EVIL Gibson posted:

Do not break my mind canon please.



In my head, Voodoo cards only came in boxes with the Dark Man Group; a fork of the Blue Man Group (BMG) who decide on their own colors and style against the standards set by the Blue Man Group.

Unlike those S3/Nvidia/ATIAMD clowns who hired 3d Studio Max failures for their box art

Data Graham posted:

Lol I remember when the Blue Man Group did ads for the Pentium III and people thought they were a marketing gimmick made up by Intel

"Oh it's those Intel Blue Men"

Dick Trauma posted:

Please no Xeonism derails.

Desert Bus posted:

Thank God I own this:

Cartoon Man posted:

Sweevo posted:

Artist: "yeah i'm just going to draw my Beetlejuice Insane Clown Posse alopecia fetish art..."

Data Graham posted:

That showboating narcissist

Pham Nuwen posted:

Ted Nelson? Well, yeah, but SOMEDAY, just as soon as he finds somebody who'll write all of Xanadu for him and not run screaming after working with him for a couple weeks...

(you'd think after trying to get something developed for 40 years you'd just break down and learn how to program yourself)

Arsenic Lupin posted:

I think he's like Stallman: thanks for the early work, other people executed better.

Pham Nuwen posted:

Ted Nelson? Well, yeah, but SOMEDAY, just as soon as he finds somebody who'll write all of Xanadu for him and not run screaming after working with him for a couple weeks...

(you'd think after trying to get something developed for 40 years you'd just break down and learn how to program yourself)

Grassy Knowles posted:

Stallman stole the only useful thing attributed to him (eMacs) from James Gosling.

DrBouvenstein posted:

Speaking of, I think that growing up in the 80's and 90's, everyone knew SOME family (or maybe you were that family>) that had one of these kneeling chairs plopped in front of their OG Macintosh:

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Huh. He did?

quote:

Gosling initially allowed Gosling Emacs to be redistributed with no formal restrictions, as required by the "Emacs commune" since the 1970s, only asking for a letter acknowledging his authorship. Later, wishing to move on, he sold his version of Emacs to UniPress.

(...)

Gosling Emacs was especially noteworthy because of the effective redisplay code, which used a dynamic programming technique to solve the classical string-to-string correction problem. The algorithm was quite sophisticated; that section of the source was headed by a skull-and-crossbones in ASCII art, warning any would-be improver that even if they thought they understood how the display code worked, they probably did not.

Since Gosling had permitted its unrestricted redistribution, Richard Stallman used some Gosling Emacs code in the initial version of GNU Emacs. Among other things, he rewrote part of the Gosling code headed by the skull-and-crossbones comment and made it "...shorter, faster, clearer and more extensible."

In 1983 UniPress began selling Gosling Emacs on Unix for $395 and on VMS for $2,500, marketing it as "EMACS–multi-window text editor (Gosling version)".

Controversially, Unipress asked Stallman to stop distributing his version of Emacs for Unix. UniPress never took legal action against Stallman or his nascent Free Software Foundation, believing "hobbyists and academics could never produce an Emacs that could compete" with their product.[citation needed] All Gosling Emacs code was removed from GNU Emacs by version 16.56 (July 1985), with the possible exception of a few particularly involved sections of the display code. The latest versions of GNU Emacs (since August 2004) do not feature the skull-and-crossbones warning.

Computer viking posted:

It still seemed like an annoyingly unfair throwaway comment.

Gonz posted:

https://twitter.com/obsoletesony/status/1716348730306068851?s=46&t=GxZoSKgPzb_-zyUnvLFKvg

EVIL Gibson posted:

My brown Zune that turns green on the edges. With super dust mode on that will not change no matter what dust wipe I use on it.



I love how ugly it is and the sole reason why I keep buying odd color devices like the salmon colored Pixel 6pro.

loving neat features at the time like sharing an mp3 or album directly over wifi to another Zune user directly. Also listening to the radio over its internal FM/AM radio and if you have wifi connection , would look up the album name/song and book mark it for later by recording the time/location/station and looking up the radio charts/logs

remember, this came out before iPhones and putting metatags on mp3 was something a user using an iTunes / mp3tag had to do.

If anyone has any info on Zune hacking I can extract all the songs but the pictures stored on it can't get out because the auth servers to access them are dead and gone.

Mainly a pic of goons that played EVE Online on the Potomac River after the corp off lined a huge cheating alliance.

Gonz posted:

https://twitter.com/obsoletesony/status/1716348730306068851?s=46&t=GxZoSKgPzb_-zyUnvLFKvg

Dip Viscous posted:

What is the actual name of that rubbery coating that tons of turn of the century electronics used and always breaks down over the years into a sticky mess? Or do rubbery coatings still do that and I just don't have anything with it that's old enough?

Dip Viscous posted:

What is the actual name of that rubbery coating that tons of turn of the century electronics used and always breaks down over the years into a sticky mess? Or do rubbery coatings still do that and I just don't have anything with it that's old enough?

evobatman posted:

What is a "radio-cassette player", and what is "a 60W output"?

gently caress how I hate AI generated poo poo!

namlosh posted:

Are you sure that’s AI? I mean, fair enough if it is but I think it’s a pretty good description. Stuff used to say AM/FM-cassette all the time back in the day

evobatman posted:

What is a "radio-cassette player", and what is "a 60W output"?

evobatman posted:

What is a "radio-cassette player", and what is "a 60W output"?

gently caress how I hate AI generated poo poo!