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Dec 21, 2015 06:35
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Will Smith got yellow-fever when it comes to tech partners.
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Dec 21, 2015 07:15
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Is that a DVD-RAM cartridge missing the actual DVD part? Nah, just a CD caddy. Before CD-drive manufacturers had settled on a standard for physically mounting discs in the drive, some manufacturers went with a caddy system. Put the CD in the caddy, caddy slides into the drive. Despite being pointless and unwieldy, I thought they were kind of cool in a retro-futuristic kind of way.
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Dec 21, 2015 07:43
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ShiroTheSniper posted:Virtual Valerie 2 Naw man, Rhiana Rouge was where it's at. I loved how old PC gaming mags had ads for porno games in them, they were so hard-up (boom) for advertising dollars. Especially weird were the porno ads that clearly used to have nudity in them, but someone had hastily photoshopped a bikini on to the woman.
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Dec 22, 2015 21:21
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Three-Phase posted:I surfed the internet on an Indy workstation when I was around 12. I remember doing the same on Indy's, as well as some O2's. I don't know what I was expecting, but it had that mythical "SGI" legend surrounding it. Then you use it for an hour and you're all "Hmmm, yeah, anyways.... this blows. Let me go back to a Windows PC please."
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Dec 31, 2015 03:33
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Mak0rz posted:I see and hear Luba Goy, but no studio audience laughter. I don't understand. That's because no one that appeared on Air Farce was ever funny. Ever.
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Dec 31, 2015 04:43
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Buttcoin purse posted:I just want to use a mouse and keyboard No, there's a long line of weirdos that refuse to use a controller, even for games where they are the better choise, because reasons.
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Jan 9, 2016 01:19
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Is it just me?
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thathonkey posted:If anyone knows more about this story please post! It was the book Masters of Doom. If the descriptions in the book are accurate, it sounds like almost everyone who worked at early id Software was a fundamentally broken human being in one way or another.
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Jan 10, 2016 14:18
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Pham Nuwen posted:Optical drives die on me way more than hard drives. Seems like any optical drive I don't use for a year or two becomes totally useless, just spins up and down over and over. We had a brownout a month or so ago, and the DVD drive got fried somehow, but the rest of the PC is perfectly functional. Not really sure how that happened, as whatever fried it would've had to pass through the rest of the major components to get to the DVD drive.
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Jan 26, 2016 07:01
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jm20 posted:Luba Goy was an 80s tv instructional programmer, comedy indeed That guy might have more luck with the computer if he makes a pledge by the sign of the three-toed sloth.
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Jan 29, 2016 06:28
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Software Etc.
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Feb 9, 2016 13:14
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Wicker Man posted:I was pretty irritated when I found out the old Morrowind game was supposed to come with a paper fold out map to help you along. I had to just wing it and cold-explore every inch on the in game one. Still, despite playing an old rear end game long after it's been out, I actually really enjoyed it. The coolest thing about that map was it was actually super accurate, down to the placement of rocks and trees and poo poo. It wasn't like typical add-on cloth maps, which just represented "ye olde kingdom" and vaguely represented the rough areas each zone occupied. You could look at the Morrowind map and go "Okay, take a left at the rock pillar, and a right where these two big trees are, and in the game you'd see the exact same features where they appeared on the map.
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Feb 10, 2016 03:52
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And is it "Eff-Ay-Kyews" or "FACKS"?
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Feb 16, 2016 02:24
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Ahh, my favourite swedish peanut butter, Yif.
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Feb 16, 2016 02:59
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Police Automaton posted:I've got no idea how anyone can do extensive file operations with the standard windows explorer. Hint: 99.9% of users are never doing extensive file operations.
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Feb 18, 2016 00:52
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Didn't WinRAR used to be fairly cheap or something? I thought it used to be something like $7, but I was at their website the other day and they're charging something like $25+ for it now. Guess their response to 7Zip eating their lunch was to raise prices to compensate for lack of sales, rather than lower the price or make it free to draw in more users. The Game Workshop strategy.
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Feb 18, 2016 01:43
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a starwar betamax posted:What do people do with cmputers besides play games and type things into various office products and surf the inteernet? I would assume most people spend a couple of hours a day hashing out philosophy and the nature of man with Dr. Sbaitso.
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Mar 3, 2016 10:00
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Casimir Radon posted:Do you really have to do more than pull the cord and push the power button a few times? Yeah, you have to actually discharge the capacitor from the rear, unplugging it pressing buttons or whatever won't do it. Otherwise it can take years to fully drain on its own. There are safe ways to do it, but I've seen arcade guys do some poo poo where they short the anode to the cathode with an insulated screwdriver or something equally dumb. So yeah, Code Jockey, do as much research as possible on safely draining it. Probably some instructional vids on youtube or something. And then be like Vinny and hose down your CRT out on your driveway.
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Mar 16, 2016 01:13
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Pretty sure The Hobbit is garbage at any framerate.
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Mar 17, 2016 02:08
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Did fold@home ever have any real big breakthroughs? Something they could say "Thanks to everyone participating, we cured X thing!".
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Apr 1, 2016 21:17
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Buttcoin purse posted:They're my wife's, okay? Your balls?
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Apr 25, 2016 04:47
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Ozz81 posted:
I had a coworker who brought me something very similar to these once. She asked if I could install Windows 7 on it.
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Apr 25, 2016 21:55
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Same here, blew me and my dad away when he installed a 12MB Voodoo2 in our old Compaq K6-2 350 machine. Night and day from playing the old software renderer to OpenGL goodness
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I work in a very large healthcare system, and we JUST upgraded all PC's to Windows 7. And Internet Explorer 7 is the "newest" browser most users have access to. Our main software package for doing payroll and ordering general products is so old that it's DOS-based and used to use Telnet for it's connections, but had a minor upgrade for network use. My department just got a software package for tracking the use of medical equipment, and it's so cheap and bad it looks like the type of program a programming student makes for their final class project, assuming said class is occurring around 2003.
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Apr 29, 2016 12:45
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thathonkey posted:pretty sure it has already been brought up in this thread but i remember being like 12 and installing winamp on the family PC (located centrally of course in the spot you would put such an expensive piece of brand new technology - the kitchen) and playing the intro file inadvertently for the first time while my dad was around and i was like wtf and he was like wtf and i was afraid he would get mad at me cause i wasnt supposed to be involved with swearing and the like at that age but i remember he just looked genuienly puzzled and said "did that guy just say something about whipping llama rear end?" then he just walked out of the room like maybe he thought he was hearing things My dad was pretty indifferent to our computer. My friends dad though treated theirs like it was the cure for cancer. We changed some settings to get more high memory for a game, and he flipped out on us like we were going to destroy the thing. Like, his brain seriously broke and he went completely psycho, I thought my friend was probably going to take a beating once I had left.
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May 1, 2016 05:12
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Sir_Charles posted:windows 10 is fine you nerds Don't be stupid. These people are fuckin' nerds.
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May 5, 2016 22:42
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Lime Tonics posted:Good to know the US government has us all beat on this. I assume though that these days they're desperate to keep those systems in place now? I'm guessing they don't want to upgrade to the latest and greatest since that old offline analog equipment offers it a greater measure of security by the very nature of it being physically unhackable.
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May 25, 2016 21:26
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empty baggie posted:Please don't do this. Most towns offer electronics recycling, and if they're like my town, while dropping off whatever junk you have, you can also go through what other people have left. I've scored a couple of decent computers, a working Intellevision and Sega Genesis (with controllers), a practically brand new Samsung 3D Blu-ray player still wrapped in plastic (missing the remote but easily remedied), and a bunch of random components and whatnot. Thats just from 3 trips in 2 months. I promise not to put LCD in trash. *hucks LCD out car window on interstate at 3am*
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Jun 2, 2016 07:06
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Last Chance posted:kids in my school used to steal mouse balls and hurl them at each other We did this too, so the computer science teacher glued the little trap-door on the bottom of the mice shut. With near constant use from multiple classes a day, it was only about 3 months before the rollers inside the mice were completely gunked up with poo poo, and then couldn't be cleaned because they were now glued shut. Two dozen mice, into the garbage. Our comp-sci teacher in high-school was kind of an idiot. Most of the class knew a LOT more than he did about computers, and I mean even the people who had barely ever used a computer before. We had endless fun installing and reinstalling Leisure Suit Larry Games on the PC's. He'd keep trying to delete them, but we kept finding more and more convoluted methods to hide the install directory. Eventually he gave in and let us keep the games, as long as we didn't play them when another teacher might come in.
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Jun 21, 2016 22:01
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I'm in the fortunate enough situation where my mom is not dumb enough to fall for those scams. My dad is definitely dumb enough to fall for them, but he wouldn't be able to turn the computer on in the first place to let the scam happen.
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Jul 5, 2016 10:58
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JP was originally going to have stop-motion dinos, and I think it was Phil Tippet that was tapped to do this. He did a bunch of test-footage of raptors, which was some of the best stop-motion work ever done. Unbeknownst to him though, the studio also asked ILM to do some CGI test cycles of dinos to see what they liked. It was rough watching the making of JP shows, because you could visibly see Phil Tippet deflating as he watched how much more realistic the CG dinos were looking and moving, and the realization that the death knell was now ringing for his skills in the industry. And I don't know if you've seen any modern interviews with Tippet, but that guy is one of the most bitter, sour men you'll ever see. He basically has a permanent "I'm pissed off with everything and why do I have to talk to you plebs" expression on his face.
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Aug 8, 2016 20:28
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Yeah, rental stores had a 3 to 6 month window where VHS tapes weren't sold to the public. You could still get them if you really wanted, but you had to pay the price that the rental chains did, which was $80-$100 a copy. Which is why for those old enough to witness the transition from VHS to DVD, it was so amazing that you could get a DVD copy of a movie at the same time the rental stores got theirs, and for cheap.
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Aug 11, 2016 22:03
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5-Year-Old - "Mommy, nobodies seeding Toy Stowy. I WANNA WATCH WOODY AND BUZZ! MY TOWWENT IS GOING NOWHERE!"
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Aug 11, 2016 22:46
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FilthyImp posted:.... for days when it was too smoggy to play Yikes. Where was this?
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Aug 21, 2016 07:13
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Mortimer posted:how is winrar guy doing He lives in Russia, so presumably any american bucks he got for the program went a lot further there.
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Aug 24, 2016 17:28
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I'd almost say Quicktime was worse. Realplayer could largely be avoided, but there was a definite period there where Quicktime was pretty much the only game in town if you wanted halfway-decent video. Especially if you were into movie trailers, as Apple was one of the first putting out high-quality trailers.
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Aug 24, 2016 17:39
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You guys are mental.
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Sep 14, 2016 21:01
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ColoradoCleric posted:Can we add cable television as a dying relic that relies on the diminishing baby boomer generation? No, because cord-cutting is vastly overstated and cable TV isn't going anywhere for a long time.
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Sep 17, 2016 21:15
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What the?! Is SADCHUB still going?
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Sep 19, 2016 00:51
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Linux should just face facts and rebrand itself as BridesmaidOS.
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Sep 26, 2016 13:02
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The Gasmask posted:I wonder if keyboards and mice will become a relic in certain jobs in the 3D modeling/game dev industries with the full adoption of VR-based editors. It's already started with Epic adding VR editing support in UE4, and I know there's some VR modeling projects ongoing with Blender. It seems like the place where VR is going to shine, even if it never gets adapted for consumer use; being able to model and arrange while having a true visualization of depth allows for massive streamlining, with the potential to offer significantly faster workflows. VR editing is never going to be a thing anyone on the professional side of things uses or cares about.
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Sep 28, 2016 00:17
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