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Nocheez posted:Except they weren't. The RivaTNT and TNT2 were knocking on the door and beating the Voodoo in some aspects. I remember showing up to my first LAN party with a TNT2 and blowing away everyone who was still using Voodoo cards. The TNT didn’t come out until mid 98. The 1st and 2nd gen 3DFX cards started in 96, and for the first year of the TNT it was only good on paper because the drivers were terrible. Who cares how nice a game looks if it crashes every 10 minutes? TNTs didn’t overtake voodoo in quality until 99 with the TNT2, which is the start of that 3rd generation. Until then 3DFX wasn’t just marketing, they were pretty much the only cards worth using during the 1st and 2nd gen of 3D accelerated graphics cards.
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Voodoo cut corners and did things that were worse quality but improved framerates. I don't care to die on this hill, I was glad that 3dfx got beat by nVidia. I only wished I had invested in them like I should have when they had their IPO 
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I swapped back to my voodoo 3 from a GeForce 2 MX just because the latter was incredibly crashy - though of course that blame may have been equally on the via chipset. (I eventually put a Kyro 2 in that machine and it worked reasonably well, for what that's worth.) And, yeah I know. I didn't have a lot of money for hardware.
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I was just so happy, after getting a Voodoo, that I could play better looking games than Doom on my pos pentium 2 machine. Everquest ran like poo poo, but it ran, and I got playing MMOs out of my system early so I never had to repeat that mistake again.
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https://twitter.com/McKelvie/status/1227193230682443776
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Shut up Meg posted:Extremely cool. https://youtu.be/w0iyk33SC4I Around 2:54. Disappointingly, no. It just doesn't go in.
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Platystemon posted:These days, someone could use the Internet to triangulate a mobile transmitter in real time. A few years ago they figured out who was running a cell phone blocker on an Amtrak train. If I'm remembering right it did require some actual technical know how and not just walking up and down the aisle until you found some smug rear end in a top hat reading a book.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OaBkvwx7Hw I enjoyed this video, I'm sure you guys will too.
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Kwyndig posted:I doubt Hams would appreciate you hogging their bandwidth with internet noises anyway. Just do the audio equivalent of stenography at first, and then hook up your ham to your home network as if it's a switch that has all the hams you can connect to plugged into it or whatever Obviously once you get a critical mass of them all in on hamcrimes the normal isps can be done away with, this is both technically and socially extremely plausible and the ham area network will be fine
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It's been done but it's too slow for anything other than small amounts of text.
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Post the very best in obsolete and failed technology: Hamcrimes Division
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Konstantin posted:It's been done but it's too slow for anything other than small amounts of text. Sure if it’s 1985. http://www.broadband-hamnet.org
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blugu64 posted:Sure if it’s 1985. http://www.broadband-hamnet.org quote:In its current form it is built using the Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS wireless routers
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:This past weekend I went nosing around an abandoned Voice of America transmitting site and all I could think about was the Fallout energy there. Neat! quote:BNC is probably my favorite A/V connector. I wish I lived in the parallel universe where it became the standard instead of RCA. It locks into place so snugly. 
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Code Jockey posted:Neat! My first teen LAN party gear was thinnet; it was cheap since everyone were moving to CAT5 and star topologies and such modern luxuries. Not fast, and prone to weird electric shock issues, but I do sometimes miss how much nicer the cables and connectors were.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Post the very best in obsolete and failed technology: Hamcrimes Division Here's how to make your very own teeny-tiny illegal TV station that you can even broadcast your illegal MKVs over: https://antiqueradio.org/HomeTVTransmitter.htm
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Pastry of the Year posted:Here's how to make your very own teeny-tiny illegal TV station that you can even broadcast your illegal MKVs over: https://antiqueradio.org/HomeTVTransmitter.htm it's legal in the US if you keep it at like a tenth of a watt before bluetooth was everywhere, I did this with radio, making a teeny tiny FM station that covered the 20' radius of my apartment, so I could listen to whatever on the waterproof shower radio
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The continuously rotating windshield on the driver's turret is a great feature. Continuously cleaned, or continuous horizontal lines of bird poo poo.
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Does it have spinning clear view disks set in the window like a boat or does the entire cylinder spin? 
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Platystemon posted:Does it have spinning clear view disks set in the window like a boat or does the entire cylinder spin? The entire cylinder spins. The wiper blades are stationary, behind your head. It's still existent, and quite magnificent.  Of the driving position, the brochure says "[the driver] is seated alone to permit safe, easy operation of the car, free from passenger distraction. The arrangement gives passengers a roomie, cosy, "club car" atmosphere." It would be years before anyone tried that again... 
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Nocheez posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OaBkvwx7Hw Thanks, this was great. One of the few youtube videos I could watch from beginning to end.
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Peanut Butler posted:it's legal in the US if you keep it at like a tenth of a watt You can still get fm transmitters that plug into your cigarette lighter port for cars that don't have Bluetooth or an aux jack
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When I first saw this I thought it was some sort of joke but after watching this video I kind of want one just for the novelty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk9Yjqu5pGg
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Kamrat posted:When I first saw this I thought it was some sort of joke but after watching this video I kind of want one just for the novelty: I wonder if Leno has one btw, Leno's old car videos on youtube are better than anything else he has ever done
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Randaconda posted:I wonder if Leno has one There's only one in the world, and it appears to be owned by "Bellingham Auto Sales" of Bellingham, MA: http://www.bellinghamautosales.com/
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Pastry of the Year posted:Here's how to make your very own teeny-tiny illegal TV station that you can even broadcast your illegal MKVs over: https://antiqueradio.org/HomeTVTransmitter.htm Did anyone else have the commercial version of this because you're house only had one cable drop in the living room, then use it to get TV somewhere else like the bedroom / office? Was always kinda janky and you had to go downstairs to change the channel. E: 
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Phy posted:You can still get fm transmitters that plug into your cigarette lighter port for cars that don't have Bluetooth or an aux jack lol yeah I drive a 2003 minivan I got for a thousand bucks and have never had a car newer than that so I still think of that as, current tech I have this thing, and it'll also play mp3s off of microsd- it hides in my center console thing what has a lighter adapter in it, and it's like having it built-in- hit FM preset 5, wait for a plummy british robot voice to say 'waiting for pairing.... paired!', play musics and podcasts:  not rly obsolete given that like half of cars out there seem to be older than bluetooth (or even aux in) becoming standard, but I guess they're going away slowly? cassette adapters, tho- I remember five years ago, replacing my ancient tape deck adapter with a new one; I was floored that I had to go to three big box stores to find one, and Wal-Mart only had the cheapest brand possible
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Randaconda posted:I wonder if Leno has one Seriously. For thread content, I'm fond of his videos on the 1963 Chrysler Turbine and the 1922 Stanley Steamer. A couple of alternative car designs that made plenty of sense at the time, but which didn't catch on (because the times changed and they stopped making sense).
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I wish that Sir Vival wasn't just rotting away and getting dustier.
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oh, lol, is this what the carpet cleaner rental service is named after??
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Ham here. I promise, we're all not batshit crazy Omaba hatin' diabetes havin' boomer, but yeah, most are.Buttcoin purse posted:Yeah... That guy is what's called a rover. There are ham radio contests (yes, it's a thing) where hams try to make contacts with different countries or different areas. This guy is is all likelihood activating different Maidenhead grid squares for a VHF and up contest (50 mhz and up) contest transmitting in multiple squares, often times in areas where there may not be many hams or many people. During these contests hams get 'points' for making contacts with as many grids and/or other hams, and those that collect the most points often times get plaques or certificates proving you are the most ham. Known Lecher posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television Konstantin posted:It's been done but it's too slow for anything other than small amounts of text. blugu64 posted:Sure if it’s 1985. http://www.broadband-hamnet.org Data via ham radio is still governed by archaic symbol rate rules. Anything on HF (30 mhz or below) has a maximum rate of 300 baud, VHF (30-300mhz) is 1200 baud, and UHF (300-3000mhz) is 9600 baud. The more data you send, the more bandwith it takes, which is at a premium, especially in the HF bands. Hams have lots of bandwidth in various chunks above UHF, including exclusive portions of 2.4 and 5.8ghz, just below and into the unlicensed wifi bands, which hams have been using for enhanced uses like broadband hamnet and AREDN. Hams have had a class A block of ip addresses since 1981 (44.x.x.x). The group that controls the block sold off a chunk of it to Amazon last year, but they still hold 75% of the block that can be assigned to hams.
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If I had the disposable cash, I would get a police scanner, some walkie talkies, and maybe a ham-radio. I find all these things interesting, but have no use for them at all.
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Plinkey posted:Did anyone else have the commercial version of this because you're house only had one cable drop in the living room, then use it to get TV somewhere else like the bedroom / office? Was always kinda janky and you had to go downstairs to change the channel. Hell loving yes we did my dad used it to duplicate rented VHS tapes 
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uli2000 posted:Ham here. I promise, we're all not batshit crazy Omaba hatin' diabetes havin' boomer, but yeah, most are. I almost regrew my virginity just reading this post.
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Nocheez posted:I almost regrew my virginity just reading this post. Meaning you would have regrown it if only you’d ever lost it in the first place?
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Platystemon posted:Meaning you would have regrown it if only you’d ever lost it in the first place? Imagine getting nasty sick burned like this on an actual HAM radio...poo poo would just be over.
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LifeSunDeath posted:If I had the disposable cash, I would get a police scanner, some walkie talkies, and maybe a ham-radio. I find all these things interesting, but have no use for them at all. used to take camping trips with my family and my grandparents, in two vehicles, CB was essential for coordination and also saying hi to grandma
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Peanut Butler posted:used to take camping trips with my family and my grandparents, in two vehicles, CB was essential for coordination and also saying hi to grandma Oh yeah, I would love to go back in time and drive around using a CB!
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