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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Most of the HDs I've bought have been 40GB or 80GB.
And now I can comfortably stick up my nose more permanent storage than I
used to be able to address with the address space of the first machines I
worked on.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
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> >
> > Now, if it had been "0.02 cents"...
> >
>
> I've seen people do that before. It always gives me an uncontrollable
> urge to wring their neck... dunno why, though... :)
>
> --
> ~Mike
My neighborhood flooring company finally changed their 0.99 cents per square
foot sign after being up for several years. :)
Charles
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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:05:56 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Most of the HDs I've bought have been 40GB or 80GB.
>
> And now I can comfortably stick up my nose more permanent storage than I
> used to be able to address with the address space of the first machines
> I worked on.
I'd like to know you you fit storage of any size comfortably in your nose.
Oh, wait, maybe I *don't*.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:05:56 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Most of the HDs I've bought have been 40GB or 80GB.
>> And now I can comfortably stick up my nose more permanent storage than I
>> used to be able to address with the address space of the first machines
>> I worked on.
>
> I'd like to know you you fit storage of any size comfortably in your nose.
I said * "can" do it, not that I indeed do it on any regular basis. Have you
seen the 8G chips they sell for phones nowadays? Somewhat smaller than your
pinky fingernail.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:31:13 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:05:56 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>> Most of the HDs I've bought have been 40GB or 80GB.
>>> And now I can comfortably stick up my nose more permanent storage than
>>> I used to be able to address with the address space of the first
>>> machines I worked on.
>>
>> I'd like to know you you fit storage of any size comfortably in your
>> nose.
>
> I said * "can" do it, not that I indeed do it on any regular basis. Have
> you seen the 8G chips they sell for phones nowadays? Somewhat smaller
> than your pinky fingernail.
Well, yeah, but I've had second thoughts, I don't really want a
demonstration. ;-)
Jim
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>> - Somebody says "just my $0.02", and you immediately think "Verizon
>> math fail".
>
> :snort: I showed my wife that sound clip. She listened intently, then,
> at the very end, she's like... Do they need to go back to first grade
> math? (she's a 1st grade teacher)
Yeah, you do have to wonder.
>> - You read http://xkcd.com/594/ and immediately ask Wolfram Alpha to
>> check the result for you.
>
> lol, And here I was considering using Google to figure out if the math
> was right.
The sad thing is... Google would probably have been easier than Alpha.
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On 06/08/09 16:56, Warp wrote:
> That's actually not very hard to achieve. Each new hard drive has to be
> only a bit over twice the size of the previous one.
For me, it's become a "benchmark". I just refuse to buy a HD until I
can afford one that is of the required size.
The next one needs to be over 1.3 TB.
--
"A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's
too late." - Frank Sinatra
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