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Volcott posted:But John Denver never died. He may live on in your heart, but he doesn't live on in the shared universe we all inhabit.
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Probably posted already but I had one of these bad boys for about a year before it got broken and then was immediately superseded by actual MP3 players. The MP3 CD walkman, burn a CD with 100 songs!!! Have fun skipping ahead to the one you actually want to listen to!!
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The Doctor posted:Probably posted already but I had one of these bad boys for about a year before it got broken and then was immediately superseded by actual MP3 players. The MP3 CD walkman, burn a CD with 100 songs!!! Have fun skipping ahead to the one you actually want to listen to!! I had an iriver mp3 CD player that was nice, although it had like 10000 buttons. That was the trend I guess until later when everyone started copying the iPod 4 (I think) by putting wheel controls on everything and not having physical volume buttons. mystes has a new favorite as of 23:42 on Feb 15, 2018 |
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Feb 15, 2018 23:39
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Der Kyhe posted:In a civilized country with annual road-worthy inspections they give you a shitlist that needs to be fixed within one month or you have to invest on a bus pass. I come from MN. I can duct tape a hair dryer to a cat and call it road legal car as long as I pay for tabs. Road worthiness? What is this word "Road worthiness"?
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Feb 15, 2018 23:48
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mostlygray posted:I come from MN. I can duct tape a hair dryer to a cat and call it road legal car as long as I pay for tabs. I’m from Georgia and we can duct tape that hair dryer to an even shittier cat as long as it’s farts aren’t bad enough to trip an emissions test. Then again our cars last longer because winter isn’t actively trying to kill us every day.
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Feb 16, 2018 00:07
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mystes posted:Sony must have been getting pretty desperate by that point if they deigned to allow use of normal mp3 files instead of just ATRAC. the iriver was so rad, way better than the first gen ipod i inherited later, but stupid skipping kept me from ever being able to run with music on until much later.
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Feb 16, 2018 01:00
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ryonguy posted:And Stan Rogers. How I wish I was in Sherbrook now...
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Feb 16, 2018 12:35
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axolotl farmer posted:How I wish I was in Sherbrook now...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2YT8HDlCp4
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Feb 16, 2018 13:20
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The Doctor posted:Probably posted already but I had one of these bad boys for about a year before it got broken and then was immediately superseded by actual MP3 players. The MP3 CD walkman, burn a CD with 100 songs!!! Have fun skipping ahead to the one you actually want to listen to!! Now I just have a miniature USB stick plugged into my headunit, filled with like 20 GB of music that plays on endless loop while driving. So great.
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Feb 18, 2018 20:29
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MP3 CDs got me through a couple of years of working nights at a gas station during those few years before smart phones were a thing but MP3 players were expensive enough I worried about having one on a counter in reach of the public. Had a little Walmart CD boombox that could play MP3 CDs. I'd burn podcasts and audiobooks and customers would look at me like I was a Martian listening to that stuff.
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Feb 18, 2018 20:36
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The Doctor posted:Probably posted already but I had one of these bad boys for about a year before it got broken and then was immediately superseded by actual MP3 players. The MP3 CD walkman, burn a CD with 100 songs!!! Have fun skipping ahead to the one you actually want to listen to!! Life hack: only ever have the absolute best songs on your Mix CD/tape/Itunes/whatever.
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Feb 18, 2018 20:37
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I had one of those visor disc holders with 20 MP3 CDs, my entire music collection.sd cw
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Krispy Wafer posted:Then again our cars last longer because winter isn’t actively trying to kill us every day. No, it only tries to kill you every couple of years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZS9iSXKMLg
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Pilsner posted:MP3 CD players were pretty decent in cars, for that period in the 00's before USB MP3 players came to light. Much better than dealing with audio-CD's for sure, and gently caress radio. For my first car, I got a head unit that was “MP3 Ready”. I got all excited, burned a disc of music, and... nothing. “MP3 Ready” was apparently some esoteric marketing term for an aux jack. Like, what the gently caress? Ultimately the aux jack is preferable :to reading MP3 discs but who the hell greenlit that garbage decision?
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Feb 19, 2018 03:08
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Dewgy posted:For my first car, I got a head unit that was “MP3 Ready”. I got all excited, burned a disc of music, and... nothing.
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Feb 19, 2018 03:18
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mystes posted:I think there were a bunch of other cases where "xx ready" was used to mean a device that couldn't actually support something without additional equipment, but I'm having trouble remembering what they were now. Well, there was Windows Vista Capable or something where they meant "maybe, slowly, with all the features turned off."
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mystes posted:I think there were a bunch of other cases where "xx ready" was used to mean a device that couldn't actually support something without additional equipment, but I'm having trouble remembering what they were now. IIRC in Australia when we were making the switch over to Digital TV, "HD Ready" just meant you could plug in a set top box while there was some other designation for actually being ready out of the box.
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Feb 19, 2018 03:23
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mystes posted:I think there were a bunch of other cases where "xx ready" was used to mean a device that couldn't actually support something without additional equipment, but I'm having trouble remembering what they were now. I bought a head unit that was "Sirus XM ready" but you had to buy an additional three-digit dongle.
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Feb 19, 2018 03:32
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HD ready is/was "can display 720p", device most likely doesn't contain a digital tuner or if it does, it doesn't see HD channels.
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Feb 19, 2018 03:35
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As a 30+ adult, I often hum tunes that are stuck in my head while working throughout the day. Most common is the Super Mario theme, followed by the Darkwing Duck and then Inspector Gadget themes. Sometimes that "mental track" jumps to a modern song for awhile, maybe a few days, but it usually always shifts back to one of those three. And, 100% of the time, there is a second, background track that is always mentally humming the Duck Tales theme song. No breaks, 100% of the time. If I am schizophrenic, all of the other voices in my head are preoccupied with the goddamned Duck Tales music, and therefore it keeps my sanity safe. However, The Floppotron just broke that sanity today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2muqesqltk
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Feb 19, 2018 06:32
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carry on then posted:Well, there was Windows Vista Capable or something where they meant "maybe, slowly, with all the features turned off." Vista Ready meant "Can this computer that can only just comfortably run XP, run our newest OS with literally ten times the minimum hardware requirements? Uhh... Yes?" just so manufacturers didn't have to scrap their bottom-dollar budget PC lineup for the next year. And honestly, if Microsoft had insisted that no, this really is the minimum system requirements, congrats about your midrange lineup suddenly becoming your bottom-dollar budget lineup and sorry about all the computers we just made you scrap, Windows Vista would be fondly remembered as a solid and respectable OS instead of the flaming dumpster fire it's remembered as now. After all, Windows 7 is literally Vista with a new taskbar and UAC turned down to tolerable levels out of the box.
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Feb 19, 2018 06:54
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mystes posted:I think there were a bunch of other cases where "xx ready" was used to mean a device that couldn't actually support something without additional equipment, but I'm having trouble remembering what they were now. I'm afraid I fell for a "1080p compatible" tv back in the day(it downscaled stuff to 720p while still displaying 1080p in the corner)
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Feb 19, 2018 07:17
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rndmnmbr posted:And honestly, if Microsoft had insisted that no, this really is the minimum system requirements, congrats about your midrange lineup suddenly becoming your bottom-dollar budget lineup and sorry about all the computers we just made you scrap, Windows Vista would be fondly remembered as a solid and respectable OS instead of the flaming dumpster fire it's remembered as now. After all, Windows 7 is literally Vista with a new taskbar and UAC turned down to tolerable levels out of the box. I never, ever had any real issues with Vista once I got UAC sorted. Only reason I even upgraded to 7 was that was when I learned about 32 vs 64-bit, and realized my RAM and CPU were being hamstrung by the 32-bit version of Vista my prebuilt came with, and 7 was like a $40 upgrade vs paying whatever for 64-bit Vista.
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Enourmo posted:I never, ever had any real issues with Vista once I got UAC sorted. This was my experience too. Vista was good once you made a few minor tweaks. Heck, you probably wouldn't have to tweak UAC if you installed it today, most programs these days respect limited user accounts and don't default to requiring local admin. e. Windows 10 is pretty solid too once you find and turn off all the telemetry crap. That and actually find the real control panel, although they should eventually get everything rolled into Settings. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 07:38 on Feb 19, 2018 |
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cisneros posted:I'm afraid I fell for a "1080p compatible" tv back in the day(it downscaled stuff to 720p while still displaying 1080p in the corner) I mentioned the low-end projectors a few weeks ago and even those seem to mention 1080p resolutions on the box, but then clarifies it with something like, "**capable of accepting an input source signal of 1080p and converting it to the projector's native resolution of 320x480."
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Feb 19, 2018 09:40
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Cables, why are all cables still dumb as poo poo? Even the “smart” ones have been made stupid in various ways. Let’s take usb. Any usb 1,2,3 device works on any usb 1,2 or 3 host (assuming you’ve got the right drivers and bios flags specified, but that’s another kettle of fish). This is great. And usb-3 has a different port and colour so you know what’s what. then some genius decided to come up with usb-c. Also great, no superposition plugs. Then some idiot decided to put thunderbolt down the same port. But not every usb-c port is thunderbolt 3, and possibly not every thunderbolt port is usb. The wheels are starting to wobble. Then someone decided to put DisplayPort down usb-c. But only if your host device is wired up properly, and even if it is, compatibility varies (as far as I can tell, there’s DisplayPort down usb-c directly, and DisplayPort down thunderbolt). Thunderbolt has multiple classes of cables for various features and speeds. Then you’ve got HDMI that has versioned cables, loving cables that go obsolete. And to top it off, you’ve got these brand new protocols, supporting a myriad of features, with both host guest and cable supporting different features. But nothing to diagnose problems. I spent 3 hours trying to work out why my monitor was running in 16bit colour the other day. All because the cable was having issues. But neither host or guest had the gumption to say “I’m running in 16bit, but you tried 24bit, replace the cable”
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:However, The Floppotron just broke that sanity today.
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Vavrek posted:This is the greatest thing I have ever seen. Horse Clocks posted:Cables, why are all cables still dumb as poo poo? USB-C is it's own evil, because it can be usb v. 2 or 3 and there's not way to tell. Phones with USB-C will usually be the v. 2 variant, because why not.' Also lol at thunderbolt whose cable length is 1m
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JediTalentAgent posted:I mentioned the low-end projectors a few weeks ago and even those seem to mention 1080p resolutions on the box, but then clarifies it with something like, "**capable of accepting an input source signal of 1080p and converting it to the projector's native resolution of 320x480." Ahhh the nature's antialiasing
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Vic posted:Ahhh the nature's antialiasing Jokes on you: they use nearest‐neighbour downsampling.
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And then there's the DualShock 3, which refused to charge unless you had a USB cable capable of sending data and a device on the other end capable of sending the handshake. Because a consequence of using USB as a charging standard means there are some "USB" cables where the middle two data pins aren't even wired up!
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:As a 30+ adult, I often hum tunes that are stuck in my head while working throughout the day. Most common is the Super Mario theme, followed by the Darkwing Duck and then Inspector Gadget themes. Sometimes that "mental track" jumps to a modern song for awhile, maybe a few days, but it usually always shifts back to one of those three. And, 100% of the time, there is a second, background track that is always mentally humming the Duck Tales theme song. No breaks, 100% of the time. If I am schizophrenic, all of the other voices in my head are preoccupied with the goddamned Duck Tales music, and therefore it keeps my sanity safe. you made me expect Floppotron DuckTales and now I am sad.
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Boiled Water posted:USB-C is it's own evil, because it can be usb v. 2 or 3 and there's not way to tell. Phones with USB-C will usually be the v. 2 variant, because why not.' 
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Horse Clocks posted:
HDMI bandwidth needs have increased considerably since HDMI has been a thing. 1080p at 60hz could get by with less than 4Gbps. 4K at 60Hz need nearly 13Gbps (newer cables are rate at 18Gbps). The next level of calbe are rated at 42.6Gbps and support 8k at 120hz in some configurations. Edit: Think of it this way. All HDMI cables should be compatable with pretty much any display and system, but you need to make sure that you have a high enough bandwidth for the video format you are sending. This is just like computer networking. You could use a CAT3 cable on any modern system, but you probably are not going to get 1Gb connections out of it, and VERY unlikely to get 10Gb. Lowen SoDium has a new favorite as of 16:40 on Feb 19, 2018 |
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Enourmo posted:And again the brake-by-wire is a technical necessity. Hybrids use regenerative braking (turn the drive motors into generators to recharge the batteries, which slows the car in the process), but that doesn't work above 5-10 mph, I test-drove a Model S and the regenerative braking worked just fine above 5-10 mph. Lift up off the gas and regen instantly starts slowing you down (which is kind of cool because you can modulate your speed up and down with just the gas pedal), at least at speeds up to the 70mph or so I pushed it to. Press your foot on the brake pedal and you get friction braking. Why would the systems in hybrids only work at such slow speeds? Phanatic has a new favorite as of 17:59 on Feb 19, 2018 |
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I think he meant the opposite. The regenerative braking on a Prius doesn't work BELOW 7mph. Above 7mph is a combo of friction braking and regen braking.
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Lowen SoDium posted:HDMI bandwidth needs have increased considerably since HDMI has been a thing. Sure. you can’t magically push more bits down an older wire. But at least do the courtesy of either A) conveying to users it’s not working right. B) make the connector physically different so when I try and plug the 2001 era cable into my 8k tv it either tells me it’s only able to negotiate 8k@10hz and maybe I should upgrade my cable. Or the plug doesn’t fit in the socket. Instead of exhibiting one of many behaviours that mask the incompatibility.
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I'm pretty sure you could tell if your TV was running at 10hz photosensitive epileptics no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q38l0aYGBo
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