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Re: YouTube's Continued Idiocy Now Affecting The Well-Established

Posted on 2013-12-13, 15:00

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I said N exactly one time, because I rather enjoy watching one guy calling his viewers guys. He's a well educated person, and his strategies on tackling economy simulation games are interesting. Do you actually have a player accessible from your browser right now to play plain files? Y/N I find that …

Re: YouTube's Continued Idiocy Now Affecting The Well-Established

Posted on 2013-12-12, 06:21

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I rather enjoy Let's Plays myself to compare their approach to beating games with mine, or to watch a game in a foreign language. But I didn't know money was involved. I see no ads on any of the videos, but I haven't watched the most popular ones. I did unsubscribe from one guy who loaded like 2 …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2013-12-09, 07:38

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I'm currently playing " Redline " (1999). Nothing very remarkable about the game, except that I stumbled upon the demo once upon a time, and it was light enough on my old system then. It's level design is plain and the fact seems to be concealed by low lighting. Low is compensated by higher than …

Re: Your speaker and headphone system(s)

Posted on 2013-11-29, 20:23

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Behringer MS20 http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88902520/misc/Behringer_MS20_s.jpg AKG K141 Mk1 http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88902520/misc/AKG_K141_alt_s.jpg Just a pair of computer speakers without the usual flaws of hum or vibrating cases, they allow to connect a main PC and a retro PC at …

Re: I will not miss the floppy disk..

Posted on 2013-11-26, 04:39

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Since the floppy drive occasionally became active without a command to read given by the user, or without a disk inserted, I thought that this the "thinking" process of the computer when it was pushed too hard. Later, when I was in school computer room, floppy drives buzzing was a singnal that …

Re: YouTube's Seriously Awful New Change

Posted on 2013-11-22, 02:55

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On Windows I use (S)MPlayer to play videos delivered over HTTP. Does it work on Windows/Firefox too? If so, How? I've been looking for something like that for some time now cos I use Agent Switcher to get lighter Internet pages on my netbook, making it believe it's a tablet Firefox would need to …

Re: Yamaha softsynth in windows 8? (( 64 bit ))

Posted on 2013-11-21, 00:05

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The old S-YXG50/100 WDM driver will not work on any NT6. And the PVL (Poly-VL) part is only available for Windows 98/Me in VxD format (will not work on 2000/XP even). You could have some success with the VST version of the S-YXG50. If the free driver doesn't work on Eight x64, which it might not, …

Re: YouTube's Seriously Awful New Change

Posted on 2013-11-20, 23:50

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On Windows I use (S)MPlayer to play videos delivered over HTTP. Its buffering is as reliable as that of sound players. You can set the buffer size as large as you want. Remember how until recently YouTube wasted bandwidth by downloading the entire video immediately, even when the user didn't intend …

Re: What do you miss about the old web (internet)?

Posted on 2013-11-17, 12:01

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I was in first or second grade in school, back in 1992-1993. We got computers at school with Windows 3.11 I think, and a cool browser that went by the name Netscape Navigator. Back then, Altavista was THE search engine to use, although, we, as, what, 7-years olds, didn't have any clue whatsoever …

Re: What do you miss about the old web (internet)?

Posted on 2013-11-17, 10:49

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Supporters of this kind of "progress" argue that the "browser" is no longer just that. Instead it runs intelligent web "apps", which aim to replace the functionality of a graphics editor and a chat program among others. Of course they do it with poor efficiency. But look at the YouTube online "video …

Re: What do you miss about the old web (internet)?

Posted on 2013-11-16, 13:11

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IRC is awesome. As an anti-social person, I discovered it only last year. I'll talk to the last few users before I'll seek company in "social" media. However, as with forums, I'm observing channel owners being absent for weeks at a time from their rooms: in online games and sharing photos at a …

Re: What do you miss about the old web (internet)?

Posted on 2013-11-15, 11:01

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Anyone putting up with ads they do not want must be uninformed or lazy. there are very easy ways to block most ads and other web annoyances. Indeed. I sort of miss the time when loading of all ads could be easily postponed by not loading pictures. I could load all UI elements like arrows once, then …

Re: What do you miss about the old web (internet)?

Posted on 2013-11-14, 23:45

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There are several good points made in this thread already. Direct links to media files as opposed to streaming services. I still remember downloading gaming videos and watching them in a media player instead of going to that place. Sure file hosting capabilities weren't high, and we sometimes had to …

Re: YouTube's Seriously Awful New Change

Posted on 2013-11-12, 12:39

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Around the time when the new comment system became available, one of my soundtrack uploads was partially obstructed with black bars when viewed in Flash (but not HTML5). Re-uploading does not fix the issue. When the post is downloaded and viewed in a media player, the black bars aren't there. self- …

Re: YouTube's Seriously Awful New Change

Posted on 2013-11-11, 11:17

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Not sure why it'd return fewer results than Google if it simply forwards queries to Google Here I am searching for rare terms. And here I am searching for a post that I know is new and it does not appear anywhere in the results of StartPage. Previously I have experienced this with my own posts. A …

Re: YouTube's Seriously Awful New Change

Posted on 2013-11-10, 16:38

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YouTube did make an attempt to make things simple a while ago with Feather , an alternate interface to the service, which made use of "advanced web techniques for reducing the total amount of bytes downloaded". Feather worked well on slow JavaScript implementations, like Opera 8, and could be used …

Re: YouTube's Seriously Awful New Change

Posted on 2013-11-10, 03:34

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Consumers wield a lot more power than they realize and, just like voting, when enough people follow suit the impact they can have can really be felt, even by a large company. That is very true. I was thinking about the copyright issues. Essentially, these consumers have freely handed over the power …

Re: YouTube's Seriously Awful New Change

Posted on 2013-11-08, 06:11

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I though that YouTube was already social and slow, and it could not get any worse. But the Web 3.0 is right here and has proved me wrong. While slow, the old comments system felt just good enough. Being somewhat incompetent, and ignorant of existing traditions on the web, I don't feel Google can …

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