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redmercer posted:Checks suck, and anyone who requires a check will without exception also accept a money order. The big advantage is that when you buy a money order, that money is out of your account then and there; instead of leaving whenever they take their sweet-rear end time cashing the fucker, and denying your bank the chance to eat another slice of your rear end with an overdraft or bounce. Apparently 78 rpm records are a fad now and I have no loving idea why because they are terrible and anything they do, an LP record is a thousand times better at. I used to hear of laser cartridges that would read LP records without any wear to the groove but I've never actually heard of anyone actually using them, were they a failure? I can't imagine they would work on those ridiculous colored/clear/picture disc editions that seemingly every album has nowadays. (I have a Manilla Road LP on "crystal" vinyl, it is loving impossible to find a track on it  )
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That's especially funny in light of those $30,000 Japanese cartridges made of crazy poo poo like jade or ivory. But the illegal ivory provides such warm tones.  E: Wikipedia says that it's not just a question of accuracy, but also the fact that a stylus plows dust in the groove out of the way while playing while a laser passes over it.     I found this by the side of the road one day. I have no idea what it is, what it does, or where it came from, only that it's obviously a piece of computer electronics, has a function related to coins, and is about the size of a 5.25" drive bay. It has an inspection date of December 13, 2001. Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 00:48 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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I remember back in 2006 an Arcturus concert DVD came out and it was not available for sale in any US retailer I could find for almost a year. I pirated it on eMule or some other pre-torrents filesharing service. Only it wasn't an Arcturus concert at all. It was German midget porn. 
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Zaphod42 posted:Does this count for obsolete technology? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy I remember seeing lots of computers with that stupid purple fucker on them. I hate him almost enough to demand a trigger warning. Content: Hate the size and length of your graphics card? Be glad it's not VESA Local Bus. This was a clumsy stopgap measure introduced in the early '90s because ISA was complete dogshit and widespread use of PCI was years away. The bus was so long and it took so much force to get the card in there that you could break the card, the motherboard, or both trying to get the thing in the slot. It also only really worked right with 486 processors so the Pentium made it almost instantly obsolete. I once used a computer with a 486DX2/66 and a VLB card and 8 megs of RAM. It was a juggernaut back in '94. E: The slot was 13 inches long. The slot. The card could be considerably bigger than that. E2: The bus also was only designed for 33 or 66 MHz processors. Using a 50 MHz 486 or one of the crazy fast AMD or Cyrix 486 clones could cause a VLB card to malfunction. Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 05:18 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Chakan posted:I've got my copy of this still packed up from my move, but I might go through and see if there are good images I can scan for the thread. Post the image from the revised version where it explains how a CPU die is made. IIRC it was better than most internet articles on the subject.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Dang, the Bob Rivers Comedy Corp. churned them out by the dozen. Bob Rivers and Weird Al were both tedious and unfunny but at least Weird Al's family friendly requirement imposed a minimum standard of creativity. Bob Rivers was utterly witless and stupid. And on that note, remember the flood of racist and Islamophobic Flash cartoons with Bob Rivers-type pop song parodies that appeared after 9/11? America should be embarrassed.
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People were talking about film degradation earlier in this thread, has anybody tried draining the air out of film containers and replacing it with 100% nitrogen or a similar inert gas, and sealing them to be completely airtight? Given time, oxygen will oxidize almost anything. Most microbial life would be unable to survive in 100% nitrogen either. Also you might be wondering why I specified replacing the air with an inert gas instead of removing it and leaving a vacuum. Well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ7WFhJvQOA You don't want this happening to your priceless film stock. Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 03:32 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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The postage meter at my workplace qualifies both as obsolete and a failure. It looks like it was built in the '90s with one of those awful ghosting dark-on-grreen LCDs with only two lines of 5x7 text, which of course means it doesn't really have any "user interface" worthy of the name. When it runs out of postage you have to let it dial the postage company, and I'm guessing it has like a 2400 baud modem or something because it takes loving forever, and then it usually has to do a "system update" that takes upwards of 10 minutes, and then it has to do a rates update, which takes a few more minutes, by which point I end up wishing they'd just give me a book of stamps instead. And then sometimes it will do a system update when you wanted to buy postage, but it won't actually buy any postage, so you have to buy postage again. And sometimes it will have a "data center error" and abort. All of these things happened to me today. I want to flog its designer to death with the meter's serial cable. Yes, it has one.
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Phanatic posted:I think that's every station. Want to listen to the metal station? Hope you like metalcore because it's all we're going to loving play! 
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minato posted:But it did fill a huge gap back in the early days of the internet. Browsers didn't do dynamic HTML very well, and Flash video was a huge improvement over RealPlayer and Quicktime. Speaking of that, when can QuickTime finally hurry up and die? It was meant to add multimedia capabilities to the existing QuickDraw rendering engine (hence the name) in MacOS 6, and 23 years later still hasn't gone away.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:I remember one of the neighbors would constantly listen in on everyone's conversations. She'd listen in on my dad talking to my granddad, and that's how I learned how to swear. Well in Unclefuck, backwoods VA, spreading rumors behind people's backs is probably just about the only entertainment available. Gotta get that juicy dirt from somewhere. And people talk about how small town life is so wonderful because "everyone knows each other". 
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Star Man is from...Wyoming I think? I watched his Descent Let's Plays. Somewhere out west where the population density is ridiculously low.
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flosofl posted:I really miss when computers were like the original Apples. I remember you used to get a manual with *all* CPU machine code, memory locations and schematics included. The Commodore 64 Programmer's Guide came with the same stuff. Perhaps, but think of how big that would be for a modern PC.  There's a slight problem. The manual won't fit in the packaging, because it came out to 800 pounds. You mean 800 pages? No. I mean 800 pounds. You need ten men to carry it.
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Antifreeze Head posted:United States currency has to be the most depressing currency in all the world. It is just so boring, a dead old white man on the obverse and a bland building on the reverse. The only decent one of the lot is the two dollar note and those are super rare. I think the fact that our government makes only the smallest, most grudging changes to the design of American paper money is at least partially because they want the US dollar to be a symbol of stability and permanence. The idea is that a drastic design change would damage people's faith in the currency (our economy literally depends on the US dollar being one of the most reliable stores of value in the world). It's plain and drab on purpose. As for coins, I think it's a masculinity thing--American men won't carry any sort of money container that zips up or otherwise seals because that's seen as "a purse" and effeminate. American men's wallets don't have coin pockets (see also: cliché American sitcom jokes from the '90s about men with "European" handbags). Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 15:17 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:The bits about audio quality is horseshit because every single play degrades the sound just a little bit--you're rubbing a needle over the physical grooves, after all. As for sound quality of mp3, FLAC, or CD audio, well, that's a discussion for the "ridicule audiophiles" thread. I like vinyl for two reasons: A better reason is that most modern CDs are mastered for low fidelity equipment (iThings, etc.) and undiscerning listeners and sound horrible by design. Even the CD rips of my Stratovarius and Dream Theater records sound amazing compared to the official CD releases despite being CD rips and subject to both the limitations of CDs and the limitations of vinyl and suffering inevitable degradation along the chain from the cartridge to the preamp to the ADC. There are some drat good CDs from the '80s out there, though. I have a few albums where the CD beats the vinyl hands down. As for vinyl records being direct transfers of brickwalled CDs, I guess I've been lucky because most of the modern vinyl I've bought was mastered for vinyl and sounds pretty great. The new Queensryche album is definitely a CD transfer though and so is Blind Guardian's big 4LP compilation--both sound terrible. Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 21:51 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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Slanderer posted:I'm not referring to that part, but instead to the claim that iPhones are low-fi. They probably have better fidelity than a lot of car or home equipment (which shouldn't be surprising, because digital audio is extremely mature, and they don't have to do any real power amplification). Now, a lot of headphones connected to these devices are garbage (looking at you, Beats), but that's another issue. Oh, I see, I didn't specify the exact make and model of headphones that came with the device, instead of assuming people would have the common sense to realize that most of the people listening through their iPhones use the stock earbuds or whatever piece of poo poo they can pick up at the convenience store because it says "iPhone" on it. That's what Joe Sixpack listens to music through, not Sennheiser HD 558s. There used to be a time when decent stereos were actually a fairly mainstream thing, and it also happened to be the time when most recorded music sounded a hell of a lot better. Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 16:59 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Wasabi the J posted:Have you considered lying and giving the deaf-as-gently caress clients the loudened "master" and secretly publishing the good one? I'm pretty sure that's some kind of fraud and will get you sued. You don't promise the customer one thing and give them something else. If the customer wants a CD that sounds like flatulence in a wind tunnel than by God that's what he's going to get. Platystemon posted:Then again, gold HDMI cables exist, so maybe my expectations are just out of line and it’s coincidence that I haven’t seen ads for such devices.  €500 network cables will enhance the tone color of your porn.  Their site qualifies as obsolete and failed too with the 1999 single-resolution layout and PDF price sheet. Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 17:14 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Kaizoku posted:A lot of websites that remain as such do so because their clients, which are other businesses, often have old as hell hardware and they need to remain accessible to them. Enterprises don't buy $1200 VGA cables.
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Gobbeldygook posted:That would probably beat his current job. Gromit is a minor forum celebrity because his job requires he scrutinize child pornography. Did he ever do an A/T thread?
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SubG posted:Or Soylent and antibiotics, to kill off your gut bacteria so you no longer have to poop. This is something Rob Rhinehart, the guy who invented Soylent, actually did: He's going to regret that when the C. diff hits him. 
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WebDog posted:Sounds like a relic from old school Quake 3 where pro gamers turned everything distracting off so the game had no lighting or animations and dropping the resolution down to get stuff like 98FPS and so on. Quake 3/Quake Live players still do that and get pissed off when people tell them that it is strange.
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well why not posted:Firefox: I have Classic Theme Restorer so my Firefox still looks like that:  Firefox 3 will always live on in our hearts. 
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Collateral Damage posted:Good news, power-sapping slush boxes are rapidly becoming obsolete technology. They're losing out to dual-clutch transmissions which are basically a computer controlled manual that drives like an automatic. This is not true. DCTs have always been niche and are losing their niche as automatics become ever faster, more efficient, and more sophisticated. Everything is a torque converter auto or a CVT now.
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italian quid posted:you know that the whole principle of an automatic is to spin up a fluid really loving fast to try and get it to carry momentum across from the engine to the transmission with no physical line right? Unless you're car is a DCT there's no way it can get close to efficiency of a manual which has a direct physical link lol The actual fuel economy of automatics in modern cars is superior in pretty much all tests. Your monkey brain operating 6 speeds cannot match a computer with 10 or 12 speeds. For ultimate efficiency a CVT is even better.
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LimaBiker posted:Manuals are here still outselling automatics. I think they will stick around until non hybrid and non electric cars are banned somewhere in the 2030s. Electrics don't really need a gearbox, and a manual in a hybrid system sounds really complicated. What you are describing is a sequential gearbox and they are unreliable and uncomfortable and thus very few passenger cars have ever used them.
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Rappaport posted:I have even seen these devices in the wild. But didn't / don't own one, and didn't know any of my pals did either, so do I throw away a box of poorly labeled floppies along with other video gaming junk, or store them somewhere in the hopes I will need them one da----- Why is it so hard to make a PCIe controller card for floppy drives? There's a card or a gadget available for almost any retro function imaginable but reading a 5.25" disk on a modern PC seems utterly impossible.
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Cojawfee posted:If they are good quality disks, you can likely find them a new home. Someone out there will want them. Yes, especially since the disks produced in the early 2000s near the end of production are both the most common and the worst. Good-quality '90s disks deserve a second life and you can sell them for decent money.
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Sweevo posted:PCI and PCIe slots do not have access to the DMA and IRQ channels needed for generic floppy support. So a floppy card would need it's own BIOS to be bootable, and custom drivers to work under Windows. And there's just no demand when a USB floppy drive will do the job in 99.9% of cases. All USB drives are 3.5". If you want to get a file from the internet to a 5.25" disk, you need a chain of multiple computers and it's a hideous pain in the rear end. And considering the sort of insane and insanely expensive specialist hardware that people buy (one day I'll be able to afford the AWE64 Legacy  ) I'm surprised nobody seems to have made such a card.
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old bean factory posted:Yeah it loving blows for finding specific things now. It would be nice if you could turn off all of the AI assisted crap. Bring back AltaVista.
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LifeSunDeath posted:e, wtf that poo poo still exists...oof lmao I might have to try it. One of the pleasures of the '90s internet was looking for something really obscure and tweaking the keywords until you hit the jackpot. Now the  "AI" throws your search query in the garbage and decides on its own what you must have searched for, because it clearly knows better than you.
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thepopmonster posted:google "Sonic inflation" no
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lobsterminator posted:One annoying trend is that many new releases are double vinyls, because they apparently have a better sound quality, but that just means more swapping when listening. I can deal with one side swap during an album, but three starts to get annoying. If the album is longer than about 45 minutes, this is absolutely necessary or else it will sound like poo poo.
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Humphreys posted:A mate of mine got one of those robot mowers and it was a bit poo poo. So we worked on a better battery for it, only for him to get a pool put in. Then forget to retrain it. MoeBot went for a drink. on the one hand, that probably cost that guy a lot of money. on the other hand, I had a mental image of a lawn roomba fearlessly plowing straight into a pool and 
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VictualSquid posted:So that is why it is called cumbrian. northern English kind of seems like a joke played on the rest of the English speaking world, from medieval Cumbrian right up to "SPESS MEHRENS".
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Guy Axlerod posted:My brother had some Richard Scarry's Busy town "game" that also had CD audio. It started playing "welcome to busytown" over the Quake demo. this needs to be on youtube
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Mister Kingdom posted:As predicted (sort of) by Max Headroom. In that future, it was illegal to turn off your TV. Some people are shown throwing a blanket over their set when they wanted some privacy. Isn't this how the propaganda radios work in Best Korea?
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Desert Bus posted:My (25F) boyfriend (25M) keeps asking me to invest in his "soup tube" business idea, and I am not sure how to deal with it
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Grassy Knowles posted:So you’re saying birds are a product of a CIA agreement with Monsanto, makes sense. In reality they don't even exist. Wake up sheeple! 
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