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tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

two forty posted:

Couple pages back, but I actually own one of those UMD porn discs. Sent to me c.2005 by a guy from IRC in exchange for some PS2 parts IIRC.

I guess it's technically nws, so I'll link to it. http://i.imgur.com/jA0bO93.jpg

It's pretty much standard pixelated Japanese porn as far as I recall, I don't have a PSP anymore. I'm pretty sure about half the scenes were shot in the back of a tiny hatchback.
Note the listed price, Y2310=roughly $25 at the time.

Japan doesn't have a word for "gently caress"?

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 13:45

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Lowen SoDium posted:

Actually you can still get new motherboards for modern CPUs with ISA slots. They are usually for industrial purposes where you have some old controller card or something that is only available in ISA. They are also very expensive.

http://www.interloper.com/products/product-details.php?productid=115510&cat=105

Couldn't you just use the ISA/ serial ports over USB? I imagine that would be way cheaper than baking 20 year old tech into a swish new motherboard.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2015 18:36

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Cracked_Gear posted:

A lot of the tech in your own motherboard dates back at least 20 years. VGA came out in 1987 for example, and you probably still have a VGA port.

PCI slot? PCI came out in 1993.
CR-2032 coin cell keeping the BIOS settings and clock running? Same thing in a 20 year old motherboard.
ATX standard? Came out in 1995.
If you still have PS/2 ports, those came out the same time VGA did.

And there are probably still parts of ISA in your motherboard, even if the physical slots disappeared long ago.

"20 year old tech" was a guess. RS232 came out in '69 and ISA in '81. And, people still use PCI, CR-2302, ATX and PS2 ports. Only people trapped in an endless hell still use ISA and RS232, and I don't think it's worth making their lives any better :colbert:

# ¿ May 10, 2015 18:39

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

robodex posted:

Yeah I just read this article about it and... Holy poo poo, I get wanting to protect your IP but intentionally bricking the end user's hardware when they have literally no way of knowing if their device was counterfeit? That's.... A little extreme

Can you submit any dicey driver to Win update then? Does MS not vet this stuff? In an extreme example, couldn't a rival release a malicious update to another manufacturers devices?

# ¿ May 11, 2015 16:55

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Geomancing posted:

The more leaf cover you're under, the less accurate it'll be, if it can even get a reading. When I worked as a surveyor's rodman, we'd occasionally have to go do some GPS work around woods. One time we were on a hill, still some trees above us, and even sticking the receiver on its pole up in a tree, it took forever to get any reading at all, and taking it back to the office, it was a reading more than ten feet off, when in the open it could be accurate to within an eight of an inch.

Doesn't civilian GPS have a built-in error of like 20 feet?

# ¿ May 16, 2015 07:30

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Was it a zx81?

# ¿ Aug 2, 2015 12:03

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Jerry Cotton posted:

Oh?

You know passivated is better than gold-plated since you don't want your connectors to be active elements in the chain, right? Also, zinc is an essential mineral perceived by the public today as being of "exceptional biologic and public health importance", especially regarding prenatal and postnatal development. Obviously this carries over to music as well.

Um, you have to explain how this affects my personal audiospace and essential harmonics, not to mention the sound brightness, tone illumination and acoustic bio-euphoniousness if you want to sell it to me.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2016 09:48

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Pham Nuwen posted:

I've never driven a Ford Crown Victoria where all four electric windows worked properly.

Edit: and I've driven at least 4

The idea is you don't escape.

# ¿ May 8, 2016 11:19

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Phlegmish posted:

From the Funny Pictures thread, 1990's life hacks

https://imgur.com/gallery/uQF2K

Wondering how many floppies it would take to install a modern game.

Just Cause 3 would take 36,801 1.44Mb floppies and take 30 days and 16 hours to install.

e: not counting time swapping disks or arthritis cream.

tight aspirations has a new favorite as of 21:14 on May 8, 2016

# ¿ May 8, 2016 21:09

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Guy Axlerod posted:

You want to rent a compact car? Whoa, better be 25 to do that. Want to rent a 25' moving truck? 18? Go nuts. I'm sure there are exceptions to both of those, but it doesn't quite make sense to me.

For content, these stickers:

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind paying the registration fee, or getting my car inspected, or even having the plates and keeping a piece of paper in my car. I just hate swapping out the registration sticker every other year. Trying to scrape off the remains of the old sticker with a razor blade in an incredibly awkward position is just a huge pain in my rear end. I'm pretty sure a cop can just look it up based on my plate number, so why do I need the stickers?

Can't you just use isopropyl alcohol?

# ¿ May 9, 2016 21:34

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/msi-hp-zotac-backpack-vr-pc-details-specs-price-release-date/

# ¿ May 31, 2016 13:53

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Shai-Hulud posted:

Is there anything done with Java that is worthwhile?

jdownloader2 seems ok, I guess?

# ¿ Mar 26, 2018 13:17

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

You Am I posted:

I didn't know the 1000 could run Kickstart 3.1

Apparently you can boot KS from a floppy using Twinkick, which is kind of neat. I would've thought KS3.1 would complain about non-AGA era hardware, though. Maybe it's modded.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 12:02

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Horace posted:

I've just noticed that one of the related items on this page is... the current model of the Teasmade. They still make it, but it looks a bit sleeker now, with a built in water tank instead of a little kettle on a see-saw switch like mine.

Don't you still have to get up and get the milk from the fridge anyway? Might as just make a cuppa while you're there.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 12:26

tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

SavageMessiah posted:

Blue boxes, modems, and old issues of 2600

I want it

One puzzle has you whistling at exactly 2600hz into your mic. I remember reading all about phreaking from random text files and maybe the Anarchists Cookbook and thinking that all sounded so cool and hackery.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2021 21:06