Actually, Oriental is Spanish for East.
By saying Oriental, he is essentially saying "eastern".
I fail to see how identifying someone as being of eastern origin is either racist or derogative.
But you don't use back up tapes because they are slow to both read and write data.
Blu-ray and HD DVD are both optical mediums that use the same wavelength of laser and everything- the only difference between the two formats is the distance of the data layer from the bottom of the disc.
Blu-ray's data layer is closer to the bottom, meaning it has more capacity to hold data.
Unfortunatley, the data layer for Blu-ray is also more susceptable to scratches.
HD DVD has less capacity to store data, but it has its data layer closer to the middle of the disc, and therefore HD DVD has a faster read and write speed and less of a chance of getting its data layer scratched.
HD TVs cost too damn much anyways (HD monitors are so much more cheap and useful), and there are less than 150 titles that have been released in either Blu-ray or HD DVD.
'Course, if some company would just avoid all of that optical nonsense and deliver high quality video the way itunes delivers video (just not awful looking the way itunes does it), we wouldn't have to deal with the lameness of changing physical storage mediums year after year (well, we would, but hard drives are better about that sort of thing)
Besides, it is so much more convenient to write to a hard drive or a flash drive than it is to lug out the disc burning software and hardware.
Oh well, both television and optical will die within the next decade as everyone and everything in the universe gets a big fat internet tube to pump data through.
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...profit?
'nuff said.
Ergo, not a first amendment issue.
Hmmmm. Sounds like a compelling reason to not buy video games in the state of New York. What is wrong with our country?
Just card everybody if you sell video games to people. It shouldn't be a felony but hey, every country needs its criminals...
Actually, Oriental is Spanish for East. By saying Oriental, he is essentially saying "eastern". I fail to see how identifying someone as being of eastern origin is either racist or derogative.
but I see no problem with use of this vaccine being encouraged.
Lets just hope this isn't yet another Flu vaccine.
You bastard.
I am sorry, but with the exception of your third party support, you have an awful voting policy.
But you don't use back up tapes because they are slow to both read and write data.
Blu-ray and HD DVD are both optical mediums that use the same wavelength of laser and everything- the only difference between the two formats is the distance of the data layer from the bottom of the disc.
Blu-ray's data layer is closer to the bottom, meaning it has more capacity to hold data.
Unfortunatley, the data layer for Blu-ray is also more susceptable to scratches.
HD DVD has less capacity to store data, but it has its data layer closer to the middle of the disc, and therefore HD DVD has a faster read and write speed and less of a chance of getting its data layer scratched.
HD TVs cost too damn much anyways (HD monitors are so much more cheap and useful), and there are less than 150 titles that have been released in either Blu-ray or HD DVD.
'Course, if some company would just avoid all of that optical nonsense and deliver high quality video the way itunes delivers video (just not awful looking the way itunes does it), we wouldn't have to deal with the lameness of changing physical storage mediums year after year (well, we would, but hard drives are better about that sort of thing)
Besides, it is so much more convenient to write to a hard drive or a flash drive than it is to lug out the disc burning software and hardware.
Oh well, both television and optical will die within the next decade as everyone and everything in the universe gets a big fat internet tube to pump data through.
Actually, thats orange juice... or so the wikipedia article for tubgirl states.
but if shit is knowledge, wouldn't it be good to know your shit?
wikipedia is free.