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Lol it probably cost like $20,000 at one time and someone threw it in a ditch.
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barbecue at the folks posted:For some reason I love videos that delve into how old coding works. This was a fun one: I'm quite enjoying this trip, pretty sure we used to admin a CS:S GunGame server back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ALUkyBQ80k
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Cojawfee posted:Lol it probably cost like $20,000 at one time and someone threw it in a ditch. Too long for a new thread title?
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Cojawfee posted:Lol it probably cost like $20,000 at one time and someone threw it in a ditch. Happens with cars all the time
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Oct 11, 2020 15:05
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Computer viking posted:This is maybe a bit off topic, but do any of you know where I could get hold of an example of the audio files Apple sold you shortly after they stopped putting DRM in them? Buy a song from the iTunes Store? I don’t think they’ve changed much in a decade and they still sell them
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Oct 11, 2020 17:16
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The U2 record everyone has would count im sure.
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EL BROMANCE posted:The U2 record everyone has would count im sure. Who the gently caress would've kept it lmao.
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Oct 11, 2020 18:34
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You can still reclaim it I think? No idea.
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Oct 11, 2020 18:39
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Last Chance posted:Buy a song from the iTunes Store? I don’t think they’ve changed much in a decade and they still sell them We got hold of one from a data hoarding mac user we know.  The reason I asked is that my partner is writing about the different ways to make files that take less disk space than what you get when you read them: transparent compression, holes, deduplicating blocks across files, that sort of thing. While we were looking at that, we noticed that the files he has from iTunes have large streches of null bytes. That would be ok on a file system with compression, or even as holes - but HFS+ doesn't support anything that fancy. (APFS does, though). It's not just "space to type a line of text without rewriting the file", either - one song he looked at had a 600 kB stretch of nullbytes, which seems wasteful. We wondered if this was new (since storage is kind of cheap now), or if it had been like that since back when you paid dearly for ipod storage. The file he got sent was a random 2009 itunes purchase, and that had ... about half a MB of nullbytes just sitting around. And no, we have absolutely no idea why.
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Oct 11, 2020 23:31
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Computer viking posted:We got hold of one from a data hoarding mac user we know. Huh. Very curious. Thanks for sharing-- I'm guessing the OG iTunes 128kbps (with the DRM) files didn't have such things because I remember the file sizes matching pretty closely to the song length. I may have some original 128kbps files with the DRM stripped off somewhere if that'd be of interest?
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Oct 11, 2020 23:45
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Computer viking posted:We got hold of one from a data hoarding mac user we know. Could that be a constant bitrate versus variable bitrate thing?
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Last Chance posted:I may have some original 128kbps files with the DRM stripped off somewhere if that'd be of interest? I definitely have some. Pepsi did a promotion where certain bottle caps gave you a free song and I still have most of what I downloaded. I was too cheap to outright buy anything from iTunes.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I definitely have some. Pepsi did a promotion where certain bottle caps gave you a free song and I still have most of what I downloaded. I was too cheap to outright buy anything from iTunes. That was the only reason I ever installed iTunes. Install iTunes, redeem code, download song, burn the song, uninstall iTunes.
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https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1303292299208781825
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Oct 12, 2020 23:23
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Lmao that is terrible. “Yeah just shoot it on this disposable film camera. Oh and just use whatever setting the flash was set to from last time we used it”
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Oct 13, 2020 15:42
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Apparently they even had a version for the Acorn Archimedes. Apple acting like they invented ARM on the desktop  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKEaX4RjWkk
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Oct 13, 2020 18:45
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Oooof... that there is not good. It's neither cool nor art. It's just... Wow.
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Oct 14, 2020 10:43
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Here’s a relic: remember that song 1234, by Feist? It was a big hit, and the music video was in an iPod commercial. It’s still only available in 360p. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABYnqp-bxvg
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Coffee And Pie posted:Here’s a relic: remember that song 1234, by Feist? It was a big hit, and the music video was in an iPod commercial. It’s still only available in 360p. From an interlaced source! Everyone hated it then, as now.
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Oct 14, 2020 12:53
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Last Chance posted:Huh. Very curious. Thanks for sharing-- I'm guessing the OG iTunes 128kbps (with the DRM) files didn't have such things because I remember the file sizes matching pretty closely to the song length. Thanks for the offer - but apparently he felt done with the issue and banged together an article yesterday. I kind of like the theory he landed on, which is that it's an artifact of how Apple moved album art from being embedded in the files to living separately back around 2006, and the gap is the space where they used to dynamically inject it. (Since the same album can have different art in different regions). Computer viking has a new favorite as of 14:32 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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Computer viking posted:Thanks for the offer - but apparently he felt done with the issue and banged together an article yesterday. I was thinking it may have had something to do with the album art! 600kb could be the max size for the artwork. will read the article, thank you!
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Coffee And Pie posted:Here’s a relic: remember that song 1234, by Feist? It was a big hit, and the music video was in an iPod commercial. It’s still only available in 360p. gently caress you, I’d finally erased that song’s existence from my brain and now it’s back... 
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Oct 16, 2020 11:29
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I don't want this to become another old mobile phone derail but drat this was neat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEbretrjgh4
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Cartoon Man posted:gently caress you, I’d finally erased that song’s existence from my brain and now it’s back... Same except my brain, not knowing any of the lyrics, just substitutes "I declare a thumb war"
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Leslie Feist is a treasure.
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Humphreys posted:I don't want this to become another old mobile phone derail but drat this was neat! Too late, this came up in the recommendations and oh man I think I got something in my eye watching the Nokia phone all-stars of my highschool years. I was a Sony Ericsson kid because I had to be different, but man was I secretly jealous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOZi-7V11k8
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Phones used to have so much personality before they all became identical rectangles. There is not a single piece of consumer electronics today with half the style of the original Motorola RAZR
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I had that red Nokia with the circular dial pictured in the thumbnail, the 3650. It owned and also played ngage games
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RandomFerret posted:Phones used to have so much personality before they all became identical rectangles. There is not a single piece of consumer electronics today with half the style of the original Motorola RAZR Well there’s the new RAZR that you can hear break more every time you close it
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I had that red Nokia with the circular dial pictured in the thumbnail, the 3650. It owned and also played ngage games My partner is a huge Tomb Raider nutter, and for her birthday I got her a factory sealed ngage Tomb Raider game. Was the highlight of the day. I kinda wanted to open it and play it.
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If we're talking about Apple and names that start with "Feis", you can't forget Ellen Feiss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GxC4kKD9qA
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GI_Clutch posted:If we're talking about Apple and names that start with "Feis", you can't forget Ellen Feiss. That year we all had a nice zero-effort Halloween costume option: a gray hoodie over a green T-shirt and try to look stoned out of your gourd.
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  Can you imagine these during Covid times...
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GI_Clutch posted:If we're talking about Apple and names that start with "Feis", you can't forget Ellen Feiss. She probably got high as gently caress and put her bong on the backspace key.
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Cartoon Man posted:
Honestly, I wouldn’t have been surprised if COVID had been traced to originate from one of these.
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Barnacle Ellen.
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Oct 19, 2020 13:57
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Trying to set up a Microsoft Mulia for personal use and I can't find the option to change the SIM PIN what the Christ how is this so hard  I just hope I can still get some application programs for this.
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Lmao I used to work with a guy who swore up and down that windows phone was better than anything Apple or google had to offer. Any day now people will realize and the iPhone and Android will be dead Lmao
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