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Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
you pay a yearly fee to post???

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Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
funny tech poo poo: putting a video game cd in your cd player and hearing the game soundtrack

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
remember wap, lol

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
yes, it's british

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
no-one wants to see your homemade xvideos

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
you could still use their bags

you'd just have to squeeze them by hand like a poor

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
netbooks fit into your baggy pants cargo pockets, so were pretty good note-taking machines for the sort of student that just wanted to rock up to class without having to carry a bag around

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
my first internet forum was just a half-dozen people from my high school friend group, lol

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
tetris

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
run a refrigeration lineset to a compressor+condenser on the roof, easy peasy now all the noise is far away from where you are

* may not actually be "easy peasy"

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
don't copy that floppy!

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
woah, there's a wall-sized mirror on your dog walking route?

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
your desktop background just sometimes being replaced by an error message that internet explorer had crashed, because that was responsible for your desktop background for some reason

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
supreme commander on multiple monitors absolutely owned bones, btw

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

Volmarias posted:

Did they actually let monitor 2 be a minimap? I sort of remember it being just a second view, which is nice but having a minimap be a Megamap would really be my preferred thing.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

you could just zoom it out all the way, which would pretty much accomplish the same thing

yeah you couldn't like, leave it zoomed out and click on it to warp your other monitor to that point, but you could leave it zoomed out to maintain your high-level awareness of what was going on

also you could do things like watch a fight to react quickly when you needed to while you were macroing on your other screen

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
not sure why you need a computer when just following the instructions on the paper will keep you busy for hours

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

SO DEMANDING posted:

yup

that was loving wild. click a link and...there's the page. it's there. you can read things or click more links, it's good to go, it just loving LOADED it's THERE holy CHRIST this changes everything

don't worry, real-world performance for people without adblockers is back on par with dialup now

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

Presto posted:

Yeah, one of my textbooks in college had an essay about Cray weirdness. Like there were numbers that were zero as far as the adder was concerned but not zero to the multiplier.

This happens with IEEE floats on modern machines too. If A is much much larger than B, A + B == A, even though B isn't 0.

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
i'm pretty sure you can still do board swaps with the right equipment, you just need to dump the calibration data from the chips on the dead board and copy it to the replacement.

if whatever killed the board also wiped out the calibration data then you might be in trouble.

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

my stepdads beer posted:

oh yeah I remember that. why did that work

metal parts get smaller when it's cold (like my balls), which gives extra clearance between the moving parts in the bearings. if they're seized up then that can be enough to let them spin again, until the heat produced by running them makes them unshrink.

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
the version of oregon trail i played had you doing a hunting minigame where you clicked on the bison and they fell over

and shooting anything beyond the first one was literally pointless because you could only carry so much meat back to the caravan, but you still did it anyway because what else are you gonna do?

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
Trains need a lot of low-end torque, if you were relying on a friction clutch to get things moving from a standstill you would wear that out in very short order.

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
i used dvorak a bunch in college

i never actually typed anything on it, but i definitely did go into the keyboard settings and select dvorak layout on a whole bunch of lab machines

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
i have way more respect for celebs who use their house just to enjoy some personal hobby and who cares what anyone thinks

like that dragonforce dude's massive pinball hall

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
actually that's not completely true, i have zero respect for notch's enormous twitter shutin jerk-off basement

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
the very first one is actually really funny, doing a good job of showing off what gnu folks think is an adequate 3d render

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
Was it the gnu folks that insisted on using a w32 directory for os-specific stuff because they didn't want to have to describe Windows-specific code as "win"?

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
hard-t indent

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
i have one of each but the vertical monitor is an ancient 1680x1050 that is approximately as tall on its side as the main monitor is when horizontal

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
it's not a coincidence that all that stuff suddenly took off right after the segway patents expired

the founded the company in literally 1999 and utterly failed to seriously monetize their stuff in their window of patent exclusivity

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

3D Megadoodoo posted:

all the cheap(er) vacuum cleaners i've "experienced"* have had the same problem: they'll get you evicted because they're really fuken loud. but an expensive bagless philips was also fuken loud so idk

*) no not in that way you pervert

just vacuum at a reasonable hour instead of 4am and this is less of a problem

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

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Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
i remember it being full of insane screeds of "how dare this person not implicitly know all this minutiae of how a computer works! instead of helping them do their job, i will go out of my way to obstruct and frustrate them. please clap in awe at my superior intellect."

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
it's because cameras don't have persistence of vision the way human eyes do, op

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
short-stroking hard drives to make them read faster

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

Trimson Grondag 3 posted:

you could use ResEdit to create escape velocity mods, all the ships stats and stuff were stored in the data fork of some file or other.

this was real cool because if you downloaded an escape velocity mod as a zip file and unzipped it on windows, it'd literally be an empty file

you needed to use some special converter to actually extract the resource fork part of the zip file into whatever format the windows version used

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

i gotta say, i feel like a trackball is one of those things where being wireless doesn't really add anything except for annoyance

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
i still have an optical drive in the front of my desktop

it's not hooked up because the motherboard i got in 2014 or thereabouts doesn't even have the right connectors for it

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
try looking at the streaming sites you don't need to pay money for

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Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

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Sweevo posted:

they also don't share them because holy poo poo academia loves hiding everything behind a paywall

no they don't

academic publishers sure do though

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