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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."
You Americans should be ashamed of yourselves!
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are shackled for up to 15 hours at a time in hand and leg cuffs with metal links which cut into the skin. Their "cells" are wire cages with concrete floors and open to the elements - giving no privacy or protection from the rats, snakes and scorpions loose around the base. A diet of foul water and food up to 10 years out-of-date has left inmates malnourished. By contrast the camp guard dogs have wooden houses with air conditioning and green grass to exercise on.
But worst of all is the use of vice girls to torment the most religiously devout detainees. Prisoners who have never seen an "unveiled" woman before are forced to watch as the hookers touch their own naked bodies. One said an American girl had smeared menstrual blood across his face in an act of humiliation!
How dare you call yourselves the land of the free and the defenders of civilization. You make me sick! You are a bunch of depraved lunatics who deserve to drown in pig shit!
GNAA members left anuses cheeses all over my sheets
how do I clean up?
windows (452268) is hated by no one?!
It is your duty as a Slashdot reader to officially and formally hate windows. Slashdot is impure until windows' freaks outnumber it's fans! Strike down this vile evil corporate monster today! Show it how much you hate it. Do Slashdot a favor and bloat windows' freaks list!
UPDATE! WE GOT MODDED UP!
Our founder, users.pl, got modded up to zero in one of his "Windows is hated by no one?!" posts in a Mac article! He was modded back to -1 in short order, but make sure you metamod that "insightful" as fair, or the "troll" as unfair! Mac users have fought back! Mac users have made it clear. Windows must be hated!
Waves of people have already joined our cause . Every Slashdot account counts!
A. Bob Goatse's anus. [RIMSHOT]
In memoriam of goatse.cx. Never forget.
I posted two DVD Riddles in thist topic and they have gotten modded down unfairly by the bastard moderators. Please use your mod points to make the riddles more visible as they are funny and they also fly in the face of what this pathetic shitty site has become. Props to the Jihad!!!
THEY'RE AN ABORTION? The pro-life groups will have something to say about this. If my mother knew I had one of these drives....I don't know what she'd say. Seriously though.....if this is causing such a problem for the consumers....maybe we should institute study time and a test before allowing people to buy computer hardware. If you can't understand how to use the technology or its limitations, should you be allowed to buy it? Now that I think about it......isn't this how we determine elegibility for drivers licenses?
"Lame" - Galaxar
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Re:Standards? Anyone?
Re:Standards? Anyone? (Score:1)
by wfberg (24378) on 06:49 PM March 18th, 2004 (#8604734)
(http://huizen.dds.nl/~wfberg/)
So answer the question. Why gets to decide what the standard is and why should one group get total control over the market?
Some reasons, historically abound;
1. They're a monopoly already
2. They're the ones allowing porn on the format
3. They're the ones with the patents
4. They're everybody, and everybody can join in
1) is the ITU way
2) is the VHS way
3) is the CD way (philips/sony)
4) is the ISO way
But you're missing the real point; obviously if everybody involved in making higer-capacity-than-CD optical media could just come up with a single, future-proof standard, there would be no confusion among consumers, and everybody would be competing on a level playing field. Standards aren't about excluding competitors - at least, not by definition. That only happens when smart asses throw in a lot of patents to rake in the money.
So that would be
5. People get fed up with factions, the peace pipe is smoked, and a single standard is decided upon to make sure the technology works and SELLS.
that would be
5) the way of the screw.
The way things are going with DVD, the Chinese stand a good chance to come up with a better, less encumbered, and more standardized format. And not because they're communists, but because they're cheap asses who don't want to spring for the MPEG4/ACC/CSS/Dolby/etc. patents.
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'Both' won't be needed. Why support a bag on the side...one will die. We've already discussed which that is.
DVD+R will be shoved back up Intel's ass, from out whence it crawled in the first place.
DVD+R will die like a rotting woodchuck, dead and dismissed, laying under the front porch on a hot Alabama afternoon....and smelling like an old shoe at best. Weep not...