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    Image of Thee Sea Thee Sea
    12/08/09

    In reply to Whatever You Do This Christmas, Don't Buy a Japanese Child a Console
    Fuck yeah Kamen Rider
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    Image of Dr. Evil Genius has learned that MILF stands for Moro Islamic Liberation Front Dr. Evil Genius has learned that MILF stands for Moro Islamic Liberation Front
    12/08/09

    @Thee Sea: No love for Ramen Rider?
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    Image of En0s1 En0s1
    12/08/09

    @Dr. Evil Genius has learned that MILF stands for Moro Islamic Liberation Front: Currently the drop in pay plus the upcoming increase in health care deductable will turn me into the Hobo Superhero known as: Ramen Raider.
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    Image of Dr. Evil Genius has learned that MILF stands for Moro Islamic Liberation Front Dr. Evil Genius has learned that MILF stands for Moro Islamic Liberation Front
    12/08/09

    @En0s1: a.k.a Hancock, no?
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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    12/08/09

    @Thee Sea: I need to watch some of these. I've always been a huge Ultraman fan (mostly because it came out the year I was born & I love Japanese rubber monsters).
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/08/09

    In reply to Whatever You Do This Christmas, Don't Buy a Japanese Child a Console
    Boo..ks?

    What is this 'books' of which you speak?
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    12/08/09

    In reply to Whatever You Do This Christmas, Don't Buy a Japanese Child a Console
    Pretty Cure? Anpanman? Kamen Rider?
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    12/08/09

    In reply to Whatever You Do This Christmas, Don't Buy a Japanese Child a Console
    What self-respecting male in any age wants clothes?
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    Image of Ypoknons Ypoknons
    12/08/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: I'm assuming you're American.
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment Ypoknons was starred Ypoknons was unstarred
    Image of Shivaran Shivaran
    12/08/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: A loincloth is all I ever needed.
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment Shivaran was starred Shivaran was unstarred
    Image of ccoady ccoady
    12/08/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!:

    Yeah, I always wanted Transformers. Still do lol.
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment ccoady was starred ccoady was unstarred
    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    12/08/09

    @Ypoknons: And I assume you are wrong.
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    Image of KurganG KurganG
    12/08/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: You assume he is wrong....I understand you're trying to be clever but that doesn't make any sense.
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    Image of Ypoknons Ypoknons
    12/08/09

    @KurganG: heh, "you're wrong" would have been fine for me . I associate relatively lax male clothing standards with North Americans, the Australians and to a lesser extent the Brits, and of these I associate Americans with Gizmodo posters, so I assumed he was American. My opinion had no factual basis, however.
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment Ypoknons was starred Ypoknons was unstarred
    Image of rentahero1 rentahero1
    12/08/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Might've been a little clearer if you said "What self-respecting male... wants someone else to buy their clothes?"
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment rentahero1 was starred rentahero1 was unstarred
    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    12/08/09

    @rentahero1: Interpretation is 2/3 of any joke.
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    12/08/09

    @Ypoknons: I'm actually from Brazil. And no, we do not walk nakkid.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    12/07/09

    In reply to Which Places In the World Does Wikipedia Discuss Most?
    Glaciers hold the same level of interest as sand. Penguins, however, give Antarctica the edge.
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    12/07/09

    In reply to Which Places In the World Does Wikipedia Discuss Most?
    I'm actually quite surprised there are more articles on things in Antarctica than most African countries.
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    Image of thatsmrpotatohead2U thatsmrpotatohead2U
    12/07/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher::Are you? I'm not. Plainly there are more Wikipedia contributors worried about / interested in Antarctica than there are about Africa. Not sure what that says about us, or Wikipedia contributors generally. But let's face it, when we think 'global warming', we think Antarctica before we think Africa, right?
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    Image of Maori_Yelir Maori_Yelir
    12/07/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I want to see how they determine what refers to a specific country. African countries make very little sense because of how the Europeans partitioned it. Country's borders bisect cultural borders in ways that make the countries largely irrelevant. It's the individual cultures that are more important to African history and if references to these cultures do not coincide with articles of countries than that could explain some of it.

    The other reason is the obvious one, there aren't a lot of computers in Africa. People are more inclined to write about their own history, their own cultures. With less people to write them African countries have to wait for other places to write their history for them in these articles.

    On the other hand, Antarctica is a bit of an outlier just because of how different it is from every other continent there's a larger interest. It's largely unexplored and very alien to people of this planet. Add that to global warming and people worrying about the individual glaciers and you can see why a lot of people from a lot of different places are writing and reading articles about it.
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    12/07/09

    @thatsmrpotatohead2U: That's a valid point. I'm just thinking in terms of articles. Africa/China have many more countries, cities, people, places of interest etc, than Antarctica. I'm assuming many scientific articles will refer to Antarctica but I didn't think they would outweigh articles about China and/or countries in Africa.
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    Image of thatsmrpotatohead2U thatsmrpotatohead2U
    12/07/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I think it's got a lot to do with the demographic of your average Wikipedia contributor. I'd be interested to see the correlation between where people are from and where they write about.

    I don't have evidence to prove it but I think the map is as much about the popularity (or lack of) of Wikipedia contribution in Africa as it is about access to computers and education.

    What's truly staggering about Africa is the extremes it holds - from European levels of wealth and development in some parts of South Africa, to chaos in Somalia. So to see it all represented in one bland blue colour, (apart from the strange case of Burkina Faso), says more about Wikipedia than it does about Africa. Still, excellent bit of research.
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    Image of DaSmith DaSmith
    11/30/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    This is not accurate at all. It is full of mistakes. For example look at the Dual Layer DVD, Blu-ray, DL Bluray and Flash drive of the data section are in red squares, while they should be with green ones. The 4000 photos on the microSD is also 1600 according to the number and type of blocks next to it, probably a lot other mistakes exist but I'm kinda lazy to check them all.
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    Image of Scott Crawford Scott Crawford
    11/29/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Good and amusing but as others point out, still room for improvement. Surely film came before the photo....and there were more before the flloppy....starting with punchcards and magnetic reels, tapes. Still, good effort though!
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/29/09

    @Scott Crawford: But punchcards were not really an storage device, but input methods.
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11/29/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Actually, they were both.
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    Image of fate47 - Meh. fate47 - Meh.
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Teehee! I had forgotten all about Jazz drives!
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    Image of Theophilus P. Wildebeeste Theophilus P. Wildebeeste
    11/28/09

    @fate47 - Meh.: I had one, too volatile, lost my entire pr0n collection to it.

    That took a lot of getting, being dial-up an' all.
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    Image of Reavyn29 Reavyn29
    11/29/09

    @#c17158117:Sneaking up in the middle of the night covering up the modem speakers so no one heard you log on?
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment Edited by Reavyn29 at 11/29/09 12:51 AM Reavyn29 was starred Reavyn29 was unstarred
    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/29/09

    @Reavyn29: Those were the good times.
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    Image of denisnossevitch denisnossevitch
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    WTF is a wax cylinder? Is that that thing they use as candles in church?
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    11/28/09

    @denisnossevitch: I'm assuming you're kidding.. but just in case:
    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of denisnossevitch denisnossevitch
    11/29/09

    @lostarchitect: Wow that wiki changed my life. They had technology back in 1888?!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    he missed out C90 tapes and C120's with cassette tapes.. C60's were hardly used...
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11/29/09

    @KhaiJB: They were too. Longer cassettes got eaten more often, and the C-60s were dirt cheap.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/29/09

    @KhaiJB: *shrug* going by where I lived.. C90's and 120's sold more than the C60's. tho mainly C90's.
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    Image of RipRapRob RipRapRob
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    The constant change of units makes the chart much less informative than it could have been.

    The same goes for using the same color for a minute of music, one photo (what size?) and one MB.

    Plus the size of the Flash-drive compared to ... is that a CD, DVD or Blu-ray? One or two layers?

    And at first glance it looks like a 2.5" 500GB HD only contains 50 GB. Same for 3.5" 2TB HD.

    All because the 'headers' for these suddenly is the size of each unit/colored square, and not the to total capacity, as it is on the rest of the chart.

    It's not enough to make a chart that looks nice. It has to present the information in a way that makes more sense than just listing the data.
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    Image of os_2 os_2
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    ah.. 5 1/4" floopies, I remember punching holes on other side so I can use the backside for storage. It seems like it was yesterday.
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    Curves promoted this comment os_2 was starred os_2 was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    11/28/09

    @os_2: I just cleaned out my "tech and media" closet and found a set of like six 5.25" install disks for for some old software.

    Obviously, I need to clean out that closet more often.
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    Image of bubbagrump bubbagrump
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Syquest drives? tape drives? it's nice but not very complete.
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    dingus promoted this comment bubbagrump was starred bubbagrump was unstarred
    Image of dingus dingus
    11/28/09

    @bubbagrump: No 9 tracks, disk packs, or punch cards. Clearly the guy who made this had his first computer come in a cow-patterned box.
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    Image of Kingofhearts589 Kingofhearts589
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Color fail on the Data Storage section. Otherwise, great chart.
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