I just don't get why you insisted on making that point with factually incorrect statements. And refusing to clarify that your statement was factually incorrect.
All it would have taken would have been "sorry, by "uncompressed" I meant less compressed". Would that have been so hard?
Because it wasn't what I meant. I meant 'compressed" compared to what we get on disk. Pretty simple.
Australia isn't an island - it's a continent. Around the size of the US actually. Calling the Land Down Under an island is, to the Aussies, like saying that the Mac is a Windows based computer. I know - I'm married to one.
According to the CIA World Fact Book and a recent Tonight Show answer quiz section Greenland is listed as the largest island. Apparently, the definition of an island has to be including "but not also a continent" or "but smaller than Australia". I don't like this classification much as it seems confusing without actually providing any benefit to the classification, unless the use of Sols on Mars and dwarf planets which are more complex but do help to make classification better. I just see no reason why an island can't be a continent.
PS: The old adage that "Australia is the largest island and smallest continent" wasn't even true as Antarctica would be the largest island if we use the classic definition.
PPS: Greenland is not considered a continent because it shares a continental shelf with N. America. But Europe shares the continental shelf with Asia, but we count that. I suppose if Greenland ever becomes the most dominant world power that definition may change to continent.
PPPS: Madagascar is technically a continent because it's on it's own tectonic plate and has exotic flora and fauna that have prove it's separated evolution.
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I completely understand the point you are making.
I just don't get why you insisted on making that point with factually incorrect statements. And refusing to clarify that your statement was factually incorrect.
All it would have taken would have been "sorry, by "uncompressed" I meant less compressed". Would that have been so hard?
Because it wasn't what I meant. I meant 'compressed" compared to what we get on disk. Pretty simple.
Because it wasn't what I meant. I meant 'compressed" compared to what we get on disk. Pretty simple.
That's what I just said.
You meant more compressed (download)/less compressed (BD), but you said compressed (download)/uncompressed (BD).
That's what I just said.
You meant more compressed (download)/less compressed (BD), but you said compressed (download)/uncompressed (BD).
This isgetting silly.
I'll let everyone read the continuity of the posts and understand for themselves.
Australia isn't an island - it's a continent. Around the size of the US actually. Calling the Land Down Under an island is, to the Aussies, like saying that the Mac is a Windows based computer. I know - I'm married to one.
According to the CIA World Fact Book and a recent Tonight Show answer quiz section Greenland is listed as the largest island. Apparently, the definition of an island has to be including "but not also a continent" or "but smaller than Australia". I don't like this classification much as it seems confusing without actually providing any benefit to the classification, unless the use of Sols on Mars and dwarf planets which are more complex but do help to make classification better. I just see no reason why an island can't be a continent.
PS: The old adage that "Australia is the largest island and smallest continent" wasn't even true as Antarctica would be the largest island if we use the classic definition.
PPS: Greenland is not considered a continent because it shares a continental shelf with N. America. But Europe shares the continental shelf with Asia, but we count that. I suppose if Greenland ever becomes the most dominant world power that definition may change to continent.
PPPS: Madagascar is technically a continent because it's on it's own tectonic plate and has exotic flora and fauna that have prove it's separated evolution.