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[Père Malfait]

The Kings of Nerd

You know it, Karl! 

[DavidW]

Stupid question for the older people... if people didn't have vcrs in the 60s then how do these tv broadcasts end up on youtube, who recorded them?

http://www.youtube.com/v/6cYdH46HqpE I was just thinking that while listening.

[ibanezmonster]

Well you might be surprised... alot of businesses have legacy code and it's much easier and cheaper to keep modifying that instead of replacing it wholesale with the current languages.  Even fortran is still used extensively today since so much engineering projects were done using it back in the day.

Yeah, there's that. Doing a search of either those 2 or Fortran, there are a handful of jobs online- but they're very rare. I've never accidentally stumbled on one of them.

[Gurn Blanston]

Stupid question for the older people... if people didn't have vcrs in the 60s then how do these tv broadcasts end up on youtube, who recorded them?

http://www.youtube.com/v/6cYdH46HqpE I was just thinking that while listening.

Well, there were video recorders. They were like computers; big as houses! VCR, remember is Video Cassette Recorder. The old ones were giant reel-to-reel tapes, like Stewie's music collection! It was the combination of spinning heads and cassettes that came along in the late 70's to make home video recorders possible. 

[DavidW]

Well, there were video recorders. They were like computers; big as houses! VCR, remember is Video Cassette Recorder. The old ones were giant reel-to-reel tapes, like Stewie's music collection! It was the combination of spinning heads and cassettes that came along in the late 70's to make home video recorders possible. 

wow that's crazy!   Probably only the well off could afford them?

[Gurn Blanston]

wow that's crazy!   Probably only the well off could afford them?

You mean the home versions? My roommate and I had them in 1980. We paid around $600 each. IIRC< they were Panasonic's.

The older ones, of course, only TV studios had them.



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[DavidW]

You mean the home versions? My roommate and I had them in 1980. We paid around $600 each. IIRC< they were Panasonic's.

Really?  Why didn't you just buy a vcr?

[DavidW]

Leon, I never thought of museums having tv reels... but that makes they are now a part of our history and culture.

[Gurn Blanston]

Really?  Why didn't you just buy a vcr?

Umm, we did. They were $600+ each...

They had only been on the market for less than a year. The entire concept of being able to set a timer to tape a show and watch it later while blipping out commercials took some serious getting used to!   



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[DavidW]

Umm, we did. They were $600+ each...

They had only been on the market for less than a year. The entire concept of being able to set a timer to tape a show and watch it later while blipping out commercials took some serious getting used to!   



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Oh I misread you... I thought you meant you bought one of those huge video recorders!   What can I say? it was before dinner.

[PaulR]

Today was a good day, had a pretty good exercise session, and my new computer came   I am happy

[ibanezmonster]

Today was a good day, had a pretty good exercise session, and my new computer came   I am happy

[Lethevich]

"Lossless" formats are 50-60% compressed relatively to the original, which would be no problem if someone had to deal with data files, but when it comes to music (= Art), and especially to classical music, this implicates a certain amount of quality degradation.

Whenever I encounter this guy on Demonoid I want to shove my face through a window

[Jay F]

[Lethevich]

That low dork score We have a social Alpha in our midst

[eyeresist]

That low dork score We have a social Alpha in our midst

He can buy beer for us.

[eyeresist]

Just took the nerd test:
Carl Sagan questions made me laugh.
Question on DVD sets owned reffed "mainstream" nerd hits, but not a lot of the stuff I own (e.g. Spaced, Blade, Dead Like Me, anime).
I care that my socks have holes!

Let me tell ya, the REAL nerd test would be about more than superheroes and computers.

[DavidW]

Oh Dead Like Me... awesome!

[eyeresist]

You are a person of taste and intelligence. Good looking, too!

[knight66]

How so? Will this be a temporary hiatus?

Mike