"Experts told the Herald Sun the CD-pirating kiosks -- with superior sound quality to home burners and able to outwit anti-copying devices -- will be a winner with older users."
I wonder who these so-called experts are
I wonder how they can pretend that a digital copy can have a better sound than another digital copy, if both are identical bit-per-bit
How about the "...able to outwit anti-copying devices" ? Heard of CDRwin/CloneCD/<insert CD-copying program name here>, anyone ?
Please, can we have a break from sensasionalism.
BTW I think this such is a cool idea. Way to go, Aussies !
"...if this action manages to block wireless 911 calls, and someone dies because of that, who's going to be willing to step up to the plate and take the blame?"
What if the jamming effectively ruins some terrorists plans, and prevents a disaster and saves hundreds of lives? But I guess that we'll never know for sure.
I am personally convinced that the various intelligence agencies prevent dozens of terrorist attacks per months, some of them probably of the 9/11 magnitude, without the public realizing simply because the government wants to keep those quiet (no need to shout wolf once the threat is defused).
That will be even more true when the computer drives for these discs will become mainstream. And who cares if the media is rewritable or not: if it's cheap enough, a write-once solution for archiving photos makes perfect sense.
Look what the price for blank CD's is nowadays. Very low.... I buy mine in bulk (50 at a time) and I don't care anymore if I make a few coasters along the way !
I feel obliged to point that those who didn't read this article posted an hour ago regarding Cheap Cell Phone Cameras, have missed the link at the bottom of the page.
Joke apart, it is true that the UI of Unix is so mature now, that people who can grasp it manage to do some real work.
As far as windows go, I'm faced with the fatigue dilemma more and more often these days. For events I am organising, I have to produce posters, presentations, etc. There are tons of cool products out there which can do a lot better than MS Word for publishing, like XPress, Illustrator, Windows Draw, etc., yet what I am still using... MS Word. I just can't be bothered to RTFM every time I am trying new software and the interface is hardly ever the same.
The other day I was desperate to find a program I knew how to use to do some digital imaging, because my main Linux machine died a few days ago (broken motherboard+PSU) and I haven't hasd time to fix yet. So I rushed to find a win32 port of the gimp, which I installed and it runs hapilly:) Feels almost like home..!
The FTC said Rambus had concealed, while taking part in the group's work, that it held one patent and was seeking others that involved specific technologies proposed for, and ultimately adopted in, the relevant standards.
By allegedly concealing this information, in violation of JEDEC's operating rules and procedures, and through other alleged bad-faith, deceptive conduct, the complaint charges that Rambus snookered JEDEC into the "misleading impression that it had no relevant intellectual property rights."
Same old story of patents & intellectual property, monopolies, predatory business practices and crooks (dreaming of) pocketing everybody else money.
The good news in their case, is that the memory prices isn't so bad at the moment. _pfew_
A quartz die is pressed against the silicon, which is melted briefly by a laser.
woah, that sounds easy !
but can someone explain to me how this will make a difference ?
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Are you kidding. Hundreds of hungry geeks (and not all of them from/.) are already email-bombing the poor guy and subscribing him to gay mailing lists:->
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LOL!!! Mod parent up! This was excellent...
;)
By the way, did it occur to you how much storege is 91532109672340969023 emails (the short kind, not the Klez or Nimda kind).
At 5 KB per email, this accounts for 170,491,840,080 TB of disk space. You must have a very large data center and a very wealthy employer
That was a beautiful interview. How come no-one seem to have noticed it before :(
Thank you for bringing it up !
;)
From previous articles, it appears that Walmart doesn't think so.
Thomas, if so, can you reply to this so that we may ask you questions in this forum ?
Imagine that instead of editors sticking a label with your CD-key on the casing, why not engrave it on the CD.
Wanking while watching pr0n CD's just took another dimension.
Please, can we have a break from sensasionalism.
BTW I think this such is a cool idea. Way to go, Aussies !
good point, I don't know you either. you're off the list.
It isn't the first time that this is suggested, and with the increase of case mods posts recently (and others sort of mods), this would make sense.
AYBABTU ?
Oh, that and I have the privilege to be your first fan.
What if the jamming effectively ruins some terrorists plans, and prevents a disaster and saves hundreds of lives? But I guess that we'll never know for sure.
I am personally convinced that the various intelligence agencies prevent dozens of terrorist attacks per months, some of them probably of the 9/11 magnitude, without the public realizing simply because the government wants to keep those quiet (no need to shout wolf once the threat is defused).
Can anyone recommend good sites listing recipes ?
This one really got me.
For crying out loud, this is supposed to be a fridge !!!
While the article is over 2 years old, the logic behind the man's reasonning is still very actual and he raises some good points.
So I multiply by 4, add 9, divide by 11 .... 8=)
Look what the price for blank CD's is nowadays. Very low.... I buy mine in bulk (50 at a time) and I don't care anymore if I make a few coasters along the way !
That's right. Philips' blue lasers shrink discs.
Let me guess the next story.... IBM opens Linux technology center ? ;)
bash$ kill -9 <pid>
Joke apart, it is true that the UI of Unix is so mature now, that people who can grasp it manage to do some real work.
As far as windows go, I'm faced with the fatigue dilemma more and more often these days. For events I am organising, I have to produce posters, presentations, etc. There are tons of cool products out there which can do a lot better than MS Word for publishing, like XPress, Illustrator, Windows Draw, etc., yet what I am still using... MS Word. I just can't be bothered to RTFM every time I am trying new software and the interface is hardly ever the same.
The other day I was desperate to find a program I knew how to use to do some digital imaging, because my main Linux machine died a few days ago (broken motherboard+PSU) and I haven't hasd time to fix yet. So I rushed to find a win32 port of the gimp, which I installed and it runs hapilly :) Feels almost like home..!
www.cisco.com, 1 page (1996)
www.microsoft.com, 5 pages (1996)
www.ibm.com, 7 pages (1996)
This is in the FAQ.
Hmm, you're right it doesn't. I probably had patent pending in mind and must have been confused while posting. heh.
By allegedly concealing this information, in violation of JEDEC's operating rules and procedures, and through other alleged bad-faith, deceptive conduct, the complaint charges that Rambus snookered JEDEC into the "misleading impression that it had no relevant intellectual property rights."
Same old story of patents & intellectual property, monopolies, predatory business practices and crooks (dreaming of) pocketing everybody else money.
The good news in their case, is that the memory prices isn't so bad at the moment. _pfew_
woah, that sounds easy !
but can someone explain to me how this will make a difference ?
Unless he manages to put anti-spam filters in place, he's toast.