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Frozen Pizza Party posted:It tracks via gyroscope, no IR like the vive. I guess that works if your fetish is a guy who constantly rotates his head to the left.
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Cojawfee posted:I guess that works if your fetish is a guy who constantly rotates his head to the left. 
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Cojawfee posted:I guess that works if your fetish is a guy who constantly rotates his head to the left. We must go forward, not backward! And upward, not forward! And always twirling, twirling, twirling!
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Mechanism Eight posted:That's a thought, how do the mobile solutions like Gear VR track the user's head? A combo of gyro, accelerometer and magnetometer I guess? I mean, I get there'll be no positional data but how do they deal with accumulated acceleration drift? Like the wii motionplus: you have to calibrate them every 20-30 minutes
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Mechanism Eight posted:That's a thought, how do the mobile solutions like Gear VR track the user's head? A combo of gyro, accelerometer and magnetometer I guess? I mean, I get there'll be no positional data but how do they deal with accumulated acceleration drift? They don't. The Vive and Rift both have accelerometers and gyros, but their absolute position are tracked using external devices, albeit at a comparatively low refresh rate. Camera for the Rift, Lighthouse Base Stations for the Vive, neither are good enough for tracking alone so gaps are filled by the internal sensors. It all works quite well and can scale up to room size; I have 3x4m of space to walk around in. The GearVR and this dumb chinese thing rotationally drift and are useless for anything that requires you to actually move your head's position. Having said that, Valve's Lighthouse tracking system is a freely licensable technology and quite flexible, adding some kind of tracking puck to either headset (or your chair, or coffee mug or whatever) isn't out of the question.
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Skoll posted:Since GBS is back, should this thread go back to GBS? mod of pyf requested it stay here 
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thathonkey posted:mod of pyf requested it stay here Fine by me.
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Skoll posted:Fine by me. Tech circling the drain: classic GBS driveby shitposts. I'm already starting to get nostalgic.
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Honestly if this stays in PYF it should be merged with the Obsolete Tech thread. I.e One should be closed for the benefit of both. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3495621&perpage=40&pagenumber=423
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SLOSifl posted:Honestly if this stays in PYF it should be merged with the Obsolete Tech thread. I.e One should be closed for the benefit of both. No thanks, don't want to mix with those punks
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This thread has gone strong for 200+ pages and apparently the other has limped on for 400+ so it all seems fine as is. Don't fix what ain't broke.
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Gobblecoque posted:This thread has gone strong for 200+ pages and apparently the other has limped on for 400+ so it all seems fine as is. Don't fix what ain't broke. And it somehow seems appropriate to keep two incompatible standards staggering onward in spite of all reason.
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It's 2016 AD and I am burning mixed CDs for my ten-disc CD player in my Jeep.
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Powered Descent posted:And it somehow seems appropriate to keep two incompatible standards staggering onward in spite of all reason. Clearly, we need to make a new thread, a thread everyone will use, and those old ones can be phased out! (standards joke)
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SLOSifl posted:Honestly if this stays in PYF it should be merged with the Obsolete Tech thread. I.e One should be closed for the benefit of both. No! Cos then I don't have two threads of derails to enjoy!
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Star Man posted:It's 2016 AD and I am burning mixed CDs for my ten-disc CD player in my Jeep. I still have a 20 page CD booklet in my car and I still burn mix CDs for it. I don't even own an aux cord I don't think.
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My car doesn't play burned CDs, and I listen to AM radio.
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There was a time in the early 80s when my mom would give me $5 and drop me off at the mall arcade while she went shopping. This was always my favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgDdexv--ZA
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The last time I burned a disc was to get a Windows 95 DirectX demo disc working on my 98 machine and there is no shame in that
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I'm usually too cheap to buy fancy phones with a lot of memory on it and don't want to have to charge the phone + have an aux cord dangling in my car while driving. CD is just easier really and it's not like blanks are expensive anymore.
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Star Man posted:It's 2016 AD and I am burning mixed CDs for my ten-disc CD player in my Jeep. This is one of the saddest things I've ever read. Then I remember only a year ago I was using a cassette adapter to play my phone in my car.
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Trebek posted:This is one of the saddest things I've ever read. Then I remember only a year ago I was using a cassette adapter to play my phone in my car. My Jeep's cassette player doesn't work anymore.
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Bonzo posted:There was a time in the early 80s when my mom would give me $5 and drop me off at the mall arcade while she went shopping. This was always my favorite. Great game, great cabinet. I think I only ever played a sit down model once.
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 Me IRL about 20 years ago. I ran and told my dad, I thought I'd committed an actual crime 
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Trebek posted:This is one of the saddest things I've ever read. Then I remember only a year ago I was using a cassette adapter to play my phone in my car. I have been using a tape adapter to hook up my older model sansa mp3 player to the car until like, last week when I switched to a car with no tape deck. But it has an aux, so I'm good!
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Light Gun Man posted:I have been using a tape adapter to hook up my older model sansa mp3 player to the car until like, last week when I switched to a car with no tape deck. But it has an aux, so I'm good! I lucked out and my new car has a straight-up SD card slot in addition to USB/BT/Aux support. It's nice because it's unobtrusive, I don't have a USB stick sticking out of my console. Too bad the car's USB port only seems to put out like 500mA for charging - If I'm using my phone's GPS the battery actually still drains when it's plugged in, so i have to use the cigarette lighter to charge anyway.
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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:
Thank you for finally admitting to this in writing. The Computer Police will be with you soon, please do not move.
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I was using a tape adapter until early this year. Then the tape deck in my car died. Now I've got a bluetooth FM transmitter thing as a stopgap until I buy a new stereo. It's alright but it doesn't work really well when it's still cold in the morning. Here's another tech relic. I don't feel like paying for Creative Cloud and didn't get a student copy of CS5 that included InDesign. So I bought a student license of QuarkXPress. Sure nobody uses it anymore but it cost me $80 which I would have paid out after 4 months of CC, and their upgrade to full licensing is pretty cheap too. gently caress the cloud.
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Star Man posted:It's 2016 AD and I am burning mixed CDs for my ten-disc CD player in my Jeep. One of the tech relics that most changed my life, you can get an adapter to use that cd changer connection as a 3.5 line in. http://www.discountcarstereo.com/Auxiliary-Input-for-Factory-Radios.html E: even if you don't have the disc changer, your stock radio almost certainly has the port on the back anyway because lol at automakers stocking multiple P/Ns shame on an IGA has a new favorite as of 18:14 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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Someone should make a retro car stereo that has a tape deck slot that you slot your smart phone into hell it could even come with an adaptor case for your phone that looks like a cassette. I bet there's plenty of people that would buy it
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shame on an IGA posted:One of the tech relics that most changed my life, you can get an adapter to use that cd changer connection as a 3.5 line in. That's pretty cool, but I feel like for what it would cost for all the components plus the time commitment, you might as well just get an entry-level Pioneer system that has an aux. Casimir Radon posted:I was using a tape adapter until early this year. Then the tape deck in my car died. Now I've got a bluetooth FM transmitter thing as a stopgap until I buy a new stereo. It's alright but it doesn't work really well when it's still cold in the morning. I've yet to find a BT FM transmitter that doesn't suck rear end, especially if you live in or near a big city with a ton of stations. Also, this isn't a dig against you or anything, but is there a legit answer as to why people don't just use GIMP instead of Photoshop or Corel? Like I know on a professional level PS probably has a bunch of high-level features that GIMP doesn't, but most people doing professional design would probably be able to afford actual PS or get their job to buy it for them.
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Gaz2k21 posted:Someone should make a retro car stereo that has a tape deck slot that you slot your smart phone into hell it could even come with an adaptor case for your phone that looks like a cassette. I came very very close this summer to buying a working 8-track car player and a stack of tapes, and installing it in my old car. Guy at a garage sale was selling the whole shebang for $50, there were like Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd and Yes tapes, among others.
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Kelp Me! posted:Also, this isn't a dig against you or anything, but is there a legit answer as to why people don't just use GIMP instead of Photoshop or Corel? Like I know on a professional level PS probably has a bunch of high-level features that GIMP doesn't, but most people doing professional design would probably be able to afford actual PS or get their job to buy it for them. Honestly I've fallen out of love with a lot of open source stuff because a lot of it is such Mickey Moused bullshit that I'm willing to pay for the commercial product if it's not prohibitively expensive. Edit: Oh, and if you want to talk about page layout stuff I haven't seen anything open source that comes close to Quark or InDesign. Unless you want to gently caress around with LaTeX all day, and I don't really have time for that. Casimir Radon has a new favorite as of 19:16 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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GIMP is pretty good. The UI isn't the nightmare it once was, you can set it up so it's pretty close to Photoshop's layout.
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Gaz2k21 posted:Someone should make a retro car stereo that has a tape deck slot that you slot your smart phone into hell it could even come with an adaptor case for your phone that looks like a cassette. I have a friend who drove a Volvo with a tape deck, but he had no tapes, so it became his iPhone holder. I drive a beat-up 14 year old car with a CD player in it and one of the rear speakers doesn't work. I cared deeply about such things at one time (cars and audio), but now I only care about getting from A-to-B and saving bucks on gas, insurance, and car payments. It runs. I once had an iPod FM transmitter that stuck up on this silly gooseneck so you could fiddle with the stupid click wheel, but it was so incredibly weak as a transmitter, the only way to get it to broadcast to the radio was to run a wire all the way to the back seat. My wife just got a 2015 Kia Soul and you can just pop USB drives like 8-tracks into a little port next to the cig lighter and the head unit will just start playing through the directories. Got a drive with kids' music, one with her music, and one filled with stories podcasts for her commute. That, and airbags are everywhere on this car. The future is amazing.
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SwissCM posted:GIMP is pretty good. The UI isn't the nightmare it once was, you can set it up so it's pretty close to Photoshop's layout.
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Casimir Radon posted:Pretty sure there was even an extension that switched the UI for you. Still so long as my student version continues working I'm going to use it. For job purposes it's probably better to be able to say you know the industry standard than babble at them about how the open source alternative is just as good. Of course, it's hard to beat Photoshop. GIMP still has it's uses though.
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Kelp Me! posted:Also, this isn't a dig against you or anything, but is there a legit answer as to why people don't just use GIMP instead of Photoshop or Corel? Like I know on a professional level PS probably has a bunch of high-level features that GIMP doesn't, but most people doing professional design would probably be able to afford actual PS or get their job to buy it for them. Because GIMP fuckin sucks
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