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Cojawfee posted:I don't get it. The image would end up being too shaky to even watch. https://i.imgur.com/DeljU8p.gifv
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evobatman posted:I can't even get a device that's a newer version of my Nvidia Shield Portable I have an older Lenovo Yoga Tab that is pretty good with its little fold out base. This link is to the newer one, but it's actually a cool device.  https://www.lenovo.com/in/en/tablets/android-tablets/yoga-tablets-series/Yoga-Tab-3-10/p/ZZITZTBYT2F
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Humphreys posted:I have an older Lenovo Yoga Tab that is pretty good with its little fold out base. This was cool until I saw it ran android
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Regular Nintendo posted:This was cool until I saw it ran android They did ones with Windows too: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/lenovo/yoga-tablet-series/yoga-tablet-2-win-10/ Mine is just the Android version but some smart cookie on XDA-Developers actually forced Win8 onto it but has since retired the project and not shared his guide 
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Powered Descent posted:Are you saying you didn't host a launch party for Windows 7? Even with instructional videos like this to help you plan it? Come on, the video even was even shot with an inappropriate and distracting (but very trendy, circa-2009) shaky-cam technique! What more do you want? I signed up to host a party but just kept the stuff and didn't have a party lol.
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Powered Descent posted:Are you saying you didn't host a launch party for Windows 7? Even with instructional videos like this to help you plan it? Come on, the video even was even shot with an inappropriate and distracting (but very trendy, circa-2009) shaky-cam technique! What more do you want? First time I saw this video I thought, oh ok it's a parody. Then I saw the length and thought, oh it's a porn parody. Either would have been more fun than what it was.
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The Magic Bullet infomercial where it's a bunch of hungover adults the morning after a nineties thirtysomethings party going nuts over a blender with attachments is about the only one I ever watched all the way through.
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doctorfrog posted:The Magic Bullet infomercial where it's a bunch of hungover adults the morning after a nineties thirtysomethings party going nuts over a blender with attachments is about the only one I ever watched all the way through. You don't remember Chef Tony selling those knives that never dull? How about the lady selling orthotics? What about the poop guy?
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Chef Tony and Ron Popeil were my role models. I say "Set it," you say "Forget It." SET IT!
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FORGET IT! YOU GET THE ROTISSERIE. YOU GET THE IN-EGG SCRAMBLER. YOU GET THE BALD SPOT SPRAY. ALL FOR TWO LOW PAYMENTS OF $199.99! THAT'S RIGHT, JUST TWO LOW PAYMENT OF $199.99
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Iron Crowned posted:You don't remember Chef Tony selling those knives that never dull? Although recently, one night where I couldn't sleep I watched the entirety of a Susan Powter video, the kind of thing you'd pay $20 for on VHS, where she goes to a Ralph's after it closes and goes on a stream of consciousness shopping trip for as many healthy carbs as she can find. Is the low-fat, high carb diet a tech relic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWWCc7OYhg
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doctorfrog posted:Is the low-fat, high carb diet a tech relic? That's...probably a way of looking at it. I mean, people are continuously coming up with new niche diets for starving your body of one specific component to try to force it to burn others inefficiently for weight loss, so if that's not the current trend, I guess?
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Shady Amish Terror posted:That's...probably a way of looking at it. I mean, people are continuously coming up with new niche diets for starving your body of one specific component to try to force it to burn others inefficiently for weight loss, so if that's not the current trend, I guess? And don't they all pretty much kill you slowly?
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So does breathing
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And eating, oddly enough.
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doctorfrog posted:The Magic Bullet infomercial where it's a bunch of hungover adults the morning after a nineties thirtysomethings party going nuts over a blender with attachments is about the only one I ever watched all the way through. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY6EyQ_ihOI
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That Magic Bullet infomercial is the best ever. My roommates and I watched it in its entirety on multiple occasions, but we never bought one. Also amazing is that I clicked that Youtube link and I apparently gave it a thumbs up/like/whatever it was at the time on it years ago.
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I was watching TV Shop one night and suddenly Mr. T busted through the door onto the set and started making french fries or something it was cool but I don't remember what the gadget was; some Dench fry main g Ganges I dufeas?
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Jerry Cotton posted:I was watching TV Shop one night and suddenly Mr. T busted through the door onto the set and started making french fries or something it was cool but I don't remember what the gadget was; some Dench fry main g Ganges I dufeas? I can't tell if that's a really bad Mr T impression or if you had a stroke
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Jerry Cotton posted:some Dench fry main g Ganges I dufeas? Please don’t sign your posts
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My aim isn't to make this thread about crappy infomercials or $19.99 plus shipping and handling VHS tapes (allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery), but the Magic Bullet clip up there led me to this riveting video of a pool hustler teachin' me how to hustle pool like a fuckin' pro*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpDTmHatksI I'm fifteen minutes in and he speaks very slowly and keeps repeating himself like he's got three "secrets" and has to pad out the full 55 minutes with them. I don't know if crappy infomercials leading to pricey dead-end videos is better or worse than photoshopped Youtube thumbnails overlaid with hilarious reaction faces. *Also the RedLetterMedia thread is only ever about Star Wars or comic book movies
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Neito posted:And don't they all pretty much kill you slowly? The biggest problem is that some of them can kill you relatively quickly, actually. Eat an apple once in a while and don't drink pureed bacon for every meal if you don't want organ failure, for instance. Fad diets are extremely obsolete tech, but I can't see them going away anytime soon. The obesity crisis in the developed world is a massive problem with economic, societal, and anatomical facets to it, and so long as it's more difficult to be skinny than overweight, you're going to have people searching for magic bullets that almost certainly don't exist.
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doctorfrog posted:The Magic Bullet infomercial where it's a bunch of hungover adults the morning after a nineties thirtysomethings party going nuts over a blender with attachments is about the only one I ever watched all the way through. There's no way anyone can convince me that they didn't totally have a swingers party the night before.
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Berman must have a monster dong.
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Early Digital cameras were weird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G_1uy_7B5w I remember using a Sony Mavica that used an actual 3.5" floppy, and when I started at the newspaper they had a pile of the OG DSLRs, 35mm Canons with a giant Kodak computer box on the bottom -- I was issued a Nikon D1, but for some reason they still had the old poo poo in a box under the desk. Edit: This 1-megapixel dinosaur: 
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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azurite posted:LGR had a thing on the Mavica, too. I used one in a middle school class and thought it was the greatest thing. Circa 1999, a friend got a new Mavica with the onboard floppy drive, and I was instantly jealous. My camera (I want to say it was made by Casio) could only move photos to a computer via a special proprietary serial cable and a crappy, crappy software program, both of which came in the camera box. With the Mavica? The photos were just on disks, which everyone had a million of and which you could read on any computer. Planning to take more pictures at a given event? Bring along more disks. Nothing could be simpler.
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Those floppy drive cameras took some really nice detail pics though. A company I worked for used one until floppy drives bit the dust in the early stages of the 2010's to document different parts of the sewing process for backpacks. It was important to document the process cause the bags we where building where designed to be towed into and out of helicopters so needed to hold a decent amount of strength which all came from the sticking. We had a bag tested at one point and the webbing gave way well before the stitching showed any signs of tearing.
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I used one of those floppy disk camera back in school and they were sure terrible. The on the box features looked great. I was tasked to take photos of a soccer game which was pretty near impossible as the delay between you pressing the button and it taking the photo meant you would never capture what you needed as it would be out of frame, blurred/out of focus if you tried to track, the moment passed and you couldn't take another shot in a time period measured in forever. It was effectively just about as useful for movement as an old time camera that had a hood and flash powder or magnesium bulb which could at least take a photo on cue.
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Mavicas are hilarious relics of the time when digital cameras were in their infancy but yeah they didn’t take good photos. They also took video!! Which is exactly as bad as it sounds. Remember the weird era of digital backs for film cameras? I kind of want to find one
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Early Digital cameras were weird. Like you could be talking to a friend and just be like "Oh here's what I look like" and bam photo. Anyway, my first digital camera was some piece of crud, but it was bundled with one of these. https://www.cnet.com/reviews/polaroid-p-500-printer-color-review/ The idea was novel as gently caress: using those tiny polaroid films to print tiny photos. I made it through two rolls before the unit poo poo itself and never worked right again.
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I love whipping this out when Mavicas get mentioned. A photo taken with one in 1999 for a school project. It's actually better quality than the first digital camera I actually owned, some kind of Polaroid. I don't remember the Polaroid have any expandable memory capability, no ability to shoot videos and could hold 12 or so of what it considered normal size images.
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FilthyImp posted:My elementary was all in on computing, Mine was, too. We had a bunch of Apple IIe and TI-99/4A.
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Mammal Sauce posted:Mine was, too. We had a bunch of Apple IIe and TI-99/4A. Atari 400/800/1200s for days
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I had a digital camera I got for signing up with Earthlink around 2000. It was the most amazingly terrible thing. The cord was some weird proprietary slide-on thing into parallel port I believe, you had to use some garbage software to get the pictures off. It didn't have a screen, just a little LCD that showed how many pictures you had taken. We never did figure out what the maximum capacity was, since once you took between 12 to 20 pictures it would crash the downloading process. It was on a weird sliding scale of probability too, making every use of it an excercise in gambling. "Should I risk one more picture? I'm at 13..." If you took too many, you couldn't get any of the pictures off the camera and just had to mass-erase and try again. A friend of mine had an HP camera that was light years better, but even that thing was a hot mess. It took like 8 AA batteries, and would drain them dry in a matter of a couple hours of use.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Mavicas are hilarious relics of the time when digital cameras were in their infancy but yeah they didn’t take good photos. They also took video!! Which is exactly as bad as it sounds. That's still a thing in the large format world.
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I bought a Mad Catz accessory that siphoned images off the Game Boy camera onto a computer through a parallel port. The window for when that thing was usable was so short I only used it once.
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I had(still have ‘em, somewhere) a couple of Mavicas, the higher-end versions, and they took really good pictures for the time, the glass and optical zoom was of pretty high quality. Since they used the same batteries as Handycams, they ran quite awhile on a charge and extra batteries were easily available. The autofocus *was* slow, but so was everything else at the time. The big problem was that as resolutions went up, you could only fit six or seven photos on a floppy and it took awhile to write them. They ran the floppy drives at double speed compared to PC’s but it was still slow. They were really popular with realtors and body shops and such where it was all stationary objects and not having to worry about card readers and USB issues and all the incompatible solid-state media at the time (xD?, Smartmedia?, MemoryStick?) was a huge improvement. CompactFlash was the only decent format in those days and it was still really expensive.
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