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Mr. Mallory posted:One of my friends was just saying this to me but I just don't understand what could possibly be so much better. You know the satisfying feeling of popping bubblewrap, clicking a gum tin/box open and closed all the time or the sound of bricks clinking together? Add them together and you have what a mechanical keyboard feels like with every keystroke.
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tacodaemon posted:That's because it's a restyled mirror of someone else's website from 1997 that originally looked like this. You know, I somewhat miss the internet of 10+ years ago. Poorly designed.. but there was HEART AND PASSION.. and flaming skulls!
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Sir_Substance posted:I don't want to destroy the chip, that's a far better way of paying then the magnetic strip, it's only the RFID I don't want. Ah you do realize you are given a reasonable amount of time to declare cards stolen and this applied to your card before paywave came into fashion right? It sounds like you're in Australia where there's an immense amount of consumer protection for this kind of stuff. The onus is on the banks, stop worrying so much.
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homewrecker posted:After doing some housecleaning this weekend, I found my brother's old MiniDisc recorder as well as 5 blank MiniDiscs. I'd love to use it just for the novelty but recording music onto the discs is an annoying process when pretty much all of my music collection is in a digital format on my PC. I'm not surprised that they didn't have a chance against flash and HDD MP3 players, but I find it interesting that Sony continued to ship MiniDisc Walkmans up until late 2011. Outside Japan they were still pretty popular as a recording medium for just about anything from music to voice etc.. I remember doing documentary projects with these things as late as 07 and the sound quality was still drat good for portable recording.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Wearable computers OF THE FUTURE! gently caress its weird seeing Beyond2000 with an american presenter. That show ran for like 15 years here in Australia and never really knew it was popular overseas.
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Tetanus is a bacteria that lives in the ground. Cutting yourself on rusty metal lying the ground might require a Tetanus shot but the razor blades in your wall wont have any on them.
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Dick Trauma posted:Those lovely tiny negatives made 110 look good. Its a pretty big thing that people overlooked when film was being "miniaturized" in the late 90's to try and compete with the beginnings of digital. Chemical film size plays a huge part in the clarity of the image, particularly if you're trying to keep costs within a reasonable limit. Small was just plain shittier then 35mm. Does anyone have any recent experience in film photography art? Digitial may be far superior for everyday and professional use but darkroom work was one of the highlights of my school days in the early 2000's and would hate for people to miss out on it now because of digital.
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Im not even sure photo chemicals are that toxic to ingest anyway (dont do it anyway) because as you said, they act on silver compounds which we dont have any of as far as I know. Que a chemist coming in to explain why such chemicals will turn your insides into solid matter or something. I will say I dont miss the process of spooling the drat film into the developing container totally blind. Those ratchet teeth bits never quite worked all the time. Nutsngum has a new favorite as of 20:25 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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Apr 23, 2015 20:23
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Humphreys posted:The best/worst advertisement for Minidisc and Sony product in general was: I never realized just how much Sony placement was in that video.
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pienipple posted:Google Now's voice recognition seems to work okay, not infallible but it's usually pretty close. Yeah its surprisingly accurate now. As in I can speak normal sentences into it and it gets it 95% of the time.
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Aug 1, 2015 18:55
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WebDog posted:I kind of miss the days of Nokia's devil may care insanity with their designs. If there was a niche, they attempted to capture it in any way. First phone was the 3310 which was just a fantastic testament to well built design and then the "Navigator" slide phone which I still have sitting around and likely still works fantastically. The navigator had a great form factor actually and the usability was just super nice. Its drat amazing just how much Apple killed Nokia post Iphone release considering Nokia was THE phone manufacturer for a solid decade. Had they jumped on board to the Android uprising from the get go instead of stubbornly trying to make Symbian a relevant OS they might have taken the spot that Samsung currently holds.
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Aug 5, 2015 18:13
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Count Chocula posted:Some people have no credit so they just Facebook. Some people don't have your number. I am not entirely sure books are going to become an obsolete medium entirely. The difference is that books form a tactile "experience" when reading that a lot of people like whereas CDs/VHS etc.. are simply storage mediums and arent really part of the actual experience short of the quality they can provide. Perhaps I am to conservative with my multimedia consumption though as I still buy physical albums I want to listen to and buy actual books to read.
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Aug 20, 2015 18:40
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Jerry Cotton posted:Physical books have never been threatened by e-books in the non-Anglophone markets. Thats an interesting point as well. Books at the end of the day are dependent on no infrastructure past their initial printing and transport. Zonekeeper posted:The main thing I like physical books for is being able to easily flip between two non-adjacent pages at a whim. So books where you may want easy access to multiple pages at once like technical manuals, textbooks, game guides and Tabletop RPG books are far better in physical form than in e-reader form. Completely agree with this as well. I also appreciate the art put into such books a lot more when physically holding them.
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Tunicate posted:
Holy crap, is that drawn in 2015? The disconnect from reality is just boggling.
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Sep 26, 2015 19:58
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JnnyThndrs posted:No poo poo. Free public libraries and for-profit bookstores lived quite successfully together for well over a hundred years; the decline of bookstores JUST HAPPENED to dovetail with cheap online booksellers and the rising popularity of e-books. Funny coincidence, that is. I would be interested in really finding out if bookstore are really suffering that badly or the case of Borders failing due largely because of corporate competence creating a bit of a misunderstood case. Mainly because here in Australia, the other main bookstore chain Dymocks has continued to be quite successful and even your local corner bookshops still seem to be largely operating fine.
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point of return posted:Last I heard, they're not doing as well as pre-Amazon, but they're surviving. The funny thing about the collapse of Borders is that it had less to do with being in the print books business and more to do with their expansion into the CD business. Another thing really is that printing books is well... pretty loving cheap to be honest. There's a reason why unsold books just have the cover ripped off and are then basically dumped. That said Ive never really seen the profit margin of your average bookstore but the product itself is about as cheap as you can get to produce considering the cost attached and the authors mostly getting dick all from the sales.
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flosofl posted:The physical printing is a tiny part of the cost of publishing a book. Transportation and logististic costs are not negligible. Humphreys posted:A lot of that is also to do with the shipping costs involved to return whole books. The ripped covers are what the retailers return to the publisher/distributor/whoever and the book tossed. My friends and I as cheeky teenagers heard of this practice and would raid dumpsters behind the local Newsagency to get our hands on the sweet sweet softcore porno magazines. Yes thanks guys, I do understand all that but my point is that you have an inherent very cheap product in which the physical worth isnt even enough to bother transporting back if unsold. When youre talking about a product that is likely made in the realm of cents and sold at rrp over $20 regularly then you have a high margin of profit once all is said and done. And as you said, Ebooks still suffer from otherwise the same overheads in editing and the like. GreenNight posted:I have boxes and boxes of old STTNG books from my youth that I'm too embarrassed to take to a used book store. Ebay that poo poo. Theres plenty of nerds out there to collect those things and they generally fetch reasonable amounts per books. Krispy Kareem posted:When we last moved I got a couple of big boxes for my wife. One was a wardrobe box. Probably small in terms of wardrobe boxes but absolutely gravitationally altering massive for books. That was a fun experience. Banana boxes from the supermarket are the best boxes for books. Strong as poo poo and carry handles as well. Nutsngum has a new favorite as of 18:20 on Oct 1, 2015 |
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GreenNight posted:None of these Trek paperbacks are worth anything on eBay. There are shelves full of them down at the used book store. They are in boxes next to my Dragonlance books. drat, first time nerds have failed in their collecting duties. Ill give you 400 quatloos for the softcovers.
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Instant Sunrise posted:A lot people in the video world used to use it back in the days of DV (something else that can go in this thread). When I was at film school, everybody had a Firewire hard drive to keep their projects on. The fact that it used a hardware controller made it less likely to drop frames during capture with the hardware of the time. We used the poo poo out of DV tapes back at university (05 - 07) and I do not miss the transfer process one bit. Firewire made it somewhat smoother but I sometimes had to use USB when at home and needed the footage right there and then and that was a horrid proccess.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm sure those lines are meant to make it easier for the neophyte programmer but to me they're having the opposite effect. The problem is it makes you want to read down the page at the same time so you start reading almost diagonally. If you were typing it out letter by letter youde likely be fine though.
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Shifty Pony posted:Has there been any mention in the thread about the time before the modern stapler? This is an awesome post btw. Just wondering how many sheets of paper was the effective maximum for these kinds of devices? Staplers can pretty much handle dozens of sheets deepening on their size.
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WebDog posted:Lest we forget the visual nightmares of WindowBlinds skins. Which I admit was hot poo poo back in 2000 when you could "turn" Windows 98 into a look-a-like XP or Mac OS. Theres something about XP that just feels really comforting looking back now. Probably as that was the time I built my first PC that could actually run modern games.
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Gaz2k21 posted:There were a few different types of VCD floating about I remember being able to download KVCD files which would burn onto one CD and would usually fit a full length single film in pretty good quality, i think me and my housemates wore out a few copies of Tony Jaa's film Tom Yum Goong in that format. We generally called these simply "DivX" rips going back 10+ years. Was genuingly surprising you could get 90% dvd quality fit onto a 70min cd. Goes to show how antiquated the DVD compression format really was.
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Imagined posted:I would just get a Sandisk Clip. They're cheap enough that if you lose one you won't cry, they have good capacity, and they work with Rockbox if you want to fiddle with that. My only complaint is that they're almost TOO tiny. Also a bonus is they don't attract the eye of thieves like Apple devices. I agree in that they are too small. I got one to replace my Sony walkman mp3 player that was a fantastic player up until it broke entirely but the screen is really just too small to use in the car at all and rockbox isnt really UI friendly enough to be usable without looking at it.. which is something I dont want to do whilst driving.
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Humphreys posted:Obsolete tech related. Anyone remember Bom Funk MCs? Did they have any more music videos then Freestyler?
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Exit Strategy posted:I went from being a Linux server admin to being a Windows 2012R2 admin, and the sheer lack of intelligible scripting and task automation in what's supposedly a server-grade OS is astounding. Making that migration actually made me quit IT forever. It was definitely a pretty interesting piece of design the Gyrojet but ultimately was an attempt to answer a question that didn't exist. The major problem it and every other type of alternative weapon (say laser/energy and magnetic based etc..) is that bullets and guns are just a very simple, efficient and very cheap way of killing someone. If you study how guns actually work you begin to see just how well engineered most are and exactly why there has basically been barely any true improvements to them for a hundred years. Seriously, a modern army rifle is basically all technology designed at the turn of last century.. just refined immensely.
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mng posted:The next big thing will probably be a thing like case-less ammunition. One more step towards the M4A1 pulse rifle Caseless has already been and gone. Several issues with caseless. 1.Fragile ammunition. Your bullets REALLY need to be able to survive environmental exposure and be reliable and hard to damage. Caseless had the powder as a solid shell around the bullet which was prone to cracking and flaking and potential water damage. 2. Overly complex weapon. The actual functional guns they built were really very complex machines which themselves were more prone to malfunction and in turn no ejection port made it harder to clear jams and other issues. It becomes a problem when your ammo has cracked in half inside the chamber and your gun wont go into battery and becomes dangerous. 3. Cases have their own advantages. Firstly, cases tend to expand under firing which helps seal gases into the barrel and propel the bullet efficiently. Secondly and something people dont realize is that the case acts in itself as a "heatsink" that is then extracted from the weapon which helps cool down its operation. The H&K G11s had issues with overheating barrels because they are so sealed up the entire thing just becomes an oven. This isnt to say that stuff like that couldn't be fixed with different chemical compounds and better ways to put it all together but that bit of brass and primer ultimately is just a very good way of doing a task. Edit, beaten.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I use one of these at work: Some weird part of my brain really wants to try this.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Self-checkouts are great if you only need one or two things and grandma isn't in front of you taking several millennia to ring up her produce, but recently there's been this bullshit thing going around social media that essentially says "The employee working at the self checks has to ring up your order at her private register if you go to her! Take advantage of this if all the other registers are full!" so now if there's a problem with my order at the self-checks I get to wait a half hour while she processes an entire cart full of poo poo for someone who thinks he or she is so fuckin' clever I would enjoy seeing their faces when they get told no, go line up with everyone else.
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sirbeefalot posted:If you don't mind paying like $800 for some little bracket, sure. That will break anyway due to being considerably weaker then a milled or forged part.
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So the USA is basically the very worst of obsolete and failed technology?
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WebDog posted:Anything higher starts entering the uncanny valley of super crisp where our brains find it hard to parse because we are used to some level of motion blur naturally. I would disagree with this. I think its all about comparison to what we are used to. When 60fps video started coming to Youtube it looked WAY off and not right to me but I just kind of got used to it and now it just seems smoother and nice now. I do agree that 24fps is right about where the individual frames become smooth enough for natural motion and film was super expensive so dont wanna use too much if we can help it!
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Collateral Damage posted:Techmoan is great. This is why the engineer guy is so great https://www.youtube.com/user/engineerguyvideo/videos *edit for proper link. Concise and to the point and really gives a decent fundamental explanation to the engineering behind common devices. Pro click. Jerry Cotton posted:I don't like his voice at all but my main problem is that he spends more time going on about how terrible some design (or implementation) is than saying anything remotely interesting or useful. Yeah the water toxic tester thing linked above is a prime example. Didnt once explain what it was actually doing, just went on about how dangerous it was. Should have taken him 5 seconds to explain it was basically shooting rust into the water through electrolysis. Nutsngum has a new favorite as of 20:29 on Aug 28, 2016 |
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Light Gun Man posted:The worst re-occuring scifi prop are these loving things Hellooooo Borg alcove thingy.
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WickedHate posted:Cyberpunk aesthetic is kind of an outdated future in it's own way, like a raygun gothic for the eighties. Johnny Mnemonic was all about like, being able to store entire kilobytes in your head. Micro VHS tapes. Cars with gull wing doors. I dunno about what the original story said but from memory the movie had him "doubling" his internal memory from 60gigabytes up to 120 or thereabouts. It seems "silly" now of course but it at least is still well within the realm of a usable amount of storage even today.
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spog posted:Really a pro-click when he goes into the quality of the mp3 files and encoding. Plus Techmoan cross over!
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BalloonFish posted:Has The Secret Life of Machines come up in this thread? Watching the lightbulb one, its amazing just how much of a game changer LED lighting has become over the last 5 years or so. We had (at least in Australia) the period where the downsized fluorescent lights became popular for almost a decade but still suffered from breakage and poor/shoddy build quality. Suddenly LED has become standard in a form that is just superior in every way to its predecessors. They are a magnitude more efficient, smaller to a huge degree if you so want it, available in every single possible colour just about and sometimes variable, and a longevity in the decades.
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ugh whatever jeez posted:LED bulbs suck, still so much more expensive, often have weird color temps, get dimmer over time and break just as well, even expensive ones I dunno, ive never really had these problems. Perhaps buy better electricity? 
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Lurking Haro posted:There were no powerful blue or ultraviolet LEDs until the mid-90s. White LEDs are just those with a bit of phosphor to generate the rest of the spectrum, but you couldn't make a flashlight with the earlier ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoTALRhAqWc Interesting LGR video about blue LEDs.
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