Why didn't MiniDisc take off in the US? I'm blown away by how sleek they were, especially compared to the flash MP3 players of the early '00s.
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Updating apps on my iPhone.
YouTube -- Bug fixes, stability improvements, repairs to space-time continuum.
What is it that we don't know about YouTube? Why is it maintaining the very fabric of our existence? Should we be worried? What happens if they get closed down? Does maintenance on the Universe stop?
YouTube -- Bug fixes, stability improvements, repairs to space-time continuum.
What is it that we don't know about YouTube? Why is it maintaining the very fabric of our existence? Should we be worried? What happens if they get closed down? Does maintenance on the Universe stop?
If it does, you can click the Report button and a transdimensional moderator will take a look.
Or a certain resident Doctor who occupies a certain continuum nominally situated between the P and R continuums may handle it.
Ok that was a bit TMI, I will just say face-masks are indispensable but can't block odors of cooking, heavy perfume and other things. As to the minidiscs, just another tech that came at the wrong time or was made obselete. Remember PDAs?? My Palm Pilot was a constant companion until it broke. Coolest "app" I had was a Enigma German code machine simulator from WWII.
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Probably because of costs and bad timing (=availability of MP3’s). I loved my minidisc but from what I remember they were quite expensive.
It's looking like a clear night for tonight's peak harvest moon here in the eastern US. Can't wait for the magic to begin.
Beginning to re-consider my Apple addiction…the ”new” iPhone 13? A new camera and more memory hardly qualify as innovation. Flip phone? Nice. I want that.
The “new” Apple Watch 7 — same battery life (sucks), tiny size change — not innovative. And if will last, maybe, three years? Fooled me once (Watch 4, now runs about 3 hours before needing a charge. Goodbye $700. Won’t repeat that mistake.). Garmin solar watches can run three to 30 days on a charge? Nice I want that.
It is almost Good Bye, Apple, you were great while you lasted.
The “new” Apple Watch 7 — same battery life (sucks), tiny size change — not innovative. And if will last, maybe, three years? Fooled me once (Watch 4, now runs about 3 hours before needing a charge. Goodbye $700. Won’t repeat that mistake.). Garmin solar watches can run three to 30 days on a charge? Nice I want that.
It is almost Good Bye, Apple, you were great while you lasted.
just replace the battery, it’s like $50 or so.
I think the move from tapes/vinyl was too soon before the mini disc move. People didn’t want to have to buy their music again (before they did on iTunes etc!).
3 Newtons, different models. I still have them, but I don't know if they will even start up any more. Anyway, I can't connect them to anything. But I read my first eBook on one, while waiting for appointments. It was "Brave New World"...
And I have been wondering about writing my own Enigma app. It would mean I would really have to delve into how they worked.
They had an extra S left over from Lego?
We also write physics instead of physic, but most other academic categories are singular. It all seems kinda arbitrary.
In the US we say and write "math." In the UK and many other English-speaking parts of the world they write and say "maths."
Maybe because it's short for mathematics?
Why Do Brits Say Maths and Americans Say Math?
The Imitation Game, a glossy new biopic about the British cryptanalyst Alan Turing, features a lot of maths. Characters take advanced maths classes...
Well when there is a difference between how we say/spell something and how you do in the US, I always go with it’s our language so we are write! Cant have pooorlie spelt words can we?
My favorite will remain soccer, a term invented by Brits, adopted in the US; then the Brits switch to football and call the Americans crazy for calling it soccer; at the same time, the Americans invent a different sport called football that is 99% played with hands.
Not sure that’s correct. It’s always been called football over here. The oldest football tournament still currently being played is the FA cup. FA stands for Football Association. If what you said is true, wouldn’t it be called the SA cup?
Totally true. From wiki:
“The term soccer comes from Oxford "-er" slang, which was prevalent at Oxford University in England from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. The slang also gave rise to rugger for Rugby football, fiver and tenner for a five-pound and ten-pound note, and the now archaic footer for association football.[9] The word soccer (which arrived at its final form in 1895) was first recorded in 1889 in the earlier form of socca.[10]”
Association football - Wikipedia
a better article from Encyclopedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer
Yeah. One repair site had it at $56 with tools, and the ‘ole DIY warranty, i.e. You’re on your own. A chance I’d botch that. Or, I could apply that toward a solar option, for example from Garmin, which is still innovating. It wasn’t long ago, when watches lasted for decades…I know, I know…it’s a new world.
If out of warranty, the replacement at an Apple store is only $75. Definitely worth it.
The soccer vs football label drives me a little nuts too. American football is almost totally hands (as you mentioned), but then they like to define everything only on their terms. Take refusal to participate in metric, or Fahrenheit over Celsius.
Another sports related example is the World Series. Only American baseball teams participate, and only from 2 domestic leagues!
F over C doesn’t really bother me; I don’t have to convert F to anything else during the day. All the other ones yes as they make everything else more difficult as it’s a continuous conversion oz to lbs, mile to yard to feet inches. I’ll never learn them.
Ah! There is a Canadian team: WORLD series! Lol. It’s more a tradition than anything else I think.