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Old Boot posted:Sure seems like we're doing out best to Not. People immunized before 2000 got the oral polio vaccine (OPV), which has a higher rate of complications but is also more protective (versus the inactivated polio vaccine, IPV).
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Kazinsal posted:This has all been enhanced by the proliferation of smartphones with high bandwidth high monthly cap mobile data plans. Dude, back when universities had a T-1 lines blazing 1.5mbps for the entire school, whackos used the internet to create the Heavens Gate cult and got 40 people to commit mass organized suicide. 56k was too much. It should have stopped at 9600 baud, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
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I got the drops under the tongue. I swear I can remember the taste of the OPV.
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Holy poo poo the Heavens Gate website is still up in all its 1997 glory.
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I want to know who's been paying their hosting bills this whole time.
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Midjack posted:I want to know who's been paying their hosting bills this whole time. They apparently took out life insurance policies for everyone. $50m will buy you a lot of web 1.0 hosting time.
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Midjack posted:I want to know who's been paying their hosting bills this whole time. quote:What wasn’t is that in the days before the suicide, two group members were briefed about a side mission. They would remain on Earth – the last surviving members – and their job was to maintain the Heaven’s Gate website exactly as it was on the day the last suicides took place.
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Hannibal Rex posted:Chill out, dickwad smh Hekk, haven't you seen Terminator 2? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpEDSvaP_-8&t=10s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v23H7c149HM&t=42s
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Loden Taylor posted:smh Hekk, haven't you seen Terminator 2? Lol I haven’t seen that movie since the 90s. Whelp prolly won’t be the last sixer someone eats because I misunderstand a post. c'est la vie
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Cugel the Clever posted:Not exactly a great source, but: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/two-decades-after-heavens-gate-10158830 A Podcaster I listen to got in touch with them, they'll answer questions if you're polite. I have a soft spot for Heaven's Gate, being one of the few cults that wasn't entirely based on the leader wanting to gently caress a whole bunch of (usually underage) women. Stultus Maximus posted:Pretty sure the military sticks you for literally everything imaginable including polio if you hadn't already had it as a child. The Navy (at least circa 2010) ignores vaccination records and does an antibody test then jabs you for anything you don't have antibodies for, for example I had chicken pox as a kid, but they still jabbed me for it based on my antibodies being below the threshold.
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First part of IK stands for Idiot, can't help it Hekk didn't have his daily recommended intake of crayons. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Hekk posted:Lol I haven’t seen that movie since the 90s. Whelp prolly won’t be the last sixer someone eats because I misunderstand a post. it's only the Citizen Kane of movies, I can't believe you don't have every line memorized (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Who was paying for the domain and hosting still?
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Kazinsal posted:This has all been enhanced by the proliferation of smartphones with high bandwidth high monthly cap mobile data plans. 56k was enough for me to play Aliens Online back in the 90s so this checks out.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:56k was enough for me to play Aliens Online back in the 90s so this checks out. I spent far too much of my life playing WoW on 56k from '04 to, like '09, so LtCol J. Krusinski posted:56k was too much. It should have stopped at 9600 baud
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I'll split the difference and call 28.8k good enough.
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Wouldn't the difference be 33.6?
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Something I was thinking about, because it's BBC time on the old NPR station. Biden has already said he's going to QE2s funeral. I can't wait to see a picture of Biden, Obama, Bush and the Clintons hanging out in London while Trump has all manner of feds up his rear end. I can't wait for the butthurt bullshit he spouts at a rally after the old lady is entombed.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Wouldn't the difference be 33.6? 28.8k is very nearly half of 56k, (28.8*2 is 57.6), it was not quite the absolute limit you could fit via trellis modulation, but it was drat close. They squeezed a bit more to make 33.6k bidirectional modems but they had to rework ISP/telco infrastructure entirely to hit 56k/33.6k to people's houses. Further refinement of V.90 resulted in V.92 which was the last telephone modem spec which allowed 56k/48k connections. orange juche fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Sep 10, 2022 |
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orange juche posted:28.8k is very nearly half of 56k, (28.8*2 is 57.6), it was not quite the absolute limit you could fit via trellis modulation, but it was drat close. They squeezed a bit more to make 33.6k bidirectional modems but they had to rework ISP/telco infrastructure entirely to hit 56k/33.6k to people's houses. Further refinement of V.90 resulted in V.92 which was the last telephone modem spec which allowed 56k/48k connections. They were saying the difference between 9.6kbps and 56kbps is 33.6. That's not right, though, cause the halfway point between 9600 and 56000 is 32800.
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orange juche posted:First part of IK stands for Idiot, can't help it Hekk didn't have his daily recommended intake of crayons. Probe reason didn't cite marines nor crayon's, voted 1 FV, smdh (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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14.4 was good enough to play Doom2 and Duke Nukem3d multiplayer, use email and look up random poo poo online and honestly it never got much more fun than that anyway.
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Mr. Nice! posted:They were saying the difference between 9.6kbps and 56kbps is 33.6. That's not right, though, cause the halfway point between 9600 and 56000 is 32800. The halfway point is √(56000⁄9600) × 9600 ≈ 23186. 
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How much do you need for rollback netcode?
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That Works posted:14.4 was good enough to play Doom2 and Duke Nukem3d multiplayer, use email and look up random poo poo online and honestly it never got much more fun than that anyway. playing duke3d on a lan on that football field map mp was some of the finest gaming that's ever existed
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silvergoose posted:playing duke3d on a lan on that football field map mp was some of the finest gaming that's ever existed
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Nerds don't have shoebox calves from carrying their 50 pound CRT monitor up and down the basement stairs of their friends house anymore
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Milo and POTUS posted:Nerds don't have shoebox calves from carrying their 50 pound CRT monitor up and down the basement stairs of their friends house anymore That heavy magnetic clunk and following thrum of degaussing a CRT monitor was one of the most atomic age sounds, I swear.
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I managed to get an entire computer lab of 9th graders doing that in succession because i had done it to fix my screen and they all wanted to know how
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That reminds me how much magnets could gently caress up CRTs and leave dark blotches that couldn’t be degaussed away.
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Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?
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Arrath posted:That heavy magnetic clunk and following thrum of degaussing a CRT monitor was one of the most atomic age sounds, I swear. Sitting in front of a particle accelerator for hours at a time is pretty drat atomic age.
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silvergoose posted:playing duke3d on a lan on that football field map mp was some of the finest gaming that's ever existed Counterpoint: Goldeneye Complex, Licence to Kill, turbo mode, proximity mines House rules: No guns, slappers and mines only Eyes on your own drat corner of the 25" TV NO FUCKIN ODDJOB
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Discussion Quorum posted:Counterpoint: Goldeneye 
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Discussion Quorum posted:NO FUCKIN ODDJOB This was everyone's house rule.
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My house rule was I always play as the helicopter pilot and noscope any scrub that plays Oddjob
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Did anyone else play Timesplitters or am I rowing that boat alone? For reference, the 2004ish Timesplitters. It had an interesting multiplayer deathmatch.
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Still amazed how it wasn’t for years after that it was revealed there was a code for extra characters. With the sheer number of players would have assumed someone would have taken it apart, or a developer would have leaked it. Really dug Perfect Dark single player but in my experience multiplayer was only fun for folks who really knew the game, unlike goldeneye where a casual fan could figure out how to move and shoot, without having to worry about secondary fire modes or why everything was blurry (even when they respawned because of a glitch with how poisoning worked) Hyrax Attack! fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Sep 10, 2022 |
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ardiem posted:That reminds me how much magnets could gently caress up CRTs and leave dark blotches that couldn’t be degaussed away. They can almost always be fixed, you just need some finesse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOyKuQf36TI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toG71oIBWGM
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