I want to put a bunch on a weather balloon and send it to space.
Polaroid Cube
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Often they advertise 32GB but they're compatible with larger, just not officially supported. For example http://www.motorola.com/us/moto-g-pdp-1/Moto-G/moto-g-pdp.ht... only advertises 32GB but I put a 64GB in it out of the box and it works.
i can't lookup the debian bugs now... but beware. it will work only until you write a not so rare byte combination there using the SDHC interface. after that happens, the sdxc controller will just crap on every data read and you will have a tiny brick.
Ohhh... THAT explains a lot... Might explain why cards dying in phones is so common.
If you could find that bug for me it'd be much appreciated.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please stop making excuses for illiteracy. It's nonsense like this that contributes to the decline of educational standards.
It's not an excuse for illiteracy. Language trends change over time, including among highly educated people.
In this case, I don't think the highly-educated are intentionally using "it's" instead of "its". It's merely a common typo.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not an excuse for illiteracy. Language trends change over time, including among highly educated people.
In this case, I don't think the highly-educated are intentionally using "it's" instead of "its". It's merely a common typo.
Not yet, no. I only said the trend appears to be changing.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's because "Tom's" is possessive in this case. The possessive form of "it" is "its" (no apostrophe). The way I remember it: if you can substitute "his" or "hers" for "its", then don't use an apostrophe.
This is precisely why I think usage is changing and will continue to change. The current "rule" (which isn't really a rule, since there is no official governing body of the English language) is an unnecessary and arbitrary special case. The meaning can nearly always be easily understood from context.
You are completely mistaken. "Its" isn't violating the apostrophe rule at all. "Its" is a possessive pronoun just like hers, theirs, his, ours, mine.
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#116I didn't see it mentioned, so I have to bring up that a magnet mount will not cut it for action sports where you might 'crash'. I know multiple skiers who have lost their GoPro in the snow because mount plastic snapped on a decent fall. I can't imagine a magnet will do better.
Yeah...I was like "magnet to a skateboard"... huh? How many metal skateboards are there? I guess you could stick it on one of the trucks maybe, but it would fall off immediately if you did a trick.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is precisely why I think usage is changing and will continue to change. The current "rule" (which isn't really a rule, since there is no official governing body of the English language) is an unnecessary and arbitrary special case. The meaning can nearly always be easily understood from context.
You are completely mistaken. "Its" isn't violating the apostrophe rule at all. "Its" is a possessive pronoun just like hers, theirs, his, ours, mine.
All the other pronouns have different pronunciations for their possessive and contraction forms, and also vary in spelling more than a single apostrophe, so the written mistake is unlikely to occur for those.
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#118> It’s wide angle lens... You'd think they'd have someone proofread a product announcement.
Maybe that's supposed to be read in the same way as "it is 5 megapixels"...
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#119I don't see anything special here, pure marketing play
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
agree with that. this just seems more user friendly to get started with. much more of a fun impulse buy than a GoPro IMO. I thought the video quality was extremely high, compared with a lot of the other stuff I see on YouTube. also worth noting that there are a ton of retail outlets in the USA which is an added benefit to their distribution strategy.
"I thought the video quality was extremely high" Actually the video quality looks terrible. Compare the bits actually shot with the Cube (most of the promo video isn't... you can clearly see when they switch to the shots the Cube itself took at ~0:22-0:26 and ~0:42-0:44, notice how they switch away from the Cube video pretty damn quickly, probably because it is so terrible... doesn't even look actually 1080p as a sou…
This is identical to the sentiment against iPod when it first came out. If the design is good, user friendly, and people still like the product, it won't matter if it's got worse specs since they can always improve them in later releases.