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kith_groupie posted:We still have Teletex in The Netherlands as well. When I first moved her it confused me to come extent, partially cause I couldn't read Dutch yet ("Pagina? Is that your word for vagina?") and partially because my idiot-rear end ex couldn't explain it properly to me. Oh man that is dead and gone isn't it? I remember being so pissed as a kid when it said beast wars was on and it ended up being soaps.
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Joyball is a fantastic term that I'm going to work into regular conversation.
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Treguna Mekoides posted:According to Mat Honan at WIRED ( :wank: ), the password is now obsolete technology. I can't see the password going away any time soon, I just think better web-surfing hygiene and encryption is necessary. Thoughts? At my job we would love to be rid of passwords. No matter what rules we put out for passwords people always manage to find a way to gently caress it up. If we just set a minimum character limit they make their passwords something dumb like password, their last name, their birthday, or kids names. If we require them to be more complicated they leave the password on sticky notes tapes under their desks. Biometrics would be neat. If you're willing to cut someone's thumb off to look at their email go for it.
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mystes posted:What if the building had to be evacuated for some reason? (Incredibly unlikely, I'm sure, but still.) Didn't some people get trapped in a vault, or at least a secure door, in Atlantic City during hurricane Sandy? Maybe it's "Look kid, here's a bottle of water and some canned ravioli. If you have to pee use the bottle. If you have to poo poo...don't poo poo."
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Radio Help posted:I remember one that was marketed towards Christians that had an insane content filter built into it (like it would block a page if the page said "Rap music" on it), but I can't remember what it was called. Are really bad content filters for public computers still a thing? I remember the one in my old high-school pissing off the girls in home ec because if a page said breast it was blocked and you got an automatic detention for trying to access a blocked page. Looking up a chicken breast recipe for class? lol sorry bitch see you from three to five on friday! I think my college just doesn't have any sort of filter at all because I've seen kids looking at literal porn a few times on school computers.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Looking at those pictures reminded me of another obsolete car tech: When I was a kid my mom had a mid 90s Ford Focus with auto seat belts. That thing tried to kill me all the time.
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Nostrum posted:Yeah I had a Moto Q at the time (actually a pretty drat good phone, all things considered) and I remember pulling the My first smartphone was a Blackberry Curve, don't remember the model number. It had that stupid scroll ball though that broke really quick, then the phone would just refuse to let me know I got calls sometimes until I restarted it. I replaced it with an iPhone 3G, I think shortly after the 3GS released actually, and was blown away. When I was stuck at work doing nothing I was able to browse the internet and play silly games which just blew me away at the time.It was amazing to me that I could do so much with a phone, and the fact that there was an app for everything was the coolest part. I also started to really text a lot for the first time with that phone because the keyboard was so much better than the one on a blackberry. So I guess that's an outdated technology, hardware keyboards on phones. Every single one I ever used was slower and more difficult to type accurately on, plus eventually keys got dust and gunk under, got stuck, or just fell off. Even worse was typing on a regular old number pad before hand. Remember T9 and keyboard shortcuts? Hell, I think even common abbreviations are dying out in texts now thanks to autocomplete, spellcheck, and easier keyboards
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KozmoNaut posted:T9 with predictive text is still the best way to text I absolutely can't use swipe and don't know how anyone does. I had it on my previous phone, tried it for a bit, and just couldn't get used to it.
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Cage posted:This is terrible. GTA:SA has a shitload of cheats, probably over 60. Stuff like turning on riot mode, changing wanted stars, flying cars, making all the cars pink, any car your car touches will explode. GTA:IV had maybe 10 and they're just car spawning or weapons/armor. GTA:V has a couple. Spawn weapons, cars, flying, and a few others.
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axolotl farmer posted:Large files were often divided into chunks of 25M each in a split .rar archive. And even today some places still annoyingly do this, especially if you're downloaded something immediately after it airs. Not quite that small but it's still common to see hour long shows broken into 20 or so .rars. How far piracy has come really is amazing, you no longer have to worry about downloading what you think is the Simpsons and getting hosed up porn or an exotic second world virus. Well not as much as in the kazaa and napster days.
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