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remember vcd? remember svcd? remember being pissed that almost everything that played vcd wouldn't play svcd?
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almost the same thing happened in broadcast when DVB-T was implemented like the year before MPEG-4 became ubiquitous
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:remember vcd? I remember ripping DVD's from the video store to SVCD because it was that weird time when everyone had a DVD reader but only a CD burner
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:remember vcd? DivX ;-)
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an ios device will never make a suitable laptop replacement
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:remember vcd? nobody outside of asia does i had never heard of it until dvd was released and it just so happened that my dvd player could play vcds as well Progressive JPEG posted:DivX ;-) DIVX (aka digital video express) was the original timebombed, phone-home, drm-ed video disc pushed by circuit city. DivX ;-) the early mpeg-4 codec had nothing to do with it
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A friend of mine had a Philips CD-i (anyone remember those?) with the vcd module and he had an official copy of The Mask on VCD. It was wild.
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spankmeister posted:A friend of mine had a Philips CD-i (anyone remember those?) with the vcd module and he had an official copy of The Mask on VCD. It was wild. were those actual vcds? there were cd-i movies, but i thought they were proprietary
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Yeah it was actual White Book VCD with the logo and everything. You had to get a separate module for it that plugged into the back of the machine that did the MPEG decoding. Idk what video format CD-i discs were in but I suppose you could put movies on them?
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I am experimenting with gmail, and, have been having about the same experience, mostly I am impressed, but I am left with a feeling that it just isn't mature enough yet as a mail client. Don't get me wrong of all the webmail clients I have used this is my favorite, but generally I miss Mutt.
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The_Franz posted:were those actual vcds? there were cd-i movies, but i thought they were proprietary the only cd-i "movies" were vcds the base cd-i systems couldn't play back mpeg-1
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ataris 8-bit computers were better than anything commodore had at the time. no I have not used a commodore.
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it was a good era for computer flamewars, could pretty much cover the entire pro-con of the architecture in an efficient half-hour
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present day we are reduced to going "lol intel" as the intricacies of speculation information leaks and the precise flaws in the role of the privileged embedded me minix flies over our heads.
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my dad had a demo for Atari that was an Atari logo shooting an Apple logo to death
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the amiga was cool tho and it’s interesting how Atari and commode played musical chairs with engineering staff
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spankmeister posted:A friend of mine had a Philips CD-i (anyone remember those?) with the vcd module and he had an official copy of The Mask on VCD. It was wild.
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SCSI will always remain superior to PATA and only stupid idiot poors would ever have a system that doesn't have it.
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again, this isn’t the true statements thread, it’s the arguments thread
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that one needed no excuses, arguably true up until *ata got ncq
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sata is much more similar to scsi than ata in design it's sas--, not ata++
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SRQ posted:SCSI will always remain superior to PATA and only stupid idiot poors would ever have a system that doesn't have it. No-one called it PATA. Heck, no-one does even now.
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something something ati
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Click >>>HERE<<< to download the ATi texture to replace the Nvidia "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" splash screen in UT2K4!!!
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~Coxy posted:Click >>>HERE<<< to download the ATi texture to replace the Nvidia "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" splash screen in UT2K4!!! not a goat man link
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I look forward to seeing what Perl 6 brings. However, I can't imagine it makes any improvements on the core reason I use Perl5. Perl puts no restrictions on how I program and I am able to get something running by myself faster than any other language. I am an adult and when I am programming for my own enjoyment I don't want to be told how I have to program. I definitely don't want to have to worry about squeezing my design into some Object Oriented bullshit. I want to tabulate my code the way I feel best. If I want to enjoy some dynamic variable scoping so be it. Mix up some functional with some procedural go for it. Create some cryptic one liner that I won't understand later, live and learn. Bonus points for still serving its original purpose stellarly. Give me some text and I will mold it to how I want. This is what a majority of commercial software does anyways.
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can you imagine how many antennas you'd need to cover the whole of the country with a cellular network? it's obvious that launching a few dozen satellites is more efficient in the long run, and i'm sure progress in antenna technology will make the line-of-sight requirement disappear sure, 499$ a month is a bit expensive but i'm sure the tech is going to get a LOT cheaper in the next couple of years! go iridium! go play outside Skyler fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jan 24, 2020 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:No-one called it PATA. Heck, no-one does even now. I think about this a lot. the Atari 2600 and the Atari 8-bit computers weren’t called as such by their contemporaries
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It was IDE until SATA came along.
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I call it PATA all the time, people seem to get that more than "IDE"
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spankmeister posted:It was IDE until SATA came along. ide (and its protocol, pio) was a forerunner of ata pata was what people started calling ata after the unrelated "sata" standard was published
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For millennials sure we get "IDE" but I meet a lot of zoomers that only understand it as PATA in it's relativity to SATA Integrated Drive Electronics means nothing for them because the fuckin' ST-214 is waaaay before their time.
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active matrix TFTs might refresh faster but the power consumption will always be too much for lead acid batteries. also eink will be the way of the future and all computers will have paper white eink displays in the future in portrait mode
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:ide (and its protocol, pio) was a forerunner of ata Then when SATA came along it suddenly went from IDE to PATA, which is kinda weird imo.
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spankmeister posted:Iknow that but I was talking about what people called it. Everybody just called it IDE regardless, I don't think anyone except horrible pedants insisted on calling it ATA. I think most people who aren’t too into the specifics refer to computer parts by their connector because that tends to be the problem when your order cables. it’s not Ethernet it’s lc fiber or rj45, it’s not pata it’s ide, it’s not esata it’s garbage connector that nobody should use
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pata pata pata pon
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The_Franz posted:nobody outside of asia does DivX ;-) specifically refers to 3.11, a bootlegged ms mpeg4 codec DivX 4 and above were from scratch but not as good as the ms codec (retro argument), so you’d have dvd players that ‘licensed’ divx but be unable to play scene releases in 3.11
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PATA just reminds me of Pata Pata and Pata Pata.
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Parallel rear end To rear end
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commodity hardware will never beat lisp machines for running large lisp systems
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