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Jon B. - Mar 20, 2006 5:58:27 am PST #7625 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

PDF is a (more or less) high-res image file.

Also, any imbedded images aren't necessarily high-res.

Any other parts of that sentence we can deconstruct?


Gudanov - Mar 20, 2006 6:00:34 am PST #7626 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

I couldn't help myself, I used to work on file format conversion.


Allyson - Mar 20, 2006 6:00:37 am PST #7627 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Apple had Panther CDs available for purchase, and so I purchased. Hooray!


esse - Mar 20, 2006 6:26:28 am PST #7628 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Hence the more-or-less. But now I'm trying to frame this as deconstruction-a-la-Derrida.


tommyrot - Mar 20, 2006 6:32:02 am PST #7629 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Well, to me the phrase "(more or less) high-res" implies a range from sorta-high-res to high-res. I.e. not low-res. But maybe medium-res.


Gudanov - Mar 20, 2006 10:51:17 am PST #7630 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Wasn't someone looking for an external drive recently?

This seems like a good deal.

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§ ita § - Mar 20, 2006 10:53:49 am PST #7631 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That looks like a great price.

How much speed, effectively, does one lose by going USB 2.0 over Firewire?


tommyrot - Mar 20, 2006 10:53:54 am PST #7632 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Wasn't someone looking for an external drive recently?

Wasn't it ita?

I want a one-terabyte drive. Just because I like the word "terabyte."

I think the first time I ever heard that word was on ST:TNG, in reference to Data's memory....


Gudanov - Mar 20, 2006 10:59:50 am PST #7633 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

How much speed, effectively, does one lose by going USB 2.0 over Firewire?

Dunno, in theory you shouldn't lose any, in practice I'm pretty sure USB is slower but I don't know by how much. I have only internal drives so I have no practical experience.


Jessica - Mar 20, 2006 11:01:13 am PST #7634 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

IME, the difference is only noticeable if you need realtime access to very very big files (like for video editing).