Posts by Darryl

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Does it beat Spock or Lizard?

MFM - > RLL

I had two 40 MB MFM drives and reformatted them both on an RLL controller and both worked perfectly. One was a Seagate and the other was a Miniscribe. The Seagate bumped up to just over 61GB and the Miniscribe only made it to 55 or so. Ran a BBS on those two in an old homemade 286 box for a couple years, and never had an error.

this is NOT a title!

See the post by Quxy just above yours for a reply to your overly simplistic view of things.

@chair

With all the hanging off the edge of the chair and squirming, she reminded me of a small child who really has to go answer a call of nature.

No, you wouldn't

If you were a politician, you'd do exactly what the content creators told you to do after they handed over that large 'campaign contribution" cheque.

That's what being a politician is all about.

Hear Hear

and I want them to engineer it to work on Windows 2000, NT4, NT3, ME, 98, 95 and 3.1

They can leave DOS 5 support for a later update

title

You know that there was one of the world's largest natural disasters there last week, right? A billion dollars is going to be a very small percentage of what it's going to cost to fix northern Japan

Yeah

...because headlines shouting "iPads sold out around the world! Customers lining up for new shipments!" are a lot more attractive to Apple's marketing department than "iPads readily available! Take your time, there are lots on the shelves!"

Fixed it for you...

"but without the box, disc, and manuals, the game company is going to see some savings"

should read:

but without the box, disc, and manuals, the game company is going to see some more profit margin

Er, last Saturday?

Earthquake causes dam to break in Japan

Posted: Mar 11, 2011 9:01 AM by CNN Wire Staff

Updated: Mar 11, 2011 1:09 PM

(CNN) -- A dam has broken in Fukushima Prefecture, washing away scores of homes in the area, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported early Saturday. The Defense Ministry says 1,800 homes have been destroyed in Fukushima.

"Fruit of the poison tree"

I thought that was the Apple (iTunes) reference

Sorry

you mean Vancouver?

"Texas is a more foreign land to me (in Seattle) than Canada (which is just up the road)."

You know that Canada is a pretty big place, right? Vancouver is just up the road from you, but Toronto is farther away from you than Dallas is.

You forgot

All of that slow-mo jumping around and blowing stuff up will be in glorious 3D

Maybe they'll even have sulky teenage vampires and transforming robots!

and iPod Touch

My wife's iPod touch uses WiFi data. The system uses Skyhook's WiFi location system.

Still wrong

It's ACTUALLY measure twice, cut once, measure again, curse loudly, drive to the store to purchase more material, come home, measure twice, cut once, measure once, curse a little more, install it anyways with a little bit jammed in the end to fill in the unfilled area, and pretend it didn't happen.

It has to be ugly

...or "futuristic" so the people who buy them can smugly advertise how 'green' they are while driving down the road. See Toyota Prius for an example.

Hardware failure vs. screwup

I've lot a lot more data on 'the cloud" (luckily I had the important stuff backed up) due to system/user errors like this than I've ever lost due to a hardware failure. Only ever lost one USB flash drive and it was a very old 32MB one that I used for sneakernetting (Sneakernetting: verb: to use a sneakernet.)

Yeah, "the cloud" has redundant systems to safeguard your data, but all that redundancy goes out the window when some update or something (or someone) fubars the data.

No, still not quite right

"She" is busy launching her new television network, while trying to come up with ideas for over-the-top shows to end her 25th season on ABC

yup

'specially before smartphones became the thing. Used to be you only had a choice between Moto and Nokia.

@ too cold

That's easy... send all of the lifeguards out for an extended lunch break all at the same time. By the time they get back, you should have some more fuel waiting

Sorry, you all lose

Next time you're in Canada, go visit the lovely town of Dildo, Newfoundland. It's just down the road from Goobies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador

What's in a name

The squashed mini USB is called...... a Micro USB!

Yeah

It was for software and driver developers so that they could pop up a useless resource hogging animated thing with sound and crap as soon as you plugged in a CD. Doesn't matter that all anybody ever did was click on the "Install the damn software" button, which could've been much easier if they'd just included on the box:

1) Insert CD

2) Browse to CD in Explorer

3) Double-click on setup.exe

Instead, a lot of them seemed to put more effort and energy into their flashy autorun screens than they did in their software.