Again, I was speaking *hypothetically*. So 1000 is a stupid number to burn this way, fine. We have duplicators (1 read, 7 burn) that take standard off-the-shelf drives. Maybe SCSI only, I don't know...so this may be moot unless they come out with a SCSI version. Maybe some guy comes in and only wants 100 burned. The faster we can turn out those 100 CD-R jobs, the more of them we can do.
I just responded to someone who said it was pointless with a *possible* reason why it *might* make sense.
Christ, people on/. can be assholes...especially the anonymous ones.
Well, that could be. I just pulled that number out of my arse. Maybe we're talking bands only getting 100 CDs. I'd have to check with our production folks to find out what the average runs are we do.
Totally agreed. I'm happy with 20x. I tend not to burn things (personally) faster than 16x just because I tend to make more coasters, but then I personally buy whatever the cheapest CD-R media is at the time.
I don't know. We tend to use Mitsui Gold CD-Rs which are only available up to 24x right now, but will soon be available up to 48x certified. We'll be using the best available media regardless of whether we're burning at 1x or 40x.
Think of a small run CD-R house that uses CD-R towers for burning. Let's say they have two or three of these and they do CD-R burning for their customers (think small area bands who can't afford going to large CD replication houses and ordering 5000+ stamped CDs).
If they're trying to burn 1,000 CD-Rs and they can save 28,000 seconds (nearly eight hours), it translates into doing more of these 1,000 CD-R jobs (or even 500 CD-R jobs) per month, per year, etc.
Fifty thousand dollars strapped to each thigh. A hundred thousand dollars, in 10 bricks of hundreds, taped across my upper back. Fifty thousand more Velcroed to my chest.
...I stroll through Logan International Airport....There's enough money hidden under my clothes to buy a two-bedroom condo.
Uh, not in Boston. You'll be lucky to get a converted basement in Roxbury with only 200 grand.
Um...read that again: 50Gs per thigh = 100Gs + 100Gs on back + 50Gs on chest = 250,000...which still may not get you much real estate in Boston.
Cable Subscriber: What the fuck is their complaint?
Cable Exec: Well...see...we did some math and figured that we could sell cable internet services for $n per month and make a profit doing so. Our original calculations were based on assumptions about average customer usage. To make a long story short: we fucked up. It turns out there are people using WAY more bandwidth than we ever bargained for...and we find our profits unsatisfactory. So, we are rectifying our prior mistake. If you don't like it, take your business elsewhere...
How much wasted GPU cycles will there be? I mean, even die-hard gamers don't do it 24/7/365...So if a few thousand get out there in desktops that are only taxing these cards a few hours a day, how long until somebody writes a distributed processing app like seti@home or The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search to run on these GPUs?
There exists a simple instant messaging system that works well regardless of what client you use. It has been in existence for decades. And...it is often ten times faster than AIM et. al.
To wit: the telephone
If you want to talk to someone immediately, pick up the GD phone. Unless you're deaf, (in which case you're typing on TTY) you can communicate way faster and clearer than over a stupid "chat" program anyhow.
I don't care who RIAA is suing now. I will not be a party to it. The RIAA can't sue me as I have no d/l-ed MP3s and do not partake in the sharing of them.
So, Fsck you, CmdrTaco for the subject "RIAA to Sue You Now", assuming all us/.-ers are trading illegal MP3s.
And as long as the MPAA doesn't get the same idea, I'll be just fine...
So, buying the soundtrack on its own, without the movie or special features only knocks $2 off the price.
That made me think: Perhaps the problem is the sheer arrogance of the music industry. They think that of all the content on a $16 DVD, the music contributes 87.5% of the value! The actual movie, extras, etc. are relatively unimportant at only 12.5% of the value...Shit! I get it now! The only reason we watch movies is FOR THE MUSIC!!!
Yeah, but here's a good example of a DVD that I thought was worth the purchase: Almost Famous. Now, say what you will about whether you liked the movie or not, because it's a moot point.
The DVD, for ~USD$25 came with:
One DVD with theatrical release, plus directors narrative audio track
One DVD with "directors cut" of the film, before it was titled
An audio CD with six songs "by" Stillwater
Now, that audio CD is in my car and gets listened to frequently. I've watched the theatrical release and the "Untitled" version several times each, and listened to the aggrandizing directors audio commentary track.
More importantly, you couldn't buy the audio CD elsewhere...(that I know of). Point being: the movie studios are generally better at understanding what it takes to make the experience and packaging the whole thing for the consumer. It makes it a better buy. Your average CD is one to three good songs you'll soon be sick of hearing because of heavy rotation and seven to ten you'll never hear on the radio and be thankful for it.
It's natural that one will sell and the other will falter without artificial rules and restrictions to prop it up.
That being said, The Eminem Show my friend let me borrow is a good listen (mostly because it makes me laugh) but something I would never buy because to me, it's not worth USD$18.
Copying a DVD with a DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW burner is ok if you want to lose (or completely redo) the menus, extra features, etc. If all you want to copy is the film track itself, ok, but because all the DVD (re)writeable formats are single layer, many DVDs require a 2:1 burned DVD to original DVD ratio. So, your menus will not work unless you redo them.
And if all you want is the film itself, get yourself a decent DVD player and rip the DVD to SVCD on a CD-R. Much cheaper than burning DVDs and (imho) just as good quality.
On another note, I d/l-ed a DVD to SVCD rip of LoTR/FoTR that took 4 CD-Rs to burn, but is excellent quality. I will buy this DVD. Call me what you will for supporting the companies that try to thwart fair use, etc. but it's good and I expect additional features on the DVD would hook me if the movie itself hadn't already.
Actually, "switch" is market-speak. They are actually multi-port bridges that may or may not be bridging between unlike topologies (ethernet to token-ring, etc.). But, see, bridges were typically 2-ported. And they were often used to "bridge" between unlike topologies. When someone came up with the idea of making a bridge with more than 2 ports that would bridge between multiple wire segments even of similar topologies, well...it was just easier for marketing to call it a "switch" instead of give a big, long description of what it actually is...a really cool, tricked out bridge.
...invest $750 million in China... ...the deal...covers...local training... ..."There's no real commitment that I would say is part of the agreement that we signed," Ballmer said ...success of Microsoft...dependent upon the growth of local industry ...Microsoft...complained...lack of enforcement of intellectual property rights...stunted...homegrown software industry. ...China's desire...was an incentive to improving intellectual property protection. ...having...domestic market...local Chinese companies...intellectual property...even more important... ...Some...encouraged...Linux...
Well, while I think the Linux thing plays a small part, I think it's fairly obvious the main thing Microsoft is interested in doing is getting some Chinese politicians on its side in the piracy battle. It seems obvious MS is talking to Chinese officials about improving IP protections (which is another way of saying "cracking down on piracy") and trying to convince them they need to do it if they want Chinese companies to produce software for sale...because of course, nobody writes software if they can't make money at it.
It also seems the agreement is probably like this: "You Chinese guys will take this money, and you won't actually have to do anything except let us set up some 'training' facilities and 'software colleges' to indoctrinate your people on the importance of our^H^H^Hintellectual property rights."
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Again, I was speaking *hypothetically*. So 1000 is a stupid number to burn this way, fine. We have duplicators (1 read, 7 burn) that take standard off-the-shelf drives. Maybe SCSI only, I don't know...so this may be moot unless they come out with a SCSI version. Maybe some guy comes in and only wants 100 burned. The faster we can turn out those 100 CD-R jobs, the more of them we can do.
/. can be assholes...especially the anonymous ones.
I just responded to someone who said it was pointless with a *possible* reason why it *might* make sense.
Christ, people on
Well, that could be. I just pulled that number out of my arse. Maybe we're talking bands only getting 100 CDs. I'd have to check with our production folks to find out what the average runs are we do.
Totally agreed. I'm happy with 20x. I tend not to burn things (personally) faster than 16x just because I tend to make more coasters, but then I personally buy whatever the cheapest CD-R media is at the time.
You make about as much sense as a schizophrenic. Forget your meds today?
I don't know. We tend to use Mitsui Gold CD-Rs which are only available up to 24x right now, but will soon be available up to 48x certified. We'll be using the best available media regardless of whether we're burning at 1x or 40x.
Burning a 4.7G data DVD-R on my Pioneer DVR-A03 takes about 45 minutes.
Think of a small run CD-R house that uses CD-R towers for burning. Let's say they have two or three of these and they do CD-R burning for their customers (think small area bands who can't afford going to large CD replication houses and ordering 5000+ stamped CDs).
If they're trying to burn 1,000 CD-Rs and they can save 28,000 seconds (nearly eight hours), it translates into doing more of these 1,000 CD-R jobs (or even 500 CD-R jobs) per month, per year, etc.
Which translates into making more money.
Make sense now?
Your shop class teacher only had one finger on his left hand?
How many fingers did the students have left after his "instruction" ??
Cable Subscriber: What the fuck is their complaint?
Cable Exec: Well...see...we did some math and figured that we could sell cable internet services for $n per month and make a profit doing so. Our original calculations were based on assumptions about average customer usage. To make a long story short: we fucked up. It turns out there are people using WAY more bandwidth than we ever bargained for...and we find our profits unsatisfactory. So, we are rectifying our prior mistake. If you don't like it, take your business elsewhere...
- It's true
- It is a viable product
- reliable drivers become available
- people buy them
How much wasted GPU cycles will there be? I mean, even die-hard gamers don't do it 24/7/365...So if a few thousand get out there in desktops that are only taxing these cards a few hours a day, how long until somebody writes a distributed processing app like seti@home or The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search to run on these GPUs?I mean, if people can trick the TCP stack into doing distributed math, they can certainly trick these GPUs into doing it to...
..."All your brain are belong to us!"
So, I take it you believe anyone who thinks we have a right to fair use must be a criminal?
Please...
Two words: Internet Telephony
There exists a simple instant messaging system that works well regardless of what client you use. It has been in existence for decades. And...it is often ten times faster than AIM et. al.
To wit: the telephone
If you want to talk to someone immediately, pick up the GD phone. Unless you're deaf, (in which case you're typing on TTY) you can communicate way faster and clearer than over a stupid "chat" program anyhow.
Stupid geeks.
I don't care who RIAA is suing now. I will not be a party to it. The RIAA can't sue me as I have no d/l-ed MP3s and do not partake in the sharing of them.
/.-ers are trading illegal MP3s.
So, Fsck you, CmdrTaco for the subject "RIAA to Sue You Now", assuming all us
And as long as the MPAA doesn't get the same idea, I'll be just fine...
Yeah, and they'll be collecting that $200,000 too.
Far be it from Microsoft to leave money on the table.
And some of us prefer .tar.gz <grin>
The DVD, for ~USD$25 came with:
- One DVD with theatrical release, plus directors narrative audio track
- One DVD with "directors cut" of the film, before it was titled
- An audio CD with six songs "by" Stillwater
Now, that audio CD is in my car and gets listened to frequently. I've watched the theatrical release and the "Untitled" version several times each, and listened to the aggrandizing directors audio commentary track.More importantly, you couldn't buy the audio CD elsewhere...(that I know of). Point being: the movie studios are generally better at understanding what it takes to make the experience and packaging the whole thing for the consumer. It makes it a better buy. Your average CD is one to three good songs you'll soon be sick of hearing because of heavy rotation and seven to ten you'll never hear on the radio and be thankful for it.
It's natural that one will sell and the other will falter without artificial rules and restrictions to prop it up.
That being said, The Eminem Show my friend let me borrow is a good listen (mostly because it makes me laugh) but something I would never buy because to me, it's not worth USD$18.
Copying a DVD with a DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW burner is ok if you want to lose (or completely redo) the menus, extra features, etc. If all you want to copy is the film track itself, ok, but because all the DVD (re)writeable formats are single layer, many DVDs require a 2:1 burned DVD to original DVD ratio. So, your menus will not work unless you redo them.
And if all you want is the film itself, get yourself a decent DVD player and rip the DVD to SVCD on a CD-R. Much cheaper than burning DVDs and (imho) just as good quality.
On another note, I d/l-ed a DVD to SVCD rip of LoTR/FoTR that took 4 CD-Rs to burn, but is excellent quality. I will buy this DVD. Call me what you will for supporting the companies that try to thwart fair use, etc. but it's good and I expect additional features on the DVD would hook me if the movie itself hadn't already.
It also seems the agreement is probably like this: "You Chinese guys will take this money, and you won't actually have to do anything except let us set up some 'training' facilities and 'software colleges' to indoctrinate your people on the importance of our^H^H^Hintellectual property rights."
Phase 3: Profit
I have to admit, you've finally come up with a scheme wherein phase 2 is known up front... congratulations!