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Comment: Coworker Approved (Score 1) 103

by TheNinjaroach (#43940407) Attached to: Google Loves <em>The Internship</em>; Critics Not So Much
On the way to lunch today, a coworker mentioned this movie to me and said he thought it was pretty funny. An ad for Google? Perhaps, he says, but still worth watching anyways.

I've never taken up the guy on any movie recommendations before, so I can vouch for his credibility. Yet, anyways.

Comment: Re:Best way to destroy the drive... (Score 1) 173

by TheNinjaroach (#43548335) Attached to: Recovering Data From Broken Hard Drives and SSDs (Video)

Speaking of bits, Spanish colonial currency were "pieces of eight". "Shave and a Haircut, two bits" is a $0.25 cost. So, eight bits to a full unit... Coincidence for eight bits to a byte, or intentional?

Coincidence. I imagine it makes a lot of sense to keep the size of a byte as a power of two (for addressing reasons, maybe?) 4 bits isn't even enough to represent all of the characters in the Latin alphabet, and 16 bits was probably overkill at the beginning of the computer revolution.

This is all a bunch of random guesswork. I have no facts for any of this :)

Comment: How Much Does It Cost? (Score 1) 175

How much does it cost for Nintendo to leave these services running? I hope they at least push an update to the OS so it doesn't show errors / blacked out squares on the screen where these features used to exist.

I miss the days of having consoles that didn't have retroactive feature loss.

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