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Zemyla posted:What legitimate business needs an interest rate of over 30%? Why aren't rates that high literally business-dissolvingly, board-of-directors-imprisoningly illegal? Why do so-called "Christians" tolerate usury to this degree when Jesus would have chased them out of the country with a whip? Because a significant segment of the population believes that everyone is a perfectly informed consumer and this will magically stop bad businesses from exploitation. If you paid a thousand dollars for a hundred dollar pay day loan, you deserved to get ripped-off. I am not one of these people and firmly believe businesses like this should be legislated out of existence. By some unfathomable miracle, Arizona actually did this. How the gently caress a state full of batshit crazy, mainly libertarian rightwingers managed to do this is one of the strangest things I saw happen out there. The industry tried their damnedest to stay in the state using political ads that naturally used exactly the same tactics as their business practices. They ran ads that talked about how the law would be "tough on payday loan operations, and make sure they wouldn't be able to exploit people (other than existing)" when in reality by simply not renewing the law would be their death, and it was. 
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Dick Trauma posted:I worked at a library when I was in high school. One of the more memorable lunatics was the guy that would hang around the paperback racks and every so often very loudly say "sssssSSSSUCK MY COCK!" Sounds like he'd had some kind of trauma in his life.
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What sucks about bitcoin is that digital currency would be fantastic, because gently caress credit card companies. Not just for online purchases, but also at POS for normal retailers. But like everything libertarians touch, the golden goose got squeezed by Lennie who thought he was petting it with brilliant economic theory.
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May 28, 2015 02:09
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Star Man posted:I haven't bought an album on ceedee in two years; however, I have bought about twenty albums brand new on vinyl in the last year. Perchance can I interest you in some wooden knobs for your stereo? They really bring out the warmth in the mid-range, and I'll let them go for only $25 a piece.
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Toast Museum posted:This must vary by franchise/region/whatever. The Goodwills here have uniform pricing by category. I think it's $4 for men's button-ups. It's the smaller local thrift shops that get cute with the prices. Yeah, my midwest locale just puts the same price on everything. It makes it fun to mine out the treasures in the CD pile as Bumfuck, Flyoverstate's population's taste runs to country, lovely rock, and lovely country rock. Every month or so a music nerd my age dumps his or her collection too. Oh, hello 90's alt rock vein!
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eddiewalker posted:NHK already has them beat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/22.2_surround_sound Jesus christ.  An audiophile and his money are soon parted...
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Keiya posted:I miss Dynix. It was so much easier to use than the terrible web-based mess my library moved to afterwards. God, so much this. Lightning fast too instead of "whelp too many hobos browsing Redtube, guess it's gonna take five minutes to return a single author search".
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Sep 13, 2015 00:07
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Croccers posted:You can argue a point for the 10 patrons/10 copies but go to hell over a simulated wear-and-tear, that's just It almost as if the thing that is actually obsolete is publishers, not libraries. *posts link to Amazon's selfpublishing/werewolf erotica section**grins smugly* 
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Sep 28, 2015 04:48
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XYZ posted:New Keurig Keurig: An over-complicated, expensive way to make a small amount of lovely coffee. What the gently caress was Coke thinking? Will they eventually come out with Keurig Kold Klassic at some point?
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Oct 26, 2015 02:03
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:There was a B-36 that flew with an operational reactor. It wasn't used for propulsion though. For experimental purposes only. Apparently the lead shielding necessary to prevent the crew from being lethally irradiated was extremely heavy and our government decided the whole thing was a terrible idea. http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm Enjoy!
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Nov 8, 2015 03:53
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Dick Trauma posted:Now they use wands and swipe bar codes at each station, then put the wand in a base station to download the info to security software. Before anybody thinks this is high tech, the wands are basic electronic circuits that use programs older than most Tumblr users. "Gee, why does this software run like poo poo and crash all the time? Oh, the first iteration is from 1997."
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Nov 14, 2015 03:36
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Humboldt Squid posted:Having a security guard on duty also reduces insurance costs for the company by a fair amount. Ding ding ding! This is literally the only reason for minimum wage idiot wannebe cops waddling around making nuisances of themselves. X dollars for guards versus a Y dollars insurance reduction. Nobody at the mall or office building cares what they do or that they're even there, they're just a write off somewhere.
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Nov 16, 2015 05:18
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Instant Sunrise posted:Here's a technology that belongs in this thread: Automatic seatbelts. Oh god I had blocked out the memory of those pieces of poo poo. I had a Mazda that didn't work for poo poo, and god help you if you forgot about it trying to get out of the car in a hurry as it tried to decapitate you (weakly but still "Oh goddamit" inducing). Naturally it soon broke and the result was having to clip and unclip the shoulder belt from it for it to function.
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Jan 8, 2016 22:46
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well why not posted:Winamp ! Still using this skin actually, can't see why an audio player needs an "updated" visual appearance. It's got the basic stuff you need, and that's it. oh god it's happening to me isn't it
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Jan 10, 2016 03:55
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Laserjet 4P posted:terabyte of music Do you use 3D models of record grooves for audio files?
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Jan 12, 2016 02:23
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Arivia posted:Eh, I have ~250GB and I keep my music in MP3 and M4A. I can easily see someone who likes lossless having a terabyte of music. This is the other thing I don't get about audiophiles, though less crazy than gold cables and wooden knobs, hundreds of thousands of songs and counting. When exactly are you going to listen to all of them and at what point does it turn from a hobby to digital hoarding?
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Jan 12, 2016 23:02
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Jerry Cotton posted:No, he listens to the same five anime MIDI files over and over again every day. Nah I don't work in IT.
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Delivery McGee posted:the guy pasting it up was either drunk or lazy and missed the alignment. Considering the monopoly they had Bell could have released a single page with a hand flipping the bird and it would have been as useful as those ads. Also as accurate.
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Feb 7, 2016 00:33
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Humphreys posted:Some people were posting about CD cases and how bad they were a few pages back. Before I saw the picture I thought you were talking about comic longboxes  And anything is obsolete it's storing shittons of nerd wank in paper form for no reason. Hell, even before the internet and digital comics there were trades; holding onto fragile, individual monthlies was always strange.
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Collateral Damage posted:Apparently this was a thing in the early 1900s. I'm mostly amazed there's any sort of "CAUTION: DO NOT EXCEED RECOMMENDED DOSE" warning at all.
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Humphreys posted:On the other end of the spectrum I have been slowly gathering bits and pieces for a GPS system for sub 10CM accuracy GPS using RTK (Real Time Kinematics). To do this I need a radio link from a known accurate location to a GPS receiver in the field. Mainly to do detailed boundary logging and eventually to make a device for my grandpa to log all the Lantana and other invasive weeds dangerous to his cattle on the farm. Don't land surveyors have something like this already? Or do you need something more specialized?
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Phanatic posted:Biggest example is probably the Atari 2600 port of Pac Man. The restrictions of the platform meant that it could only be vaguely like the arcade game. They had to do a whole lot of tricks to get it to work at all within the limitations of a 4K ROM. The Atari only supports two independent sprites, but the game has four ghosts and a player, the only way to draw all of them at once is to change the contents of the register after the electron beam draws a horizontal line and resets to draw the next; the phosphor that was illuminated won't fade before the beam comes back around again, so you can go ahead and draw the same object on the next line in a different position and it's no problem. That was a known trick at the time for the 2600, and had been done previously a lot of times like in Space Invaders. But in those previous times, the redrawn sprites are just sharing the same *vertical* column, the same sprite doesn't have to move independently in both the horizontal and vertical planes. Like Space Invaders: the upper row is *only* a flying saucer, then you have the field of invaders, then you have the missile shields, then you have the player, they're all stay in separate regions. Is the reason when more than three(?) sprites were on the same horizontal level on my NES they would flicker related to something like this?
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Phanatic posted:Sheetz (500+ stores), Wawa (700+) , and Royal Farms (160+) all use kiosks for ordering and they work fine, so I'm not sure what the problem was with what you guys were doing. Wawa's been using them since 2002. Uber is field testing driverless cars so yes cabs are going to disappear fast as hell. I could make several hundred dollars a day, and a company being able to put most of that into their pocket instead of paying a driver is a no-brainer (lol if you think they're gonna pass that savings on to the customer). As far as PHX goes... About 8 or 9 years ago the airport held "open" bidding for companies to apply to work the airport. Three bid the lowest, and were accepted. The problem? Two of them were fronts for the third, iirc. All the drivers knew this, and complained they were gonna get shafted by the monopoly but the airport didn't give a poo poo. Hard to believe this could happen in a state that literally sold its state capital then leased it back, but it did. So in case you were wondering why the cab was a shitbox, that's why.
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Trabant posted:There are three big reasons I can think of: Gee how the gently caress does that happen? http://betanews.com/2016/05/16/google-paying-20-an-hour-to-sit-in-self-driving-car/ quote:Google will require the drivers to have a bachelor’s degree It's a total mystery, must be those people who didn't go to college aren't trying hard enough.
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chitoryu12 posted:I see our next derail has been chosen. I submit pooping out of your butt will be obsolete soon given Jerry Cotton's significant contribution to the reverse method.
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Shugojin posted:Yeah it's basically an issue that it works fine but you can't really touch-type on it like you can with something with physical buttons. Which when doing actual work is generally something you want! We've had useful touchscreens and smartphones for, what, less than a decade? I guarantee your grandkids will be giving you poo poo about this
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darkhand posted:He's talking about touch screen and precise movements. I think everyone can agree touchscreens are good for certain applications using gestures, but definitely falls apart for pixel point accuracy, or even simulating actual tactical feedback. I think touchscreens in cars are possibly the dumbest thing, it removes being able to rely on muscle memory and keeping your eyes on the road. Because you can just feel around on actual buttons, like OK here's the volume so the next button is station 1. Same for TV remotes. And again, this is your experience. The current generation will experience nothing but touch screens, and later ones will think you weird for insisting on buttons. It's okay, I can't wrap my head around analog sticks for console games myself.
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Pilsner posted:You'll get caught up by scarcity of spare parts at some point, though. The existence of 3D metal printing makes this sentence obsolete.
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Danger Mahoney posted:Yeah this is the problem with 3D printers and why they are already an obsolete technology. Any small, simple object with zero moving parts (i.e.anything a consumer 3D printer could produce for the next 20 years) will be like a tenth the price from a chinese manufacturer. Calling 3D printers an obsolete technology is like saying automobiles will never take off because horses are cheaper, and is probably the dumbest statement in this entire thread.
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Lincoln posted:The US is simply too spread out for something like that to be feasible. For now, cars on highways is our best option. Sure, if you literally travel hundreds of miles every day to a wide variety of locations. People like saying this while ignoring the fact Europe is larger than the continental US.
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hackbunny posted:MAME, the universal arcade game emulator, for the longest time was unable to run Pong, because MAME was designed to emulate computers. Often complex computers, as arcade machines tended to be multiprocessors with complicated RAM/ROM layouts and several boards, but still computers, made of microprocessors, RAM chips, ROM chips, etc. (nowadays they're just PCs. Boo) Well, Pong wasn't even fully digital https://vimeo.com/7548051
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Kwyndig posted:Well yeah, there's that. But even if they fire you you can land them in poo poo if they're forcing unpaid work. Fines and penalties for violating minimum wage laws are no joke for a small business. Unless you're in jail or work in an exempt industry for some reason, then tough poo poo. Even "small" business owners have pretty deep pockets compared to their employees, and trying to take someone to court over what usually amounts to a few hundred dollars is difficult. Most people will just assume what they would get back would go to legal fees, so why bother? Plus even if you put the jerk out of business there's just going to be another rear end in a top hat to pick up where the first rear end in a top hat left off. It's pretty futile, and why nobody bothers. Couple that with the Protestant work ethic that says if you complain about hardship you're a Bad Person, and you got a ready-made exploitable workforce that just shrugs and takes it when you screw them over.
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Collateral Damage posted:I forsee Internet of Things to be in this thread before the end of the decade, if manufacturers keep pumping out insecure garbage like they currently are.
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Dewgy posted:That's the best glitch I've ever heard of. Or it's a rollout of an advertising header and/or footer on your text messages that borked up. I probably shouldn't even say something like that, the fuckers will probably do it. "For only an additional $10 a month you can text without ads!"
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Shame USB thumb drives took off before someone could use the form factor of 3.5" floppies to make slot-able memory cards. poo poo, just think about how much memory you could get in that volume nowadays.
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SubG posted:I haven't routinely listened to music straight from physical media in many years, but I'm still regularly buying CDs because amazon keeps doing this thing where the mp3 version of an album is like I have good luck at the local Goodwill if I can get there before the local ebay trolls strip the shelves. Seriously, just straight up walking along with a smartphone and checking the online price with the barcode reader, not even looking at the cover. gently caress you, rear end in a top hat.
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but the CD---with autorip included---is like US$4. I literally have a stack of CDs that I've never even taken out of the shrinkwrap.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Honestly, it might not be. Rents are cheap, booths are just plywood with a lovely TV and POS interface. Content is probably stolen. I want to see the IP lawyer desperate enough to find out what's licensed and what isn't. The industry is quietly but surely switching to all digital distribution, they just pretend they aren't. If you got even a cheap smartphone, the world is your jerkbooth.
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Everybody in that pic was so nonchalant about it, I didn't even notice the naked dude until I read the posts mentioning it.
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I Brake For MILFs posted:I used to do casino surveillance if anyone has questions I will answer them to the best of my ability. Know what's even more fun? Having the IT guy tell you that to access the new camera system you have to use the web app via Internet Explorer, over the company internet (and no, not intranet). Guess how reactive the cameras were to input!
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Trabant posted:Some of y'all are being deliberately obtuse: Yeah, the manufacture process would be insanely complex/almost completely bespoke, and that's not sarcasm. I don't think I've ever actually seen a screen with a curved edge like that in real life, certainly not at that scale; I'm sure billboards and whatnot have a little more flexibility with form given their nature, but nothing consumer sized. I guess you could just blank out sectors to create a curved pattern around the edge, but then you still have to deal with hiding the rectangular form. Maybe the edge could be rolled over so the circuitry is still functional?
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