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 These pieces of crap. Hard to find and extremely expensive. I have a film camera that I simply can't use because I can only get those batteries online and they're too pricey to justify trying to practice film photography
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8th-snype posted:So buy them on Amazon? Lithium batteries last forever, I change the CR123s in my Surefire flashlight maybe once a year. Here in the Netherlands at least, I've found them online for about 20 euros a pair, only in one or two stores. I simply can't find them. Also, when I used to play with this camera, the batteries would last very little. As for "teaching", I already know photography, and regularly shoot concerts with my 7D and an array of lenses (in manual, since the other guy assumed I can't use a loving camera). This is an old SLR camera, not a point and shoot, I just thought it'd fun to try to apply my knowledge to film photography. I never thought people would get defensive about a rare lithium battery format. Redrum and Coke has a new favorite as of 08:16 on Aug 11, 2013 |
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8th-snype posted:Sorry you don't live in a place with real online stores. My point still stands, if 20 of your fake european dollars is too much for batteries you won't be happen paying for development or scanning either. Congrats on knowing how to use a digital camera by the way. I honestly don't know you're desperately trying to be such a oval office for no reason. Then I remembered that this is the internet. The smug smiley goes very well with you. I'm sure your film pictures are much better than any of the digital photos that are used by most photographer out there. I'm looking forward to see your Time magazine/newsweek cover. mrkillboy posted:Here's something I was thinking about last night: webrings. What happened to them? My theory is that it wasn't so much the rise of social media but rather the improvement of search engines. If I recall correctly, webrings would allow you to just find other related sites (that were part of the "ring"), something that was no long necessary once you could simply type your terms on Google and get fairly accurate hits. Nowadays Stumbleupon can work a bit as a webring, in the sense of just automatically taking you to sites that are related to the site you're looking at. In other news. That colorful DOS-like screen that so many people here apparently had on their TVs (the name escapes me right now)? The other day I discovered that it's not only alive and kicking in the Netherlands, but you can even get an Android App to check it.
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Aug 11, 2013 14:09
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Radio Help posted:Holy poo poo, you both suck. Shut up. What is it? Are they like coupon dispensers? It reminds me of some machines I saw at some hotels when I was a kid, where you'd pick a certain sight-seeing place and it'd print some information about it. I would print EVERYTHING... so, yeah, you and I are responsible for deforestation I guess. 
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Aug 11, 2013 17:42
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My first console/computer (only used it for games anyway). Atari 65XE. I remember that you'd have to rewind the tapes, and then play them, as the Atari would load the "blocks". Some games had like 600 blocks and they'd throw an error when only 1 block remained! Still, I loved the poo poo out of it.
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Aug 13, 2013 03:01
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Riptor posted:While we're talking car audio poo poo, I just want goddamned bluetooth in my 2006 ford taurus. Does a thing exist where you can plug it into your cigarette adaptor, it connects to your phone's bluetooth, then re-broadcasts that over FM to your radio? Because I want something like that If you're going to just transmit fm, you might as well just buy an fm transmitter and connect it to the audio jack of your phone.
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moller posted:Also you should move to the middle of Siberia to ensure that your FM transmitter will function. That'd be the same regardless of the Bluetooth though.
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Riptor posted:well thats what I do currently. it would just be nice to have a bluetooth connection rather than the wired connection The Bluetooth option might kill your battery faster though, since you'll be using the lighter for the Bluetooth transmitter. gently caress radios without a line in plug..
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This was my first computer. You people with floppy disks had it better.  I can't find any images or videos of it, but when you loaded a game it would say something like "100 blocks remaining", and it would slowly countdown to zero. If there were any errors it'd ask you to rewind 5 blocks or so, over and over. I played these games a lot: Cobra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH3GDbzPTXo Tapper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqku3pQGTw0 Zorro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQnbYkoEQk Popeye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMm4rQQ-O-M Montezuma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zbg9rs5QZY EDIT: My first "proper" PC was an IBM Aptiva (can't remember the model) It came with these games: Pitfall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAv9Y4LB-Fs Cyberia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-3kGq6RKYo My brother and I didn't speak English at all, so we had no idea what it said. Looking back, cute memories. EDIT: PC was LIKE this one (might be a slightly different model though) 
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taiyoko posted:Are you thinking of the Rainbow vacuums? THE ROCKETEER
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Nutsngum posted: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. I've heard that people used to get it from rusty nails, usually from horseshoes. The association persists with rusty metal, even though the origin was the contamination of the nails.
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Going back to the Kazaa topic: I once downloaded a documentary on the middle east. It turned out to be a video of Japanese girls eating poo poo.
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Since there's a lot of interest in film, I recommend the documentary Side by Side. It features interviews with directors and cinematographers regarding film, digital, etc. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_by_Side_%282012_film%29
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insta posted:Some beechwood wooden knobs will warm and open those hands significantly That's pretty true. Rher s no discernible difference between flac and 320, but audiophiles swear by them.
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Humphreys posted:I think it was in this thread - but whoever recommended the documentary 'Side by Side' about Film vs. Digital...WOW what a great story. Loved it. It was me, and I'm glad you liked it. I really thought it was amazing too.
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Jun 23, 2015 01:28
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And what about "organic" food? We're all. Carbon-based goddammit! Even worse in Netherlands, France and Germany, where they call it "biological" food.
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Jun 28, 2015 13:38
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Organic, gluten free and paleo.
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carry on then posted:Oh man, then there came Adobe AIR. What about GNU which stands for. GNU is not UNIX
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Humphreys posted:Behold this innovation from Australia Post! Wait? A digital mail system? Like electronic mail? drat, that is innovative as gently caress!
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Collateral Damage posted:We have a similar thing in Sweden, with the You feel that it would be more secure to have a minimum wage employee at the post office open your confidential e-mail and scan it for you? Redrum and Coke has a new favorite as of 14:22 on Jun 29, 2015 |
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name "My Government Post". The only thing I've ever gotten via it is my tax return summary.
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Collateral Damage posted:No, a machine. I feel that it'd be an unnecessary middleman though. Why not just send it electronically from the start?
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Some good news: In the European Union roaming charges, for both Internet and phone, will soon be an obsolete thing. Yessssssssssss http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-5265_en.htm
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First Internet memory is using the computer at my mom's office to search for WWF stuff (on yahoo).
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Antifreeze Head posted:It took me a moment to change my frame of reference for what you were probably looking up, because at first I thought you were looking up pandas. I don't even think I found anything. When I got my own pc with Internet, circa 97, I looked up cartoon network, got lots of free Screensavers, and talked in chat rooms. My brother and I also looked up satanism and the church of Satan. We didn't speak English, and neither of us was into it, but it was spooky. So many pentagram gifs!
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My first pc at home had a 500 mb hard drive, and IBM aptiva. I played a lot of Pitfall The Mayan Adventure and Cyberia. The pcs at my school, they said, didn't have hard drives. Is that even possible?
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spog posted:I've got a lube-covered eggplant that will beg to differ with you. Yeah, not to mention that by all accounts porn has become much more violent in the last decade or so.
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My job involves writing pretty much most of the time, and yet I've never felt that my keyboards at the office were unfit for the task (except in regards to some wrist position). Other than the loud noise, what's the benefit of a mechanical keyboard, since you speak so highly of them, compared to something like the Microsoft natural keyboard?
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While I find the conversation about currency interesting, I think it is now reaching autistic levels. Let's focus on a different tech, please.
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I've thought about getting LASIK, but I think I'd still wear glasses afterwards, even if I don't need them. I just dislike my face without them
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Those who have mentioned bad text prediction, I strongly suggest (if they're Android users) to give SwiftKey a try. It's really drat good.
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Fo3 posted:Doesn't everyone use swype? Last time I used a nokia smartphone (pre android) it had swype, and a later (early) android google smart phone had it too. I tried and never liked it. In any case, Swiftkey also supports swype
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Pilsner posted:Just installed it and I'm impressed. The flow typing feature is is rather amazing I must say. I got it when it was still a paid software. Now they charge for custom themes. Great app.
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The cloud service us a backup for your personal predictions. I also like that I can use more than one language, so that's useful.
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KozmoNaut posted:I remember ICQ and how poo poo the official program was. Can you even log on to it anymore, after it was merged with AIM? I have a Bulgarian friend who still, to this day, uses ICQ regularly. I saw the UI on his dekstop, and it hasn't changed that much since the early 2000s. I used to know my nš by heart as well... it's incredible that they went with the numbers option instead of unique usernames.
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kith_groupie posted:Yeah, the bike I bought when I moved the the Netherlands, has one and I've used it for the past decade or so. I'm a big spoiled whiny American baby princess when it comes to having to ride my bike further than a few kilometers or so, but that's more because biking in the rain/wind/general apathetic Dutch malaise is lovely and not because of the tiny little bit extra it takes to make the light go on. You can still buy paper tickets on buses in Holland, although you pay a few cents more than if you use a card to check in. That's a pretty neat thing about Holland: you can use the same card for buses and trains all over the country.
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There was a late 90s show about a vehicle. A show so lovely it doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry. 18 Wheels of Justice https://youtu.be/YaaT0gu8Fj4 And no thunder is almost certainly about the SS
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The problem about vaxers and truthers using Google is that they get exactly the answer they're looking for at the top. We all get different Google results based on our preferences and prior history, so Google is basically tailored to your confirmation bias.
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GreenNight posted:Hmm, well my girlfriend is 9 years younger than me, but plenty of years legal. You're 32 and you've been dating for 7.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:While recycling an old Windows 95 desktop this afternoon, I was reminded by how far we've come in another way: disk space. The computer, which I think was purchased at Walmart, came with some obscenely low amount of disk space. I can't remember the exact figure, but when a local computer tech upgraded it to 2 gigs, that could fit everything. Also, he charged about $200. This was 1996ish. My first home PC had a 500mb hard drive. IBM Aptiva 2144  My first MP3 player had about 12 MB. I don't remember the name or anything; it did have a slot for some proprietary card that you could get to expand it to some whooping 64 MB though.
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