What I was trying to point out was.. if you build a custom motherboard then have to configure it.. you pretty much shoot yourself in the foot, why not have that configuration built in during the customisation of the board??
You got the definition of configure wrong. When you design something, come up with the positions of all the components. In doing so you are designing the configuration of the device.
Just look at the first definition of the word configuration for a perfect match for this discussion.
What's the point of recording on these things? Seriously, who uses that?
Can you really not think of a reason to be able to record? Musicians use it to record themselves (and others) during rehearsals and performances. You will find a lot of the pro-MD people are musicians.
I used mine to make a diary while travelling across Europe. I started writing it into my Palmy, but that ended up being too slow. I was also able to record the sounds a Beethoven's Rest - the place where Beethoven sat during the time that he wrote the Pastoral Symphony. It was great to be able to listen to that later and then listen to his 2nd movement "Scene by the Brook".
And finally, it is really useful to be able to record CDs out in the field. Want to grab a track from a Music department's CD library (which doesn't allow you to take the CD home)? Want to grab a copy of a friend's new CD and he doesn't have a CD writer? Just use a Minidisc. Not that I have ever done that - it would require that I actually had friends!
The absolute worst thing about the Fox film was the "revelation" that the Doctor was part human. This is an unforgivable twist that should be removed from memory.
In true Douglas Adams style, my first thought on hearing this was "Oh no, not again!"
I can never understand why they think that someone has to part human before the audience can identify with the character. Star Trek was the worst for this: half-Vulcan, half-Klingon, half-Romulan...
I can only assume it is because television producers are half-wits!
You have to feel sorry for those worms. They go up for a short trip on the space shuttle and when they get back the Earth has been taken over by those filthy humans!
I suggest that we don't tell them about the half buried Statue of Wormity.
Well, it is a anti-gravity device, but not a very good one. What happens is the cat and toast just hover there, spinning faster and faster; eventually, either the toast flies off or the cat dies and, as everyone knows, the cat must be alive to land on its feet.
The obvious solution is to encase the entire set up in a box, so that you don't know whether the cat is dead or alive. As long as you can resist the urge to look in the box, your cat-toast array will keep spinning for eternity.
Of course there's a conspiracy to limit recording time. If you could record for an hour and a half or more then someone might carry one into a movie theater and record it. Therefore the public is not allowed to own a device with that capability.
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You got the definition of configure wrong. When you design something, come up with the positions of all the components. In doing so you are designing the configuration of the device.
Just look at the first definition of the word configuration for a perfect match for this discussion.
Can you really not think of a reason to be able to record? Musicians use it to record themselves (and others) during rehearsals and performances. You will find a lot of the pro-MD people are musicians.
I used mine to make a diary while travelling across Europe. I started writing it into my Palmy, but that ended up being too slow. I was also able to record the sounds a Beethoven's Rest - the place where Beethoven sat during the time that he wrote the Pastoral Symphony. It was great to be able to listen to that later and then listen to his 2nd movement "Scene by the Brook".
And finally, it is really useful to be able to record CDs out in the field. Want to grab a track from a Music department's CD library (which doesn't allow you to take the CD home)? Want to grab a copy of a friend's new CD and he doesn't have a CD writer? Just use a Minidisc. Not that I have ever done that - it would require that I actually had friends!
In true Douglas Adams style, my first thought on hearing this was "Oh no, not again!"
I can never understand why they think that someone has to part human before the audience can identify with the character. Star Trek was the worst for this: half-Vulcan, half-Klingon, half-Romulan...
I can only assume it is because television producers are half-wits!
Except animation, which it doesn't really do at all.
PNG sucks!
And yet I think that GIF sucks for precisely the same reason!
I suggest that we don't tell them about the half buried Statue of Wormity.
The obvious solution is to encase the entire set up in a box, so that you don't know whether the cat is dead or alive. As long as you can resist the urge to look in the box, your cat-toast array will keep spinning for eternity.
You haven't quite got the hang of haikus yet, have you?
Oh yes, that worked so well for Sony's Betamax!