Per the article, 0.5 hrs of video is 75G, and the tape will hold 4 hrs, therefor the raw capacity of the tape is 600G.
<smirk> Hopefully, they'll come out with a computer data drive version of this device... so I can archive all my pirated DVDs. </smirk>
(Actually, there's a company already with a VHS data drive. I think it's Exabyte, and I think it's far short of 600G per tape.)
As for their copy protection... when will they get it through their head!...actually, management/marketing (@ JVC) might already understand that it's a futile effort, but hype it anyway because the pro-MPAA people are too stupid to fully understand the mechanism, and doing so keeps the lawyers at bay.
No, Washington (state) law does NOT have that provision. It got struck down by the court about a year ago over state to state jurisdictional issues when the state's prosecuting attorney tried to LART a spammer in Oregon.
The places I've worked, it wouldn't matter if you dialed the number directly... every desk had every incoming line on the phone. Either way, you had to go through the receptionist. Plus, there were more extensions than incoming lines, so you couldn't dial a desk directly, anyway.
BTW... voice mail is here to stay. Deal with it. Not because it's more efficient on allocated numbers or for customers, but because you can get rid of some employees.
Currently, offices/businesses that multiple lines in have a phone number (BTN, billed telephone number) for each and every line. Only one of those numbers is really needed, as the first one rolls over to each folowing number when that line is busy. If the local carriers would assign only ONE number to a multiline phone connection that's gonna be set up as a rollover system anyway, many numbers could be recovered. (Of course, they'd be used up in the homes where one line has multiple numbers.)
The additional advantage to this is that the outgoing caller ID data on any of the lines would be the same number, the known telephone number of the company. (Where I work, people are always calling back our higher numbered lines, and sometimes running into busy signals because of it... even when I leave our primary number on their answering machine.)
Keep in mind, "tax cuts" and "spending cuts" are two different things. Do you really think that if we mindlessly cut taxes, that Congress will cut spending to match? Didn't Reagan try that, and send the debt from 1 to 3 trillion or so during his term?
Taxes were cut at one point during Reagan's term, and revenues WENT UP. (That's right, lower tax rate, higher revenues.) The problem was that the (democrat controlled) congress upped spending more than the added revenue allowed for.
REMEMBER: The congress is the one that ultimately controls spending and taxes, not the president. (Unless it's the FCC levying a constitutionally illegal tax like the Universal Access Charge.)
When people run listservs that don't require confirmation, they run a process that can be easily used to harass and DOS attack other people. Every heard of a listserv bomb? (i.e. subscribing your enemy to every listserv you can)
I wonder how this is gonna affect the patent on my diesel powered pogo-stick.
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As a partially informed/ignorant Linux user, I went to see if I was running "bind"...
It's probably worth mentioning that the program "named" (as seen in the service control activity panel of LinuxConf) is "bind".
Regarding the patent for the cat exercisor...
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05443036__
Notice how the patent describes invisible light, to produce a bright pattern of light. Uhh... you can see invisible light?
This patent invalidates itself. But it's still funny that the morons at the patent office approved it.
Y'all've heard of 'dem "easter eggs" 'dem software guys are puttin' in da programs?
Per the article, 0.5 hrs of video is 75G, and the tape will hold 4 hrs, therefor the raw capacity of the tape is 600G.
...actually, management/marketing (@ JVC) might already understand that it's a futile effort, but hype it anyway because the pro-MPAA people are too stupid to fully understand the mechanism, and doing so keeps the lawyers at bay.
.sig line, I'll put it here
<smirk> Hopefully, they'll come out with a computer data drive version of this device... so I can archive all my pirated DVDs. </smirk>
(Actually, there's a company already with a VHS data drive. I think it's Exabyte, and I think it's far short of 600G per tape.)
As for their copy protection... when will they get it through their head!
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When I get a whitty
No, Washington (state) law does NOT have that provision. It got struck down by the court about a year ago over state to state jurisdictional issues when the state's prosecuting attorney tried to LART a spammer in Oregon.
IANAL-BILIW I am not a lawyer, but I live in WA
The places I've worked, it wouldn't matter if you dialed the number directly... every desk had every incoming line on the phone. Either way, you had to go through the receptionist. Plus, there were more extensions than incoming lines, so you couldn't dial a desk directly, anyway.
BTW... voice mail is here to stay. Deal with it. Not because it's more efficient on allocated numbers or for customers, but because you can get rid of some employees.
Currently, offices/businesses that multiple lines in have a phone number (BTN, billed telephone number) for each and every line. Only one of those numbers is really needed, as the first one rolls over to each folowing number when that line is busy. If the local carriers would assign only ONE number to a multiline phone connection that's gonna be set up as a rollover system anyway, many numbers could be recovered. (Of course, they'd be used up in the homes where one line has multiple numbers.)
The additional advantage to this is that the outgoing caller ID data on any of the lines would be the same number, the known telephone number of the company. (Where I work, people are always calling back our higher numbered lines, and sometimes running into busy signals because of it... even when I leave our primary number on their answering machine.)
...and it should be named "Slash-Bot". ("/bot for short)
Keep in mind, "tax cuts" and "spending cuts" are two different things. Do you really think that if we mindlessly cut taxes, that Congress will cut spending to match? Didn't Reagan try that, and send the debt from 1 to 3 trillion or so during his term?
Taxes were cut at one point during Reagan's term, and revenues WENT UP. (That's right, lower tax rate, higher revenues.) The problem was that the (democrat controlled) congress upped spending more than the added revenue allowed for.
REMEMBER: The congress is the one that ultimately controls spending and taxes, not the president. (Unless it's the FCC levying a constitutionally illegal tax like the Universal Access Charge.)
When people run listservs that don't require confirmation, they run a process that can be easily used to harass and DOS attack other people. Every heard of a listserv bomb? (i.e. subscribing your enemy to every listserv you can)
I wonder how this is gonna affect the patent on my diesel powered pogo-stick.
The website of the class action settlement in the story is temporarily unavailable due to exceeding their bandwidth limit. (http://www.cdrecorderclassnotice.com) Could someone please mirror it? (I got a P.O.S. hp6020 to rid myself of!)