   Useless Purchase
  So like 3 years ago I went to this thrift store for fun with friends and while searching through the junk I found a box that had the Sierra logo on it.  It was like $5 so I bought it.  Took it home and found it was original copies of two Kings Quest games and one of the Space Quest games I think.  They're all floppies and I think one of them is even the big C64 style floppy.Seriously, what am I supposed to do with these games?  Not like I can play them.  I don't even own a PC with a floppy drive!  Wish I could play them, maybe if I put them in my NES...   
  Now that you own honest-to-god copies of them, you can get copies off abandonware sites without any ethical dilemma.   ;Buy an old computer and run the games on their intended platform? :)   ;  Both good points.  I used to have an old PC that might have run it (I think I paid $15 for it) but it just sat around so I never used it.  Maybe I could eBay them for $100 a disc (just kidding).   ;  Sell them on ebay.   ;  Apart from the C64 diskette, you can read the other floppies with a floppy drive that probably hardly costs more than $5 itself, these things cost nothing these days. And then run it in dosbox or other emulator depending on what platform they're for. There are emulators for lots of those old platforms.   ;  I bought some noise cancelling headphones. they did nothing useful. I honestly could not tell the difference between the sound with the noise cancelling on or off. so i took them back and got a replacement. they were the same. so I took it back for a refund, and got told there was nothing wrong with it and I already opened the box on two pairs so piss off.That night, somebody bricked the shop window. Nobody ever found who did it.   ;Quote:Original post by speciesUnknownI bought some noise cancelling headphones. they did nothing useful. I honestly could not tell the difference between the sound with the noise cancelling on or off. so i took them back and got a replacement. they were the same. so I took it back for a refund, and got told there was nothing wrong with it and I already opened the box on two pairs so piss off.That night, somebody bricked the shop window. Nobody ever found who did it.Active noise cancellation is a joke.  Even the super-expensive Bose headphones don't do a very good job.Passive noise cancellation, however, can be extremely good.  I have some Shure e4c's, and I can be listening to quiet classical music at low volume and not hear someone sitting next to me calling my name.   ;  Noise cancellation a joke?I have a pair of noise canceling range hearing protectors. I can hear people talking all the way down the line like they are right next to me, but when there is a gunshot it sounds about as loud as a video game.   ;  Active noise cancellation like speciesUnknown mentioned and which I referenced is very different from what you have.If I understand correctly, what you have is a set of headphones that block all outside noise passively (just by being heavy/built with whatever material stops noise).  They have a microphone outside and speakers inside, and they process the outside noise before replaying it to you.What we're talking about is headphones that have no passive noise cancellation (very lightweight plastic headphones), which try to cancel out outside noise by mixing the opposite of the outside noise into the music/movie audio which is coming through the headphones.  It's this that doesn't work well.   