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DNova posted:Well, ok, how about this for obsolete technology: Telephone Calls. Pizza says no.
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You can also tune reel to reels and turntables using a tuning fork and a recording that you know the pitch of.
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There's a MythBusters episode where they test what happens when a cement mixer gets stuck in traffic and how difficult it is to clean the drum out afterward. Long story short, it's practically impossible. Those relays are finished for good.
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Mike-o posted:Speaking of overhead projectors, my kid's school has digital overheads and the video lag is ridiculous. Every time I see them I stupidly wish they would just use oldschool overhead projectors like I had in school. Obsolete or not, overhead projectors will always be a sought commodity in grade schools. It's one of the few ways to demonstrate work while watching the class. Many schools don't have proper funding or expertise to buy properly functional digital alternatives, nor enough time and money to properly train aging teachers how to use them when they won't turn on and you're facing a room full of 30+ antsy 10-year-olds.
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These days "low budget" and "film" should never be used in the same sentence unless you already know how to develop and have your own darkroom with an infinite source of free film and chemicals. efb- yea what he said ^^^^
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Movies have never been cheap- that's why the slide projector was invented.
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The thing I miss most about shooting film is not seeing the photos until they've been developed. With digital I've seen them all before I even take the next shot.
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Apr 22, 2015 23:52
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Pham Nuwen posted:There's currently no way to get a radio license in the US except by buying an existing station--the FCC is not accepting new applications, low-power or otherwise. Currently radio is still commercially lucrative enough that it's pretty drat hard to afford to buy out another station. The day Clearchannel bought their first station was the day interesting radio died.
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Jun 11, 2015 23:24
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:If I'm interpreting you correctly, does that mean that video rental shops would pay several times what a regular consumer would pay for a VHS? This is partly heftier construction of tapes, but mostly higher per-copy licensing fees for using the tape in a distribution-for-profit scenario. Copies of everything (book and media alike) are more expensive for libraries than end consumers, too, because the publishing company sees the library as more of a profit drain than selling as many individual copies and so increases licensing fees accordingly.
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Pretty much - when you buy media or software or whatever you're also purchasing the right to legally use it within certain parameters. For an individual it's the right to show the movie only at home, and not in public - which is that FBI warning at the beginning of pretty much every dvd. When you're a video rental company, though, in order to legally check-out/distribute the copy you have to pay more for the right to make money off of it. Same for using commercial software in an enterprise situation for a lot of programs - you're using their creation to make money, so the software developer wants an extra cut.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:You know, that's actually really reasonable. I, like many others, think that Hollywood and the entertainment busisness in general is pretty lovely, but at the end of the day they need to make a living. Why shouldn't they get a cut if someone else is profiting from their work? That goes for software (and many other industries) as well. Exactly- this is the whole idea behind licensing intellectual property, and the license agreements we rarely read before clicking "ok". I came up against this issue when wanting to use GIMP to do some basic drawings for work that a client would be charged for. We had to have our lawyers vet the GPL and all the other licenses GIMP uses before I started any of the work in order to make sure that we weren't opening ourselves for a lawsuit down the line.
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Pham Nuwen posted:My wife has bet me that I can't use a non-smartphone for two weeks. I'm therefore looking at getting a flip phone on EBay; what's the best one you guys can recommend? I'm literally looking for the very best in obsolete technology. Mad props if you make it 2 weeks on John's Phone.
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Aug 4, 2015 04:05
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Player piano reels or die, motherfuckers.
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Rectus posted:Porn looks so much warmer with dialup. Constant buffering also makes that 5min clip last for hours.
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Shifty Pony posted:Do failed children's toys count? 
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Chocolate Teapot posted:I'd be more concerned with the fact that the child has a rope around his neck. The joys of asphyxiation and whiplash are only a kick away!
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There definitely were (and still are) a lot of lovely DVD menus but as for good ones I gotta put in my vote for the second Gorillaz DVD Slow Boat to Hades. I probably spent more time poking around the menus on that one than actually watching the content.
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My Lovely Horse posted:can the point of it all really be to rebuy all our favourite 90s and earlier albums for 20 bucks a pop? Most new albums, all the way down to Taylor Swift pop-schlock and Disney soundtracks, are released on vinyl these days. So no, it's not just for lovely 180g remasters.
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Different strokes for different folks, friend.
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carry on then posted:
They got it bad, and that ain't good.
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TotalLossBrain posted:I use only corn tortillas to preserve the music's natural warmth. Hand-pressed on the thighs of virgins for a pristine dust-free groove.
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FilthyImp posted:Those look pretty amazing. By "developed" do you mean "did every frame have to be printed"? Because film itself has to be developed before it can be viewed with a light box and loupe/magnifier. And then prints can be made. But my guess is that prints of every shot wouldn't be necessary, unless there was a naked guy being ogled or guns were being waved in the frame. This system produced still shots, not movies.
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Nov 28, 2017 18:24
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Thanks to tinnitus I hear CRT whine all the time!
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JnnyThndrs posted:
aka enlightenment
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Delaware is one of the best run states I've ever seen. And without Delaware you wouldn't have neoprene! Or shell corporations for hiding your porn star hush money payouts. I know, I know, there would still be Bermuda et al but Delaware really is the king of grade-A-made-in-the-USA shady LLC registration.
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Don't forget the powers of white-out.
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May 14, 2019 21:06
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Wasn't there an ASCII art renderer for Quake? Or maybe it was Doom.
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Cojawfee posted:Yes, in the same way that polaroids 50 years ago had a polaroid filter. You know, it really is incredible how many "classic" cameras could pull off the Instagram look way before Insta was invented. They really were ahead of their times - if only people back in the day knew.
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I dunno, seems like shining your rusty tool is a pretty common pastime. Hell, some even say the whole purpose of the internet is to make it easier.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Dear God! The power, Bill.
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Flexi whale songs, thx National Geographic.
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boar guy posted:getchoo a pro clip mount for your phone and then just, whatever music program you use becomes your new header Word. Them mounts are the bomb.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I blame my typing teacher for how I capitalize letters when touch typing: I hit caps lock, then the letter, then caps lock again. It's not that I was taught that way, it's that I should've been beaten with a ruler or something to be cured of that habit. You must've had the same teacher as my wife. Watching her type is like pulling teeth, I have to go into another room.
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I’m envious of you all able to hold on to tech relics for so long. The oldest tech I have (aside from my grandfather’s slide rule) is probably my 5yo NAS. Despite the fact I’ve been touching computers since the early 90’s I never hold on to anything after I upgrade. Edit: correction, I guess my Something Awful account is probably the oldest.
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Mischievous Mink posted:In my highschool we had vinyl plotters, which were like pen plotters but they moved a knife blade around instead of a pen. Lots of fun! You’ll find those at most sign companies.
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Dick Trauma posted:My grandparents had an electric wringer washer when I was a kid. I never got to see it in action but it looked like an ominous finger pinching threat. I did exactly that with my grandmother’s wringer, when I was about 5. Ran my arm right into it because I didn’t let go. Fortunately kids are made out of rubber and nothing was damaged.
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In college I was blessed with a work-study job at the gym front desk, which was on a separate subnet from the dorms that was empty when the professors went home. Helloooo empty T1 line, let's make some calls! Needless to say, The Hub received new spoils to share whenever I got off my shift.
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Lately I’ve found my iPad + keyboard fills the netbook hole in my heart pretty well. VNC to my Mac Mini for heavier lifting.
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Laws change more slowly than technology, news at 7
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The US Patent & Trademark Office, whose entire purpose is advancement of technology, still requires fax for certain types of filings for the filing date to be legally recognized. It's mostly a backup for when their electronic filing systems go down, with the only other option filing via USPS first-class tracked mail, but there are still a couple of types of petitions that can only be filed via fax or snail mail. They have a lot of other antique methods, too. For example, all ownership and licensing agreement documents are recorded for posterity to microfiche, because it's still one of the most stable long-term recording mediums for legal documents. Thankfully these documents can be filed electronically, but the USPTO's system doesn't accept secured PDFs. So whenever a $$hundreds-of-millions++ ownership or licensing agreement needs to be recorded, and the agreement paperwork was signed with DocuSign, I have to print that fucker to paper and scan it back in as a plain-Jane unsecured PDF or TIFF to upload it to the system that then prints everything to microfiche for the purpose of storage. And color drawings... enjoy filing those via CD-ROM. The USPTO's ancient web system doesn't accept PDFs with color images because their entire system converts everything to and operates on monochrome TIFFs. So if your patent application relies on graphs or heat maps or what-have-you that can only be shown with color images, make sure you have some first-class envelopes/labels and blank CD-Rs on hand. And be ready to pay the USPTO's additional $140 fee to petition to have them accepted.
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