DVD-R can only play on about 5% more players than DVD+R (according to DVDRHelp.com), and even the cheapest $40 players today can play DVD+R and RWs.
5% isn't very significant, and the figure is shrinking constantly as new players are being put out, and old players start breaking and not being sold anymore.
As long as DVD-R stays behind technilogically (and stays more expensive, both the players and the media tend to cost more), DVD+R has a real chance of winning.
"Boy! I can't wait to get a spindle of 100 of these and start storing all those 400 hours of home movies from our digital video camera! What, you mean there are other uses for these? I had no idea..."
A major source of system instability is due to the fact that there are 1.412x10^4998 different combinations of hardware available, and that the software has to know what the hell to do with them, and how to deal with it when problems arise. If MS designs both the BIOS *AND* the OS, they know EXACTLY how everything about it works, and that takes one layer of complication out of the mix.
What reasons are there that this WOULDN'T be more stable? (besides the tired LOL ALL M$ STUFF IS UNSTABLE)
You forget that this is Slashdot. If Microsoft does ANYTHING, no matter how good it may be, the people here will accuse them of doing it for some nefarious purpose.
Microsoft Cures Cancer Posted by michael on Friday October 03, @06:38PM from the You-know-they're-evil-just-admit-it dept. Anonymous Coward writes "Microsoft researchers have discovered the cure for cancer, and MS is paying for any cancer patient's medical treatment" Micro$oft is up to their same old tricks - this time exploiting the sick and feeble to further their own agenda. Have they no shame?
There are a couple that I deem absolutely perfect.
The first one is MajorMUD. This is probably the best one out there because it's actually a commercial product. However, finding a good server is hard - most of them are plagued by scripters. It's absolutely mindblowing, though. HUGE world, everything is very well balanced, excellent array of items, monsters, spells, etc. For more information: http://www.mudcentral.com/.
Second one is Aardwolf. I ran across this a long time ago and thought it was great. It's a HEAVILY modified ROM MUD, with a great auction system, many new races, classes, and spells, LOTS of areas (many nerd-themed ones too!), a great battle arena, lottery, excellent automated quest system, and the list goes on and on. I think my favorite part is that it never takes itself too seriously. For more information: http://www.aardwolfmud.org/
I highly suggest both of those, especially a MajorMUD if you haven't played one yet. It's great playing a professionally-made and supported MUD that keeps getting new updates.
Most people are on those networks because one person initially went on. Then his friends went on because he was on. Then their frends went on because they were on, etc... and now nobody wants to change because all their friends use that network.
Quote: The second game, tentatively titled Front Mission Online, will be a PlayStation 2 and PC game that will support players on both platforms and allow them to interact with each other, similar to the way Final Fantasy XI is set up. Details were scarce, but a demo movie showed that like other games in Square's Front Mission series, the new game will focus on mech combat. Like Ambrosia Odyssey, Front Mission Online game is currently slated to begin its beta phase in spring 2004 with a release sometime after that.
Wow, this could be REALLY cool. I just hope they make it like a Mechwarrior MMORPG rather than a Mech Everquest when it comes to combat.
Also, keep in mind that much of the cost for producing the movies was buying all the computer equipment for it - which they sold afterwards, making a good sum of money back.
When entering your name somethere use a bogus middle initial so you know which firm sold your info when mail starts coming in with a wrong middle letter. If you get junk, return it as "Moved".
I do something like this, only with far more fun names. I get tons of mail for "Ginkgo Biloba" and "Frank Furter".
Even if it doesn't include a game, the real good news is that when this drops to $99, the refurbished ones will drop as well. Pick up a refurb one at EBGames.com, get some used games at the same place (using the coupon code AFF25 for 25% off!) and you get a REAL deal.
Maybe, but 50 million people also think that abortion is right. I seriously doubt that you'd find many people outside of the telemarketing industry (and the companies that advertise through it) that actually thinks telemarketing is a good thing.
You'd think that with THAT many people signed up, the courts would realize that this is what the people want and decide accordingly, especially when the lawmakers themselves are saying that they approved it.
Of course, the people don't have millions of dollars like the telemarketing lobbyists do...
If your company does not have a gross of at least 100 million a year and a
influential politician or two in your pockets to law enforcement you do not
exist. They will not investigate the criminal acts being perpetrated against
your lively hood.
Well, haven't you ever been late to a critical meeting and gone 10mph above the limit? Haven't you ever forgotten to buckle your seatbelt?
Despite having "good" reasons for doing these things, they're still unsafe and illegal. If you speed and/or don't wear your seatbelt, that information SHOULD be accessable in the case of an accident because they are quite relevant to who is at fault, and why injuries were sustained. This information is essential in determining true and fair damages. There's not always a witness around, and a lot of the times it turns into a "he-said, she-said" deal where it's impossible to tell who was at fault.
I'm not sure I agree with the whole video/audio thing. I can see where external video would come in handy, but I can also see the potential for misuse. If it could be made so that the video was encrypted and password protected by the owner (with courts being able to subpoena the password when a dispute arises), I would be more supportive.
Yes, however, unless we figure out how to make people stop getting old (instead of just figuring out how to make them stop dying), the limit of SexPossibilityFunction(SlashdotReader) as age approaches infinity is still 0.
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The thing is that the movie pirates know that they put these things in there, so they edit the identifying marks out to protect their source.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
DVD-R can only play on about 5% more players than DVD+R (according to DVDRHelp.com), and even the cheapest $40 players today can play DVD+R and RWs.
5% isn't very significant, and the figure is shrinking constantly as new players are being put out, and old players start breaking and not being sold anymore.
As long as DVD-R stays behind technilogically (and stays more expensive, both the players and the media tend to cost more), DVD+R has a real chance of winning.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
OTOH, it will certainly make it easier for the home movie crowd.
Riiiiiight. It's going to make it easier for the "home movie crowd". (smile and nod)
I for one know that I have a BUNCH of home movies that I want to store, but can't fit on one DVD+R. Yeaaaah, that's right... home movies...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
"Boy! I can't wait to get a spindle of 100 of these and start storing all those 400 hours of home movies from our digital video camera! What, you mean there are other uses for these? I had no idea..."
-- Dr. Eldarion --
A major source of system instability is due to the fact that there are 1.412x10^4998 different combinations of hardware available, and that the software has to know what the hell to do with them, and how to deal with it when problems arise. If MS designs both the BIOS *AND* the OS, they know EXACTLY how everything about it works, and that takes one layer of complication out of the mix.
What reasons are there that this WOULDN'T be more stable? (besides the tired LOL ALL M$ STUFF IS UNSTABLE)
-- Dr. Eldarion --
You forget that this is Slashdot. If Microsoft does ANYTHING, no matter how good it may be, the people here will accuse them of doing it for some nefarious purpose.
Microsoft Cures Cancer
Posted by michael on Friday October 03, @06:38PM
from the You-know-they're-evil-just-admit-it dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "Microsoft researchers have discovered the cure for cancer, and MS is paying for any cancer patient's medical treatment" Micro$oft is up to their same old tricks - this time exploiting the sick and feeble to further their own agenda. Have they no shame?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
There are a couple that I deem absolutely perfect.
The first one is MajorMUD. This is probably the best one out there because it's actually a commercial product. However, finding a good server is hard - most of them are plagued by scripters. It's absolutely mindblowing, though. HUGE world, everything is very well balanced, excellent array of items, monsters, spells, etc. For more information: http://www.mudcentral.com/.
Second one is Aardwolf. I ran across this a long time ago and thought it was great. It's a HEAVILY modified ROM MUD, with a great auction system, many new races, classes, and spells, LOTS of areas (many nerd-themed ones too!), a great battle arena, lottery, excellent automated quest system, and the list goes on and on. I think my favorite part is that it never takes itself too seriously. For more information: http://www.aardwolfmud.org/
I highly suggest both of those, especially a MajorMUD if you haven't played one yet. It's great playing a professionally-made and supported MUD that keeps getting new updates.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
It's just that all the other ones were too stupid to know what "amnesty" meant.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Most people are on those networks because one person initially went on. Then his friends went on because he was on. Then their frends went on because they were on, etc... and now nobody wants to change because all their friends use that network.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
(please don't wipe out our server if possible)
h ah ahahaha.
aaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahha
-- Dr. Eldarion --
This could be really cool.
Quote:
The second game, tentatively titled Front Mission Online, will be a PlayStation 2 and PC game that will support players on both platforms and allow them to interact with each other, similar to the way Final Fantasy XI is set up. Details were scarce, but a demo movie showed that like other games in Square's Front Mission series, the new game will focus on mech combat. Like Ambrosia Odyssey, Front Mission Online game is currently slated to begin its beta phase in spring 2004 with a release sometime after that.
Wow, this could be REALLY cool. I just hope they make it like a Mechwarrior MMORPG rather than a Mech Everquest when it comes to combat.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Also, keep in mind that much of the cost for producing the movies was buying all the computer equipment for it - which they sold afterwards, making a good sum of money back.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Japanese businessmen don't quite work the same way American businessmen do. To the Japanese, honor and company loyalty come way before money.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
When entering your name somethere use a bogus middle initial so you know which firm sold your info when mail starts coming in with a wrong middle letter. If you get junk, return it as "Moved".
I do something like this, only with far more fun names. I get tons of mail for "Ginkgo Biloba" and "Frank Furter".
-- Dr. Eldarion --
RED Herring, bought out by a French company. The French are notoriously anti-American.
This can only mean one thing.
COMMUNISTS!
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Yeah, that and Diablo 2's 1.10 patch... It's been "almost done" for months and months.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
I thought the big thing was how many songs it could hold (about 250,000).
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Please visit my archive of art work photos for this project. Click on any picture for a very high resolution photo. Some of these really move me.
Something tells me he's regretting that right now.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Even if it doesn't include a game, the real good news is that when this drops to $99, the refurbished ones will drop as well. Pick up a refurb one at EBGames.com, get some used games at the same place (using the coupon code AFF25 for 25% off!) and you get a REAL deal.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Maybe, but 50 million people also think that abortion is right. I seriously doubt that you'd find many people outside of the telemarketing industry (and the companies that advertise through it) that actually thinks telemarketing is a good thing.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
He must really, REALLY think he's making the right decision
Translation for those uninformed about how politics really work: He must have gotten paid really, REALLY well by the telemarketers.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
You'd think that with THAT many people signed up, the courts would realize that this is what the people want and decide accordingly, especially when the lawmakers themselves are saying that they approved it.
Of course, the people don't have millions of dollars like the telemarketing lobbyists do...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
From one of the letters:
If your company does not have a gross of at least 100 million a year and a influential politician or two in your pockets to law enforcement you do not exist. They will not investigate the criminal acts being perpetrated against your lively hood.
The authorities just don't care.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Well, haven't you ever been late to a critical meeting and gone 10mph above the limit? Haven't you ever forgotten to buckle your seatbelt?
Despite having "good" reasons for doing these things, they're still unsafe and illegal. If you speed and/or don't wear your seatbelt, that information SHOULD be accessable in the case of an accident because they are quite relevant to who is at fault, and why injuries were sustained. This information is essential in determining true and fair damages. There's not always a witness around, and a lot of the times it turns into a "he-said, she-said" deal where it's impossible to tell who was at fault.
I'm not sure I agree with the whole video/audio thing. I can see where external video would come in handy, but I can also see the potential for misuse. If it could be made so that the video was encrypted and password protected by the owner (with courts being able to subpoena the password when a dispute arises), I would be more supportive.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Yes, however, unless we figure out how to make people stop getting old (instead of just figuring out how to make them stop dying), the limit of SexPossibilityFunction(SlashdotReader) as age approaches infinity is still 0.
-- Dr. Eldarion --