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Title: OT - What will they think of next? *grumble gripe complain*
Post by: Sandwich on July 19, 2002, 09:31:16 am: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,381666,00.asp

:rolleyes: :mad:
Title: Re: OT - What will they think of next? *grumble gripe complain*
Post by: Styxx on July 19, 2002, 11:20:32 am: Quote
Originally posted by sandwich
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,381666,00.asp

:rolleyes: :mad:

Pfft, and we buy that kind of stuff. :p
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Post by: Dark_4ce on July 19, 2002, 12:52:11 pm: bah... BAH I tell you! :mad:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 19, 2002, 04:30:13 pm: Kinda a confusing article, too... WHICH is faster???
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Post by: vadar_1 on July 19, 2002, 04:50:44 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Kinda a confusing article, too... WHICH is faster???

v2.0 without the red
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Post by: Sandwich on July 19, 2002, 06:57:18 pm: Quote
Originally posted by vadar_1

v2.0 without the red

Noo.... the logo with the red, USB 2.0 High Speed, is what has been known until now as USB 2.0. The older USB 1.1 will henceforth be known as USB 2.0 Full Speed.

I think. :p
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Post by: DragonClaw on July 19, 2002, 07:08:43 pm: Quote
Originally posted by sandwich
I think. :p

You think right young padawan :p
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Post by: Kazan on July 19, 2002, 07:45:17 pm: the one WITHOUT red = fast
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Post by: Kitsune on July 19, 2002, 08:47:38 pm: Kazan, are you reading it right?

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...products that were called USB 1.1 are now USB 2.0 Full Speed, according to the Implementers Forum. Products that run at USB 2.0's 480 Mbps, on the other hand, are called USB 2.0 High Speed. Full speed products use a slightly different logo that lacks a red bar with the words "high speed" in 2-point type.

It says right there that the old 1.1 will be called USB 2.0 Full Speed, and that the original USB 2.0 (which ran at 480mbps) will be called USB 2.0 High Speed, and will be marked with that logo with the red bar.

The newly-named 2.0 won't have it.

Bah. Leave it to the corporate heads to try and complicate the computer world even further.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on July 19, 2002, 08:50:29 pm: I still am not entirely sure I get it... ah well. This is why you not only assemble your own computer, but make your own components, too. Forget electricity, water-powered graphics cards are the 20-ton wave of the future!
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Post by: Sandwich on July 20, 2002, 06:17:25 am: Dang - I should respond to that article with a link to this thread, show 'em what kind of confusion they're creating.
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Post by: CP5670 on July 20, 2002, 09:46:19 am: I have seen this type of thing happen a few times in the last several years; typical corporate nonsense. :p
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 20, 2002, 10:58:55 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Kinda a confusing article, too... WHICH is faster???

The most expensive one.
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Post by: Kellan on July 20, 2002, 05:11:55 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
The most expensive one.

Sure, that's what they want you to believe. :p

I still get a 404 when I try to open that page though. Bah, I say. Bah, to the heavens!!! Oh, shudder! ;)
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Post by: Sandwich on July 20, 2002, 06:37:29 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kellan

Sure, that's what they want you to believe. :p

I still get a 404 when I try to open that page though. Bah, I say. Bah, to the heavens!!! Oh, shudder! ;)

:wtf:!!!??!?!

Dang, you're waxing poetic tonight. :D
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Post by: Kellan on July 21, 2002, 04:59:17 am: Quote
Originally posted by sandwich
Dang, you're waxing poetic tonight. :D

No, Mr. Sandwich my good fellow, I am an actor. :D

Okay, I think I'll end this pointlessly camp charade now. :nod:
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Post by: Sandwich on July 21, 2002, 02:43:27 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kellan

No, Mr. Sandwich my good fellow, I am an actor. :D

Okay, I think I'll end this pointlessly camp charade now. :nod:

Actor?? What's with the italics on "or"?? :wtf: :p
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Post by: Kellan on July 22, 2002, 04:21:17 am: Quote
Originally posted by sandwich
Actor?? What's with the italics on "or"?? :wtf: :p

It's a pronunciation thing - very hard to get across in writing. Basically though, normal people call actors "actors" without any stress on anything. Pretentiously arty actors, though, call themselves "act-ors"... :p

Does that make ANY sense? :)
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Post by: Sandwich on July 22, 2002, 05:20:10 am: Quote
Originally posted by Kellan

It's a pronunciation thing - very hard to get across in writing. Basically though, normal people call actors "actors" without any stress on anything. Pretentiously arty actors, though, call themselves "act-ors"... :p

Does that make ANY sense? :)

Actually, yes it does, and since I am around people from all over the world here, it's even understandable.... to a degree. :D

color, Color, COLOR!

*ahem* You didn't see any missing "u"'s there, no-sir-ee! :p

Oh crap - I spent too much time looking at the word "color", and now it doesn't look right at all - more like a nonsense word. :doubt: :p
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Post by: CP5670 on July 22, 2002, 05:30:38 am: Quote
I spent too much time looking at the word "color", and now it doesn't look right at all - more like a nonsense word.

You know, that happens to me as well if I try to examine any one word closely. :p
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Post by: Sandwich on July 22, 2002, 05:35:20 am: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
You know, that happens to me as well if I try to examine any one word closely. :p

:nod:
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Post by: Zeronet on July 22, 2002, 05:47:04 am: Quote
Originally posted by sandwich

Actually, yes it does, and since I am around people from all over the world here, it's even understandable.... to a degree. :D

color, Color, COLOR!

*ahem* You didn't see any missing "u"'s there, no-sir-ee! :p

Oh crap - I spent too much time looking at the word "color", and now it doesn't look right at all - more like a nonsense word. :doubt: :p

Thats because when you say Colour, you do pronounce the u to a degree, otherwise you'd be saying something like collor which sounds like a dog wears. The u in color was removed by Americans because it was deemed too complicated.
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Post by: Dynamo on July 22, 2002, 06:17:20 am: Quote
Originally posted by Zeronet

Thats because when you say Colour, you do pronounce the u to a degree, otherwise you'd be saying something like collor, which is something a dog wears. The u in color was removed by Americans because they needed simplier words and colour was deemed complicated as was the word centre.

Heh, before you rip on Americans for spelling, make sure you can spell yourself. :p
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Post by: Zeronet on July 22, 2002, 06:27:58 am: Quote
Originally posted by Dynamo

Heh, before you rip on Americans for spelling, make sure you can spell yourself. :p

:wtf: :wtf: Sorry for not being a Perfect typer, or proof reading my posts to make sure my grammer is correct and i meant what i said, because when i said collor, i was merely adding a L, and relating the pronunciation of color to sounds like something a dog wears.

The above paragraph is copyright 2002 by Zeronet and should not be quoted without permission
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Post by: Mad Bomber on July 22, 2002, 08:24:49 am: Americans don't pronounce color like a dog collar. We pronounce it "culler". (hard to get across in writing without sounding like a redneck...) :D
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Post by: Kellan on July 22, 2002, 10:51:27 am: I personally don't have any problem with Americans changing the spellings of English words because their spellings make more sense. I mean, in the word specialise we use an S, but it actually sounds like a Z - SO WHY THE HELL DON'T WE USE ONE??? :wtf:

And don't even get me started on manouvre. :p
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Post by: Mad Bomber on July 22, 2002, 10:58:35 am: You mean maneuver, right? :D:p
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Post by: Kellan on July 22, 2002, 01:51:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Mad Bomber
You mean maneuver, right? :D:p

Actually, I almost always spell it like that because it's the easiest to remember. Language should be easy to learn and use, or else you're shutting people out. That = BAD!! :nod:
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Post by: Blue Lion on July 22, 2002, 02:22:47 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kellan
I personally don't have any problem with Americans changing the spellings of English words because their spellings make more sense. I mean, in the word specialise we use an S, but it actually sounds like a Z - SO WHY THE HELL DON'T WE USE ONE??? :wtf:

That almost gets you a hug, good Brit, very good

*gives Kellan cookie*
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Post by: Kellan on July 22, 2002, 02:33:05 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Blue Lion
That almost gets you a hug, good Brit, very good

*gives Kellan cookie*

*munch* *crunch*

I also came to America this year on holiday, boosting your economy out of potential recession by spending my money in Florida on new clothes and shoes and access to exorbitantly expensive theme parks. Does that count too? :)
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Post by: Blue Lion on July 22, 2002, 02:34:00 pm: Yes, how was it?
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Post by: Kellan on July 22, 2002, 02:57:47 pm: Excellent. It rained a lot, which I had been told to expect by sandwich, but that didn't really stop us doing stuff (even went to Typhoon Lagoon during a thunderstorm, so hardly anyone was there). There was also lots of stuff to buy, and some music I can't get here.

For the second week we went South to Marco Island. Mmm, heated pool. It was very relaxing, and we also hired a boat (mmm, sunburn :o) and went to the Everglades (mmm, Mosquito repellent :doubt: )

So yeah, I liked it.
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 22, 2002, 04:24:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kellan
I personally don't have any problem with Americans changing the spellings of English words because their spellings make more sense. I mean, in the word specialise we use an S, but it actually sounds like a Z - SO WHY THE HELL DON'T WE USE ONE??? :wtf:

And don't even get me started on manouvre. :p

the British empire was founded on the English language*. It took so long for other countries to figure out what the declarations of war / colonisation meant, that we'd already moved in and established team emporiams and whatnot. Tally ho.

* oh - and on cups of tea.
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Post by: Sandwich on July 23, 2002, 06:05:14 am: Quote
Originally posted by Zeronet

:wtf: :wtf: Sorry for not being a Perfect typer, or proof reading my posts to make sure my grammer is correct and i meant what i said, because when i said collor, i was merely adding a L, and relating the pronunciation of color to sounds like something a dog wears.

~~The above paragraph is copyright 2002 by Zeronet and should not be quoted without permission~~
:D

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Originally posted by Kellan
It was very relaxing, and we also hired a boat (mmm, sunburn :o) and went to the Everglades (mmm, Mosquito repellent :doubt: )

So yeah, I liked it.

*sigh* Ahh, Florida - Land of the Old, and Home only to the Brave! :p

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Originally posted by aldo_14
the British empire was founded on the English language*. It took so long for other countries to figure out what the declarations of war / colonisation meant, that we'd already moved in and established team emporiams and whatnot. Tally ho.

* oh - and on cups of tea.

You guys are lucky we haven't changed "empire" to "empier".
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Nahh, maybe not - that just looks plain stoopid. :D

"The crackers, Grommet! We forgot the crackers!"