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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Okay, it's not like the 2 with the @ and the euro sign on it though. Weird. My guess is that Apple designers somehow assume Brits will need to find @ and € more often than # (or at least have done so historically). Compare this with the Swedish keyboard, where the number row is lacking any apparent $ or £ signs for no conceivable reason (but they are on the keys where you'd expect them):  That said, I'd (not actually) buy a similar one-key USB thingamajig in a heartbeat if it sent The Standard FPS Console Key™ to my games, since it's impossible to know if the game will use scan codes (meaning none of the keys will be correct) or character input (meaning a key on the opposite side of the keyboard is correct) or read keyboard mapping numbers (meaning it'll be the first key on the number row).
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This $250 4 piece plywood sound corner invention is definitely worth it. Way better than buying a portable speaker.
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Athletic Footjob posted:This $250 4 piece plywood sound corner invention is definitely worth it. Way better than buying a portable speaker. Tone Wood! Why does it cost $250, looks like $10 from home depot.
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skudmunky posted:Tone Wood! Serious answer: it sounds subjectively better when it's more expensive. Funny little psychological trick.
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Wow, they couldn't even be bothered to make it out of actual wood, just went all in on some shappy-looking plywood instead.skudmunky posted:Why does it cost $250, looks like $10 from home depot. That looks like it has maybe a square foot of plywood in it. A 4x8 sheet of plywood from Home Depot will set you back about $40 [or $1.25 per square foot]. You could even get a table saw to cut the plywood for less than $250 at Home Depot. Great Rumbler has a new favorite as of 18:21 on Nov 27, 2014 |
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Athletic Footjob posted:This $250 4 piece plywood sound corner invention is definitely worth it. Way better than buying a portable speaker. If it's "very simple to make" why is he charging $250? It might be a fun little weekend project to make yourself, but why I don't undersstand the market appeal of this.
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OldMemes posted:If it's "very simple to make" why is he charging $250? It might be a fun little weekend project to make yourself, but why I don't undersstand the market appeal of this. Audiophiles pay top dollar for bullshit. They pay hundreds of dollars to replace the knobs on their stereos with special tone wood knobs that really give the music a warm and rich tone. (they don't do poo poo. usually don't even look better than the regular knobs)
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Modern Day Hercules posted:Audiophiles pay top dollar for bullshit. They pay hundreds of dollars to replace the knobs on their stereos with special tone wood knobs that really give the music a warm and rich tone. (they don't do poo poo. usually don't even look better than the regular knobs) audiophiles, sommeliers, and fitness gurus are like the real-world equivalent iPhones, zombies, and furries being Kickstarter goldmines people really like blowing exorbitant amounts of money for that sweet sweet placebo effect that comes with being told by an "expert" that slapping a bag of magic sand on your speakers and drinking certain wines during certain phases of the moon and wrapping your arms in magic colored tape will make everything better
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...of SCIENCE! posted:audiophiles, sommeliers, and fitness gurus are like the real-world equivalent iPhones, zombies, and furries being Kickstarter goldmines At least when you buy an expensive bottle of wine that's supposed to taste so much better than a normal bottle of wine, at the end of the day you have a bottle of wine. Audiophiles will pay for literally nothing.
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Modern Day Hercules posted:Audiophiles pay top dollar for bullshit. They pay hundreds of dollars to replace the knobs on their stereos with special tone wood knobs that really give the music a warm and rich tone. (they don't do poo poo. usually don't even look better than the regular knobs) the one thing they don't do is listen to music out of their drat phone. this thing is for some weirder smaller market. "minimalists" maybe.
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BKPR posted:the one thing they don't do is listen to music out of their drat phone. this thing is for some weirder smaller market. "minimalists" maybe. There's a wide variety of crazy in the "audiophile" community. I'm sure there's some pocket of weirdos who think playing music through some emulated DAC on their specialty iPhone app is super awesome for on the go. These were people who bought 1st generation Playstation 1 consoles in droves and put up with the terrible interface because they thought the DAC sounded better in the PSX than in their multi-thousand dollar CD player. edit: I just Googled this and found people who were modding their first generation Playstations to put in tubes and make the output less noisy. ErIog has a new favorite as of 07:46 on Nov 28, 2014 |
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...of SCIENCE! posted:disgraced and disowned "tech bro nightmare" Pax Dickson suddenly has a very keen interest in ethics in journalism Well obviously the journalists that reported on his racism and sexism were corrupt for doing so.
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RottenK posted:there is literally zero chance that an indiegogo project that claims to be about "exposing corruption in the media industry" is not about jerking off gamergaters quote:Journalists are powerful. A well-known web journalist has vastly more influence than a junior member of the House of Representatives. Yet we don't elect journalists. No one votes to confirm a nomination to 'Politics Editor'. An Op-Ed writer can't be impeached. Politicians are held accountable for wrongdoing regularly. Journalists are accountable to no one.  quote:To strike back at dishonest journalism, we are starting an organization called ExposeCorruption.Org. We will fund investigative research into prominent agenda-driven media figures and publish a hyperlinked database of their ideological biases and secret skeletons. quote:We seek to immediately raise $25,000 to build a website and begin funding deep investigations into uncovering the corruption and hypocrisy of the prominent powerful media public figures who dictate the cultural narrative of our society. We’ll seek further funding to expand the project once the infrastructure has been built and plan to map out the entire web of connections, nepotism, and shady influence that make up the modern Journalism-Industrial Complex. quote:We as a group have seen we are not alone in our disgust. In video gaming culture a widespread consumer revolt over journalism ethics is raging right now. As someone who has personally suffered from media malpractice, Pax Dickinson is in a good position to take action. He has the organizational chops and the management ability to see this project through. As an organization, we will be relentless in our pursuit of accountability for those who have avoided it. If funded, we vow on our contributors’ behalf that we will use every legal tactic available to expose these 'thought police' to the light of public scrutiny. Yes it's about GG
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moerketid posted:Most UK keyboards don't have a euro symbol on them fwiw. None of mine have had. Which is a little inconvinient since I buy my keyboards from back home and use them in mainland Europe (but gently caress euro layout keyboards, can't live with the @ and the " switched up). You can get a € on a UK keyboard layout by pressing alt-gr + 4. Why do so many people seem to think that they can make a sucessful business via kickstarter. Oh once it's open it'll basically run itself. Business... Plan? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1090802984/uriels-hope-comics-and-gaming?ref=category Help me open my comic book store... I need money to buy a sofa! You can all live there! 
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[quote="DStecks" [/quote] It's great because one of the tweets that got him fired was basically "can't live off of minimum wage? Free market, bitch  " and now he's whining that that invisible hand of the free market is the only thing regulating journalists
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ThaShaneTrain posted:Kickended http://kickended.com/projects/1409787593/ The fact this wasn't funded is tragic.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/509430931/faradair-new-eco-aircraft-called-beha?ref=discovery Some pie-in-the-sky concept for a diesel-electric airplane, with not a whole lot of evidence that these guys know what they're doing. quote:The aircraft will employ solar skin panels and wind turbine technology for energy recovery. These technologies are not the primary power source for the electric motors, but simply additional trickle charge capability. If they had done any meaningful research, they'd know that: a. Even the best solar cells, when mounted on a light plane as per their concept, wouldn't generate nearly enough power to be worth the cost or weight. b. Mounting a wind turbine on a plane would, according to the laws of thermodynamics, inevitably take away more energy that it would produce. And what's up with the triplane design? I was under the impression that the reason triplanes haven't been produced since World War I is because the extra wing produced extra drag - exactly what you don't want in a plane designed for maximum gas mileage.
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Cockmaster posted:And what's up with the triplane design? I was under the impression that the reason triplanes haven't been produced since World War I is because the extra wing produced extra drag - exactly what you don't want in a plane designed for maximum gas mileage. Well, that's just fitting for the concept, isn't it? After all, the whole solar cell idea effectively means that we're stepping back to the 1910s–20s anyway in terms of how easily aircraft are grounded by freak weather phenomena such as clouds, rain, fog, and night.
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RottenK posted:there is literally zero chance that an indiegogo project that claims to be about "exposing corruption in the media industry" is not about jerking off gamergaters He's the posterchild for Gamergate though. Racist, sexist, self-entitled "brogrammer*" who got fired after his company was informed about his twitter tirades since they apparently didn't care or didn't look beofre hiring him. *Anyone who uses this to refer to themselves should be put to death.
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Cockmaster posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/509430931/faradair-new-eco-aircraft-called-beha?ref=discovery The main reason tri-wings ain't used anymore is they add expense and complexity that's unneeded, not so much about too much drag (the added drag is pretty much canceled out by having extra lifting surface). They're just unsuitable for any sort of really fast flying, much like biplane designs. The whole idea behind bi and tri planes int he beginning was that we had heavy weak motors available and thus needed to have the planes as light as possible. With then-current technology this meant that you couldn't design a suitable single-wing design that would generate enough lift while staying strong and stiff enough to not flap apart. Both biplane and triplane designs allowed for using common materials, increased lifting surface area, and installing bracing between the sets of wings to keep it rigid enough to fly and strong enough to not fall apart. Eventually better technology came around and biplanes and triplanes were obsoleted for just about everything. Some are still made because people want to use their unique flight characteristics or for use restaging historical events. Incidentally, the first solar powered airplane that could carry a dude was a biplane: The 1979 Mauro Solar Riser, built out of a commercially produced hang glider design   Separately, that kickstarter projects method of tri-wing design actually has almost no visible struts betweent he layers, meaning it actually removes a lot of the areodynamic disadvantages of traditional triplanes. That's not to say it would work well in practice, just they at least removed the single biggest issue triwings had.
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Nintendo Kid posted:The main reason tri-wings ain't used anymore is they add expense and complexity that's unneeded, not so much about too much drag (the added drag is pretty much canceled out by having extra lifting surface). They're just unsuitable for any sort of really fast flying, much like biplane designs. It still looks like it won't fly very well. All they had was a 3d model; it doesn't look like they even bothered to recreate it in X-Plane or do any of the basic aerodynamics programs that are surely available. If they had, they would've been part of the pitch video. Two 200hp electric fans are mounted right on the plane's cabin, and they vent directly into the pusher prop box. Wiki tells me that a push-pull configuration means the rear engine is about 70% efficient because of how the forward engine disturbs the air, and usually the propellers are symmetrical. This thing has two smaller, faster props on either side loving with the pusher's air. Of course, the solar won't provide enough electricity to make it worth the weight, and the 'wind turbine power generation' (a Ram-Air Turbine, in other words), are really only on planes with a surplus of power to shove the turbine through the air. And flaps on each set of wings? How much weight is that going to add?
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Waffleman_ posted:Oh my God. All it needs is that it be constructed of plastic mesh weave in the back and foam panel with an ironic graphic on the front and have a fedora brim and it will be Peak Douchebag.
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I keep thinking that's Elmer Fudd's hat. Tears In A Vial posted:Have you ever dreamed of wearing a baseball cap with a tuxedo? The only suit I can see that hat even remotely working with is a zoot suit, and that's because everyone looks stupid wearing a zoot suit so might as well go all the way.
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So this ring that was supposed to let you control everything through hand gestures: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1761670738/ring-shortcut-everything is apparently a terrible product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBUWxROnqwA
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Tippis posted:After all, the whole solar cell idea effectively means that we're stepping back to the 1910s–20s anyway in terms of how easily aircraft are grounded by freak weather phenomena such as clouds, rain, fog, and night. So it's kinda steampunk then, isn't it? Seems like they have the right idea for the marketplace.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:So it's kinda steampunk then, isn't it? Seems like they have the right idea for the marketplace. https://www.tumblr.com/search/solarpunk
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