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Comment Re:Useful for audiophile pirates, though (Score 1) 391

I bought the $200 headphone cable for my $400 headphones back when I had money to burn (ah the good ole days). Was it noticeably better than the $12 cable that comes with the headphones? yes. was it $188 better? Hell fucking no. not in my opinion anyway.

No. Headphone cables have no effect on sound (as long as they are not torn or shorted).

Or unshielded, or made of cardboard.

Comment Re:Better visual (Score 4, Funny) 170

A laptop HDD is about 3 cubic inches.

What's that in cubic centimetres?

A standard shipping container (40x8x8 ft^3) would hold about 1.5 million if they were packed tightly.

What's that in cubic metres?

That would be a train about 75 miles long.

What's that in km?

If each byte in 9.57ZB was a water molecule. It would be slightly less than a teaspoon.

You mean 5ml?

I think I'll go back to thinking of the distance to Neptune.

Comment Re:Why is this notable? (Score 1) 351

They hadn't invented Health and Safety back then.

This is very insightful actually.

There is no way today they'd get away with doing things as they did in '69 - everything these days has to be bubble-wrapped, with rounded edges.

I'd say just to repeat that same mission from 42 years ago would be a challenge under today's H&S.

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