had a direct analog connection bypassing all that poo poo. That'd be a big deal back then.
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when your io path is as deeply hosed as 90s pcs were and you only have 100mhz to deal with it just send some music to the speakers click play on the cd player in creatives licensed skeumorphic hi-fi player
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PCjr sidecar posted:when your io path is as deeply hosed as 90s pcs were and you only have 100mhz to deal with it just send some music to the speakers oh god I’d forgotten those. so much time spent clicking on pictures of DVD players, because what other possible interface could there be for playing DVDs
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I remember having a creative SB Live! Cd drive and sound card in my first pc (a 486 sx25 from my dad's office) and it coming with that exact pseudo hifi interface and a "Q Sound" positional audio demo with a cowboy shooting at you from behind a cactus Q Sound was pretty funny iirc. Some guy sold it to creative as some kind of super fancy positional algorithm or something when it was just levelling based on putting two mics into a literal human skull where the earholes are and doing a basic positional sample. though tbh that's pretty much what my AV amp does to set its levels just without the skull, though it constantly over cranks the bass edit: I literally cannot find any mention of this at all. I swear I remember reading about this and how it was a "special skull" that they used that they claimed made it better than just positional mics but now I think maybe I imagined it Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Sep 13, 2020 |
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the headphone jacks and audio cords were so you could pass audio directly without involving your cpu. you could power a cd-rom drive with a 12v source, never plug in the data cable, plug in your headphones, and press play on the drive and listen to music. you may have never hooked up that audio cable, but it could make cd music play faster and not bog down your cpu or anything. you didn’t need a software cd-player. could play a music cd while working in dos.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I am just confused how none of my computers ever needed one, especially not my mid-to-late 90s PCs.
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 That's the CD player software I remember the most  Powerful Two-Hander posted:I remember having a creative SB Live! Cd drive and sound card in my first pc (a 486 sx25 from my dad's office) and it coming with that exact pseudo hifi interface and a "Q Sound" positional audio demo with a cowboy shooting at you from behind a cactus I actually really liked Q Sound (or was it Q Surround?). My Aiwa CD players always had that feature. It really made certain sounds stand out in songs. Sometimes I'd hear stuff I never heard before. I remember a specific song that was virtually turned into an instrumental because of how good it was at bringing out the background music. Not ideal for all music but I really liked it. I actually found an amp for my record player that has it. I turn it on once in a while.
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Of those 90s skeuomorphic audio players the User Interface Hall of Shame (which itself probably qualifies for this thread, considering it's been frozen in time since 2000) found what is probably the worst of them, IBM's RealCD: (Sorry for the tiny image, the UIHOS is the only site that has screenshots of it and they're tiny because 56k.) Because when I think of wanting to play a CD I think of the CD jewel case. Also what I want in a CD player is for half the screen to be taken up with the logo for the application.
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pretty much everything ibm has ever made belongs in that category tho
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I remember playing CDs on an IBM but I don't remember that software at all.
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holy poo poo cyberlink powerdvd still exists and people still buy it
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Soricidus posted:holy poo poo cyberlink powerdvd still exists and people still buy it My latest Windows 10 box came with a copy. LMAO, I guess? (I use VLC, of course, as no other video player actually exists.)
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isnt powerdvd like the only pc software officially licensed to play 4k blurays or some poo poo
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I remember having a creative SB Live! Cd drive and sound card in my first pc (a 486 sx25 from my dad's office) and it coming with that exact pseudo hifi interface and a "Q Sound" positional audio demo with a cowboy shooting at you from behind a cactus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_head_recording
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monarch computer. which owned. i dont get how they went out of business. i think their main competitors were tigerdirect and newegg (which was good back then.) but monarch was better than both of them.
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:isnt powerdvd like the only pc software officially licensed to play 4k blurays or some poo poo has the Blu-ray key been cracked open like the DVD one was? I can’t fathom having a Blu-ray drive in my PC for any other reason than to rip the movies to a format more useful in tyool2020 than a physical disk
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:isnt powerdvd like the only pc software officially licensed to play 4k blurays or some poo poo hmm ok that sounds extremely useful, maybe I’ll buy a copy to try out when my next set of netflix discs arrives
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:has the Blu-ray key been cracked open like the DVD one was? I can’t fathom having a Blu-ray drive in my PC for any other reason than to rip the movies to a format more useful in tyool2020 than a physical disk the key doesnt matter theres a thing called libredrive that sends microcode to the drive to ignore the encryption entirely and read the video data directly
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MakeMKV is still free and has successfully ripped every single Blu-Ray I ever tried
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yeah makemkv uses libredrive if your drive supports it if not, then it uses keys and normal bluray is cracked but idk about 4k blurays cause i think a lot of the efforts disappeared once libredrive came out
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