I also have a external HD that came bundled with Retrospect. It was OK to use, however, I'm with the original poster, I don't want it to put my data in its own proprietary data wrapper. How hard can it be to create an automated "copy" function?
There were serveral backwards compatible formats with more storage, Flextra (21.4MB), Floptical (21MB), LS120 (120MB), HiFD (150MB, later 200MB), and UHD144 (144MB). None of these caught on for various reasons, mainly because of price, later ones didn't catch on because Zip disks held market dominance. Other factors included the introduction of CD-R/Ws and, as you mentioned, flash drives. Also, 2.88MB floppies were made, but they never caught on big with consumers. The original 3.5" floppy also did have an upgrade path, as it was originally introduced at 360KB SS and 720KB DS, later being upgraded to 1.44MB, and then to 2.88MB, but as I mentioned, it failed to catch on with consumers.
You talk 24 hours a day? You can automatically take off 8 hours each day for sleep, plus you maybe are talking for 3-5 hours of the day, at most. He just said recording conversations, not bit of audio that you experience in a day.
That's because instead of getting a touchdown, they just got the next down. In the following play, the Packers intercepted it. If the touchdown had been scored, the Packers wouldn't have intercepted it and scored. And in this theoretical universe, the score would have ended up 21-21.
And the US is a democratic republic, but it's capitalist too. You can be Socialist and Democratic, or you can be Capitalistic and a Dictatorship (though not very well). Political systems are different than economic, genius.
No, it isn't. If you had paid attention in 5th grade geography, you would have learned that there are two seperate continents; one's called NORTH America, the other, SOUTH America.
America is short for The United States of America. Just like China is short for The People's Republic of China.
Yeah, that makes sense, someone like a brain surgeon who has to go through 14-16 years of school at $15,000 a semester shouldn't be able to make over $100,000 a year, if he did, then he'd be able to pay off his student loans!
It'd be pretty exciting to live in a world without doctors, airline pilots, senior engineers, etc...
The point of this certification is, as I said, so you don't unknowingly buy an unsafe car, like a Pinto, that could explode. The certification is given as a number of stars. If the vehicle sucks, and there's a good chance you'll die in a crash, it's given 1 star, if it's really good, and you'll probably live if you're in a crash it's given 5. That way you know how good the car is.
Do the world a favor and watch a few minivan commercials, so you can figure out how the whole thing works without having to ask stupid questions.
And if it wasn't for all this crap bureaucracy the cars would've been allowed into the country when they were built.
The only reason the crash-test laws exist is to "protect" the public from cars like the Pinto which are quite unsafe. But these guys aren't poor, single mothers who were tricked by the big, evil corporation into buying an unsafe car. These guy know what they're buying, all the risks, etc... It would have been a lot less trouble if they could have just signed some waiver that acknowledged they knew the cars were potentially unsafe and they hadn't been crash-tested. Problem solved.
But there has to be all this restrictive crap in the way, that prevents ANY new car from being driven in the US unless it undergoes crash-testing.
Yeah, I'm sure these BILLIONAIRES can't afford high-performance driving lessons or anything like that. Also, Bill Gates' history would lead me to believe that he's been driving these kind of cars for quite some time (his famous mugshot is from when he was pulled over for going 100+ in a Porsche).
That's because while a great show, it was mis-marketed and not very well thought out.
I really would like to oknow the TV exec who turned Clerks into a CHILDREN'S CARTOON. They had to change Jay and Silent Bob's characters at the last minute, because they TV execs didn't know they were drug dealers. WTF?
AMC? They haven't made a car since the 80's, when they went out of business. You might be thinking of AM General, who makes the Hummer. And 50,000? Try under a thousand a year.
And no, try reading a GM or Ford annual report, they don't lose money on any high-volume vehicles, the only ones they lose money on are low-volume specialty vehicles, and they don't lose money very often. And the Accord may be the best selling car, but it is far outsold by Ford's F-Series and the Chevy Silverado.
Aston-Martin, maker of what is considered some of the most beautiful cars in the world, is also owned by Ford now. Fiat also owns some/all? of Ferrari, which as you mentioned is partially owned by GM.
AMC was a smallish car company based out of Wisconsin, they went out of business in the 80's selling off some of their more appealing subsidiaries (Jeep, various parts makers, etc...) At no time in history that I'm aware of did they ever have anything to do with BMW (other than making military equipment to blow them up in WWII).
I can't believe someone modded a car! They should have a magazine or something that people can show off their modded cars in. Oh wait, I forgot, there are already like 5 dozen...
Skinner: Well...maybe it was for the best. Now I...I finally have time
to do what I've always wanted: write the great American novel.
Mine is about a futuristic amusement park where dinosaurs are
brought to life through advanced cloning techniques. I call
it "Billy and the Cloneasaurus."
So, a couple of thousand years ago, back when a good portion of North America was covered in ice, and then receded to its current position, that was caused by humans too? Think of all the poor wooly mammoths that were wiped off the face of the planet, oh the humanity!
Just because the ice caps are in a different position then when we started to record them, that doesn't mean that they're in the "wrong" position. Ever think that maybe spring in Sweden is supposed to start 4 weeks earlier, but it's been coming really late for the past couple hundred years? You've gotta think a bit longer timescale than just the past 50 years, try looking at the past 50,000 years, and see if your temp. and rainfall statistics are that skewed.
Not to forget that you also need to buy a modem / Network adapter, something that comes standard on the XBox.
This is something I never got about Xbox people. You always say that the Xbox comes with a network adaptor. So what? You have to pay $50 to use something you already have. The PS2 one only costs $40. This isn't cheaper?
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Jerry Sandusky worked for Penn State - this is the University of Pittsburgh.
I also have a external HD that came bundled with Retrospect. It was OK to use, however, I'm with the original poster, I don't want it to put my data in its own proprietary data wrapper. How hard can it be to create an automated "copy" function?
There were serveral backwards compatible formats with more storage, Flextra (21.4MB), Floptical (21MB), LS120 (120MB), HiFD (150MB, later 200MB), and UHD144 (144MB). None of these caught on for various reasons, mainly because of price, later ones didn't catch on because Zip disks held market dominance. Other factors included the introduction of CD-R/Ws and, as you mentioned, flash drives. Also, 2.88MB floppies were made, but they never caught on big with consumers. The original 3.5" floppy also did have an upgrade path, as it was originally introduced at 360KB SS and 720KB DS, later being upgraded to 1.44MB, and then to 2.88MB, but as I mentioned, it failed to catch on with consumers.
I can't believe no one has mentioned 3 1/2" floppies, which were invented by Sony. Now there was a flop. :P
You talk 24 hours a day? You can automatically take off 8 hours each day for sleep, plus you maybe are talking for 3-5 hours of the day, at most. He just said recording conversations, not bit of audio that you experience in a day.
That's because instead of getting a touchdown, they just got the next down. In the following play, the Packers intercepted it. If the touchdown had been scored, the Packers wouldn't have intercepted it and scored. And in this theoretical universe, the score would have ended up 21-21.
And the US is a democratic republic, but it's capitalist too. You can be Socialist and Democratic, or you can be Capitalistic and a Dictatorship (though not very well). Political systems are different than economic, genius.
No, it isn't. If you had paid attention in 5th grade geography, you would have learned that there are two seperate continents; one's called NORTH America, the other, SOUTH America.
America is short for The United States of America. Just like China is short for The People's Republic of China.
Yeah, that makes sense, someone like a brain surgeon who has to go through 14-16 years of school at $15,000 a semester shouldn't be able to make over $100,000 a year, if he did, then he'd be able to pay off his student loans!
It'd be pretty exciting to live in a world without doctors, airline pilots, senior engineers, etc...
And all you use this video card for is GAMES!
Does it really matter if you have 120fps or 150fps?
And a little OT but; $30 football jersey, don't they typically go for $100+?
Guarantee void in Tennesee.
The point of this certification is, as I said, so you don't unknowingly buy an unsafe car, like a Pinto, that could explode. The certification is given as a number of stars. If the vehicle sucks, and there's a good chance you'll die in a crash, it's given 1 star, if it's really good, and you'll probably live if you're in a crash it's given 5. That way you know how good the car is.
Do the world a favor and watch a few minivan commercials, so you can figure out how the whole thing works without having to ask stupid questions.
And if it wasn't for all this crap bureaucracy the cars would've been allowed into the country when they were built.
The only reason the crash-test laws exist is to "protect" the public from cars like the Pinto which are quite unsafe. But these guys aren't poor, single mothers who were tricked by the big, evil corporation into buying an unsafe car. These guy know what they're buying, all the risks, etc... It would have been a lot less trouble if they could have just signed some waiver that acknowledged they knew the cars were potentially unsafe and they hadn't been crash-tested. Problem solved.
But there has to be all this restrictive crap in the way, that prevents ANY new car from being driven in the US unless it undergoes crash-testing.
Yeah, I'm sure these BILLIONAIRES can't afford high-performance driving lessons or anything like that. Also, Bill Gates' history would lead me to believe that he's been driving these kind of cars for quite some time (his famous mugshot is from when he was pulled over for going 100+ in a Porsche).
That's because while a great show, it was mis-marketed and not very well thought out.
I really would like to oknow the TV exec who turned Clerks into a CHILDREN'S CARTOON. They had to change Jay and Silent Bob's characters at the last minute, because they TV execs didn't know they were drug dealers. WTF?
Not to mention the numerous threatening references to the U.N.
Yeah, I'm sure that they use tons of solar power in Washington State. Ah, Washington, where the sun's always shining and it's 75 degrees year-round.
AMC? They haven't made a car since the 80's, when they went out of business. You might be thinking of AM General, who makes the Hummer. And 50,000? Try under a thousand a year.
And no, try reading a GM or Ford annual report, they don't lose money on any high-volume vehicles, the only ones they lose money on are low-volume specialty vehicles, and they don't lose money very often. And the Accord may be the best selling car, but it is far outsold by Ford's F-Series and the Chevy Silverado.
Aston-Martin, maker of what is considered some of the most beautiful cars in the world, is also owned by Ford now. Fiat also owns some/all? of Ferrari, which as you mentioned is partially owned by GM.
AMC was a smallish car company based out of Wisconsin, they went out of business in the 80's selling off some of their more appealing subsidiaries (Jeep, various parts makers, etc...) At no time in history that I'm aware of did they ever have anything to do with BMW (other than making military equipment to blow them up in WWII).
I find Toxic Hell a lot better than Taco Smell.
I can't believe someone modded a car! They should have a magazine or something that people can show off their modded cars in. Oh wait, I forgot, there are already like 5 dozen...
To people who watch The Simpsons, it's hilarious.
Skinner: Well...maybe it was for the best. Now I...I finally have time
to do what I've always wanted: write the great American novel.
Mine is about a futuristic amusement park where dinosaurs are
brought to life through advanced cloning techniques. I call
it "Billy and the Cloneasaurus."
So, a couple of thousand years ago, back when a good portion of North America was covered in ice, and then receded to its current position, that was caused by humans too? Think of all the poor wooly mammoths that were wiped off the face of the planet, oh the humanity!
Just because the ice caps are in a different position then when we started to record them, that doesn't mean that they're in the "wrong" position. Ever think that maybe spring in Sweden is supposed to start 4 weeks earlier, but it's been coming really late for the past couple hundred years? You've gotta think a bit longer timescale than just the past 50 years, try looking at the past 50,000 years, and see if your temp. and rainfall statistics are that skewed.
Not to forget that you also need to buy a modem / Network adapter, something that comes standard on the XBox.
This is something I never got about Xbox people. You always say that the Xbox comes with a network adaptor. So what? You have to pay $50 to use something you already have. The PS2 one only costs $40. This isn't cheaper?