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Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Sniep posted:

why not just, as loudly as possible, have the sound say and repeat "HEY EVERYBODY, I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO!"

lol drat that unearthed a memory

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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

why does Bink Video still exist?

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Sagebrush posted:

why does Bink Video still exist?

in the past it was basically the only drop-in video player that was optimized for everything from pc platforms down to nintendo handhealds and was allegedly unencumbered by patents. there are more options now like libvpx or libav1, and vulkan has extensions for cross-platform hardware decoding, but bink is still a relatively cheap video playback solution that takes minimal effort to use

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




Sagebrush posted:

why does Bink Video still exist?

cutscenes

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

"object oriented" as a business sales checkbox in the mid-2000s

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


I remember when bunk video started appearing on pc mag demo discs for trailers and the performance was total garbage. Seeing the bink video logo was an indication that whatever you were gonna try and do was gonna fail.

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

the ~5 years in the mid 90s when people though pascal was going to be the next big thing

mystes
May 31, 2006

Progressive JPEG posted:

"object oriented" as a business sales checkbox in the mid-2000s
At least that's an actual thing, albeit not really an end user feature, unlike "fuzzy logic"

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

Keep calm and Harry on.

Progressive JPEG posted:

"object oriented" as a business sales checkbox in the mid-2000s

Now it's "cloud-based" or "blockchain-enabled".

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

electricity bad
Fun Shoe
or "machine-learning", especially if it really means "somebody did a linear regression in excel once"

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

lmao i was more than a little angry when our company was talking up how machine learning is so important to the company that all developers will be trained in it. the "training" consisted of a bunch of links to youtube videos talking about doing a linear regression like i'm back in precalc punching coordinates into a ti-84. one of the videos was from a some dude who had pivoted his account to ml topics after his last clout chasing attempt, being a male clickbait nofap channel, failed. the "extra credit project"was a video overview of a project that required google cloud (we are a competitor to google cloud and have no access to any of its services).

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


lol we got a lot of "you're all expected to become aws cloud practitionees!" last year but when I asked if we could access aws through the corp network the answer was a flat "no".

I literally won an aws sponsored Hackathon at work in like 2019 and they gave our team 1000 usd of aws credits but then said "at this time we do not allow usage of aws internally",

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016

carry on then posted:

a male clickbait nofap channel

what a time to be alive

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

Fart Sandwiches
Apr 4, 2006

i never asked for this

dude, I got a dell for high school graduation with a GeForce 3 and 512 megs of motha fuckin RD Ram. good luck upgrading that, dude

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003


poor guy lost his job and was basically blacklisted because he bought a bag of weed in 2003

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
I wouldn’t buy a computer from somebody who doesn’t smoke weed

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop

The_Franz posted:

poor guy lost his job and was basically blacklisted because he bought a bag of weed in 2003

dell gave him another ad in 2021. i hope he was well paid

https://twitter.com/delltech/status/1460707744323932160?s=21

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

I wouldn’t buy a computer from somebody who doesn’t smoke weed

your weird uncle who smokes weed and tells you that taco bell stole his idea for the chalupa and then hides in a closet because he thinks he heard the cops is actually perfectly prepared for computer where, to quote andy grove, only the paranoid survive.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

I wouldn’t buy a computer from somebody who doesn’t smoke weed

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

I wouldn’t buy a computer

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

oh my god, i forgot that campaign entirely

"it was a really good paper"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GxC4kKD9qA

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



Poopernickel posted:

or "machine-learning", especially if it really means "somebody did a linear regression in excel once"

dont be silly, this isn't enough to put that on the box

you have to do a linear regression _and then change a config file or bit of code_. get it right you goose

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
windows vista

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
and the subsequent Mojave business

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?

idk my bff jill?

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

psiox posted:

oh my god, i forgot that campaign entirely

"it was a really good paper"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GxC4kKD9qA

she's a lecturer at berkeley now iirc.

Hed
Mar 31, 2004

Fun Shoe
you could engage with DellDudeSteve on AOL. I should see if I have any chat logs.

I knew one guy at work ten years ago and having a convo over IM was basically like talking to an AIM chat bot. it was uncanny

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

remember fyad played a stupid groaning sound if you left a tab open but idle for 15 minutes or something

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

i'm not one of the six people who reads fyad, so no.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



EIDE Van Hagar posted:

dell gave him another ad in 2021. i hope he was well paid

https://twitter.com/delltech/status/1460707744323932160?s=21

:unsmith:

psiox posted:

oh my god, i forgot that campaign entirely

"it was a really good paper"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GxC4kKD9qA

somehow she had a saclopedia entry.

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




oh wow heres some funy tech poo poo i just remembered

saclopedia

Fart Sandwiches
Apr 4, 2006

i never asked for this

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

oh wow heres some funy tech poo poo i just remembered

saclopedia

I remember when I first found helldump and that one offsite picture sharing thing (awful yearbook??) and just got absolutely engrossed in forums drama for a while. dark times

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

oh wow heres some funy tech poo poo i just remembered

saclopedia

it was pruned WAY back a while ago and some people were really pissed that a bunch of completely misremembered accounts of forgotten in-jokes GBS ran into the ground for a week in 2003 were no longer listed.

it was also absolutely full of slurs because fyad thought tossing the n-word around in random entries was funny :rolleyes:

Sweevo fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Mar 4, 2022

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!

Midjack posted:

somehow she had a saclopedia entry.

yea i remember goons being pretty creepy about her and i dont want to look and see what it says but im gonna guess its gross

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!

Sweevo posted:

it was pruned WAY back a while ago and some people were really pissed that a bunch of completely misremembered accounts of forgotten in-jokes GBS ran into the ground for a week in 2003 were no longer listed.

it was also absolutely full of slurs because fyad thought tossing the n-word around in random entries was funny :rolleyes:

"tbf" saclopedia was only really regularly updated in the mid 00s, so the slurs came from all over.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!
ugh goddamnit now i went and checked sacclopedia, gently caress my brain

quote:

Posted by Chack on May 3, 2006
I went to high school with Ellen and Hamilton (another one of the switchers). When the adds came out, I was a yearbook photographer, and two out of the hundreds of photos I took included Ellen. These photos were stored on a computer in the lab, which was open to the entire school. Somebody sent the two pictures to EllenFeiss.net. She thought I did it and yelled at me. Ellen Feiss is a bitch.

yeeeaaah im gonna guess you did upload her photos

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Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!
AOL search log 711391

e: not so much funy as thought-provoking

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