Not only in the labs. They were showing it off at CES (using a stock DVR-106 drive with modified firmware, to boot). People might have missed it, though, because they were showing it in the Internation CES section.
Allegedly, they are waiting for some sort of official standard (probably also working out the major kinks).
That's pretty good, seeing as there is no such thing as a 6x DVD-R drive; the jump went from 4x to 8x. Plus, anything in this speed range is considered fairly new.
BTW, the early adopter had a $3000-$5000 1x DVD-R drive (discounting the DVD-R format that went on to become the DVD-R Authoring format, because it uses a different laser wavelength and started at a 3.95 BB size).
The issue in the article is an issue where the 4x DVD-RW media won't work in a burner that doesn't explicitly have 4x DVD-RW support. This is a physical media issue, due to the changes in the media (to allow for a rewritable DVD- disc at that speed)
The issue you're referring to is a drive based one. Some of the older drives may:
A. Not recognize the faster rated disc as writable B. Choke on the 4x speed code and go into a loop of some sort.
Firmware updates could correct this and allow you to burn on the faster media (at the slower speed of course).
With DVD-R, there was a serious problem with 4x media in the 2x burners; some of the drives would commit suicide (firmware fixed that issue), another drive related issue.
In fact, it's happened twice with CD-RW. 4x-12x is supposed to be High Speed CD-RW. I know 24x-32x is in the Ultra Speed category (not very common), but I forget where 16x falls in.
Reading isn't supposed to be an issue. From what I can gather, it's exactly like the CD-RW issue; there are High Speed CD-RW and Ultra High Speed CD-RW discs (that you can't write to, unless your burner supports the High Speed and the Ultra High Speed formats). This is due to the tweaking of the materials used to make the discs (to get them to run at the higher speeds; RW is a different beast, because it is changable/eraseable).
i'm not on dishnetwork and seeing the damn messages. i was gonna call my cable company about it, but apparently (after reading this), it's being overlaid by viacom
Call them anyways. Be polite, let them (your provider) know that you know it's not their (your provider's) fault, but it's annoying. Enough complaints may cause them to have a word with Viacom.
Sony calls the 6 pin connector "i.Link" too. I've seen that on a Vaio or two (there are Vaios with 6 pin connectors on them).
It was so they didn't have to pay Apple for using "Firewire" and avoid calling it IEEE1394.
The 4 pin connector is part of the standard. It doesn't provide bus power (to power devices) like the 6 pin connector does. Plus, it's a smaller connector, to boot (important for things like a camcorder, where space for connectors are scarce).
What the hell are they doing with them? Throwing them against a wall?
I've had my iPod for over a year and it's been working fine. I've had a couple of "oh no" moments when it made a short fall to the floor (2 feet or so), but it's been running fine. And I get excellent battery life.
You need an "authoring" drive and "authoring" media in order to be able to write the CSS keys.
Actually, you can't do that either (with an authoring drive and media). You can store production information that makes the replicator's job easier (as well as enable Macrovision, region codes, etc.), but the actual keys are not writable on DVD-R Authoring equipment, either.
they made him WRITE CODE that would track what he did in the event he decided to do something unauthorized.
That's kind of like IBM having Microsoft write the OS designed to kill Microsoft's product; we all saw how that turned out...
Why the hell would I trust you to write the code to track what you are doing? Wouldn't you know what to do to get around that tracking system, if you really wanted to do something?
The back end of iTunes is not really BSD; iTunes is a Carbon application (having migrated from SoundJam on OS 9 to iTunes on OS 9 to the current Carbon application you see on OS X 10.2+). While the Carbon API runs atop a BSD backend (Darwin), Carbon itself isn't part of BSD, nor is it easily ported to Linux.
It does fix the issue (having it running and working on my work computer); the software was updated sometime either late on the 16th or early on the 17th (late on the 16th, the download wasn't updated, but when I got up in the morning, it was updated and the issue was fixed).
Except that this story is a bit of a urban legend; some of the reasoning is correct, but it's embellished. http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.htm
It supposed to be until March 2004, at least that's what my postcard said.
Who knows what they will do after that period...they may offer better tiered services (higher download speeds at the same prices they were charging prior to the 2mb upgrade), maybe offer a 256kb upload option, etc.
Ummm...maybe when Linux develops a Quartz drawing layer and Apple ports Carbon (iTunes is a Carbon app) to Linux, then they'll have no excuse. Until then, it's not trivial to port iTunes to Linux.
Just because MacOS X runs atop a BSD core, doesn't mean software running atop MacOSX is back-portable.
Yes, t'was a link for legal movies (not pirated stuff). The issue is that Miramax is blocking the importation of these things. They've successfully blocked companies in the US from selling import discs (not pirate/bootleg ones, but officially licensed ones) and now they're going above and beyond that.
There are settings that could be adjusted in the Neo Geo versions. This is how you can get white blood for Metal Slug in the arcade (settings).
Agetec is just an American company that has done some localizations to the ports done in Japan; SNK guys founded Playmore and rebought the rights to the SNK games from Aruze (the pachinko company that bought up SNK after they went bankrupt).
Playmore is SNK; Playmore is mostly comprised of the former SNK people (lead by former SNK CEO Eikichi Kawasaki); after Aruze (a pachinko company) bought SNK, Playmore was founded and successfully bought the intellectual rights (as Aruze just planned to use the characters in pachinko games). The company was renamed to SNK Playmore (that's the official name).
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Not only in the labs. They were showing it off at CES (using a stock DVR-106 drive with modified firmware, to boot). People might have missed it, though, because they were showing it in the Internation CES section.
Allegedly, they are waiting for some sort of official standard (probably also working out the major kinks).
That's pretty good, seeing as there is no such thing as a 6x DVD-R drive; the jump went from 4x to 8x. Plus, anything in this speed range is considered fairly new.
BTW, the early adopter had a $3000-$5000 1x DVD-R drive (discounting the DVD-R format that went on to become the DVD-R Authoring format, because it uses a different laser wavelength and started at a 3.95 BB size).
No it's not.
AC3 is the format on the DVD movies (that you own, or pirate).
AAC is the MPEG-4 standard.
Different standards.
Different issue.
The issue in the article is an issue where the 4x DVD-RW media won't work in a burner that doesn't explicitly have 4x DVD-RW support. This is a physical media issue, due to the changes in the media (to allow for a rewritable DVD- disc at that speed)
The issue you're referring to is a drive based one. Some of the older drives may:
A. Not recognize the faster rated disc as writable
B. Choke on the 4x speed code and go into a loop of some sort.
Firmware updates could correct this and allow you to burn on the faster media (at the slower speed of course).
With DVD-R, there was a serious problem with 4x media in the 2x burners; some of the drives would commit suicide (firmware fixed that issue), another drive related issue.
In fact, it's happened twice with CD-RW. 4x-12x is supposed to be High Speed CD-RW. I know 24x-32x is in the Ultra Speed category (not very common), but I forget where 16x falls in.
Reading isn't supposed to be an issue. From what I can gather, it's exactly like the CD-RW issue; there are High Speed CD-RW and Ultra High Speed CD-RW discs (that you can't write to, unless your burner supports the High Speed and the Ultra High Speed formats). This is due to the tweaking of the materials used to make the discs (to get them to run at the higher speeds; RW is a different beast, because it is changable/eraseable).
Why "since 1982"?
That could be explained, but it would suck the humor out of the joke.
i'm not on dishnetwork and seeing the damn messages. i was gonna call my cable company about it, but apparently (after reading this), it's being overlaid by viacom
Call them anyways. Be polite, let them (your provider) know that you know it's not their (your provider's) fault, but it's annoying. Enough complaints may cause them to have a word with Viacom.
Sony calls the 6 pin connector "i.Link" too. I've seen that on a Vaio or two (there are Vaios with 6 pin connectors on them).
It was so they didn't have to pay Apple for using "Firewire" and avoid calling it IEEE1394.
The 4 pin connector is part of the standard. It doesn't provide bus power (to power devices) like the 6 pin connector does. Plus, it's a smaller connector, to boot (important for things like a camcorder, where space for connectors are scarce).
What the hell are they doing with them? Throwing them against a wall?
I've had my iPod for over a year and it's been working fine. I've had a couple of "oh no" moments when it made a short fall to the floor (2 feet or so), but it's been running fine. And I get excellent battery life.
You need an "authoring" drive and "authoring" media in order to be able to write the CSS keys.
Actually, you can't do that either (with an authoring drive and media). You can store production information that makes the replicator's job easier (as well as enable Macrovision, region codes, etc.), but the actual keys are not writable on DVD-R Authoring equipment, either.
Who's President Butan?
He's been imprisoned by rebels and his son and wife need your help to get the money that he stashed away in a strange bank account for them.
Lookie, lookie, lookie, free repair program (and refunds for those who have already paid).
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Ah, but when you post things here, security is the least of your worries (the /. effect will make it secure by taking the machine down :P ).
I assume you're just joking? It's phtalocyani n e not cyanide
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they made him WRITE CODE that would track what he did in the event he decided to do something unauthorized.
That's kind of like IBM having Microsoft write the OS designed to kill Microsoft's product; we all saw how that turned out...
Why the hell would I trust you to write the code to track what you are doing? Wouldn't you know what to do to get around that tracking system, if you really wanted to do something?
The back end of iTunes is not really BSD; iTunes is a Carbon application (having migrated from SoundJam on OS 9 to iTunes on OS 9 to the current Carbon application you see on OS X 10.2+). While the Carbon API runs atop a BSD backend (Darwin), Carbon itself isn't part of BSD, nor is it easily ported to Linux.
It does fix the issue (having it running and working on my work computer); the software was updated sometime either late on the 16th or early on the 17th (late on the 16th, the download wasn't updated, but when I got up in the morning, it was updated and the issue was fixed).
Except that this story is a bit of a urban legend; some of the reasoning is correct, but it's embellished. http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.htm
It supposed to be until March 2004, at least that's what my postcard said.
Who knows what they will do after that period...they may offer better tiered services (higher download speeds at the same prices they were charging prior to the 2mb upgrade), maybe offer a 256kb upload option, etc.
Ummm...maybe when Linux develops a Quartz drawing layer and Apple ports Carbon (iTunes is a Carbon app) to Linux, then they'll have no excuse. Until then, it's not trivial to port iTunes to Linux.
Just because MacOS X runs atop a BSD core, doesn't mean software running atop MacOSX is back-portable.
Yes, t'was a link for legal movies (not pirated stuff). The issue is that Miramax is blocking the importation of these things. They've successfully blocked companies in the US from selling import discs (not pirate/bootleg ones, but officially licensed ones) and now they're going above and beyond that.
There are settings that could be adjusted in the Neo Geo versions. This is how you can get white blood for Metal Slug in the arcade (settings).
Agetec is just an American company that has done some localizations to the ports done in Japan; SNK guys founded Playmore and rebought the rights to the SNK games from Aruze (the pachinko company that bought up SNK after they went bankrupt).
Playmore is SNK; Playmore is mostly comprised of the former SNK people (lead by former SNK CEO Eikichi Kawasaki); after Aruze (a pachinko company) bought SNK, Playmore was founded and successfully bought the intellectual rights (as Aruze just planned to use the characters in pachinko games). The company was renamed to SNK Playmore (that's the official name).
THIS IS AN EX-PROTOCOL!!
But what about the WHY-PROTOCOL or the ZEE-PROTOCOL?