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Platystemon posted:No, because the counterfeits aren’t whole-cloth replicas based on your publicity photos.  quote:Remember the StikBox? The creative smartphone case selfie stick raised over $40K on Kickstarter for a product that would eventually cost about $47. But before the Kickstarter was even over, China was selling a perfect copy for as little as 8 bucks. 
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Or the tale of the baby toy for grown cubicle dwellers, the Fidget Cube: https://medium.com/@jobosapien/real-vs-fake-the-infamous-case-of-the-quickly-copied-fidget-cube-9b26a6161b36 quote:The Fidget Cube campaign did mention copycats, but I didn’t realize it was this egregious. quote:What you have to understand is that China is very good at quickly and cheaply manufacturing almost any good you can think of, especially if it’s a simple product with no internal circuitry or associated software, which the Fidget Cube falls under. e: welp that's a bad example of what the poster above was demonstrating. Still amusing. My main fidget toy is a knockoff Rubik's Cube, which have had knockoff copies made since the 1980's. They sell really bad ones at dollar stores. doctorfrog has a new favorite as of 23:30 on Aug 25, 2019 |
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doctorfrog posted:Or the tale of the baby toy for grown cubicle dwellers, the Fidget Cube: The Rubiks Cube is an example of the knockoffs being better quality. The official cubes are stiff and terrible to turn. There are plenty of Chinese brands that are so good that they are used by the world record holders.
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the official fidget cube's joystick is cheap trash, the chinese-made copies get it right
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Someone made a little display of all the obsolete tape formats at work. Betacam SP UMatic Betacam DVCam Ikegami Editcam XDCam Now we just use SD cards Editcam was an interesting format that was basically just a hard drive in a cartridge but it had the advantage at the time that you could just grab the pack, plug it in and ingest it for edit very quickly. It was astronomically expensive and since it used a spinning disk it was prone to errors but it worked well for many years. XDCam had the same advantages but the disks were dirt cheap in comparison. Also it did HD.
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dev286 posted:Someone made a little display of all the obsolete tape formats at work. it's weird how all those have the same Phil Collins video recorded on each and need to be returned.
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I worked at a TV station as a Master Control Operator in 1998-99. All of our ads and most of our shows were recorded on UMatic. A few of our syndicated shows were recorded on SVHS. That station had to be one of the last ones in operation that was still using UMatic by then...
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Lowen SoDium posted:I worked at a TV station as a Master Control Operator in 1998-99. All of our ads and most of our shows were recorded on UMatic. A few of our syndicated shows were recorded on SVHS. Yeah my station was still using UMatic for some on air playback till 2004 when they got Avid.
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dev286 posted:Someone made a little display of all the obsolete tape formats at work. drat, I was expecting QIC, DLT, etc. 
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dev286 posted:Editcam was an interesting format that was basically just a hard drive in a cartridge but it had the advantage at the time that you could just grab the pack, plug it in and ingest it for edit very quickly. It was astronomically expensive and since it used a spinning disk it was prone to errors but it worked well for many years. In the spirit of everything old being new again, I believe the proprietary storage packs you use in Red cameras are 2.5" SATA consumer SSDs plus a
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dev286 posted:Someone made a little display of all the obsolete tape formats at work. hah cool, you might work down the street from me Computer viking posted:In the spirit of everything old being new again, I believe the proprietary storage packs you use in Red cameras are 2.5" SATA consumer SSDs plus a
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One step removed - I saw Linus (of LTT) tear down his Red storage pack while talking about it and Jinni. IIRC his take was "this is overpriced and way oversold compared to the low-tech reality, but it's also part of an overall tech and support package that we still think is worth it". Which is fair, I guess; in a way it's just an implementation detail. Also, it seem they use fat32, and that's why the camera splits everything into 4GB chunks. "Millions in R&D" indeed.
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Humphreys posted:Someone NEEDS to make that a reality. I've spent half an hour with the idea rolling around my head and I TECHNICALLY know how I would make it. I am also a very lazy man. If that's a 3.5mm jack then each part is the size of a phone, if a bit thinner. I think it's totally doable even as a hobby project, a cheap SOC, an oled screen, and a 3d printed case is all you'd need. Not sure about the seek head though, maybe a linear induction motor? Someone do the needful please, I'm also lazy and have plenty of projects to procrastinate on.
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Computer viking posted:In the spirit of everything old being new again, I believe the proprietary storage packs you use in Red cameras are 2.5" SATA consumer SSDs plus a There isn't even a interface chip. The PCB is just a passive adapter with a mSATA port on one side, and a Red connector on the other.
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Computer viking posted:One step removed - I saw Linus (of LTT) tear down his Red storage pack while talking about it and Jinni. IIRC his take was "this is overpriced and way oversold compared to the low-tech reality, but it's also part of an overall tech and support package that we still think is worth it". Which is fair, I guess; in a way it's just an implementation detail. From what I've heard if a Red drive fucks up, Red will pony up for the data recovery which is sort of like a warranty for your data, but that still means the drive failed. Jinni goes over why that may be. Red is sourcing bottom of the barrel consumer components to build their drives when they could source higher quality server grade internals and still have a product with an insane markup. Same with their cinema screens which are just DVI aliexpress boards with custom connectors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEzLDqELh70 The videos really are interesting, especially the latest one where he speculated certain Red patents may not even be valid. bring back old gbs has a new favorite as of 13:38 on Aug 26, 2019 |
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bring back old gbs posted:Red is sourcing bottom of the barrel consumer components to build their drives when they could source higher quality server grade internals and still have a product with an insane markup. I don't mind that they are taking a $250 generic component, sticking it in a custom case and charging more: that's the way business goes. But charging $2,500 for that branded product is just insulting. and, as you say, it's not even a particularly good quality generic component.
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Shut up Meg posted:But charging $2,500 for that branded product is just insulting. Its worse than that though.. The CEO on multiple occasions flat out lied and kept saying it was a "specially manufactured" SSD with "custom RED firmware". This was false on both points. It was a bottom of the barrel SSD, literally the cheapest variant the manufacturer offered. And the firmware was bog standard.
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mobby_6kl posted:If that's a 3.5mm jack then each part is the size of a phone, if a bit thinner. I think it's totally doable even as a hobby project, a cheap SOC, an oled screen, and a 3d printed case is all you'd need. Not sure about the seek head though, maybe a linear induction motor? Someone do the needful please, I'm also lazy and have plenty of projects to procrastinate on. I feel like the case has to be metal, or at least stiff enough (polycarbonate with embedded magnets?) to have satisfying folding action. And that thought process reminded me of something I haven't seen in the wild for ages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRDeSCQoCCM
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one challenge would be to get the duration slider working correctly. it'd be trivial to do it as a segmented LED that lit up with the song length but to do it right it'd need to be like it is in the concept with the slider bit physically sticking out, motorized to move with the song as it plays. it's not just a standard linear pot like the equalizer or volume slider, it'd need some extra magic to be motorized, but also you can drag it around to seek
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Trabant posted:I feel like the case has to be metal, or at least stiff enough (polycarbonate with embedded magnets?) to have satisfying folding action. Oh drat I had a bunch of these as a kid. I had this too and it was really fun:  never knew it had detailed instructions...I just worked it out till i got it.
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I had a Random House "Luminations" puzzle when I was a kid. These seem pretty unknown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p423Unrfq68 It was rad.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Oh drat I had a bunch of these as a kid. I had this too and it was really fun: In my closet somewhere, I have a spherical "rubic" puzzle. I can't seem to find a picture of it on google. It's three rings around the sphere, two big ones around the middle and two small ones around the poles. It articulates around the middle, and the diameter of the small ones is the distance between rings, so you can get all the pieces moving in one giant train.
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Cojawfee posted:I watched that earlier and that's American as gently caress to do. The tape is a different size, the holes are in different places, and the tape heads are put in upside down. Once someone buys the Sears tape player, they can only use Sears tapes. That's by no means uniquely American. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/827439839 13-gauge shotgun, designed specifically so you can only use the manufacturer's ammunition. Hell, proprietizing things like that is Sony's hallmark. Betamax, DAT, Minidisc, UMD, Memory Stick, and let's not forget ATRAC. Sony even sold MP3 players that wouldn't play MP3s, they'd have to convert them to ATRAC first.
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Phanatic posted:That's by no means uniquely American. These have a neat story behind them. Originally they used 14 gauge shells that were just regular shotgun shells in an odd size that only the government had, with the theory that criminals and rebels couldn't just steal shotguns and load them with commercial ammo....except you could wrap 16 gauge shells in paper and they would fit just fine. When they released the Mk. III, it was designed to use this new ammo:  The primer is recessed and the firing pin is shaped like a trident, which meant commercial ammo no longer worked no matter what you did to it.
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You've all met magic granddad, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ViURLA13iU
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bring back old gbs posted:one challenge would be to get the duration slider working correctly. it'd be trivial to do it as a segmented LED that lit up with the song length but to do it right it'd need to be like it is in the concept with the slider bit physically sticking out, motorized to move with the song as it plays. it's not just a standard linear pot like the equalizer or volume slider, it'd need some extra magic to be motorized, but also you can drag it around to seek You'd also need to handle all the things that the original Winamp UI did as pop-up dialogs - basically every button on the playlist component. It's a cool concept render but it would be a terrible product in real life.
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ynohtna posted:You've all met magic granddad, right? I love that you watch this guy's videos and you can only tell when it was made by if it is in HD or not or by the date it was posted. He's been making the same style videos for years. My only complain is that he rushes through the things too much. Like he has to leave soon and just wants to quickly show off some trinkets he has.
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You're not wrong. He makes me think of over-eager candy shop proprietors, excitedly running ahead to teach me about all their favourites flavours before I've been able to begin processing input.
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Vanagoon posted:I had a Random House "Luminations" puzzle when I was a kid. These seem pretty unknown. Just took a photo 
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ynohtna posted:You're not wrong. He makes me think of over-eager candy shop proprietors, excitedly running ahead to teach me about all their favourites flavours before I've been able to begin processing input. This, uh, happen to you often? 
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It does read a bit like a robot learning about humanity by exploring this non-nutritional foodstuff, aka "candy" concept:ynohtna posted:He makes me think of over-eager candy shop proprietors, excitedly running ahead to teach me about all their favourites flavours before I've been able to begin processing input. 
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I am like an old capacitor, uncontrollably leaking vintage autism. Sorry, no cure.
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twistedmentat posted:I wondered why open colonization never felt right. I should look if I have Colonization on GOG. They're niche items now, even more so than they used to be. Once the Xbox and Playstation controllers just started using normal rear end USB plugs, the entire market for specific PC controllers dried up real fast. Steam conroller manages survive somehow. For a while Microsoft did sell a special PC version of the Xbox 360 controller which was just the wired console controller but with a $10 higher MSRP. They still sell PC specific wireless ones that come with the little USB receiver nubbin. buddhist nudist has a new favorite as of 18:55 on Aug 26, 2019 |
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A handful of times, he obliviously showcased obvious sex toys as fun novelties. Those are my favorite.
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Space Gopher posted:You'd also need to handle all the things that the original Winamp UI did as pop-up dialogs - basically every button on the playlist component. The buttons are microswitches and everything else is handled on the touchscreen  Obviously it's gonna suck because who the hell used a stand-alone mp3 player but it's be cool as hell.
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Wasabi the J posted:A handful of times, he obliviously showcased obvious sex toys as fun novelties. Link?!?!?
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Wasabi the J posted:A handful of times, he obliviously showcased obvious sex toys as fun novelties. I mean, "fun novelty" isn't an inaccurate description of a lot of sex toys...
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shovelbum posted:Link?!?!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztdlg5tMQfY
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Lurking Haro posted:Just took a photo  Does it work? You should make a better youtube video than the one I posted. I distinctly remember the battery door being an utter bastard to remove. Is yours like that? Vanagoon has a new favorite as of 20:21 on Aug 26, 2019 |
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