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I saw this posted as a "hack" not too long ago. They remove the front polarizing screen from the monitor, and then use glasses with an equivalent polarizing screen. Nothing particularly special about the monitor or glasses. Just don't tilt your head too much, or the polarization will be out of alignment.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:I could see it used at hospitals and clinics and such to keep patient data away from folks who'd misuse it. They take that stuff pretty seriously and already use those special screen filters on monitors to make it a blurry mess to anyone not standing directly in front of it.  In a world, where only one man has discovered the secrets to knowing who has embarassing rashes.
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Jan 5, 2014 19:16
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It's basically a proto-iPod touch.
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Jan 19, 2014 14:21
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How did they get it out of all the wiring harnesses? Or did they mix up the before and after labels?
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I can't seem to find any photos or video of them, but in the early 90's American Greetings had kiosks in a number of places where you could create a custom card. The card would then be printed using X-Y pen plotter on card stock. You'd pay about double for the custom card vs an off-the-shelf card. Of course, home computers and printers eliminated the market. They were launched in 1992, and were already on the decline in 1996 according to this article: http://articles.latimes.com/1996-06-27/business/fi-18966_1_card-personalized-sales Also, previously in this thread we had some mall chat. Irondequoit Mall's management no longer heats the interior, and with Macy's closing in a month or two, Sears will be the only store remaining. The mall has flooded due to pipes bursting from the cold.
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Jan 24, 2014 23:15
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The main attraction for me was watching the pen plotter make it's magic. It worked in one color at a time, cross-hatching to create the shaded areas, slowly building an image. E: Different plotter, but holy poo poo this thing is fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYGPSAD5L_k (For a pen plotter)
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Jan 25, 2014 01:58
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cobalt impurity posted:Go to an arts and crafts store some time. Cricut and Sizzix have been on the market for years, and Cricut has a huge line of cartridges programmed with various designs and fonts you can cut or draw with. They even have one for use on fondant for cake decorators. I also think of laser cutters, plasma cutters, waterjet cutters, and 3D printers as logical extensions of plotters.
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kastein posted:It actually seemed pretty good to me, there were a lot of small details in the spokes of the wheels that took a long time. This is a plotter we're talking about, so it's most likely an ACAD *.dwg file, and the interface will use HPGL. The HPGL language is simple, like what Ron Burgundy posted. ACAD has multiple levels of pen path optimization techniques, but you have to turn them on. Guy Axlerod has a new favorite as of 03:05 on Jan 26, 2014 |
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mystes posted:Didn't someone just post this on the previous page? Yes, we've gone from Creatacard -> Plotters -> Creatacard. lazydog posted:That's weird that you can't find pictures of the Creatacard machines online. Thanks for this picture. It was bothering me to not find any photos.
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More plotter porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLhT-h55fxA Also:
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Feb 6, 2014 23:25
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MyFaceBeHi posted:It's not really failed if it is used by [nearly] all businesses the world over. It certainly is lovely though, and becoming far more obsolete what with BBM being on iOS and Android now and more businesses moving from RIM to more user friendly devices. Even my brother has gone back to Android after having a Blackberry 9300 for a year! Businesses love to use obsolete technology. See: Dot Matrix Printers, Windows XP, Fax, etc.
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Mar 12, 2014 12:32
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GE Money also finances Jet Engines, Locomotives, and Nuclear Power Reactors, all built by GE.
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40 foot? I wouldn't want to carry one of these out either! This guy took apart an old Sony Jumbotron module: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AclwH64eAkU Kinda interesting how each pixel is its own CRT.
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Coffee And Pie posted:That reminds me, does anyone else remember Cinemania? It was a MS program that was a lot like a proto-IMDB, with pictures and reviews, and even a few video clips, which was a big deal back then. I had that, plus Music Central. I also recall they had DLC updates. I must have watched the clip from Star Wars and a clip of a ZZ Top concert 100s of times. My brother also found a movie clip that had a swear, it may have been from Jaws? That was a good one too.
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TerryLennox posted:They don't. I worked at Dell at the Latin America servers dept. and Bolivia (among the tallest cities on Earth) had hilariously high hard drive failure rates. The worst part is that the drive warranty doesn't cover usage above a certain height. Was that more about heat dissipation than head crashes? Thinner air doesn't conduct heat as well.
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I use Airplane mode when I go into a foreign country to avoid roaming fees.
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Dick Trauma posted:I remember around 2002 buying a Phaser that used those funky ink blocks, like the 860. The thing had to warm up for quite a long time and the staff kept turning it off and then bitching about waiting for it to be ready. This is the Solid-ink Phaser's big brother:  Does the equivalent of 10 000 sheets per minute. The technology isn't quite dead.
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Yeah, continuous feed, 2-up. 500 Feet per minute.
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I was working for a place that started offering Digital eDownloads. I wanted to shoot myself every time I saw or heard that phrase.
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Jun 28, 2015 14:47
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Couldn't you dial *67 or something like that to disable call waiting for that one call? I remember every dial-up program asking for your call waiting disable code. (Not that my parents ever had call waiting, or caller id for that matter) Then again, people had 12:00 blinking on their VCRs for all eternity, so that might still be too difficult to set up.
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Pilsner posted:Found this piece of junk, amongst many other old devices, when I cleaned out the house I just bought: It was marginally useful for extracting the contacts. But yeah, unsigned USB drivers, a terrible application in engrish, but for $1 shipped on Ebay, what do you expect?
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In the US, you use minutes from your allocation for all calls, incoming or outgoing (They did the same for SMS too). As far as I know, there's only an extra charge for placed international calls (Not sure if those also burn allocated minutes). I guess a collect call would also be a charge. Most plans don't count calls within a provider (Verizon to Verizon calls), or calls on nights and weekends. However, keeping track of minutes is becoming an obsolete technology as many plans have unlimited minutes included, or such a large amount that it's effectively unlimited. I'm waiting for data plans to have gimmicks like unlimited nights and weekends, and some sort of 'in network' unlimited.
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less than three posted:Everything from Nokia back then was indestructible. I'm disappointed they didn't emulate a rotary phone for dialing using the jog-dial.
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Zaphod42 posted:Friend of mine got a loving 50" CRT as a gift from some friend of his who no longer wanted it. We were poor college kids so gently caress yeah, BIG SCREEN for free? Need a video of that, with the hulk hogan real american hero song behind it.
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You want to rent a compact car? Whoa, better be 25 to do that. Want to rent a 25' moving truck? 18? Go nuts. I'm sure there are exceptions to both of those, but it doesn't quite make sense to me. For content, these stickers:  Don't get me wrong, I don't mind paying the registration fee, or getting my car inspected, or even having the plates and keeping a piece of paper in my car. I just hate swapping out the registration sticker every other year. Trying to scrape off the remains of the old sticker with a razor blade in an incredibly awkward position is just a huge pain in my rear end. I'm pretty sure a cop can just look it up based on my plate number, so why do I need the stickers?
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May 9, 2016 20:19
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axolotl farmer posted:You can still see this kind of hallway pager in older office buildings and public institutions like universities and government agencies. Seems similar to the thing they had at some restaurants to tell the waitresses they had an order up. It would ding, and then their number would light up.
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Goober Peas posted:Yep - I remember going to Pizza Hut in the late 70s-early 80s and they had a similar system. Chuck E Cheese did that, but not as fancy. All the active numbers would be up, and when a new number came up it took up the whole screen and flashed.
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May 19, 2016 23:27
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My little brother had this game: I played the quake demo and it started playing the little kid sing-along songs over quake.
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May 22, 2016 21:55
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I like when things sound like an old game show.
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Jun 1, 2016 18:10
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I'm pretty sure Keurig developed those Coke Freestyle machines that let you mix flavors together. Kold was a way to apply that technology they already developed to the home market.
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 You guys don't have these all over your house? But for real talk, you can get decora style switches too: 
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Iron Crowned posted:For some reason that reminds me of going to high school in the late 90's. Probably BAT instead of EXE, but that's somewhat clever. When I was in elementary school, there were two student accounts, one without internet access, and one with a red desktop background and internet access. The internet was big and scary, and you might accidentally end up on a porn site or learn how to build a bomb or something. One day I was dicking around in Encarta, and found some way to launch other applications from it, so I tried Netscape. It worked. I realized that all they did was delete the icon from the one desktop. Since I was a dork, the teacher had already given me the secret internet account password. It was the same as the username.
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Last time I sent a fax I used Adobe Reader's built in tools to add my "signature" and then "printed" it to the office MFP in fax mode, using copy and paste to enter the phone number they included in the email with the PDF form. The fax appeared immediately in my online account on their end, meaning their incoming fax didn't involve putting marks on paper pulp either. On both ends we have optimized the use of Fax, instead of optimizing the process so that it doesn't need the fax.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:No, we must now and forever be adversaries, our arguments a battle echoing into eternity You can get an electronic transcript. The link is right on the IRS homepage: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript It may have been turned off at one point because it was too easy or something. It's working now, I just downloaded my transcript.
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The obvious solution is to buy your future tickets with the dollar coins. It's like tokens but you can spend them other places.
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Feb 5, 2017 03:20
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Doesn't the line out cable work as an antenna too?
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Joke's on them, I'm going to call 111-1111 all day.
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Sunswipe posted:How do you know to answer a phone that doesn't have a ringer? PA Announcement: "Sunswipe, please answer the white courtesy phone." At an airport or something.
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We had an electronic spelling checker in my 4th grade class. Mostly we'd search for ??????????????????? and it would take a long time to return electrocardiography, the longest word it knew. Or search for swears or sex* and giggle at words like sexy and sexpot.
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FilthyImp posted:I was watching am episode of The Computer Chronicles on YT and the hot Christmas gift for, like, 88 was a module that sat on your parallel port and loudly buzzed when you typed in a misspelled word in your word processor program. My Mom had a typewriter with this function. It would beep when you typed a word it didn't know. Being a typewriter, a correction isn't really an option. It also had a memory so you could print multiple copies of a thing on demand, like your resume or family christmas letter.
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