tho do have to wonder how much of what you mention is the drive, and how much the burning software? I know there were compatibility issues with video disks written by some versions of Roxio.
I can assure you it is 100% the drive. I don't use Windows/Mac at all, so all my burning is done with cdrecord, cdrdao, burncd, dvdrecord, etc. etc.
Maybe the electronics in LiteOns will last for years, but the drives are (all?) defective from day one.
You get crazy things, such as the drive needing to be closed by software to be able to set the recording speed, different recording modes that simply don't work, standard recording modes that leave out certain bits of information (like subchannel data) making it completely non-standard, and playable only in devices which ignore the standard to comply with LiteOn's completely disregard for quality.
Sorry for the rant, but this is all crap I've had to put up with (first hand) from LiteOn drives for years.
you don't need to drive to work at 60 mph either, you can get there just fine at 10 mph, but i think you'll agree the speed increase means something;-)
Not if you only need to do it ONCE, as with editing.
If we could have 1 person drive the route at 1mph, so the rest of us could get there at 200MPH, I'd be immensely happy.
Non-realtime editing is only a problem, if you don't expect more than 1 person to ever watch it:-)
Not exactly what I expected from the drive "techies" all seem to recommend, and the premium end of the market
Don't be surprised. It's ALL going downhill now. All the great quality brands you could depend on, have turned to crap in the past few years. The expensive Plextor drive you bought was probably manufactured in the same Chinese plant as a $30 NEC drive.
In my experience, just about everything I've bought in the past several years has failed at about the 2 year mark.
What's the solution? I really don't know. Look up some customer reviews on the cheapest units to make sure they work, and then buy it with the 4-year warranty which costs as much as the drive...
(I think the Sony external drive might have been more expensive, but didn't get as good reviews. How ironic.)
Sonys have just been re-badged Lite-Ons for many years now. In my experience, Sony is getting to be the worst of the worst now.
I really don't know what the point of your post is supposed to be. Just seems like a lot of wordplay and stating the obvious to me.
"Alleged murder" is not a crime. "Murder" is.
"Alleged murder" isn't exactly a crime, but alleged "murder" certainly is.
One of the main reasons we (as a society) go along with the fiction of "innocent until proven guilty" is to avoid prejudicing the potential jury pool.
No, it's because our justice system requires proof to be establish in court, as opposed to being assumed before reaching court. It's not about influencing jurors, it's about recognizing that the individual (ie. reporter) speaking isn't (and doesn't have any way to be) 100% sure the accused did in-fact commit the crime in question.
despite the timing, the companies were not trying to bury the news on the slowest news weekend of the year.
Umm... Excuse me, but isn't the slowest news day of the year the WORST time to try and bury a story? The TV media has to fill their timeslots, and papers have to fill the space, so the slower the news day, the more coverage less significant things like this will recieve. Witness the multiple stories on/. the NYTimes write-up, etc.
Cases in point: Gun control, DMCA, PATRIOT Act, Copyright extensions, broadcast flag (you know it's going to pass), DRM (Sony's rootkit wouldn't have gotten press if it didn't introduce security holes), All those bits of PATRIOT II that got slipped into other bills...the list would go on and on if I had bothered to divide DRM and gun control into passed and pending legislation.
I can agree with you on all of those, except for gun control. Maybe you've heard of something I haven't, but the total extent of "gun control" is that you aren't allowed to purchase a fully automatic assault weapon, or a 50mm (anti-tank?) rifle in, eg. California. Does anyone honestly consider that a loss of freedom? I mean, freedom != anarchy
Slashdot had to figure out a way to deal with trolls, and over the period of years, has the trolls mostly under control.
Hahaha!
It's been, what, 6 months or so now since the most blatant trolling stopped getting modded to +5? I sure as hell hope Wikipedia will have much more success, and in much less than the 10+ years it took Slashdot. And still, there's a lot of terribly bad information, and less-obvious trolls that get modded-up all the time on/.
It seems fairly unlikely, unfortunately, that we'll see Mr. Seigenthaler apologising for the lasting harm he's indirectly caused by provoking that reaction over a silly joke making unbelievable claims about him.
Somebody had to say it. He just happens to be the one who was in the right place at the right time.
Although he's somewhat harsher on Wikipedia than I would like, Tycho did a very good job explaining why this whole system (allowing errors, and waiting for someone to correct them) just doesn't work out well:
I'm sure everyone else will chime-in with theirs as well, but personally, I have just one STRICT rule for case-mods:
1. The mod-case must not be any larger than a standard PC case. Otherwise, where's the challenge?
"Ooo look, here's my 'replica house' case-mod... I took a house, and stuck a computer inside it!"
Case-mods have nothing to do with the PC anymore, and are just standard art works. Build an R2D2 model, put a motherboard in it: casemod! Buy a car, put a computer in it: casemod!
Believe what you like about posted records - weather.com hasn't exactly been maintaining recording stations in Baghdad for the last ten years.
I think it's much safer to assume that your tempurature testing facilities and methods probably aren't up to par, as opposed to Iraq now being the hottest place on earth, by a huge margin, and only one random person on/. realizing it.
It got hotter in the direct sun on the rooftops.
I wouldn't imagine it would get colder in direct sunlight. Did you have some point in mentioning this?
June-September is consistently over 120 degrees, with the month of August around 140 all the time. 130 at night - no variation.
Interesting... considering that the highest tempurature every recorded was 136F, and that was in Libya, not Iraq, and was over 80 years ago. The second hottest was 134F in Death Valley over 90 years ago, which is not far from where I live.
Only rich peoples' cars have functional A/C.
Who cares? We are talking about American Humvees, which DO have A/C, whether you believe it or not.
In conclusion, I have no idea what you are ranting about. I can only assume you have completely and totally misread this discussion.
I am sorry. I assumed you meant that they should wear native clothing and use no form of climate control whatsoever. You made it sound as if that was all they needed.
No, not 'me'. I'm just a random/.er who jumped into your thread here. Ask the OP, not me.
I don't think 95 degrees is cool enough for any kind of clothing.
That's just because you've never spent any time in the desert. Try Arizona, where 130F degrees is common. In case you're wondering, people don't walk around with blocks of ice on their heads. I can assure you, anyone can get along just fine at 95F degrees.
Are you sure that this clothing helps at all when the ambient temperature isn't higher than your body temperature?
Not speaking for the OP, but yes... Your body tempurature is lower than ambient only because of your sweat, which is how your body lowers its tempurature. The clothing worn by nomads and the like serves both to insulate you from heated air and sunlight, as well as to make better use of your own sweat.
The US military's hot-weather camos actually are designed with that latter purpose in-mind, but require much more sweat for the same effect, thereby requiring much more water intake, and therefore more energy and body heat to accomplish the same thing. It was generally considered an equally functional solution assuming unlimited water, but considering the necessity of refridgerated vests, it seems that assumption wasn't quite correct.
Any time an entity becomes big (especially when it's big because everybody wanted it), there are those that learn to live without it, and they feel superior. They speak out and stand behind some rival product that has benefits but is generally pretty far behind, and others who want to look as smart as they do chime in.
Although I can't think of any case like that, it makes sense with some companies, but not Google.
The just about all the search engines that couldn't maintain near-parity with Google have already gone away. Those that remain like Clusty/Vivismo, Yahoo, A9, etc., have practically identical results to Google.
Alltheweb is the only dinosaur I know of... It's results are complete crap (3rd result for "slashdot" was goatse until they went offline!) like all search engines were before Google, and yet it remains.
Clusty is actually even superior to google when looking for a common term, because it divides searchs up into sub-subjects you can chose from to filter your results.
The question is: Why are people still using Google? IMHO, the sole reason is that Google has kept-up quite well. If their results turned to crap, people would defect in droves. Since the results have remained quite good, switching gives you only a minor improvement, if anything, so they stick with what they've been using for years. You could call it loyalty.
Yeah, because the natives drive around in heavily armored humvees all day long, right?
If they did, they would be much COOLER. If you read the article, you'd know standard air conditioning is already used, and gets up to 95F degrees at most. Outside tempuratures are much higer.
If you can handle outside tempuratures for long periods of time, you can handle sitting in a humvee.
The job is what's different: if you're feeling like crap doing your civilian work, you can sit down and stop working or go in the shade.
Have you ever had a blue-collar job? You certainly won't keep the job long if you're taking unscheduled breaks.
You probably don't even realize the number of times you've been close to a heat injury.
I know all the symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. I've never had anything more than the beginning symptoms of heat exhaution, which is minor at it's worst, and I've certainly never come even remotely close to heat stroke.
a) The big thing is that it is 95 degrees in the vehicle WITH THE A/C on! Think about what the temperature has to be outside to do that, and what the temperature in the vehicle would be without A/C.
It would be probably 120 without that, but since they have it, there's no point in talking about if they hypothetically didn't have it. These suits also wouldn't work if they didn't have AC, so there you go.
b) Most of the people you see working outside near you eventually have access to A/C buildings at some point. I do not think soldiers in Iraq have the same luxury.
Not really. Work on a construction crew, and you're out in the open 12+ hours/day. And you can believe me, I don't just "see" people working outside, I do so myself. All I need after I'm done is some shade, not air conditioning.
c) Most of the people you see working outside near you are not wearing several layers of long clothing, including unbreathing personal armor.
Obviously not the armor, but they do indeed wear long pants, long sleeves, etc.
I am going on a limg here and say your not wearing T-shirt, long pants, long sleeves, helmet, flak jacket,canteen, side arm, automatic weaponn, ammo, etc . ..
You'd be mostly wrong, actually. Obviously I'm not wearing body armor, which probably makes a difference, but I can't imagine that accounts for the major disparity. I can't imagine the minor weight of the weapons and helmet making a noticable difference.
All while looking for people trying to kill you.
Are you kidding? Have you tried driving on the So.Cal roads lately? EVERYONE is trying to kill you...
Seriously though, how much does "people trying to kill you" ammount to in terms of heat?
yeah, well your a kook.
No, I know quite a few other people who are the same. If you've grown-up in the desert, your body is very good at cooling itself. Probably 95% of it is behavior.
But even with air conditioning, temperatures inside the armored vehicles could still reach 95 degrees in the sun, Bussee said. So something more was needed.
Ummm... This sounds pretty ridiculous to those of us who live in the desert. Around here, when it's 125F degrees in the shade, everyone still works outside, and many in direct sunlight. I *never* even turn on my car's air conditioner (though admitedly, most people do).
Can someone fill me in as to why Iraq is so different that people can't work in tempuratures even lower than people in So. California/Arizona/Nevada are used-to?
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I can assure you it is 100% the drive. I don't use Windows/Mac at all, so all my burning is done with cdrecord, cdrdao, burncd, dvdrecord, etc. etc.
Maybe the electronics in LiteOns will last for years, but the drives are (all?) defective from day one.
You get crazy things, such as the drive needing to be closed by software to be able to set the recording speed, different recording modes that simply don't work, standard recording modes that leave out certain bits of information (like subchannel data) making it completely non-standard, and playable only in devices which ignore the standard to comply with LiteOn's completely disregard for quality.
Sorry for the rant, but this is all crap I've had to put up with (first hand) from LiteOn drives for years.
Not if you only need to do it ONCE, as with editing.
If we could have 1 person drive the route at 1mph, so the rest of us could get there at 200MPH, I'd be immensely happy.
Non-realtime editing is only a problem, if you don't expect more than 1 person to ever watch it
I guess this means the end to all the "Evil Inside", "Linux Inside", and "Intestines Inside" shirts and stickers.
Not really. Editing/importing doesn't need to be done in realtime.
VHS is the cheapest. It still lost.
Don't be surprised. It's ALL going downhill now. All the great quality brands you could depend on, have turned to crap in the past few years. The expensive Plextor drive you bought was probably manufactured in the same Chinese plant as a $30 NEC drive.
In my experience, just about everything I've bought in the past several years has failed at about the 2 year mark.
What's the solution? I really don't know. Look up some customer reviews on the cheapest units to make sure they work, and then buy it with the 4-year warranty which costs as much as the drive...
Sonys have just been re-badged Lite-Ons for many years now. In my experience, Sony is getting to be the worst of the worst now.
"Alleged murder" isn't exactly a crime, but alleged "murder" certainly is.
No, it's because our justice system requires proof to be establish in court, as opposed to being assumed before reaching court. It's not about influencing jurors, it's about recognizing that the individual (ie. reporter) speaking isn't (and doesn't have any way to be) 100% sure the accused did in-fact commit the crime in question.
Pure coincidence that those are the two largest and most firmly in the "blue" (Democrat) states in the US?
[Not trolling, just the facts.]
Umm... Excuse me, but isn't the slowest news day of the year the WORST time to try and bury a story? The TV media has to fill their timeslots, and papers have to fill the space, so the slower the news day, the more coverage less significant things like this will recieve. Witness the multiple stories on
I can agree with you on all of those, except for gun control. Maybe you've heard of something I haven't, but the total extent of "gun control" is that you aren't allowed to purchase a fully automatic assault weapon, or a 50mm (anti-tank?) rifle in, eg. California. Does anyone honestly consider that a loss of freedom? I mean, freedom != anarchy
Hahaha!
It's been, what, 6 months or so now since the most blatant trolling stopped getting modded to +5? I sure as hell hope Wikipedia will have much more success, and in much less than the 10+ years it took Slashdot. And still, there's a lot of terribly bad information, and less-obvious trolls that get modded-up all the time on
Somebody had to say it. He just happens to be the one who was in the right place at the right time.
Although he's somewhat harsher on Wikipedia than I would like, Tycho did a very good job explaining why this whole system (allowing errors, and waiting for someone to correct them) just doesn't work out well:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2005/12/16
I'm sure everyone else will chime-in with theirs as well, but personally, I have just one STRICT rule for case-mods:
1. The mod-case must not be any larger than a standard PC case. Otherwise, where's the challenge?
"Ooo look, here's my 'replica house' case-mod... I took a house, and stuck a computer inside it!"
Case-mods have nothing to do with the PC anymore, and are just standard art works. Build an R2D2 model, put a motherboard in it: casemod! Buy a car, put a computer in it: casemod!
It's a big state, and I doubt you've lived in all the cities there...
Perhaps not, but several cities in AZ still get very, very close to 130, regularly.
I think it's much safer to assume that your tempurature testing facilities and methods probably aren't up to par, as opposed to Iraq now being the hottest place on earth, by a huge margin, and only one random person on
I wouldn't imagine it would get colder in direct sunlight. Did you have some point in mentioning this?
Interesting... considering that the highest tempurature every recorded was 136F, and that was in Libya, not Iraq, and was over 80 years ago. The second hottest was 134F in Death Valley over 90 years ago, which is not far from where I live.
Who cares? We are talking about American Humvees, which DO have A/C, whether you believe it or not.
In conclusion, I have no idea what you are ranting about. I can only assume you have completely and totally misread this discussion.
No, not 'me'. I'm just a random
That's just because you've never spent any time in the desert. Try Arizona, where 130F degrees is common. In case you're wondering, people don't walk around with blocks of ice on their heads. I can assure you, anyone can get along just fine at 95F degrees.
Not speaking for the OP, but yes... Your body tempurature is lower than ambient only because of your sweat, which is how your body lowers its tempurature. The clothing worn by nomads and the like serves both to insulate you from heated air and sunlight, as well as to make better use of your own sweat.
The US military's hot-weather camos actually are designed with that latter purpose in-mind, but require much more sweat for the same effect, thereby requiring much more water intake, and therefore more energy and body heat to accomplish the same thing. It was generally considered an equally functional solution assuming unlimited water, but considering the necessity of refridgerated vests, it seems that assumption wasn't quite correct.
Although I can't think of any case like that, it makes sense with some companies, but not Google.
The just about all the search engines that couldn't maintain near-parity with Google have already gone away. Those that remain like Clusty/Vivismo, Yahoo, A9, etc., have practically identical results to Google.
Alltheweb is the only dinosaur I know of... It's results are complete crap (3rd result for "slashdot" was goatse until they went offline!) like all search engines were before Google, and yet it remains.
Clusty is actually even superior to google when looking for a common term, because it divides searchs up into sub-subjects you can chose from to filter your results.
The question is: Why are people still using Google? IMHO, the sole reason is that Google has kept-up quite well. If their results turned to crap, people would defect in droves. Since the results have remained quite good, switching gives you only a minor improvement, if anything, so they stick with what they've been using for years. You could call it loyalty.
If they did, they would be much COOLER. If you read the article, you'd know standard air conditioning is already used, and gets up to 95F degrees at most. Outside tempuratures are much higer.
If you can handle outside tempuratures for long periods of time, you can handle sitting in a humvee.
Have you ever had a blue-collar job? You certainly won't keep the job long if you're taking unscheduled breaks.
I know all the symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. I've never had anything more than the beginning symptoms of heat exhaution, which is minor at it's worst, and I've certainly never come even remotely close to heat stroke.
It would be probably 120 without that, but since they have it, there's no point in talking about if they hypothetically didn't have it. These suits also wouldn't work if they didn't have AC, so there you go.
Not really. Work on a construction crew, and you're out in the open 12+ hours/day. And you can believe me, I don't just "see" people working outside, I do so myself. All I need after I'm done is some shade, not air conditioning.
Obviously not the armor, but they do indeed wear long pants, long sleeves, etc.
You'd be mostly wrong, actually. Obviously I'm not wearing body armor, which probably makes a difference, but I can't imagine that accounts for the major disparity. I can't imagine the minor weight of the weapons and helmet making a noticable difference.
Are you kidding? Have you tried driving on the So.Cal roads lately? EVERYONE is trying to kill you...
Seriously though, how much does "people trying to kill you" ammount to in terms of heat?
No, I know quite a few other people who are the same. If you've grown-up in the desert, your body is very good at cooling itself. Probably 95% of it is behavior.
"Carrying" is nonsense, because they aren't walking around, this is about while they are seated in a Humvee.
Ummm... This sounds pretty ridiculous to those of us who live in the desert. Around here, when it's 125F degrees in the shade, everyone still works outside, and many in direct sunlight. I *never* even turn on my car's air conditioner (though admitedly, most people do).
Can someone fill me in as to why Iraq is so different that people can't work in tempuratures even lower than people in So. California/Arizona/Nevada are used-to?