|
Jibo posted:This makes me think of the time a couple of years ago where manufacturers were making a big hoopla about apps for your TV for Twitter and Facebook and poo poo. You don't really see that as an advertised feature any more, probably because it's kind of dumb.
|
#
¿
Dec 21, 2012 22:13
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 26, 2024 21:21 |
|
|
Jibo posted:Pandora and Netflix are pretty different from Twitter and Facebook. My post was about how companies were using Facebook access as a selling point for televisions. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 23:13 on Dec 21, 2012 |
|
#
¿
Dec 21, 2012 23:09
|
|
|
KozmoNaut posted:Oh yeah I remember those, they were called ShowView codes here. Combined with a program-sensing VCR they actually worked pretty well. Here's a Wikipedia article on them.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 22, 2014 23:27
|
|
|
Computer viking posted:Sure, but those don't get most fields pre-filled through the magic of the IRS already knowing almost everything about you. But yeah, why do we have to go through all the trouble of filling that poo poo out when the IRS will *definitely* tell you exactly how much you owe them regardless of what you put in your tax return. You thought you were getting a refund of X? Well anyway you have to pay us Y *loving NOW*. Just send a loving bill or a check then, jesus christ.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 10, 2014 18:42
|
|
|
Nostrum posted:This is a terrible quality video, but BMW e39 5 series cars with the nav system had this insanely stupid and complex mechanism for revealing the cassette deck. Imagine the level of German engineering that went into creating this dumb thing for a format that no one gives a poo poo about. The nav system was only available from 2001-2004. WELL past the point anyone would care: 
|
|
#
¿
May 7, 2014 15:28
|
|
|
Imagined posted:Can we please keep talking about vi and emacs for like five more pages oh yeeeaaah.
|
|
#
¿
May 15, 2014 15:36
|
|
|
nullscan posted:Seconding this for Korea. The ATMs will even take it in and update all your transactions automatically. Pretty slick even if I rarely use it. edit: For the record, my wife works at a bank here in the US, and they still use bank books as well. Or more accurately, old people use them. They're called "passbooks". SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 14:55 on Sep 9, 2014 |
|
#
¿
Sep 9, 2014 13:54
|
|
|
duckmaster posted:I remember at school in about 1998/1999 our computer teacher telling us about ridiculously expensive RAM was and how criminals, at least in the UK, would break into offices and just rip the RAM out of computers. He even showed us a video about this! My first computer had 5MB RAM after I upgraded it. It was just enough for Windows 3.11 and AOL. I eventually got Windows NT 4 on there before I scrapped it. I also got Windows 95 on there when it came out, but had to transfer CAB files from my parent's computer spanned over two floppies apiece, which took a long loving time. Man, even typing MB seems wrong. My phone has 400 times the RAM of my first computer. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 16:02 on Nov 25, 2014 |
|
#
¿
Nov 25, 2014 15:58
|
|
|
Computer viking posted:Nah, they genuinely held more data.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 24, 2015 06:29
|
|
|
Computer viking posted:e:
|
|
#
¿
Mar 13, 2015 20:05
|
|
|
EDI makes me want to puke, how perfect. It's literally like the worst you can do before someone says "we need to start over asap". What's that, the customer accidentally changed the format of the files and don't know how to change it back in their software from 1987? And their big sale is TOMORROW?! Can they just hand type all 40k new prices instead because it will be faster than trying to decipher the new 400MB of garbage shitfiles they are trying to send us? I had an old coworker who specialized in Clipper and still thought EDI was bad. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 15:59 on May 10, 2015 |
|
#
¿
May 10, 2015 15:54
|
|
|
My Lovely Horse posted:I recently got into Spotify and I'm torn between "this is fantastic" and "but what if they ever lose a license or the business folds or or". I mean, I remember other services that I used to use a lot and none of those is around anymore, meanwhile I've still got MP3s on my hard drive that I remember ripping years before then. I'm hesitant to really rely on streaming services but I'm definitely discovering a lot of good stuff through Spotify. Yesterday I liked a song during some TV show's credits, and without even moving I had figured out what it was, legally purchased it, and downloaded it to my NAS before the credits ended. If there's anything to be worried about it's how easy that was. And that was only because I'm a loving loser with only a CD player in my car instead of a bluetooth-equipped system. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 21:27 on May 11, 2015 |
|
#
¿
May 11, 2015 21:19
|
|
|
Obviously that's a perfect reason. It's more likely those tracks will be on at least one service eventually, whereas the chance of your accessible collection dropping is pretty small though. On the other hand, my current opinion of my musical taste from 15 years ago is not very good. I'm willing to lose a little for the sake of sweeping up.
|
|
#
¿
May 11, 2015 21:41
|
|
|
DoctorWhat posted:why would anyone willingly use up a data plan rather than storing their music locally? Music doesn't take up much space on a modern 32 or 64gb ipod/iphone/android device.
|
|
#
¿
May 12, 2015 14:57
|
|
|
I noticed Google maps added very specific lane instructions. Use the middle lane to turn right, and so on. Very handy for me on a recent trip to San Francisco. On the cab ride from the airport I noticed the car's GPS didn't. That's the real killer for the standalone GPS unit - even a 'simple' feature might be a full firmware update...might even have to plug it in to something. But if it does anything else it's just a lovely tablet at most. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 04:00 on May 13, 2015 |
|
#
¿
May 13, 2015 03:48
|
|
|
I loved sliding the window title bars around in BeOS. They even had some Mac and Windows looking themes and I think an Amiga one. Had no multiuser support which was becoming more important at the time though. Clean API and neat filesystem.
|
|
#
¿
May 15, 2015 00:37
|
|
|
Pham Nuwen posted:I mostly use my HP-48, though. RPN is so clearly better. It's basically functional programming and allows more natural breakdown of operations. It's why I can still understand some of the math I learned a long time ago.
|
|
#
¿
May 21, 2015 00:32
|
|
|
Fooley posted:I guess there's still the anonymity side of it though.
|
|
#
¿
May 28, 2015 16:28
|
|
|
Vanagoon posted:People still want to run as root and do ignorant poo poo like turn UAC completely off. Why can't I install probablyavirus.msi? I turned off that stupid UAC thing.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 4, 2015 12:56
|
|
|
Besesoth posted:No, I'm keeping settings in AppData where they belong, and I'm only reading from and writing to a folder in my account's user directory. (It's just a dumb little program that HTMLizes text files.) Give yourself the required access, or tell the app not to ask.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 4, 2015 16:15
|
|
|
Museums do that, and it's probably common in any industry where film preservation is ongoing. While googling that to be sure I did find and interesting paper on using processed crab protein as an edible coating for cod preservation which may make other edible fish coatings an obsolete technology.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 5, 2015 03:37
|
|
|
Vanagoon posted:I'm grandpa I guess but I like having an actual OS disc in the event the computer gets hosed. BTW the internet is that thing your grandkids are using instead of listening to you when they visit.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 7, 2015 18:43
|
|
|
Collateral Damage posted:Not quite. But there's a "modern" implementation of Microsoft QBasic availble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QB64 Then I wrote a somewhat functional game in QBasic when I got home, programatically drawing tiles and sprites and then capturing the memory for use in the game, and using some DOS/BIOS functions to give me enough headroom to run AI and animations while drawing bitmaps all over the screen. I still keep QBasic around just for fun sometimes. The DOS-based early VB stuff was fun to mess with in my highschool QBasic class too. For our requisite "Game of Life" I made mine a fully GUI application with mouse support for clicking on cells, with realtime readouts of population, death rate, etc. So much work just to make a mouse cursor show up! I miss QBasic sometimes.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 11, 2015 14:59
|
|
|
I know one of the points was to use "real" QBasic but holy poo poo at drawing sprites with PSET. The funny thing is, with a modern computer, it can probably actually keep up.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 11, 2015 15:48
|
|
|
Vanagoon posted:
Rental tapes were pretty heavy duty compared to the real trash you'd find in a store. If they were just played without incident and rewound properly, I imagine they would last for 10+ years of rental use easily. This of course hinges on the tape not getting food in it, completely unspooled by a child, cut with scissors by an adult, chewed on, used in a VCR that currently had food in it, rewound with a drill, etc. Usually people would tell us if "their kid" hosed up the tape and we'd check it, or at least mark it on the tape itself. Still, people often brought tapes back and complained they wouldn't play and then hand us an armful of crumpled brown plastic and an empty cassette. Or we'd just skim through it on a high-speed deck real quick and find it and fix it, for the minor problems like "this one scene in Titanic completely goes fuzzy" (yes the nude scene). I pushed SO HARD for quickly adopting DVDs when they started to be viable. My boss gave in and got a few DVD players, I hooked one up to show people how much better it looked, and we rented out the players a lot, often for free to good customers. It was mainly to get tapes out of my life.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 13, 2015 15:10
|
|
|
Halt and Catch Fire is pretty good though.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 30, 2015 19:50
|
|
|
Eponine posted:I was just watching Halt and Catch Fire this weekend when I saw the calculator that my engineer parents made me use in 2001:
|
|
#
¿
Jul 5, 2015 15:45
|
|
|
I don't want to carry a bunch of loving coins around. I barely carry any cash these days anyway, but having a few small bills is handy, while I literally never take change anywhere but the bank or a coinstar.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 14, 2015 16:39
|
|
|
pookel posted:I hate self-serve. Cashiers are about 3x faster than I am, and are better at bagging. I just want them to do it.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 15, 2015 15:48
|
|
|
ranbo das posted:Chip and Pin is going to be the de facto swap to chip and pin for the USA, although from a consumer's point of view I never got the fuss. Doesn't that just mean that you have to memorize a new pin for each credit card you own? Seems like a hassle for pretty much no benefit to me. I get that corporations and companies benefit, so I can see why they'd like it.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2015 19:45
|
|
|
KozmoNaut posted:I love each and everyone of these videos where a colorblind person gets to finally see colors, or a deaf person gets to hear, or the one where they put glasses on a baby and she lights up like a goddamn beacon at seeing her parents' faces. You can't exactly toss a cochlear implant into someone's head and be like "happy birthday lol!". edit: This one is great. The dude is trying so hard to act cool about it until he flips his poo poo over some flowers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJ0vM17M7o SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 21:15 on Jul 16, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2015 20:37
|
|
|
I love my 40v electric mower. It came with two batteries, which is more than enough to do my front and back yards with room to spare. It folds up, can be stored in any orientation, weighs much less and is relatively quiet. Using gasoline in a residential lawnmower is obsolete tech.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 19, 2015 19:02
|
|
|
mng posted:I just installed it, as I was pretty annoyed at Google's keyboard I had installed previously. It was supposed to be better than Samsung's own, but I found the swype function to be a lot less accurate. SwiftKey seems slick, though.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 11, 2015 16:07
|
|
|
Computer viking posted:Uh, I thought the US had joined the rest of us in "unlimited SMS included in most plans"?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 21, 2015 13:59
|
|
|
TinTower posted:The only support I've had to give my parents with their Mac mini is printer issues. Which affect everyone; just ask SH/SC.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 2, 2015 15:36
|
|
|
The thing with USB daisy chaining was always a bandwidth problem. A keyboard was fine. A mouse was fine. Either one could hang low enough to not be a problem. Two hard drives was and still would be a serious fight with one controller and DMA. Firewire had hardware all over the place which was always going to simplify things at the other end, but also cost more. Enough to put it in a separate "pro-sumer" price range that was never the commodity licensing scheme that the 90s economic model required.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 7, 2015 02:33
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:A standards of measurement change is no small thing and it's easy from my experience to understand the unwillingness old timers have to embrace Metric. Things worked fine for us as individuals so it was hard to see any benefit to switching. I was in England not long after the decimilisation of their currency and it was a similarly interesting mess. I understand that 1000m = 1km and how that's all super great, but that convertibility is not useful in daily life. It really, really doesn't matter that the distance between places can be divided or multiplied by 10 easily. And water freezing at 0 degrees and boiling at 100 is also equally meaningless to daily life. There just isn't a tangible benefit. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 19:56 on Oct 15, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Oct 15, 2015 19:53
|
|
|
I think the one thing we can agree on is that decimal time is stupid. Our planet, the sun, the moon and our tilted axis provide our built-in physical base 12 time system. Of course, that relationship only specifically applies to our planet...so feel free to quote me and laugh in a hundred years. "Earth based time system? Isn't that like having a time system based on prebiotic volcanic vent eruptions?"
|
|
#
¿
Oct 16, 2015 14:22
|
|
|
Plinkey posted:It's actually way more fascinating than that. If you're interested buy this book:
|
|
#
¿
Oct 16, 2015 21:00
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 26, 2024 21:21 |
|
|
Light Gun Man posted:Beats time rules for setting up parties in MMOs, as PSO showed us.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 18, 2015 01:23
|
|