I keep on top of the SMART status of my drives and don't wait for them to implode before taking them off line.
While I haven't had any "failures" as such with my 1.5TB and larger Seagates, I have pre-emptively removed a few from active use before they could be a bother.
There are some things that you end up watching over and over again on cable.
You can either see these things get progressively more mangled each time you watch them, or you can own your own copy and always see them in their uncut condition.
Star Trek is actually a GREAT example of this. It's an old show that suffers from being mutilated to fit into a modern hour long television format with more commercials. It was the first show I owned because of this.
You very well may be getting an "iPad replacement".
That is, you would be getting something that replaces an iPad rather than tries to compete directly with it. It is something that does all of the things that Apple Corporation disallows. That's a "replacement".
Arrogant fanboys think that everyone wants an Apple clone.
Like I said. You can easily end up with a low profile machine with that much space. I have a couple of them....as far as ripping goes: it is no great bother. You make it sound like you've got to sit there and push the bits around manually. All you do is just put the disk in and run a command. The rest is done by the computer. You aren't wasting any of your own time. Even if you are ripping a 11 season DVD collection, you're still just changing the disks whenever you want.
350G is NOTHING to store and backup. You can get bus powered USB drives much larger than that.
I still have Linux install disks from the 90s. This includes stuff like the Loki games. If this stuff had followed the App Store or Steam model than they would likely be long gone by now. Physical media means that you have a token of ownership and a means to preserve content indefinitely.
Clueless idiots with no grasp of math like to drone on about floppy disks but clearly don't quite get the scope of the situation.
Optical media is by no means small at this point. It's still big enough to be larger than some of the proposed replacements.
That's something you couldn't say about the floppy when certain people were actively trying to suppress it.
Optical media is cheap enough to be disposable and that's something that none of the alternatives have going for them.
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...or you could just buy twice as many drives and still spend less.
The Seagate drive from my first PC lasted 7 years before I discarded.
I keep on top of the SMART status of my drives and don't wait for them to implode before taking them off line.
While I haven't had any "failures" as such with my 1.5TB and larger Seagates, I have pre-emptively removed a few from active use before they could be a bother.
Unless you are aggressively compressing content and only watching it in standard definition, you are going to fill up 12TB a lot faster than that.
Intellectually pompous people are amusing in their ignorance sometimes.
There are some things that you end up watching over and over again on cable.
You can either see these things get progressively more mangled each time you watch them, or you can own your own copy and always see them in their uncut condition.
Star Trek is actually a GREAT example of this. It's an old show that suffers from being mutilated to fit into a modern hour long television format with more commercials. It was the first show I owned because of this.
Ok. So you are fine p*ssing money into that same volcano.
You can either "rent" what you watch at absurd prices or actually get to keep it.
It's no coincidence that those that actually understand math might want to "own" instead of "rent'.
Keep what you paid for and it starts to accumulate. Adds up to quite a bit too.
There is a strong likelihood that anything that Russia would be complaining about is the intellectual property of a country that no longer exists.
They are probably trying to exert ownership and control of the works of the people created under during the Soviet regime.
You also have a system where all parties assume that the status quo is fine and that some other part of the system will clean up after them.
The courts assume that the PTO is acting in good faith. The PTO assumes that the courts will clean up their crap.
No one seems to be minding the store.
They were an "underdog" for so long that people forgot what jerks they are.
Android has already made the world safe for smart phones that are not made by Apple.
No delusion you spout will change that.
> First of all: until June 2009 the JooJoo/CrunchPad looked notably different:
Ok then... let's try the Archos 9. It was released prior to the iPad and was marketed as a "tablet as an oversized PMP".
Something that looks a lot like a modern TV without the stand just isn't terribly inventive.
You very well may be getting an "iPad replacement".
That is, you would be getting something that replaces an iPad rather than tries to compete directly with it. It is something that does all of the things that Apple Corporation disallows. That's a "replacement".
Arrogant fanboys think that everyone wants an Apple clone.
Very rarely has the price of the monitor EVER been included in the price of a computer.
In 30 years of home computing, with the possible exception of the occasional AIO machine it's always been just "the box".
In the old days, you could just hook your computer up to a TV and things have come full circle in that respect finally.
If you have a modern TV, then you already have a monitor. The keyboard and mouse are 10 bux, 20 if you want wireless.
Except no "self assembly" is required in this case and the internal parts on a PC are not nearly as interchangeable.
They might be cheaper. For any serious bulk, they're terribly inconvenient.
Ideally, you would only ever use the media ONCE.
It's fortunate you have a digital slave to automate that all for you.
Like I said. You can easily end up with a low profile machine with that much space. I have a couple of them. ...as far as ripping goes: it is no great bother. You make it sound like you've got to sit there and push the bits around manually. All you do is just put the disk in and run a command. The rest is done by the computer. You aren't wasting any of your own time. Even if you are ripping a 11 season DVD collection, you're still just changing the disks whenever you want.
350G is NOTHING to store and backup. You can get bus powered USB drives much larger than that.
Everything you just said about duplication and error correction is true for ANY backup medium.
The particular backup media doesn't alter basic industry best practices.
I still have Linux install disks from the 90s. This includes stuff like the Loki games. If this stuff had followed the App Store or Steam model than they would likely be long gone by now. Physical media means that you have a token of ownership and a means to preserve content indefinitely.
Clueless idiots with no grasp of math like to drone on about floppy disks but clearly don't quite get the scope of the situation.
Optical media is by no means small at this point. It's still big enough to be larger than some of the proposed replacements.
That's something you couldn't say about the floppy when certain people were actively trying to suppress it.
Optical media is cheap enough to be disposable and that's something that none of the alternatives have going for them.
Of course he's going to scrub them. You end up with a lot of clutter otherwise.
There's really no good reason not to take him at his word.
You can buy them at Frys. Try getting out more.
Buy your originals from Amazon and use shiny happy tools to get it in whatever format you like.
It's not like DVDs where the good tools are limited by the DMCA.
I was speaking of non-piracy.
Only 30 DVDs? That's not going to take much space at all. Certainly not much at all by modern HDD standards.
Even the drives that come in cheap low profile machines (nettops) are probably large enough to accomodate all of that.
30BD's would be another matter though.
There's still other types of software: CD, DVD & BD.
Although for a "cheap" system, removing the optical drive is at least an understandable trade off versus more expensive products.