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Computer viking posted:Norway never really did do piped gas to homes, except for a short period in Oslo back when it was also used for street lighting. Actually most of our major towns had piped-gas systems for a good while. The one in Oslo was in operation for 130 years. But yeah, they rapidly lost market share to electricity once that got going.
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Groke posted:Actually most of our major towns had piped-gas systems for a good while. The one in Oslo was in operation for 130 years. Huh, thanks. Not sure where I got that from. Also kind of interesting - we were early electricity adopters, sure, but why did it then displace gas so completely here? Was it just cheap & plentiful?
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I think there was just a period of time where electricity became very cheap and gas was a bit more expensive, so homes started switching to electric heat and appliances. At least that's what I heard happened in North America.
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Computer viking posted:Huh, thanks. Not sure where I got that from. It's better in every way, OP, HTH.
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Cojawfee posted:I think there was just a period of time where electricity became very cheap and gas was a bit more expensive, so homes started switching to electric heat and appliances. At least that's what I heard happened in North America. Also the gas industry ran ads, "Now you're cooking with gas!". http://insideenergy.org/2014/06/26/ie-questions-now-were-cooking-with-gas/ Mind you, in the '50s, the electrical industry gave builders little gold badges announcing that the house was an All-Electric-Home.
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Computer viking posted:Huh, thanks. Not sure where I got that from. Cheap hydro power drove industrialization (aluminium foundries and other such energy-intensive specialities) and was then also made available to the general population. First locally near the industrial plants, soon regionally and nationally. Infrastructure for distributing electric power across a distance is much simpler and cheaper than doing the same with gas. And we are rather sparsely populated by European standards, so big advantage to electricity there. These days, gas-powered appliances have a market niche that's mostly for cabins and boats and such.
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Humphreys posted:Induction is more energy efficient and faster than gas. Also has such advantages as empty stovetops not getting hot no matter how many buttons your toddler fiddles with.
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Computer viking posted:Huh, thanks. Not sure where I got that from. Probably because the gas was coal gas from coal that had to be hauled all the way from Svalbard or imported and then gassified. Not only was it a pain, it was also dangerous. Arsenic Lupin posted:Gas-oven suicides were common when the gas in your home was coal gas, which contained carbon monoxide among other things. Nowadays it's "natural" gas. Natural gas didn't really become a thing until the 1970s, when practically everyone in Norway already had electricity. 
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Groke posted:Also has such advantages as empty stovetops not getting hot no matter how many buttons your toddler fiddles with. Oh yeah forgot that very important part!
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Groke posted:Also has such advantages as empty stovetops not getting hot no matter how many buttons your toddler fiddles with. Unless your toddler has robot hands
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Groke posted:Also has such advantages as empty stovetops not getting hot no matter how many buttons your toddler fiddles with. How will they learn not to do this without the negative reinforcement from things getting hot? Seems like a bad design.
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He finally did it! This fucker was on my list of things I wanted to make me the coolest at school for what seemed like an eternity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEME0IR6-Ts
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Humphreys posted:He finally did it! This fucker was on my list of things I wanted to make me the coolest at school for what seemed like an eternity. I had not 1, but 2 of these things! The first I bought, the second a co-worker won at a bar trivia thing or some poo poo and brought it in after mine had been stolen. His was new in box, with all the cables and poo poo, so definitely not mine. Anyways, the main problems were the time to transfer songs (long on a parallel port) and the low memory, only about 10-12 short songs with a decent quality would fit on it. I found some proto-podcast things and some comedy poo poo that really helped extend the usefulness, but I was glad to move on to better things once memory was cheap enough.
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It just ate through batteries in standby mode nearly as fast as while playing back was another thing that sucked about it. But still kinda neat for the time.
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It used a single AA battery which were cheap or you could get rechargeable ones. I had to downsample all my mp3s to 96 kbps to get a full album to fit. The clip on the battery door of mine broke, so I had to keep it closed with a rubberband.
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Having to take the battery out because you're not going to use something for the next 36h or so is undignified, they should have put an actual off switch on it 
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Wait, what? I never had that problem. Didn't you just turn it off and that was that? It has been almost 25 years... (holy poo poo lol)
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The perfect time and way for me to find out I should have done a warranty exchange then!
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Having PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch controllers in my house really made me realize that I actually prefer the Xbox philosophy of removable batteries because swapping in spare rechargable ones every few days is a lot more convenient than either putting the whole controller on a charger every night or playing tethered while it recharges if you let it die.
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Nocheez posted:I had not 1, but 2 of these things! The first I bought, the second a co-worker won at a bar trivia thing or some poo poo and brought it in after mine had been stolen. His was new in box, with all the cables and poo poo, so definitely not mine. Back in 2000 I worked at Larry Flynt Publications in their fledgling digital division and they were exploring the possibility of starting an online gaming service (think gamespy plus DSL) so they sent me (a web dev who had a little Visual Basic experience) to E3 with flyers to gauge interest. I was a big fan of the game SiN back then and found the Ritual booth and they were having a deathmatch tournament. I joined on a whim and ended up coming in 3rd. One of these was the prize. It had 32MB storage. I think I could fit 6 songs on there. I remember it being a real pain in the rear end to change the songs around so I just left the initial few songs I put on there when I first got it. I didn’t have it very long. I moved down to Orange County a couple months later for a new job and one day while running to catch the bus it flew out of my pocket and shattered into hundreds of pieces. I can’t remember all of the songs I put on there but one song always reminds me of it, the Speedy J remix of Its no Good by Depeche Mode. That E3 was really cool because it was just industry press allowed to attend back then (Flynt had a video game magazine, Tips and Tricks) and they had all kinds of playable stuff and it wasn’t insane crowded or anything like that. I got to see some “secret” presentation of the Xbox that didn’t actually feature any hardware or game footage, some San Francisco Rush game, an undercooked Diablo 2 beta and tons of swag. Sorry for the incoherent stream of memories. GutBomb has a new favorite as of 02:24 on Feb 5, 2022 |
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I miss my old TV that I had to leave behind when I moved, even though I barely got to use it. It was a 40" HD CRT and wasnt a Trinitron, but followed Trinitron rule #1 - it only goes down stairs, never up. Every friend and relative I asked about helping with it told me in no uncertain terms that I could go gently caress myself if I thought they were going to help pick it up. Imagined posted:Having PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch controllers in my house really made me realize that I actually prefer the Xbox philosophy of removable batteries because swapping in spare rechargable ones every few days is a lot more convenient than either putting the whole controller on a charger every night or playing tethered while it recharges if you let it die.
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Holy poo poo this is amazing. Nintendo was shook as hell.
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mlnhd posted:It used a single AA battery which were cheap or you could get rechargeable ones.   (I had completely forgot about that issue until I dug this up, I loved mine so much I drew it for an art assignment in early high school)
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Haha drat, Nintendo sure got owned there. Everything uses CD-ROM now! Can you even imagine a world where games don't run on optical discs?
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Electrophotonic posted:
That's amazing! I never broke my battery door, but I did use it to listen to music my senior year of highschool art classes.
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/NanoRaptor/status/1490583806608171008?s=20&t=lz3WC8y91mRM742To6M8lw That's a step up from the T-800’s Apple][ assembly.
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Powered Descent posted:Robocop apparently ran on MS-DOS. Or QDOS.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Holy poo poo this is amazing. Nintendo was shook as hell. I remember as far back as 1991/92 they were putting "hey guys CD-ROM is slow dogshit gently caress that" in Nintendo Power. As soon as those Sony and Philips deals fell through they couldn't poo poo on optical fast enough.
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Electrophotonic posted:
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Also the gas industry ran ads, "Now you're cooking with gas!". http://insideenergy.org/2014/06/26/ie-questions-now-were-cooking-with-gas/ Mind you, in the '50s, the electrical industry gave builders little gold badges announcing that the house was an All-Electric-Home. Climate town did a video on just this topic recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZUav-54 Cool channel, covers some 'fun' topics. Their most recently video finally explained to me why the USA has such weird housing. Mega Comrade has a new favorite as of 10:27 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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Mail day! (crossposting for those that browse the retrogames thread) I really do wish myself and others would stop saying PSX when they mean PS1/PSOne. Well at least now I can use it and mean the real thing! VERY well packed - excessively so  Tidy, a bit dirty, but it DOES include the front and rear panels which is nice, and all soft pads. Unfortunately the seller is a douchebag and substituted the white controller shown in photos on the listing with a busted and grotty standard black controller. Buyee are investigating now, responded to my email in like 15 minutes.  It works, HDD is fine and at least recognises out of region games (won't play them)  A WHOLE lot of DVR content on it! Including Resident Evil movie lol. I gotta back this thing up ASAP - who knows what wonders are recorded!? 
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90s Solo Cup posted:Nice. I was always fascinated by the PSX, not realizing at the time that it would pave the way for the PS3 and future consoles. I wish Sony had brought it over to the US market. wait til you find about about the inventor(?) of Jazz
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