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b0nes posted:I used to stay up on Saturday night just to watch Beyond 2000. I also had a subscription to Omni magazine. I had a big crush on Solodad O'Brian at the time.
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Awful Library Books has a review of Eyewitness Books "Future" book. A book featuring such modern technology as the compact disk, teleconferencing, and portable televisions. The book was published in 1998: those things existed by then. http://awfullibrarybooks.net/the-future-was-yesterday/
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This isn't so much a failed technology as it is a failed business. In the early days of CD's there were companies rented computer games and their manuals. They were sued, the courts ruled it illegal, and the industry collapsed.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:24
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That image reminds me of something. Is there any way to clean battery residue off terminals?
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Sep 18, 2014 22:00
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Sorry, I mean small batteries like AA and AAA. I'd like to repair a not-yet obsolete clock radio.
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Sep 19, 2014 01:31
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I wonder what the people from Blossum are up to now.
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Nov 25, 2014 07:01
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Dial-A-Song is back. Once upon a time you could call a tape-based answering machine and hear a song. It was a way to listen to music for free in the days before youtube and bittorrent. Now it's back and...probably all digital now. Feel free to call (844) 387-6962 to relive the years from 1983 to 2006!
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m2pt5 posted:
The point is they've brought back an obsolete way to share their music, albeit updated for the digital age.
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Jan 7, 2015 05:44
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The same song as on the phone number can be heard (in better quality) on
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I have a piece of obsolete technology that needs replacing. It's the Netis WF2190 Wireless AC1200 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter. It cost $50 from Fry's a few months back and it was made obsolete the moment I installed windows 10. The adapters were sold starting about two years ago but driver support for them stopped one year ago with windows 8.1.
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Sep 7, 2015 07:38
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AlphaKretin posted:It'll probably be too late by the time I get a reply if the answer is yes, but will anything bad happen if I clean a bunch of C64 stuff with disinfectant wipes? Pics coming when I'm done. I read that as C4 and dreaded both the inevitable explosion during the cleaning and whatever your nefarious intent was.
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Nov 1, 2015 07:48
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doodlebugs posted:The Quaser, a 1960s car made out of glass. I had to keep reminding myself that wasn't a parody video.
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Nov 28, 2015 14:39
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Emusic still exists somehow.
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Dec 15, 2015 07:42
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Here's a comedy sketch that celebrates the only pure music out there: 1920's megaphone crooners as heard from a miniature Victorola. https://youtu.be/SzaskxXkWXs
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Feb 5, 2016 11:34
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Star wars had a similar game feature ing the millennium falcon I'd I remember right.
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Feb 14, 2016 10:46
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Intoluene posted:This is an absolutely pro click. There's a reason why Leroy Anderson is one of my favorite composers. He had fun with his music. Waltzing Cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOlG8Ut-gTc Bugler's Holiday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAj01fFVYVI Syncopated Clock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XculUOVU3sw This is my personal favorite, Arietta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpXfYm_uh3A
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Jun 5, 2016 09:14
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Iron Crowned posted:Now I want to try a raspberry rootbeer There's a work around where you add some fanta raspberry soda to a regular barqs root beer. I'll try to give it a go tomorrow.
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Bad news about the Phillips Hue. http://www.techhive.com/article/3138872/internet-of-things/researchers-hack-philips-hue-smart-bulbs-from-the-sky.html quote:Based on an exploit for the ZigBee Light Link Touchlink system, white hat hackers were able to remotely control the Hue lights via drone and cause them to blink S-O-S in Morse code.
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Nov 27, 2016 10:48
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I bought a laserjet printer for $40, and it hit me that I still needed some sort of scanner. But there aren't cheap small flatbed scanners anymore. Scratch that, there are. But they're attached to really crappy printers which is what I wanted to get away from by buying the laserjet printer on sale. I'm also putting a GPS back into my car. A 10-year-old one. It turns out a new battery is under 10 dollars and there are open source maps online for free. You'd think there wouldn't be problems with a phone GPS in suburban so-cal with no mountains in sight and clear skies but cell phones continue to surprise me...
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What was that?
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I had a modern android app that seemed designed for a blackberry with a physical keyboard. It was a driving app that turned on with the phone. It was meant to automatically activate when it detected driving to give quick access to a few other apps while driving: maps, music, etc. It also had a standby mode where a chunk of the screen would be reserved exclusively for swipping the app "on" if it happened to be minimized. That made the app useless if one wanted to dial the phone with the app in standby. Because the space the app reserved covered the 1, 4, and 7. So the only way to restore functionality to the rest of the phone would be closing out of the driving app completely. Edited for clarity. RandomPauI has a new favorite as of 12:50 on Dec 19, 2017 |
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Dec 19, 2017 12:31
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It'd be a feature if the app didn't come on at startup, staying on until it was closed. Which it'd need to be if I wanted to use the phone as a phone when not driving.
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Dec 19, 2017 12:46
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Micro USBs break ports much less than mini USBs at the cost of breaking more easily themselves.
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Dec 20, 2017 04:58
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Copy-pasting this from the aviation thread. Lots of old engines.Slo-Tek posted:I dunno if I am late to the party on this, but there is a TON of weird experimental stuff here I had never seen or heard of, with well written medium-sized articles with pictures on them.
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Jan 25, 2018 12:43
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It wasn't possible to make a reasonably affordable white light LED until the 90s. I couldn't find a price for white LEDs from then but I'd guess the still cost dollars.
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Well, if you want to get into the nitty-gritty of it; sure, it wasn't until 93 that a blue LED was powerful enough to add a phosphor to produce white light. And they didn't start showing up on flashlights until 1996/1997. That feels as good a point for when they showed up as a feature (and not a novelty) in consumer goods. My point is, LEDs probably cost significantly more to make from 1993 to 2001. With 2001 being the year the OP wanted to get an expensive LED flashlight.
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Edge is my go-to browser for sites that don't work well with chrome. So, basically d.rip
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