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eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

I'm the

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Roosevelt: Jul 18, 2009; I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

sam jackson is a good actor, but his performance as a cj dealing with someone else's bullshit computer crap was exceptionally convincing

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pram: Jun 10, 2001

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

best ever

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Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

i'm the CM-5 connection machines

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Hed: Mar 31, 2004; Fun Shoe

My Linux Rig posted:

lol

Around the same time MS did the whole "hover over monochrome icons and they'll turn to the colorized version" that I thought was rad as hell

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The_Franz: Aug 8, 2003

Roosevelt posted:

sam jackson is a good actor, but his performance as a cj dealing with someone else's bullshit computer crap was exceptionally convincing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfiQYRn7fBg&t=16s

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pagancow: Jan 15, 2001; Video Stymie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MorDCtBPR8

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akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

The_Franz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfiQYRn7fBg&t=16s

those monitors were running at 24hz to sync with the camera shutters. probably looked like a flickery mess on set lol

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akadajet posted:

those monitors were running at 24hz to sync with the camera shutters. probably looked like a flickery mess on set lol

I never thought about that :prepop:

also I really like nedry's quote about networking 8 connection machines and debugging 2 million lines of code for cheap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VAdpb3DPSs

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Crazy Achmed: Mar 13, 2001

bring back the big double-row enter key, i say. It's just so satisfying to slam with your index finger. Oh yeah. And who needs a backslash key that large, anyway? Communists, that's who.

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3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Crazy Achmed posted:

bring back the big double-row enter key, i say. It's just so satisfying to slam with your index finger. Oh yeah. And who needs a backslash key that large, anyway? Communists, that's who.

Just get a canadian keyboard

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Crazy Achmed: Mar 13, 2001

Also I'm phone posting from a third world internet connection and haven't been clicking on video links. So sorry if anyone has already posted this~

https://youtu.be/mSHUIEDBbl4

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atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Chris Knight posted:

i had an O2 with the casing in perfect condition

in the back of my car when I was rear-ended

and it flew out of the cargo net and shattered

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atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

the 90s (and, declining, the 00s) was the last time there were several competitive microarchitectures and you could buy a "workstation" computer that was in some way special and different from a normal computer

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Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

atomicthumbs posted:

the 90s (and, declining, the 00s) was the last time there were several competitive microarchitectures and you could buy a "workstation" computer that was in some way special and different from a normal computer

to be fair, workstations still exist. they are just much, much bigger versions of your bog standard pc.

the workstation didn't disappear, just PCs running linux got big and good enough to supplant it

# ? Sep 17, 2017 04:35

pagancow: Jan 15, 2001; Video Stymie

akadajet posted:

those monitors were running at 24hz to sync with the camera shutters. probably looked like a flickery mess on set lol

sigh, Get CRT's from the UK, set your scan to 1/50th of a second DONE.

YVCPOS birch lol get rekt 360 nooocccameraskills

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Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

akadajet posted:

those monitors were running at 24hz to sync with the camera shutters. probably looked like a flickery mess on set lol

how does that work

is there some kind of camera shutter <=> genlock thinger?

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eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

how does that work

is there some kind of camera shutter <=> genlock thinger?

yes indeed

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Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

eschaton posted:

yes indeed

whats it called because i want to google it and sit staring at spec sheets and advertisements for an hour

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Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

Crazy Achmed posted:

bring back the big double-row enter key, i say. It's just so satisfying to slam with your index finger. Oh yeah. And who needs a backslash key that large, anyway? Communists, that's who.

welp guess i'm a big fat fuckin' commie now

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eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

whats it called because i want to google it and sit staring at spec sheets and advertisements for an hour

I don't know beyond genlock

but my understanding is that everything on set is synchronized to the same SMPTE timebase for purposes of genlock etc.

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Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

emoji posted:

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atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

to be fair, workstations still exist. they are just much, much bigger versions of your bog standard pc.

which is incredibly lame as hell

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Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

atomicthumbs posted:

which is incredibly lame as hell

it's not sexy, no. but the sex appeal was always secondary in workstations.

they only started with all the weird over-engineering because all the vendors had significant pricing power and could pass the costs through

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eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

the "weird over-engineering" was also important for certain workloads

example: being able to support a half gigabyte of RAM at a time that cost tens of thousands of dollars, because some users would actually use it for simulation or whatever

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Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

eschaton posted:

the "weird over-engineering" was also important for certain workloads

example: being able to support a half gigabyte of RAM at a time that cost tens of thousands of dollars, because some users would actually use it for simulation or whatever

yeah that wasn't the weird part. that was the part that was easily commoditized. the vendors didn't compete on supporting half a gig of ram. hp, sun, ibm, sgi, and dec were all happy to respond to that rfp

they competed on fancy case designs. on "multimedia" integrations. on all kinds of weird fuckin software things.

the baseline was set by the same constraints as we face today, but the margin, where the oligopolists competed, was a weird fuckin terrain

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Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

i resurrected the website i made for my brother in 1996
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owns

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Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

Phoenixan posted:

bitch

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Optimus_Rhyme: Apr 15, 2007; are you that mainframe hacker guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXpfdq3WYu4

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As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.

Optimus_Rhyme posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXpfdq3WYu4

The problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste

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muckswirler: Oct 22, 2008

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

whats it called because i want to google it and sit staring at spec sheets and advertisements for an hour

It was probably slaved to 'black burst' which is the sync method they used at the time. I'm sure it's been supplanted in more modern HD systems but clocking gear will translate it to SMPTE and back and it's a convenient analog video clock. We'd use the black burst to drive our SMPTE clock for ADR and other movie audio stuff.

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The XKCD Larper: Mar 1, 2009; by Lowtax

muckswirler posted:

It was probably slaved to 'black burst' which is the sync method they used at the time. I'm sure it's been supplanted in more modern HD systems but clocking gear will translate it to SMPTE and back and it's a convenient analog video clock. We'd use the black burst to drive our SMPTE clock for ADR and other movie audio stuff.

Its just an oscillator that puts out clicks at the needed frame rate. They're still used, it's an easy way to make sure that everything is runnign at the same rate and prevent drift between cameras and playback devices

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