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DVD-RW Incompatibilities?
rekkanoryo writes "It seems that there is some trouble brewing in the DVD-RW camps. According to CNET, new, faster 4x DVD-RW media may not be compatible with older DVD-RW drives. The DVD+RW camp is confident this won't be a problem for them, but the -RW backers think it will sometime in the future when even faster media starts to appear. Also mentioned is a dual-layer DVD+R capable of holding up to 8.5 GB of data per disc and the problem with really old DVD+RW drives not being upgradable to support write-once DVD+R media."
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Here come the DVD jokes.
where am i?
where are my pants?
It's mere hours after the ARREST OF THE DEADLIEST SNIPER IN RECORD HISTORY and you people are talking about DVD compatibility???? MY GOD, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!!!!!!
Since quitting the Navy six months early at age 27 so he could run for Congress on an antiwar platform, John Kerry has built a political career on his service in Vietnam. His unsuccessful 1970 congressional bid lasted only a month, during which it proved impossible for even he to get to the left of the winner, Robert Drinan, but it forged a conflicting political persona - one hammered out between his combat medals earned in the Mekong delta and the common cause he made with the enemy upon his return home.
Now, at age 60, the junior Democratic senator from Massachusetts is milking his veteran status once again in an effort to show that he's tougher and more patriotic than the man he seeks to replace, President George W. Bush. And, as unrepentant as ever for his pro-Hanoi activism, he is just as conflicted in 2004 as he was in the 1960s.
If there is any consistency in Kerry's political career, it is his in-your-face use of that four-month stint in Vietnam. He enlisted like many other young men of privilege, trying to serve without going to the front lines. When in 1966 it looked like his draft number was coming up during his senior year at Yale University, and already having spoken out in public against the war, Kerry signed up with the Navy under the conscious inspiration of his hero, the late President John F. Kennedy. As a lieutenant junior grade, Kerry skippered a CTF-115 swift boat, a light, aluminum patrol vessel that bore a passing resemblance to PT-109. He thought he'd arranged to avoid combat. "I didn't really want to get involved in the war," he later would tell the Boston Globe. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling, and that's what I thought I was going to do."
Soon, however, Kerry was reassigned to patrol the Mekong River in South Vietnam, a formative experience for his political odyssey. The official record shows that he rose to the occasion. It was along the Mekong where he first killed a man, aggressively fighting the enemy Viet Cong and reportedly saving the lives of his own men, earning a Bronze Star, a Silver Star for valor, and three Purple Hearts in the process.
Kerry opted for reassignment to New York City, where - as a uniformed, active-duty officer - he reportedly began acting out the antiwar feelings he had expressed before enlisting. Press reports from the time say that he marched in the October 1969 Moratorium protests - a mass demonstration by a quarter-million people that had been orchestrated the previous summer by North Vietnamese officials and American antiwar leaders in Cuba (see sidebar, p. 27). Kerry had found his purpose in life. The New York Times reported on April 23, 1971, that at about the time of the Moratorium march, Lt. Kerry had "asked for, and was given, an early release from the Navy so he could run for Congress on an antiwar platform from his home district in Waltham, Mass."
For Kerry, politicizing the nation's war effort for partisan purposes was the right thing to do, in contrast to the violent revolutionary designs of colleagues who were out to destroy the system. Kerry didn't want to take down the establishment. He wanted to take it over. His aborted, monthlong 1970 congressional campaign was a victory for him politically, as it landed him on television's popular Dick Cavett Show, where he came to the attention of some of the central organizers of the antiwar/pro-Hanoi group known as Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).
VVAW was a numerically small part of the protest movement, but it was extremely influential through skillful political theater, the novelty of uniformed combat veterans joining the Vietniks, and a ruthless coalition-building strategy that forged partnerships with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), its Trotskyite rival, the Socialist Workers Party, and a broad front that ranged from pacifists to supporters of the Black Panthers and other domestic terrorist groups.
Kerry signed on as a full-time organizer and member of th
This is somewhat off-topic and for that I apologise. I am interested in hearing what people use in Linux for DVD+ or -RW burning, that is for burning of data DVDs rather than video DVDs. I have yet to find any decent software in Linux but I am likely just not looking hard enough. I can happily burn CD-R and CD-RW in my DVD+-RW drive using k3b or even from the command line but I've never been able to get DVD media to work properly.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
The White race will not survive, if what the census bureau is projecting turns out to be true. White men cannot keep their penises in their pants. They will breed with Asian females, and hispanic females, and in some cases, black females, until the white race is completely eliminated. Similarly, white women will continue mating with blacks, and latinos. The white gene is recessive and all offspring produced in such interracial unions will be colored.
I can't say that I'll be heartbroken about you guys' departure. But it's just something to keep in mind
I kind of miss the Goatse trolls. I wouldn't actually look at the picture, but it was endless fun to see the idiots and the prudes get all worked up over a silly little picture. I think it is VERY unfair that Goatse was taken away. What next? No more Tubgirl? I shudder to think...
Fuck you, you fat fuck!
Jenny Craig should be your new best friend, you pedo fuckwad!
Here in California -- "the Cereal state" -- which is full of fruits, nuts, flakes:
In order to be eligable for a drivers license you must first be an illegal alien.
So in order for your idea to work here, I guess consumers would have to be illegals first to get a license.
I need to verify this, but it appears that users with a very low uid can move their post above other posts. Mods then go through and mod comments below this upgraded comment that say something similar as Redundant. This causes this low uid person to appear as if they thought of the idea and get the visibility and mod points for it, but in fact THEY STOLE THE COMMENT! Has anyone else found this to be the case?
There is also a group of idiot mods running over the threads modding anything they dont understand as Troll. There have been some very intelligent comments recently that have been modded as Troll, purely because the mods either didnt get the joke, or the post does not follow the slashbot groupthink.
How many others have been experiencing the above mod abuses recently?
whew, I left california just in time
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