Monday, October 24, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Re: Monday, October 24, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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This Is Kirk! wrote:
davey wrote:I knew it wasn't platypus, as another poster said it doesn't sound Greek.
I don't know. There's another figure from Greek mythology named Polyphemus. Platypus and Polyphemus sound similar to me.
Many Greek mythological names came into English via Latin. Polyphemus in Greek is really Polyphemos, with the -os being a masculine ending corresponding to the Latin -us. If a Greek name does end in -us in the original, it usually ends in -eus (e.g., Zeus, Odysseus, Perseus, Theseus).
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The questions in the gig category referred to memory in iPods when they meant storage space.
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goatman wrote:Not a coin flip TPH, make an educated guess if you don't know for sure... read more mythology... spare us the rant!
Platypus actually sounded more mythological to me. I saw nothing to "educate" this guess at all.
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harrumph wrote:For whatever reason the Philadelphia (and I think also the New York City) channels preempted the regular time and broadcast this game at 1:07 in the morning, I stay up late so I caught it then, the dvr reset itself to the adjusted time.
Didn't happen in NY.
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floridagator wrote:The questions in the gig category referred to memory in iPods when they meant storage space.
I forget what iPod model they were referring to in the question, but many iPods use flash memory rather than a disk, so memory would have been properly used in that case.
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This Is Kirk! wrote:
floridagator wrote:The questions in the gig category referred to memory in iPods when they meant storage space.
I forget what iPod model they were referring to in the question, but many iPods use flash memory rather than a disk, so memory would have been properly used in that case.
...I think all iPods use flash memory, not just many.
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Re: Monday, October 24, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Volante wrote:
This Is Kirk! wrote:
floridagator wrote:The questions in the gig category referred to memory in iPods when they meant storage space.
I forget what iPod model they were referring to in the question, but many iPods use flash memory rather than a disk, so memory would have been properly used in that case.
...I think all iPods use flash memory, not just many.
Nope. Pretty sure the early "classic" models used a disk.

edit: yeah, "There were six generations of the iPod classic, as well as a spin-off (the iPod Photo) that was later re-integrated into the main iPod line. All generations used a 1.8-inch (46 mm) hard drive for storage." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic
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This Is Kirk! wrote:
Volante wrote: ...I think all iPods use flash memory, not just many.
Nope. Pretty sure the early "classic" models used a disk.

edit: yeah, "There were six generations of the iPod classic, as well as a spin-off (the iPod Photo) that was later re-integrated into the main iPod line. All generations used a 1.8-inch (46 mm) hard drive for storage." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic
Wow. Totally forgot about those.
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This was the second Monday game in a row to have Jaws show up in the first clue of the game.
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Robert K S wrote:This was the second Monday game in a row to have Jaws show up in the first clue of the game.
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