I hope this comes up in someone's email, since this is an old thread. However, since the term was used here, I want to know what 'spinner' means in the context it is used here.
Also, by burying my question here, not many peeps will know what a dummy I really am
They mean a HDD, a normal drive as opposed to a SSD, a solid state drive with no moving parts - hence 'spinner'.
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to complete what pincushion said above, normal HDDs are called "spinners" because they store the data on magnetized spinning disks.
Ah, good. So obvious, yet so 'in'.
As I have to have one foot on a Mac and one on a PC, I am so used to the term to denote the little coloured 'beach-ball' which is the Mac equivalent of the PC egg-timer. Or the up and down selection bar. (No 6 on the list below)
Anyway, perhaps one of you experts could update WikiPedia....
Spinner may refer to:
- Spinner Dolphin, a dolphin species
- Spinnerbait, a type of fishing lure
- Spinner (aircraft), the aerodynamic cone at the hub of an aircraft propeller
- Spinner (Blade Runner), a flying car from the film Blade Runner
- Spinner (cell culture), laboratory equipment for cultivating plant or mammalian cells
- Spinner (computing), a graphical widget in a GUI
- Spinner (game), a method of randomly determining something in a game, usually movement
- Spinner (locomotive), a locomotive of the former Midland Railway (UK) 115 Class
- Spinner (MIT Media Lab), software that can automatically edit video to fit a narrative structure
- Spinner (website), a music website owned by AOL
- Spinner (wheel), an accessory that goes on an automobile wheel and spins independently
- Spinner (Ball Python), a designer morph between a Pinstripe and a Spider Ball python
- a spin bowler in cricket
- a spin coating in manufacturing
- a person spinning textiles
- a spinning machine, a type of exercise bicycle
- a person who spins pens
- an article spinner
- Spinner (album), a 1995 album by Brian Eno & Jah Wobble
Last edited by SeptimusFry; 13 Nov 2012 at 05:00.
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