somebody shoot Microsoft ... PLEASE !

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by az
People, disk is short for diskette, disc means "flat and round thing".

AZ

Yeah, I was just about to point that out. I thought the "disk/disc" thing was the initial purpose of this thread.

But with all the problems Windows has, this should be the least of their worries.

[VJ]

Originally posted by az
People, disk is short for diskette, disc means "flat and round thing".

AAARGHHH !!!
I know it is, but I always end up typing a k in "disk" when I mean that flat round thing...





Jörg

edit: dumb typo... I always tend up typing... Well, it is Friday...

[Technoid]

YES, Someone Please shoot Microsoft

[Ribbit]

Originally posted by az
People, disk is short for diskette, disc means "flat and round thing".

Oh, I always thought that disk/disc was a US/UK thing. Can someone from the US confirm/deny that they use "disc"?

And yes, please shoot Microsoft.

Twice.

[mindwarper]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this helps, but minidisc are not round. I use disk and disc interchangably, but my english is horible. USA Public school education
Nunchal

[Byock]

Sorry, I always use Disk, Not Disc. It just doesn't look right.

[leech]

I've always used Disk and Disc interchangeably as well, considering if you rip open a diskette what does it look like? A flat round object

As far as DVD goes, I agree, it should be Digital Versatile Disc/Disk. Since it is no longer used for only Video. Or perhaps that's only what you call Playstation 2 and PC games that use DVD's. And something like Lethal Weapon would be called Digital Video Disk/Disc, and in that case, WindowsXP does not support it.

Leech

[leech]

Originally posted by Technoid
YES, Someone Please shoot Microsoft

I think it'd be funner to Fire Bomb them

Leech

[Maggi]

my oh my ... what have I started ?

[agallag]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
VHS is Video Home System.

I've also heard Vertical Helical Scan for VHS.

[KvHagedorn]

Maggi Wrote:
somebody shoot Microsoft...PLEASE!

gt40 Wrote:
someone shoot microsoft anyway, please

Technoid Wrote:
YES, Someone Please shoot Microsoft

Ribbit Wrote:
And yes, please shoot Microsoft.

It'll take a big gun, laddies.. but it just so happens that the instrument of your collective wills is parked just across Puget Sound, a short distance from firing range of the Microsoft "campus.":



Go for it! Hijack that puppy and blow them to kingdom come!

[az]

I've heard Video Home System and Video HiFi System.

AZ

[az]

I guess MiniDisc is written with c because of compact disc - they didn't want it to be associated with diskettes, but with the leading digital music medium.

AZ

[KvHagedorn]

There was VHS way before it was HiFi

[William]

Minidisc Sony have patents and spelt it that way on them. Ditto Compact Disc.

As for the DVD mess; I blame the large company that claims to have helped merge the two separate standards into one back at the very beginning so that everything would be well in DVD land and there would never be any standards conflicts...