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Zonekeeper posted:I'd bet people would stop that poo poo real quick if $1 bills weren't around. In the current setup $1 bills are "Normal Dollars" and the coins are these weird things you don't see very often because nobody keeps them in the change drawers and machines don't take them. Same thing happens with the $2 bills. I currently have one in my wallet that I've had for at least 3 years now, don't ever see myself spending it, just have it. A friend of mine was given 100 $2 bills for his 18th birthday and when he would go to spend them he would get 1 of 3 reactions. IDK where to put this, sticks it with the $20s. What is this, it must be a counterfeit. Or no issue at all. The last rarely happened at all. A few times I was given a dollar coin in place of a quarter for change (supposed to get $0.27 back, was actually given $1.02), so that was always a nice surprise as I walked out of the store.
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KozmoNaut posted:Coins last significantly longer than bills, so they're cheaper in the long run. I have a couple of coins right here that were minted in 1990 and have presumably been in regular circulation for 25 years, through pockets, wallets, cash registers, vending machines and so on. They're a little bit scuffed, but still perfectly legible and usable, even in picky vending machines. Don't forget being ran through with the laundry, or dropped in a parking lot, rained on, and ran over by cars.
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Jul 15, 2015 13:04
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If buying something heavy, self checkouts work, most of the time, but when you are buying something large/bulky/light that you can't get the machine to register it. Bulk of toilet paper or a candy bar, forget it, go to an actual cashier.
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Jul 15, 2015 15:50
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Antifreeze Head posted:At least that held true until the Mint here started issuing commemorative designs all the drat time. Now I only make an exception to set aside the quarters struck in 1999 because they are a loving embarrassment and I hate that they are in circulation. The same thing happened when the U.S. started minting state quarters. Companies came out with maps and books to place a quarter for each state in. Then if you really wanted to get technical, there were 2 mints running, noted on the coin by a d or s. So one could really get picky about which they were collecting if they wanted to. (I may have dabbled in doing this when they were conning out for the first couple years but lost interest in waiting for a new quarter to be released quarterly).
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Jul 16, 2015 02:39
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:I lived in Korea for a while and they have a similar system, but now I live in Japan and it's like going back to the stone age. Cash is almost universal here and many places don't even accept credit cards, much less any other kind of electronic payment. It's a good thing petty theft is uncommon here considering I often have several hundred dollars of cash on me. Its the same going to small towns or even older/hole in the wall places in the U.S. Sometimes they have the stickers posted on the doors that they accept this list of cards, other times they don't. And since I carry plastic around with me I'm rarely carrying any cash, though I should just in case when I find myself in a place like this. Some restaurants are aware of this fact and have adapted and installed an ATM on prem.
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Jul 16, 2015 15:37
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:That both surprises me and doesn't, speaking as a non-American who has only ever visited the US once. I view the US as one of (if not the most) technologically advanced places on the planet, but I also realise it's a very big and diverse country so what I experienced in big cities isn't representative of the entire country. Surprised me the most when I first went to the restaurant, and is one of the places I was thinking of while writing my post, is a pizza place called Santarpio's in East Boston, Massachusetts. Thats jump on the T (subway in Boston) at the Aquarium, go one stop, walk half a mile and you are at Santarpio's. Great pizza, but cash only.
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Jul 16, 2015 17:31
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Cybiko I had the extreme version when I was a teen.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Re: small engines, when I worked at the cemetery we switched to "eco gas" for our small lawn mowers and leaf blowers etc. and I think it was made from trees or something? Anyway it smelled nothing like gas and to prove to a really dumb co-worker (the same one who did believe me when I told him albatrosses who die mid-glide just keep flying for years and years because they have a special bone that locks in place when gliding so they don't need to use any muscle force to keep their wings rigid and it's so cold at the high altitudes they fly in that they don't rot - not that there are any decomposers that high up anyway - but didn't believe me when I told him that kiwi birds exist) that it wasn't water I poured some on the ground and lit it. So maybe I poured a bit more than was necessary and he started panicking because the fire wouldn't go out and it was in the middle of a cemetery so there were quite a bit of people about. After running in a circle for a few moments, shouting "NOW WE HAVE A SITUATION! NOW WE HAVE A SITUATION!" he proceeded to try to put out the fire with a small piece of styrofoam. Have to love the ignorant for the one thing they are able to give back to the community, our enjoyment.
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Jul 20, 2015 19:27
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hailthefish posted:Non-currency-related post (also not mine): Reminds me of the good times with the Game Shark on the N64 or GameBoy, or the GameBoy cartridge adapter to use your Pokemon in Pokemon Stadium on N64.
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Jul 22, 2015 18:44
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 Sega Dreamcast, with the screen that goes in the controller, that of all different ones I played on (maybe 4) none of them had. Dreamcast was killed off by Sony and its PS2.
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Jul 22, 2015 18:49
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Zereth posted:The PS2 was, as I recall, one of the earliest affordable decent quality DVD players available, too. hat was an absolutely killer advantage. Part of me was wondering if the highway to high end console gaming was paved again for Sony when Blu-ray over took HD DVD. As the PS3 had internal Blu-ray support and the Xbox 360 needed an adapter to play HD DVD.  Also heard a rumor when HD DVD went down that HD DVD and Blu-ray were close in competition but the porn industry decided to support Blu-ray which destroyed HD DVD.
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Jul 22, 2015 19:57
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hailthefish posted:The actual failure rate has to be much higher than that, between people just plain not bothering to fix theirs, and as you mentioned, the booming third party repair business for them. And those notorious "at home repairs" that voided your warranty. But if it was already out of that period, pop open the case and tape those pennies to that heat sink!
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Jul 23, 2015 12:22
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Enos Shenk posted:When I was a kid we had a hutch stereo a bit like this one here. Not exactly the same, but the same concept with a flip-up top covering a turntable and radio tuner. If you still use it via an adapter how is it obsolete. And there are a decent amount of people who are turning back to vinyls for their music listening habits, sure its on state of the art systems, but a vinyl record is uncompressed audio meaning for sound design work it is much better to work with then mp3 or FLAC. Just need a decent pin and clean vinyl on a new system to have an amazing sound.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:It was Dreamcast too. In one of the 10th anniversary threads it was stated that they would ban anyone who posted from the DC browser. I wonder if they still will
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Flipperwaldt posted:http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb14/articles/loudness-war.htm Most likely, I'm not at all an expert on the topic, a friend of mine does a lot of sound design work and told me about it a few years ago.
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Jul 24, 2015 13:50
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Lurking Haro posted:Have they thought about putting some kind of UV grease on the stuff people typical are stealing and setting up an UV light at the exit? Inb4 boss tells them to put UV grease on everything, now they go to a party and light up like a light.
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Jul 28, 2015 17:51
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Lurking Haro posted:Just use different colors, so it won't look like a recent murder. And if it is a rave, would fit in, maybe even become the life of the party.
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axolotl farmer posted:this was on the imgur front page I think some other forum out there is having a discussion about records too.
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Jul 29, 2015 18:47
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GreenNight posted:How dare they. There can only be one. Shun the non-believers, SHUN.
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Humphreys posted:I must have one of these. "Buy now! Only $99" Maybe for $10 I'd think about it. The website belongs on this thread too.
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Jul 30, 2015 11:47
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Wanamingo posted:Or a few days, in the case of both of my parents. My mom is still a holdout on getting a smart phone stating "why do I need to be always connects, you and your brother have a smart phone if I need something" even though we are both no longer around. Recently I got a Galaxy Note 4, and have been working at convincing her to get one since it wouldn't be much of a change from her Kindle Fire. Currently she has the Motorola Rush 2.
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Humboldt Squid posted:You can use voice recognition for texting on a smartphone if you don't want to look at the screen. When it decides to work. Say long message. Phone responds "I'm sorry I can't take any requests right now, please try again later." Much help you are Siri. Or the voice recognition software on your smartphone in general doesn't understand what you're saying and guesses completely wrong.
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pienipple posted:Google Now's voice recognition seems to work okay, not infallible but it's usually pretty close. I have the Moto 360 watch, and I set a timer for 10mins today while walking around at Quincy Market in Downtown Boston (relatively busy area for those of you that have never been or heard of it) and all I did was hold the watch up to my mouth and it picked it up perfectly.
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Aug 2, 2015 00:38
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WebDog posted:Gaming of the future as seen from 1979. Why can't we have a long distance board game like the one that is depicted there. Not one with a screen. Sure it be impractical now, and be obsolete, but we never had one in the evolution to where we are now in gaming technology. But if there were some in today's world, and they still worked, I wouldn't mind trying to pick a couple up. Though wouldn't be a radio transmitter, those have a finite range, stick a modem on it and dial a person up, now we're talking!
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Pham Nuwen posted:My wife has bet me that I can't use a non-smartphone for two weeks. I'm therefore looking at getting a flip phone on EBay; what's the best one you guys can recommend? I'm literally looking for the very best in obsolete technology. As hard as you are trying to win this bet, I wonder what she is willing to give up if you win the bet...
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Shampoo posted:You answered your own question. Government loves blackberries A: because they invested in the BES back when it was The Thing and B: they hate hate hate change. It's just like that vast number of companies that were still using Windows XP. Then Microsoft pulled to rug on them and gave them x number of months till XP would no longer be receiving security updates. That was a panic for them.
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themachine posted:If we're talking old phones, I miss my old LG Chocolate slider phone sometimes. Total garbage by today's standards, and I think even when it was relevant, it was more about style than being about performance. I just really liked the slide out motion on it, and I beat the hell out of it without ever using a case and it never failed. Even had it fall out of my pocket in a bar parking lot one night, sit out on the ground totally exposed while it rained all night, and when I went back the next day, it was perfectly fine still. A friend of mine had 2 of these, and slid both of them apart when opening them. Then she got a Motorola Juke 
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An Angry Bug posted:Little collapsible ones. Texas can get surprisingly chilly and windy in winter. 60 degrees isn't chilly E: And a dusting of snow shouldn't shut down the state Georgia
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KozmoNaut posted:The MicroTAC came right around when my dad started his one-man radiocommunication company (still in business today!), so of course we named our cat at the time after it. He was a feisty little bugger And they made an awesome clicking noise as you spun your phone around in them slowly.
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Jmcrofts posted:Speaking of obsolete phones, remember Tracfone? Apparently the company still exists, though I can't imagine who has one other than drug dealers. Dealers, terrorists, government agents, anyone who needs a quick "untrackable" phone that they can ditch afterwards without it coming back to them.
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robodex posted:Oh god, this reminds me of a "obsolete technology" that is thankfully dead/dying--giving carriers the ability to lock out core features on a whim on their "carrier-branded" phones. You still see it sometimes with Internet Tethering but the must frustrating thing about owning a dumbphone in the mid 2000s was having features like bluetooth hobbled because your carrier decided they didn't want you to have it. Or the time my Razr had the ability to set custom, non-purchased ringtones locked down. And now the smartphones are able to be rooted/jailbroken to eliminate these issues if needed.
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Inspector 34 posted:This is a few pages ago, but I loving loved Bleemcast. At the time I had a PS1 at one parents house and a DC at the other, so Bleemcast allowed me to play GT2 no matter where I was. I also had the RCA/VGA adapter so I could play DC on the computer monitor in my bedroom since I didn't have a tv in there. Good times. At least it was good times until I realized how bullshit NFL Blitz was, I'd be up by 35 points in the fourth quarter and it all the sudden became impossible to tackle anybody or complete a pass, causing me to lose game after game. Ended up putting a pretty good chip in the monitor screen when I finally lost my poo poo and threw the controller at the screen. Luckily, I'm an adult now and instead of throwing things I just yell at them so no possible harm can occur. Ahhh, NFL Blitz, what a good game
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Krispy Kareem posted:This was probably my favorite phone prior to the iPhone: DopeWars, wasn't that also the game that there was an emulator for on TI-83s?
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Magnus Praeda posted:I remember having like three different versions throughout high school, so probably several reimplementations. Then I went off to college and all my programs ended up being notes on probability/statistics. Indeed, and 4 calculators. 2 non-graphing, a TI-83 and a TI-89
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Tiberius Thyben posted:I had one phone once, but now I have a different phone. Exciting stuff! No way! Me too! 0dB posted:Fail. You should keep old poo poo phone to photograph with new phone and post here. I wouldn't be able to as I use old phone till it is pretty much dead, then I switch.
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JesustheDarkLord posted:so what was the point Wouldn't have been obsolete if it did?
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moller posted:I had a very similar toshiba and it was my second favorite laptop ever in terms of form factor/construction. Doesn't have SA loaded, don't recognize webpage.
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chitoryu12 posted:There's a story I read about a woman who called someone for help with her computer (I think a relative), hysterical that the mafia had hacked her computer. "No Grandma, that is so you can view por...... I mean look up things that you don't really want saved on your computer."
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:Did your school have a lil cold war around grade 7-8 where everybody was trying to outdo everyone else by having the thinnest discman? I still remember the day my friend came to school with a cd player that had those loving gumstick batteries. impossibly thin. Mine was a really fat one but it played MP3s and nobody really understood why that was so cool or why I only had one CD. My parents bought me the below CD player around that age bracket that using atrac file formating, I could have a CD that had all of Metallica's discography on it up to St. Anger and the album structure remained intact. So I was able to listen to The Black Album on repeat if I wanted to. Then jump to a different album.  Was also fun to push the button inside that registered that the lid was closed to open it while the disk was spinning and hold a sharpie to the cd to draw spiral designs on the disks.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Hate to say it, but it makes sense. Competing with free pornography online is a race to the bottom and damages their non-nude content, which still has some value. I'm just waiting for the people who refuse to get naked in media to start lining up for playboy now that they are going PG-13
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