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Lizard Combatant posted:Loud chat: The Melvins were very loud. I saw them open for Tool. Black Crowes were louder than both by far.
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Dick Trauma posted:What's funny is that no matter how loud the concerts were that I saw as a teenager the maximum volume now is probably much higher due to improvements in speaker technology, and the lust for POWERRRRRRRRR! Nothing will ever top the Wall of Sound, though. loving look at it:  I'm not a deadhead by any means, but this thing was goddamn legendary, AND THEY ACTUALLY HAD TWO OF THESE FUCKERS. They'd leapfrog, so while the Dead were doing a show in one town, half their crew was already in the next, building an exact copy of their PA rig from the ground up. http://www.dozin.com/wallofsound/
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May 12, 2017 02:15
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Nothing will ever top the Wall of Sound, though. I see your wall of sound and raise you a spaceship:  Jeff Lynne said that it was nearly impossible to hear while playing in it. There were risers that would lift the band members up through the floor and would get stuck about halfway up. They also had guide vocal backing tapes that only the band was supposed to hear, but the sound would get screwed up and the audience could hear them making them believe the band was lip-syncing. It was Spinal Tap before there was Spinal Tap. And they had two of these fuckers, too. It took thirteen 18-wheelers to move it from city to city.
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May 12, 2017 02:36
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Nothing will ever top the Wall of Sound, though. Shame that Owsley will be remembered for his acid shenanigans, his sound work with the Dead was amazing.
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JnnyThndrs posted:Shame that Owsley will be remembered for his acid shenanigans, his sound work with the Dead was amazing. Read some writeup about the Wall of Sound a while back (can't remember where) and it said that Owsley was basically the guy who figured out how to make on-stage monitoring really work. Impressive stuff.
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May 12, 2017 02:46
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Nothing will ever top the Wall of Sound, though. And all this to play some noodle-y, laid-back feelgood folk-rock jams. Not criticizing! 'American Beauty' is a desert island disc for me.
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More loud chat: I've been to tons metal shows that by nature should be loud from Anathema to Mayhem and Mortician to Type O and still, the most uncomfortably loud show I've seen was QotSA. Runner-up would be Enslaved. The entire QotSA set was slightly uptempo and cranked to 11. Might just be a Josh Homme thing if TCV is the same way.
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Loudest band I ever saw was Earth in a tiny pissy basement venue, which was fuckin weird considering this was well into their Bees Made Honey melodic chilldrone phase
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May 12, 2017 05:39
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Manowar has the actual verified record of loudest shows, So they win.
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May 12, 2017 05:51
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I saw D'espairsray on their final tour through the USA years ago and within a minute or two of them starting, my hearing was absolutely hosed and it ruined the show for me. I'd never needed earplugs before at a live show, and I've always worn them since. I don't even remember it being ear-destroyingly loud. I dunno, maybe it was something about the mix.
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About the Jay Leno steam powered car from a few pages back - I feel dumb but I watched the whole thing and I couldn't tell what was generating the heat to turn the water into steam. Is it just gasoline that makes that fire or what?
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HAT FETISH posted:Loudest band I ever saw was Earth in a tiny pissy basement venue, which was fuckin weird considering this was well into their Bees Made Honey melodic chilldrone phase God drat would I kill to see Earth play songs off Bees Made Honey
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joedevola posted:About the Jay Leno steam powered car from a few pages back - I feel dumb but I watched the whole thing and I couldn't tell what was generating the heat to turn the water into steam. Is it just gasoline that makes that fire or what? Wikipedia says “it could burn a variety of liquid fuels with a minimum of modification”. I don’t know what Leno uses. e: He uses gasoline. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 13:26 on May 12, 2017 |
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joedevola posted:About the Jay Leno steam powered car from a few pages back - I feel dumb but I watched the whole thing and I couldn't tell what was generating the heat to turn the water into steam. Is it just gasoline that makes that fire or what? Designed for kerosene/diesel, but worked with pretty much anything liquid that burns, much like jet engines. efb, that's what I get for leaving a tab open for ten minutes. So Leno has three cars to tool around in after the apocalypse/the oil runs out (which are basically synonymous to us) -- the two Dobles and the '63 Chrysler. Fun fact: jet fuel is basically diesel fuel refined to higher standards. The US military uses one fuel for everything, from jets to trucks, really simplifying logistics. The Navy has a slightly different formulation than the Army, both of which are slightly different from civilian Jet A, but the engines will run on any of 'em, and even on regular diesel in a pinch (though they'll wear out quicker in the latter case). To get back on topic, when was the last gasoline vehicle retired from the US military? Whenever the HMMWV replaced the Jeep/CUCV? Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 13:47 on May 12, 2017 |
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Delivery McGee posted:Designed for kerosene/diesel, but worked with pretty much anything liquid that burns, much like jet engines. Sounds like it would be remarkably easy to make that thing nuclear. I mean, not easy in a legal sense...
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Delivery McGee posted:efb, that's what I get for leaving a tab open for ten minutes. So Leno has three cars to tool around in after the apocalypse/the oil runs out (which are basically synonymous to us) -- the two Dobles and the '63 Chrysler. He has several more steam cars than that, though I don’t know they’re all flex‐fuel capable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Me8b0ed59s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKA4cdAzsco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf8miprLH60 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKX1KgIkBwg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnab5sG9PQs And the aforementioned Dobles for completeness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACO-HXvrRz8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUg_ukBwsyo Platystemon has a new favorite as of 23:51 on May 13, 2017 |
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https://twitter.com/tastefactory/status/863050864768020480Kelp Me! posted:God drat would I kill to see Earth play songs off Bees Made Honey 
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Platystemon posted:He has several more steam cars than that, though I don’t know they’re all flex‐fuel capable. I love the idea of steam cars until I realize what happens when they crash. Movies show dumb explosions with gas cars, but compressed steam is no joke.
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Resurrecting the ZX Spectrum: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
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Phanatic posted:Resurrecting the ZX Spectrum: I was all in...until the mention of the Raspberry Pi Zero. gently caress off.
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Humphreys posted:I was all in...until the mention of the Raspberry Pi Zero. gently caress off. I have no horse in this race, since Commodore computers were my jam growing up (VIC20 for life!). But I gotta know, why is a RasPI as an expansion module a deal breaker? (I've never used one of those either)
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flosofl posted:I have no horse in this race, since Commodore computers were my jam growing up (VIC20 for life!). But I gotta know, why is a RasPI as an expansion module a deal breaker? (I've never used one of those either) Their system is just a breakout* for the pi zero. *I admit with some good engineering. But geez, you had it all WITHOUT the pi. Or you can do it all with the pi yourself.
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Humphreys posted:Their system is just a breakout* for the pi zero. Huh? It's got a FPGA that's doing the job of the original bits and an option to add a pi zero should you want additional performance. You don't need a pi for this.
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cstine posted:Huh? It's got a FPGA that's doing the job of the original bits and an option to add a pi zero should you want additional performance. You don't need a pi for this. That was my read.
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cstine posted:Huh? It's got a FPGA that's doing the job of the original bits and an option to add a pi zero should you want additional performance. You don't need a pi for this. This. The FPGA is doing all the ZX stuff.
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shovelbum posted:It doesn't even sound like the Pi mode is emulation, much less the FPGA only mode The Pi is for mysterious "we don't seem sure what we'll do with this yet" acceleration purposes.
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Phanatic posted:Resurrecting the ZX Spectrum: Let's hope it fares better than the previous one: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/29/retro_computer_ltd_vega_plus_refunds/ I still think the C64 ports of those games were usually better, with better music too.
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Laserjet 4P posted:Let's hope it fares better than the previous one: they did bring back the C64 briefly, but it was basically just a modern PC inside a C64 case
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cstine posted:Huh? It's got a FPGA that's doing the job of the original bits and an option to add a pi zero should you want additional performance. You don't need a pi for this. I am bad at reading. Sorry.
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My dad cleared out a couple of bookshelves today. Among the personal-value antiques (handwritten notes from grad-level comp-sci classes basically before comp-sci classes existed, almost-entirely-outdated electrical engineering manuals/handbooks from the 70's-80's) was this little gem: here's one of the EE manuals I grabbed just to pad out my home bookshelf of hilariously outdated textbooks: 
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WebDog posted:Aussie nostalgia overload here: Oh wow. I have a few of these and around 3 years ago I scanned them in for a thread here. I also contacted the gamesmen guys and showed them the scans. The guy I emailed said that they'd been wanting to do that for a while and that they still had mint copies somewhere at the store. It's so good to see that they've finally gotten around to it.
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Kelp Me! posted:My dad cleared out a couple of bookshelves today. Among the personal-value antiques (handwritten notes from grad-level comp-sci classes basically before comp-sci classes existed, almost-entirely-outdated electrical engineering manuals/handbooks from the 70's-80's) was this little gem: Leave those on your front step and set up a camera trap. You may be the first person to get photographic proof of John Titor.
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Powered Descent posted:That's cooler than what I had. To move anything that was too big for floppies, I had to resort to a null modem, a serial cable, and a copy of Laplink that someone at school had given me. Your story is almost identical to mine from around the same era. Reading it is almost too strange.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Sounds like it would be remarkably easy to make that thing nuclear. I mean, not easy in a legal sense... 
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I still use those null modem adapters regularly on SCADA equipment. RS232 is alive and kicking, though more and more in EIA232 form.
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Now this is podracing!
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That'd be so much fun before the radiation poisoning set in.
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TotalLossBrain posted:I still use those null modem adapters regularly on SCADA equipment. Yep. RS232 is still very common with scientific equipment as well. I don't do much with the actual installation or maintenance of it, but there's tons of stuff at my work that has it. I also came across some 5.25" floppies at work the other day. I don't think there's any machine that can even read them here anymore.
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RS232 is the de-facto standard for industrial equipment, and most networking gear above consumer level. It's basically everywhere once you look outside the desktop PC bubble.
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