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Metal Geir Skogul posted:eyefi took their ball and went home by disabling all but the latest gen of their cards. Since they had a near monopoly at the time, the market kinda died for them. Holy poo poo, I was close to buying one of those at one point. I'm glad I didn't because I like to be able to use my stuff
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Buttcoin purse posted:Holy poo poo, I was close to buying one of those at one point. I'm glad I didn't because I like to be able to use my stuff I have some piece of hardware that the app to run it has vanished off the Google Play store. I can't even find it anymore in my history of 'purchased' apps. There was something a few months about Google doing a purge of a bunch of apps for various reasons (content, malware, security issues, etc.) so I don't know if this was included in that or if the developers pulled it or what.
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Hey also regularly dump apps that never get updated to newer API levels as far as I know. So if you use some ancient API in your app and never update it you might get the boot.
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Yay mouse hand chat. I'm right handed. At home I mouse with the right, at work with the left, the idea being to stave off future rsi problems. However I will probably just get rsi on both sides instead of neither.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Holy poo poo, I was close to buying one of those at one point. I'm glad I didn't because I like to be able to use my stuff I got one of their transfer-to-mobile cards back when I thought my workflow could conceivably be DSLR >>> iPhone for mobile editing. The implementation was janky though. If you're shooting something with a DSLR you're likely to have lots of bad shots you don't want, but EVERYTHING gets copied over. But not copied over to your photo gallery. It's copied into EyeFi's own application that's dog slow for deleting the 90% of shots you don't want on your phone or iPad. And if you delete it, well you'd better make sure it's not still on your camera because guess what just got uploaded again (they may have fixed that). Essentially you had to extensively janitor both your camera and your phone for it to work properly which went against the whole concept of having a mobile option for editing pictures. Also you can't install the software without a physical code you receive with your SD card. So when I upgraded my phone and couldn't find my code I was SOL. I literally just stumbled across my code last night after having lost it for a year. The SD card still works as an SD card, so that's something at least.
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I present for your consideration the not at all failed, but certainly obsolete, technology of "tracked" music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9zmLQGBTIw Seen here the Amiga ProTracker software. State of the art at its time, ProTracker was the first user-friendly way to sequence digital samples together to make music. Trackers were used to produce the soundtracks of many great games on Amiga, Atari ST(e), Super Nintendo and other platforms that boasted "CD quality" music (which usually meant they could produce 8-bit PCM sound, and not necessarily in proper stereo... The SNES did 16-bit sound at 32 kHz iirc, which I suppose is best in class.) If you attempted to make your machine sound like an orchestra, what you got was generally disappointing. A rousing composition notwithstanding, this piece by Dave Lowe mostly succeeds in highlighting the shortcomings of the technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbegNmKRZUM Most videogame composers took completely different directions, rolling with the limited number of channels. The Atari ST had its adherents and boasted great MIDI compatibility and software, but the built-in synthesis leaves much to be desired. The Amiga still lives as a composition platform on the demo Scene. Real craftsmen are still pushing the platform to its limits but I'd say it's well past being obsolete in the eyes of the general public. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eclMFa0mD1c
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A mechanical monstrosity from the early-mid 20th C; a double-acting opposed piston 2-stroke engine where the main piston is powered both up and down and then also has 2 pistons that are somehow externally yoked together above and below it, THREE pistons per cylinder; 550mm bore. I found this while trying to study normal engines. PDF of a textbook chapter on it on it: http://www.rakaia.co.uk/assets/hw-da-engines.pdf Site with more info: http://www.inverclydeshipbuilding.co.uk/home/the-diesel-engine
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:I present for your consideration the not at all failed, but certainly obsolete, technology of "tracked" music. I will forever love trackers (and the entire demo scene). I've probably posted it a hundred times, but the "Elysium" track is still the greatest imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTtjvbAvsys And I once made my own mod. Way back in the late-90s, my high school required a "creative" component for graduation. Having no other creative bone in my body, I decided to use a tracker to re-imagine an old instrumental. If you guessed that it was the theme to a 1970's Yugoslav TV show about WWII freedom fighters, you are correct. I've sadly lost my file, but this was the original theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAyfo__Mhpc My version, it... wasn't great. But it got me the credit needed to graduate. Thanks trackers!
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JediTalentAgent posted:I have some piece of hardware that the app to run it has vanished off the Google Play store. I can't even find it anymore in my history of 'purchased' apps. I have a Lytro Camera. Well, had. Now it's apparently bricked with no access to the lightfield calculation stuff.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:I present for your consideration the not at all failed, but certainly obsolete, technology of "tracked" music. Hell yeah, Jogeir Liljedahl is loving amazing. I have those compilations from YouTube bookmarked as my go-to music at work. I can listen to them all day without getting tired of them. Purple Motion and Peter Hajba (sp?) rock too.
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Jerry Cotton posted:A Purple Motion .mod tune Great choice! Incidentally, Purple Motion was an alias for Jonne Valtonen, who wrote the orchestral arrangements for Square Enix's tribute concert Symphonic Fantasies, which includes this awesome medley of tunes from arguably the best "tracked" game soundtrack ever: Chrono Trigger (SNES). (The arrangement includes some Chrono Cross, too, but the Chrono main theme carries the piece.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0qQyxtuRI (Edit: The Köln recording was godawful, swapped it out for the Tokyo one...) Hippie Hedgehog has a new favorite as of 12:11 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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I'm left handed but I use a right sided track ball.
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Humphreys posted:I have a Lytro Camera. Well, had. Now it's apparently bricked with no access to the lightfield calculation stuff. I picked up a 1st gen Lytro’s in a fire sale, but could never find a real use for it. I don’t think the cameras got bricked, just the online hosting where you could upload a raw image and let others selectively focus it. You should still be able to use all the other features of the camera.
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Trabant posted:If you guessed that it was the theme to a 1970's Yugoslav TV show about WWII freedom fighters, you are correct. As soon as I read this, the song started playing in my head, and I'm sad you've lost your file.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Great choice! Incidentally, Purple Motion was an alias for Jonne Valtonen, who wrote the orchestral arrangements for Square Enix's tribute concert Symphonic Fantasies, which includes this awesome medley of tunes from arguably the best "tracked" game soundtrack ever: Chrono Trigger (SNES). (The arrangement includes some Chrono Cross, too, but the Chrono main theme carries the piece.) I think I met him once, briefly. He was a NERD.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I think I met him once, briefly. He was a NERD. same
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ftp is obsolete, right? I'm currently trying to dl a bunch of work stuff and it takes 45 seconds (I timed it) to load up pages that have like 200 characters
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Shut your filthy mouth. You don’t deserve to use port 21.
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I've read a lot of William Gibson novels. They were pretty decent, given the time in which they were written. And then I followed Naomi Wu on youtube. Shenzhen, China is straight-up William Gibson's cyberpunk-dystopia Tokyo cranked up to 11. And on crack. You can build an iPhone from spare parts you buy off street vendors, ferchrissakes (as some white guy demonstrated). (I guess the obsolete/failed tech here is Communism/the Cold War, China loves them some USD.)
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Jaguars! posted:ftp is obsolete, right? noooope. still use it heavily at work for exchanging files with companies who we integrate systems with, like older companies that haven't implemented API-based methods or something else, just daily files via s/ftp
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Jaguars! posted:ftp is obsolete, right? My company works with a bunch of other companies that need to exchange files with us. Files that deal with invoicing and billing and money. We've offered SFTP for many years, but a surprising number of these companies (terrifyingly big and famous companies) say that their systems just don't have that capability. So we keep a plain-Jane unencrypted FTP service going for them, on the public Internet. It's barbarous. FTP still has its uses, but not for anything within shouting distance of money.
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Code Jockey posted:noooope. still use it heavily at work for exchanging files with companies who we integrate systems with So yes, basically. See the other old poo poo thread where people have 386 computers running the entire shop with decades since last reboot because if it ever powers down, the HDD won't spin up again. Edit: I'm being a bit flippant, but only a bit.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I picked up a 1st gen Lytro’s in a fire sale, but could never find a real use for it. Oh ok, I might have to dig it up. Been a few years since I used it and my hazy memory was that hte selective focus was all done 'in the cloud' and uploaded to their server. Showing people DOF and focus trickery was the coolest thing.
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Jaguars! posted:ftp is obsolete, right? I'm currently trying to dl a bunch of work stuff and it takes 45 seconds (I timed it) to load up pages that have like 200 characters We have some automated systems at my work that transfer files between machines, they can do 1GB in just over 10s. Maybe you have some issues with client negotiation or something, maybe it's trying lovely old active FTP and then falling back to passive? Or are you using a decent FTP client like FileZilla? I remember the bad old days of trying to get a decent GUI FTP client on Windows 95. I always had to go back to command line tools if I wanted things to be reliable 
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There is literally no reason to use FTP in a world where SFTP exists. SFTP isn't ideal either, but it's a drop in replacement for FTP in 99.9% of use cases and a thousand times better.
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FTP will survive for a very long time because out there somewhere are several million systems relying on it that somebody holding the purse strings won't pay to update because hey it works why spend money if you don't have to?
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ToxicSlurpee posted:FTP will survive for a very long time because out there somewhere are several million systems relying on it that somebody holding the purse strings won't pay to update because hey it works why spend money if you don't have to? We've got one because we're waiting to migrate to something other than an AS400 for one of our systems but we just have them FTP over a VPN. Oh well.
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Mr-Spain posted:We've got one because we're waiting to migrate to something other than an AS400 for one of our systems but we just have them FTP over a VPN. Oh well. All these words are my life. Want to work on EDI? Want to move to Wisconsin?
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Jaguars! posted:ftp is obsolete, right? I'm currently trying to dl a bunch of work stuff and it takes 45 seconds (I timed it) to load up pages that have like 200 characters  If you have a console application or a batch job or whatever that downloads, for example, a 5 Gigabyte file via FTP in the background, it can reach full speed just as well as downloading via HTTP. There's just usually a ton of overhead establishing the FTP connection, so it behaves terribly slow when you're manually working with it. I can also attest, by working as a software developer, that FTP is alive and well. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with it, it's just often misused as a "webservice", where one company writes data to some files, puts them on another company's FTP, and then they have a batch job that reads and imports data from the files into their system. So many things can go wrong in the chain, and it's hell to debug.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:I present for your consideration the not at all failed, but certainly obsolete, technology of "tracked" music. Reptile & Sky - Magical Sound Shower (NSFW, pixel girl in underwear) Serpent - SBD Beat AceMan - My First Console Also, remember Unreal, the first from 1998? All the music is tracker music, made with a mix of ImpulseTracker and ScreamTracker. I extracted it from the game data files eons ago and still listen to it using WinAmp (haha, obsolete) sometimes. You can listen to it here as well: Unreal (1998) complete soundtrack It's amazing quality, both from a technical and musical standpoint.
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Is the music from Deus ex made with a tracker?
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Is the music from Deus ex made with a tracker?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzvw8uSWucM loving jam
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Welp. Guess I'm beating Deus Ex again this weekend. I had other plans, jerk.
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Magnus Praeda posted:Welp. Guess I'm beating Deus Ex again this weekend. May as well do a pacifist run while you're at it.
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still so loving good deus ex is flawless
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Code Jockey posted:still so loving good I wouldn't use the word 'flawless' - epescially when talking about the Hong Kong level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kihGm4KfY7k
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