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Tom Scola - Sep 09, 2014 2:46:53 pm PDT #24039 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

This tweet is cute.


NoiseDesign - Sep 09, 2014 4:04:07 pm PDT #24040 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

My media collection sits on a 10 TB Drobo at the moment.

Just the music is probably around 300 GB at the moment.


Rob - Sep 09, 2014 8:55:48 pm PDT #24041 of 25496

Can anyone recommend a good external Blu-Ray drive I can plug into my laptop? Also, is WinXP up to running a Blu-Ray drive? I'm using my old XP desktop as my media machine.

I can't answer the bit about WinXP, but the two or three times I've used it the Digistor drive I bought has worked well with my Macs and Roxio Toast.

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Tom Scola - Sep 10, 2014 1:51:24 am PDT #24042 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

If you were wondering about the sizes of the new iPhones, this is a handy chart: [link]


tommyrot - Sep 10, 2014 4:46:47 am PDT #24043 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

"The iPhone 6+: taller than a Poptart, yet not as wide."

I actually printed this pdf of iPhone 6 sizes [link] so I could cut them out to see how they fit in my hand.


meara - Sep 10, 2014 5:42:15 am PDT #24044 of 25496

Boo. I do not want a bigger phone--I still have the 4s and thought the 5 was plenty big! I want to be able to fit it in a pocket, not need a purse or a huge pair of cargo pants for my phone!


omnis_audis - Sep 10, 2014 5:42:53 am PDT #24045 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Am I the only one who was happy with the size of my iPhone 4? Why does it need to be so damn large? I feel like a big enough dork carrying my current phone around on my belt. Any bigger, and it better be a fucking tricorder and tell me what the chemical composition of the food I ordered, and diagnose why I'm hacking up a lung.

I think it's funny, they keep making the screen larger, and the body thinner. The thinner body makes it harder to do the shoulder to the ear trick to keep the phone next to your ear. Can't be on speakerphone all the time, ya know!

t /grumpy old man


omnis_audis - Sep 10, 2014 5:43:22 am PDT #24046 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Ha! Great cross post!!


tommyrot - Sep 10, 2014 5:58:27 am PDT #24047 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The regular iPhone 6 is only a little bit wider than my 4S, but it's maybe half an inch taller.

I'd prefer a smaller phone when using it for phone calls but I don't spend much time on the phone anyway. I do use mine a lot for web browsing, so I'm leaning towards the 6+ for that reason.

I found the printout of the pdf I linked to above to be very helpful. I'm going to attach the cutouts of the phones to cardboard to get an idea what it'd be like to cary each one around, put in my pocket, etc.


-t - Sep 10, 2014 6:05:28 am PDT #24048 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's a really good idea, tommyrot.