These "hacks" you're speaking of are actually standards you know. Each flavour of CD has a standard (ie: Orange Book, Yellow Book, Red Book, etc) which covers all sorts of CD-R(W) types from music to data to karaoke.
The "problem" is that CD's are READ-ONLY. So of course if you screw up you're pretty much fscked... that's the nature of the MEDIUM and the SOFTWARE, not the TECHNOLOGY.
Heck, Adaptec makes this nifty software called DirectCD which implements packet writing for any drive that supports it for both CD-R and CD-RW... which means you get to treat your CD-R(W) like it was a hard-drive.
Better yet, I have sitting on top of my computer a DVD-RAM drive made by Panasonic... and it even supports packet writing... which means I have a the equivilant of a 2.6gb hard drive right there (5.2gb for double sided discs).
"Franklin himself ignored all of the controversy and continued to play the instrument until the end of his life with none of the symptoms mentioned. But the armonica's popularity never really returned to what it had been when it was first introduced."
Do you have any other links backing up your claim perchance?
The difference being you are sending it to an accquantance or a friend. Not some unknown person.
Plus he claimed he thought he was sending his resume to a person who owned a buisness... at a email address for a school in Montreal, Canada. Not exactly the brightest defense.
Based on the article I wonder how hard it really would be to make "slow glass". I suppose the problem is making this "glass" transparent with the necessary high refraction index to "slow" the light down.
It's also just plain strange to think about... slow glass... be interesting to see it made!
I'd suggest going and reading it again, this isn't just about moving light around, it's about *STOPPING IT* dead in it's tracks and then re-emitting it at some point in the future.
Nothing like fibre optics at all really.
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Erm... Usenet is a PUBLIC system, any and all posts you make there are in the public domain.
The information is preserved for posterity, not for making money or other commercial exploits.
I can't really believe you think we'd be better off destroying information instead of preserving it!
Did you actually bother to *read* the article... all of it?
It's got everything from character creation to grouping... and not with just "three buddies", according to the article up to *18* people can be grouped at the same time.
If you're not grouped you can indicate you're looking to join, or looking to start a group... WHILE WANDERING AROUND... seems pretty MM to me.
"This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch)"
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I suspect making an ISO image of the CD and mounting it with an ISO loopback driver may suffice. Unless, of course, the CD has some twisted copy protection on it, then you're probably screwed.
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Hmmmmm... someone should make a "google proxy" script to automagically do this for you.:)
More like people taking advantage of specific hardware/bios "quirks" in thier software. I suspect they're not supposed to but some people do to "optimise" performance.
Heck, back in the Atari 8bit days, and the Atari ST days, you had to downgrade your ROM or TOS image for specific games... especially old ST games which almsot all virtually requires TOS 1.0 (buggy as hell!) or TOS 1.06.
So not necessarily a MS thing, and it is great foresight, assuming of course the X-Box can actually be told which BIOS Image to load on boot.;)
From the source of the front page (which doesn't render unless you have JavaScript turned on, how nice):
[quote]
r a z o r f i s h , Inc.
Description: KPMG [home]
Created: 2000-04-20 jj
(c) 2000, Razorfish, Inc. all rights reserved.
KPMG LLP
Dan Wells
Matt Michelman
Jennifer Holly
Derek "Uber" Wargo
Mike Lavine
Joey B.
[/quote]
You figure a web-consulting firm could at least do it's own website? Wonder if the people at 'r a z o r f i s h' were inspired by thier theme song when they made the site?;o)
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These "hacks" you're speaking of are actually standards you know. Each flavour of CD has a standard (ie: Orange Book, Yellow Book, Red Book, etc) which covers all sorts of CD-R(W) types from music to data to karaoke.
The "problem" is that CD's are READ-ONLY. So of course if you screw up you're pretty much fscked... that's the nature of the MEDIUM and the SOFTWARE, not the TECHNOLOGY.
Heck, Adaptec makes this nifty software called DirectCD which implements packet writing for any drive that supports it for both CD-R and CD-RW... which means you get to treat your CD-R(W) like it was a hard-drive.
Better yet, I have sitting on top of my computer a DVD-RAM drive made by Panasonic... and it even supports packet writing... which means I have a the equivilant of a 2.6gb hard drive right there (5.2gb for double sided discs).
You could not possibly forget the Kraft Dinner! :)
Microsoft are the publisher's of Asheron's Call as well, so it's really not like it'd be the first time for them either. :)
Me actually... never downloaded it or used it on someone elses machine. :)
Well, not according to the first linked article:
"Franklin himself ignored all of the controversy and continued to play the instrument until the end of his life with none of the symptoms mentioned. But the armonica's popularity never really returned to what it had been when it was first introduced."
Do you have any other links backing up your claim perchance?
Just as an FYI... it's "flamebait" not "flaimbait" as there is no such English word as "flaim" ;o)
+1, Informative!
Nice link, always nice to get another viewpoint!
Actually, to be pedantic, 100,000.00 would be $100,910.00 according to http://www.xe.com/
+1, Funny! :o)
Neglecting the fact that it would likely just be cheaper to *buy* the DVD rather then the blank DVD-R (write ONCE media).
;o)
DVD+RW would be more efficient for this type of thing really.
You can set Google's language to Swedish Chef, and h4x0r as well. Just look under "Preferences". :)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/09/044421 6&mode=nested
Doesn't anyone bother to do a simple search before posting front page stories?!
I just entered "Coleman" into the search box and got the above link, same story, move along, nothing to see here...
The difference being you are sending it to an accquantance or a friend. Not some unknown person.
Plus he claimed he thought he was sending his resume to a person who owned a buisness... at a email address for a school in Montreal, Canada. Not exactly the brightest defense.
Based on the article I wonder how hard it really would be to make "slow glass". I suppose the problem is making this "glass" transparent with the necessary high refraction index to "slow" the light down.
It's also just plain strange to think about... slow glass... be interesting to see it made!
Did you even bother to read the article?
I'd suggest going and reading it again, this isn't just about moving light around, it's about *STOPPING IT* dead in it's tracks and then re-emitting it at some point in the future.
Nothing like fibre optics at all really.
Erm... Usenet is a PUBLIC system, any and all posts you make there are in the public domain.
The information is preserved for posterity, not for making money or other commercial exploits.
I can't really believe you think we'd be better off destroying information instead of preserving it!
Did you actually bother to *read* the article... all of it?
It's got everything from character creation to grouping... and not with just "three buddies", according to the article up to *18* people can be grouped at the same time.
If you're not grouped you can indicate you're looking to join, or looking to start a group... WHILE WANDERING AROUND... seems pretty MM to me.
Perhaps try reading the entire article next time?
"This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch)"
:o)
+1, Hysterical
Thanks for the laugh!
Too Funny :o)
I suspect making an ISO image of the CD and mounting it with an ISO loopback driver may suffice. Unless, of course, the CD has some twisted copy protection on it, then you're probably screwed.
Hmmmmm... someone should make a "google proxy" script to automagically do this for you. :)
Uhhh... you may want to go look a the article and/or the pics on the Sharp website.
;)
This PDA has a nice little tuck-away QWERTY keyboard... built in... so no "5 minutes using graffiti" required.
More like people taking advantage of specific hardware/bios "quirks" in thier software. I suspect they're not supposed to but some people do to "optimise" performance.
;)
Heck, back in the Atari 8bit days, and the Atari ST days, you had to downgrade your ROM or TOS image for specific games... especially old ST games which almsot all virtually requires TOS 1.0 (buggy as hell!) or TOS 1.06.
So not necessarily a MS thing, and it is great foresight, assuming of course the X-Box can actually be told which BIOS Image to load on boot.
Taking political correctness to new levels!
:)
"overly-nutrified people" is a new one one me!
Thanks for the laugh!
From the source of the front page (which doesn't render unless you have JavaScript turned on, how nice):
;o)
[quote]
r a z o r f i s h , Inc.
Description: KPMG [home]
Created: 2000-04-20 jj
(c) 2000, Razorfish, Inc. all rights reserved.
KPMG LLP
Dan Wells
Matt Michelman
Jennifer Holly
Derek "Uber" Wargo
Mike Lavine
Joey B.
[/quote]
You figure a web-consulting firm could at least do it's own website? Wonder if the people at 'r a z o r f i s h' were inspired by thier theme song when they made the site?