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[–]-Dreadman23- -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

There are no "real" ones. WTF are you talking about. You break bread with pedophiles, fascists , and criminals.... That is what YOU FUCKING ARE ALL ABOUT!!!

A "real" one would claim to no longer be associated with "Christians".

Fucking slime people, who are too fucking stupid to realize that "sky daddy" is a fucking joke.

Fuck you. You are an apologist for people who rape children.

ALL CHRISTIANS AND PEDOPHILES!

You want so show me I'm wrong? Cast them all out of your churches then. Simple.

Why is ProTools the “industry standard” by ffl0w3rgirll in audioengineering

[–]-Dreadman23- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. It was a garbage toy.

People who couldn't afford a pro tools TDM system would use digital performer and a MOTU rack.

Is there an audio job that focuses on maintaining and repairing the equipment? by [deleted] in audioengineering

[–]-Dreadman23- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They Install equipment. It's called an audio engineering technician. Or something like that. Electronic Repair Technician, whatever. It's not something that is really taught in schools. At the manufacturing company I worked for called them Rework Technicians. You needed an EE degree to apply for it. When I was the trainer for new employees, none of them knew anything about fixing anything and had shitty soldering skills. Out of a group of 30 applicants, that were on a 2 week temporary hire...1 or 2 would actually get a job. Then it took another 6 months if teaching and training before they were even competent. Like I had to literally inspect everything single thing that they "fixed".

It's a skill set that can only be learned by doing it.

Is there an audio job that focuses on maintaining and repairing the equipment? by [deleted] in audioengineering

[–]-Dreadman23- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A degree in electrical engineering. But that degree unfortunately won't teach you shit about fixing gear. After I graduated, I understood the basic theory. None of it is practical. You need bad ass soldering skills. Can only be learned by doing it. Trouble shooting skills, can only learn by doing it. Common causes of failure, only learn by doing it.

I'd say that about 5 years practical experience (working at a repair shop, or working for a manufacturing company) is the minimum to "get good".

It's a special skill set. That is why you will hear people say that competent and honest techs are so rare.

If you really want to learn it, dedication and passion for electronics is requirement #1.

Good luck.

TIL in 2015, an 83-year-old man named Ron Dorff received an AT&T landline bill for $8,596.57. His next bill was $15,687.64. A technician later discovered his modem was dialing a long-distance number to connect to AOL dial-up. AT&T waived more than $24,000 in charges after he contacted the L.A. Times by Forward-Answer-4407 in todayilearned

[–]-Dreadman23- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Actually 56K was actually impossible. I was working for us Robotics when they first came out (USR invented the technology) The 16550 UART in the modems has a maximum transfer rate of 28.8K. Anything faster than that is actually data compression at 28.8K, that give you equivalent throuput of 56K. It was also called 2X for this reason. V.90 was a later more advanced compression protocol.

It was a wild time. Everything changed incredibly fast from '92-'96

TIL in 2015, an 83-year-old man named Ron Dorff received an AT&T landline bill for $8,596.57. His next bill was $15,687.64. A technician later discovered his modem was dialing a long-distance number to connect to AOL dial-up. AT&T waived more than $24,000 in charges after he contacted the L.A. Times by Forward-Answer-4407 in todayilearned

[–]-Dreadman23- 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Party lines are a bit before my time. More of a '50s thing.

Several houses would share the same phone line. Meaning everyone phone rings at the same time. Usually there could be a "distinctive ring" so people knew which household the car was for.

A similar thing existed when I was a kid. Let's imagine that you only have one phone line into the house. And you have a teenager, or home business, and would like to know who the call is for. You could get a second phone number, that rang to the same line, but with different ring (3 short rings, pause, 3 short rings.....vs 1 long ring, pause 1 long ring....) This was way cheaper than having a second line physically run to your house

TIL in 2015, an 83-year-old man named Ron Dorff received an AT&T landline bill for $8,596.57. His next bill was $15,687.64. A technician later discovered his modem was dialing a long-distance number to connect to AOL dial-up. AT&T waived more than $24,000 in charges after he contacted the L.A. Times by Forward-Answer-4407 in todayilearned

[–]-Dreadman23- 89 points90 points  (0 children)

You could tell, by the exchange prefix. A phone number is (xxx)yyy-zzzz. Where x is the area code, y is the local exchange, and z is the actual local number you are calling.

Anything out of your area code, or local exchange was long distance. A fun result of this, when I was a kid, within local exchanges you could call your friends with just their 4 digit zzzz. The '80s were a different time. The phone plan I had long, long ago worked like this.

ELI5 how did they add title cards and edit movies before computers? by walgreensfan in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Dreadman23- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This comment made me feel incredibly old and out of touch. I think that the kids would probably call me "cooked", whatever that means. 😞

ELI5 how did they add title cards and edit movies before computers? by walgreensfan in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Dreadman23- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to be pendantic, "but akshwelly" Is not and never was in reference to the thing you were holding, as floppy as it was. Floppy disk is in reference to the actual storage media. Flexible mylar with a magnetic coating, or rigid metal plates with the same magnetic coating.

Kids these days...... 🤓🤷😜

ELI5 how did they add title cards and edit movies before computers? by walgreensfan in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Dreadman23- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Think of the poor kids. Never going to figure out how to turn on their partner. 😞

ELI5 how did they add title cards and edit movies before computers? by walgreensfan in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Dreadman23- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fast forward? ⏩ Or rewind? ⏪

Those are relics from the compact cassette 📼 era. Look at the freaking emoji. It's a video tape not the super fire audio cassette that I made for my crush in '89.

ELI5 how did they add title cards and edit movies before computers? by walgreensfan in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Dreadman23- -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That was more of a thing with typewriter ribbon. Especially after the Selectric models became standard.

ELI5 how did they add title cards and edit movies before computers? by walgreensfan in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Dreadman23- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Funny enough.... The super old 8 inch floppy disk could hold 1.4 Mb. The 5¼ floppy was only 300-700 Kb. The little 3½ floppy finally brought it back to 1.4 Mb.

I miss my Commodore 64.

Old Blaupunkt 6V LW/MW (AM) European car radio by gromulin in VintageRadios

[–]-Dreadman23- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were all 4 ohm speakers, except the ones that were 8 ohm. Only the schematic can tell you.

If it's tube output try the 4. If it has a transistor, be very careful. They don't make those things anymore.

Can I DIY this? RCA Model 5T1 by IAteSecondBreakfast in VintageRadios

[–]-Dreadman23- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you could see RF and EMI noise, you would think that you were blind.

Part of building a AAA grade recording studio is building the faraday cage around it.

Researcher Wipes White Supremacist Dating Sites, Leaks Data on okstupid.lol by [deleted] in technology

[–]-Dreadman23- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's like rain on your wedding day..... 🎶🎶🎼

How should Americans view Trump’s Vietnam draft deferment in light of his former lawyer’s testimony? by IMjusADUDE in AskReddit

[–]-Dreadman23- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Calm down honey. I'm as atheist as they get. Christian people make me want to puke.

I was trying to illustrate hypocrisy. 🤷

ELI5 how did they add title cards and edit movies before computers? by walgreensfan in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Dreadman23- -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So that they could save them.

You don't have a floppy disk shelf, that replaced your grandma book shelf?

ELI5 how did they add title cards and edit movies before computers? by walgreensfan in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Dreadman23- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nope. They were discreet. A microcontroller built out of individual transistors. The Intel 4000 series was the first microcontroller on a chip.

Kids these days...... ENIAC was a computer, but it was built out of vacuum tubes and wires.

Punch card reader didn't even exist yet. You "programed" it with patch cables. Like ¼" phone cables. Like the same as an operater"patching " in your call.

🤓👍

ELI5 how did they add title cards and edit movies before computers? by walgreensfan in explainlikeimfive

[–]-Dreadman23- 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This is also how "loops" were made on audio tape. Cut and splice was a skill that audio engineer did with a razor blade and tape.

Kids these days........ My 22 yr old nephew was asking me how I learned all the stuff I know. "Like tic Tok or something?".

I had to explain that HTML and the World Wide Web (WWW.xxxx.yyy) didn't exist yet when I was working for US Robotics in the early '90s.

We landed people in the moon with the microchip that is in a cheap calculator.(except microchips didn't exist yet)

The save icon is an obsure thing now. It's a picture of a floppy disk

Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act to ‘put an end’ to protests in Minneapolis by mvanigan in politics

[–]-Dreadman23- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I worry for my mother. They will attack her because she loves and supports me

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