LordMortis wrote:Is it disk or disc? I naturally want to type disk but I try to catch myself and change it. That said, people alwasy say hard drive instead of SSD. And ho boy, when you get a failure, you'll know the difference. The speed of an SSD is so worth it, but have an external recovery plan and stick to it if you value your data at all.
It's "disk," which is short for "diskette," presumably because "discette" would take a soft "c" in English, and that would sound weird.
(Were there larger discs to which diskette's were implicitly compared?)
Apple wrote:A disc refers to optical media, such as an audio CD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, or DVD-Video disc. Some discs are read-only (ROM), others allow you to burn content (write files) to the disc once (such as a CD-R or DVD-R, unless you do a multisession burn), and some can be erased and rewritten over many times (such as CD-RW, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM discs).
All discs are removable, meaning when you unmount or eject the disc from your desktop or Finder, it physically comes out of your computer.
A disk refers to magnetic media, such as a floppy disk, the disk in your computer's hard drive, an external hard drive. Disks are always rewritable unless intentionally locked or write-protected. You can easily partition a disk into several smaller volumes, too.
Disks are usually sealed inside a metal or plastic casing (often, a disk and its enclosing mechanism are collectively known as a "hard drive").
I'm not saying they are correct, just supplying info.
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Disc vs disk is fundamentally British English vs American English. My understanding is that disc became the accepted spelling for optical media because of branding: Compact Disc was originally a trademark registered by Philips/Sony, and they went with the British English spelling rather than American English. IBM, on the other hand, had used the American spelling when it pioneered hard disk drive storage, and that spelling cascaded down to floppy disk(ette) storage media.
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I say kleenex because tissue is sissy. ... The old joke is Michael Jackson said "Tito get me some tissue" not "Tito get me some Kleenex"
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Im a bilingual. A bilingual illiterate. I can't read in two languages.
LordMortis wrote:Is it disk or disc? I naturally want to type disk but I try to catch myself and change it. That said, people alwasy say hard drive instead of SSD. And ho boy, when you get a failure, you'll know the difference. The speed of an SSD is so worth it, but have an external recovery plan and stick to it if you value your data at all.
It's "disk," which is short for "diskette," presumably because "discette" would take a soft "c" in English, and that would sound weird.
(Were there larger discs to which diskette's were implicitly compared?)
Disk for magnetic spinning platter type things, disc for spinning optical media.
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Apple wrote:A disc refers to optical media, such as an audio CD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, or DVD-Video disc. Some discs are read-only (ROM), others allow you to burn content (write files) to the disc once (such as a CD-R or DVD-R, unless you do a multisession burn), and some can be erased and rewritten over many times (such as CD-RW, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM discs).
All discs are removable, meaning when you unmount or eject the disc from your desktop or Finder, it physically comes out of your computer.
I'm not saying they are correct, just supplying info.
The thing is, "diskette" was coined in the Very Early 80's. There no CD's, DVD-ROM's, or anything similar to talk about.
IIRC, even the large 8" floppy disks were still called "diskettes" in the days before home or office computers had hard drives. I presume this means there was already some large-sized (i.e. non-"ette") disc-style platter that formed the basis of storage for computers at Bell Labs and NASA.
Apple wrote:A disc refers to optical media, such as an audio CD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, or DVD-Video disc. Some discs are read-only (ROM), others allow you to burn content (write files) to the disc once (such as a CD-R or DVD-R, unless you do a multisession burn), and some can be erased and rewritten over many times (such as CD-RW, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM discs).
All discs are removable, meaning when you unmount or eject the disc from your desktop or Finder, it physically comes out of your computer.
I'm not saying they are correct, just supplying info.
The thing is, "diskette" was coined in the Very Early 80's. There no CD's, DVD-ROM's, or anything similar to talk about.
IIRC, even the large 8" floppy disks were still called "diskettes" in the days before home or office computers had hard drives. I presume this means there was already some large-sized (i.e. non-"ette") disc-style platter that formed the basis of storage for computers at Bell Labs and NASA.
Laser discs were around in the late 70s.
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Apple wrote:A disc refers to optical media, such as an audio CD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, or DVD-Video disc. Some discs are read-only (ROM), others allow you to burn content (write files) to the disc once (such as a CD-R or DVD-R, unless you do a multisession burn), and some can be erased and rewritten over many times (such as CD-RW, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM discs).
All discs are removable, meaning when you unmount or eject the disc from your desktop or Finder, it physically comes out of your computer.
I'm not saying they are correct, just supplying info.
The thing is, "diskette" was coined in the Very Early 80's. There no CD's, DVD-ROM's, or anything similar to talk about.
IIRC, even the large 8" floppy disks were still called "diskettes" in the days before home or office computers had hard drives. I presume this means there was already some large-sized (i.e. non-"ette") disc-style platter that formed the basis of storage for computers at Bell Labs and NASA.
He may have enjoyed box office success in the Taken franchise and other action-packed movies, but the Irish star says he wants to focus on more serious roles.
At the Toronto International Film Festival, he said the unlikely turn in his career towards thrillers was "all a pure accident".
Neeson added: "They're still throwing serious money at me to do that stuff.
"I'm like: 'Guy's I'm sixty-f******-five.' Audiences are eventually going to go: 'Come on.'"
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He may have enjoyed box office success in the Taken franchise and other action-packed movies, but the Irish star says he wants to focus on more serious roles.
At the Toronto International Film Festival, he said the unlikely turn in his career towards thrillers was "all a pure accident".
Neeson added: "They're still throwing serious money at me to do that stuff.
"I'm like: 'Guy's I'm sixty-f******-five.' Audiences are eventually going to go: 'Come on.'"
Retire from a role type? Are we now having retirement parties when an actor says he won't do a particular role in the future?
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton MYT
To put the size and heft of the clog in perspective: it’s longer than two American football fields and as heavy as 11 double-decker buses. The mass is a concrete-hard amalgamation of flushed items, including condoms, diapers, and—most notably—wet wipes that have all been cemented together with oils and fats that were also washed down drains. For that reason, these types of clogs are sometimes called “fatbergs.”
I think I prefer Fatburger Chili Cheese fries, thank you!
Black Lives definitely Matter Lorini!
Also: There are three ways to not tell the truth: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
For the second time in a month I've had to drive at night. Its' been years before then since the last time.
I found out my vision isn't worth a shit with artificial lights and reflectors. I can see fine at night if it's just the moon and the stars.
I love getting older.
I have yellow glasses for driving at night but didn't have them handy at the time.
Ive hated driving at night for a decade. used to love it in my teens.
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I guess Ray Butts has ate his last pancake. http://steamcommunity.com/id/daehawk
"Has high IQ. Refuses to apply it"
Im a bilingual. A bilingual illiterate. I can't read in two languages.
I want to personally thank MS for updating Windows and then restarting Windows while I was downloading a 20 gb download.
You best believe you will be in my thoughts and prayers tonight.
I've considered a dashcam, but there are so few things worth recording on my travels. Low population density, low traffic, low insanity. I think in the last three months, the most amazing thing I could have recorded would be a family of turkeys crossing the road.
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2021-01-20: The first good night's sleep I had in 4 years.
Walking down the stairs to my office this morning, bowl of cereal in one hand, yogurt and juice in the other. My foot somehow slipped out from under me, and I went straight down on my ass and slid down the stairs. Crunchberries, milk, and cranberry juice went everywhere, and I woke up everyone in the house (at 5:30am). After a clean-up, a second shower, and making another breakfast, I finally got my day started.
Now I'm sitting at work, and my tailbone hurts like hell. I'm so damn busy, that there's no way I can get into the doctor to check it out though. Guess I'll pound the ibuprofen and hope it feels better in a day or two.
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