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[Moonteeth]

The saying is "Everything's big *IN* Texas."
My brother and I were staying in a motel in Texas once, I heard a splash, and there was my brother splashing around in what I thought was the pool, until he screamed, "Don't flush it!", everything's big in Texas.

[Rocorama]

It's pronounced Foo-air-tae, it's Spanish for strong.
Great Video as always, Mailbag is becoming one of my favorite segments, it's like Christmas for you every week.

[trueslashcrack]

That word you tried to say at 8:00, RaumZeitLabor actually means Room-Time-Laboratories in English :D

[ScottieNiven]

I used to have one similar, the RIO CE2100 with a 2.5gb drive.

I loved that MP3, sadly it met it fate when the screen cracked, Ive still got the seagate drive kicking around though!

[williefleete]

I have a 6 gig micro drive from an iPod, I got some adapters and got it to boot an old toshiba laptop at one stage

[MoseleyJaguar]

Dave, please post the CAD files for your uRGB board. If it works, I'd like to build some up! Canada gets really boring in the winter.

[ok_engineer]

If my memory serves me right, the older iPods with actual hard disks in them had seagate micro drives in them.

[icexiro]

Dave, to pronounce ROS Fuerte : fuerte means strong in spanish, i think that's the way to say it so just google spelling in spanish for "fuerte" = strong

[XOIIOXOIIO]

Holy crap 230 bucks for that little drive, damn.

[josafatisai]

Its a word in "spanish". Either means 'strong' or a 'fort'. Is more like 'Ff-wear-ta', no Y sound.

[mowcius]

The Rio Carbon was around in 2004 and 2005 and was often purchased for 'Carbonising' - pulling out the Seagate 5 or 6GB Microdrive for use in digital cameras as it was worth far more by itself than the ~$249 retail of the MP3 player.

I still use a Rio for every day use, modded with an 8GB CF card and I love it - I keep buying more for when one dies!

[FidelGVelasquez]

8:29 "Right up there with mullets, I guess."
Whoa -- that was uncalled-for.

[MacoveiVlad]

You can go to translate.google.com > select Spanish > type the word "fuerte" > press the speaker icon in the bottom right corner = an approximate audio pronunciation! :)

[IIGrayfoxII]

think he meant mind

Cause mien is not a german word as i know, but mien is a french word meaning "mine"

[mikeselectricstuff]

I wonder how much discount they get on parts by putting the chip manufacturers' names on the product? It's pretty common on devboards

[rampike]

Obviously you didn't notice the wink. Nevermind...

[DavidTelesPortugal]

Make a giant video now opening everything you have in the lab

[EEVblog]

I'm not hating Austria. It's a joke because of the similarities in the name and how people gte them confused sometimes.

[TheBdd]

FUERTE: MEANS STRONG in Spanish is pronounced FUH-WEAR-TAY.

[NickMoore]

The "Rio Carbon" had a 5gb segate microdrive in them. As I recall the drive was worth more in resale than the rio carbon was brand new but I decided keep mine intact.