Racism isn't tolerated? It is, in fact browse over to CmdrTaco's page and you might find something. In this type of situation there are many, many views which get modded up and down - deal with it.
But you are a troll: you have little idea what you are speaking about.
Do you know how many people "The Church" has killed in cold blooded persecution? Shamanism in Europe (the real witch hunts), Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land - people who came to Rome to "find" the Holy Grail... Spain, Spain, Spain............
You say that these Priests are being wrongfully "prosecuted" although they are not. There are many who won't even be persecuted because the statute has run out; The Church has covered it up and the public will never see the evidence - there won't be a conviction.
There won't be an Internet site which lists there names with other sex offenders.
When you belong to such in institution which not only ignores the law of the country you reside in (Render unto Caeser...) but has covered up and not prevented more crimes you should leave that institution or do what you can to clear things up.
The "Church" is horrible. IMHO (thinking on my own!) it's out of date and now only exists for political reasons. (As it always has)
We have a right to not just believe them because they are a religious institution. If you don't want to hold them accountable then you deserve your reward.
ATM's were also known to not be the most secure item when they were invented, but they are only as secure as you are [duh].
Fraud is a considerable thing to deal with for a bank - many times the person who was defrauded demands not to pay and the bank does as their customers want. Getting your ATM card stolen by someone you know can cost you a lot of money - sometimes up to ten times more than you lost if you try to push on with the investigation. A bank isn't the police, and the police can do little in these situations even when there IS a picture. In the end more is lost that what was stolen in the first place.
Fingerprint technology could bring those fees down, but we will need to see it work.
But where is the Fee? It's basically the same as that sticker in your car that pays the toll or the barcode on your keychain that charges gas to your credit or debit card.
Adding fees would destroy such a flimsy top-level service and force it into the hands of Mastercard or Visa which only get paid when you use it anyway.
Fees? It's your money - learn where to shop it around.
I would hack upon this idea yet and make it scary. If you use a debit or credit card you've already tied your purchases to yourself. I don't mind if the police or the store knows I buy the cheap Zippo fluid and not the real thing.
Sometimes people actually don't care about privacy - they want technology to work for them to make things like shopping easier.
The problem I have is when you have to give them a fingerprint for food. Just because this system has been "invented" doesn't mean we must become evil. That will be up to us.
The most obvious thing would be not only Linux on DC, but the other applications.
Imagine your cool Dreamcast MP3 player with no disc swapping because the MP3's are on the drive. It sucks now, even though I have all my MP3's on CD because I must swap and look for the CD I want to play.
Imagine the cool shit - rip CD's to the drive and you've got a cheap unit similar to the HP or the others.
I'm excited! I loved the Dreamcast - IMHO the coolest console to come out in a long time. For some reason I scoff at the new ones because my love runs so deep. Fsck Xbox, PS2 and GC!
"WHY SHOULD ANY ARTIST, OF ANY KIND, CONTINUE CREATING NEW WORK, EKING OUT AN EXISTENCE IN PURSUIT OF A CAREER, FOLLOWING THE MUSE, WHEN LITTLE INTERNET THIEVES, RODENTS WITHOUT ETHIC OR UNDERSTANDING, STEAL AND STEAL AND STEAL, CONVENIENCING THEMSELVES AND "SCREW THE AUTHOR"? WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS THE DEATH OF THE PROFESSIONAL WRITER!"
Now, because of the DMCA do we go to the library and remove all the fictional works? My county has a wonderful library system which contains so many works I couldn't guess how many individual books, audio, microfilm, movies and other forms of media.
My local system takes donations, buys media and even copies a few things. There are several texts which are printed and bound for them - so you can borrow them.
Certainly non-fiction is information, but are works of fiction? We have library systems; reading is not only a way to gain knowledge - but a fruitful way to entertain yourself. I can "check out" Ellison's work almost indefinitely.
Do we now have precedent to shut down the library system? If he wins does that mean that we don't have a right to read his work without paying a fee?
I think I'm starting to see a future where we have to pay to see everything...
I see a future where there are powerful computers which are used just like our computers today.
There will be devices throughout your house which may connect to this main computer (so you don't have to get up to see what is in the fridge) - but they will stand on their own as well.
As high speed internet trickles into every home the reality of these devices will become clearer.
Maybe your toaster is a computer - but simply a dumb terminal as your 10GHZ desktop does all the work.
We are already seeing devices spin off of the PC. MP3 players - both for your component system and elsewhere. We are seeing console video games which are tiny PC's [Think Dreamcast and up].
The future hopefully will be voice based interaction with these machines. My hands hurt now.
I praise the points the OSS community makes when it complains about people like nVidia, who release drivers but not trade secrets, or a company which only gives the community so much information to get the device to work.
I understand their need. What if it doesn't work. Not having the source makes it almost impossible for there to be a good work around. What if you want to do something cool with your device? You can't until more is known.
BUT! In some cases your device manufacturer may have just sold that same source code for a pretty penny. You can't expect them to publish on the web as well. If they are subcontracting - making hardware for a non-computer company then don't expect them to reveal all the secrets.
Let them support the hardware first. Sometimes there are things you may not understand that keeps them from just saying:
"HERE IS HOW THE DEVICE WORKS! - COMPETITORS PLEASE COPY IT"
My regional power company mainly burns coal. This is going to cost them a fortune because of new legislation [that I agree with] to cut down on DEATH.
Enron was the groundbreakers when it came to buying and selling power - look where they ended up. Many companies have moved back to the notion of "this power is ours - get your own".
Of course Bush still runs the show - fucking faggot.
The problem is they are selling a system, a course to learn how to copy DVD's.
You can do it now legally, it's called fair use. If you have the DeCSS code [which can be found most anywhere] or a closed source imitation [usually with an interface] you can extract the movie data.
Then simply convert to mpeg-1 and viola!.
There is an unlimited amount of tools to do this - but you could also get a DivX;-) copy and convert that to mpeg-1.
I would suggest getting this for a Windows platform because it can handle any movie type that you can play in Media Player. There are two versions out there but the 'free' version's site looks to be down so the link above is to the "Plus" homepage.
Now that you have an mpeg-1 movie file simply convert it with GNU's VCDImager. There are versions for both Windows and Linux [Hell, even solaris and MacOSX of course, it's GNU]. I also see there are frontends for most platforms.
Works very well. Let me say though it's easier to download a DivX and break the law because fair use has been removed from the system.
Everything posted before this seems to knock this idea.
Granted it's not the best - people are letting other current problems stand in the way.
So, let's recap:
Lower the cost of getting things in orbit. Make better working solar cells. Costs too much [for whatever other reason].
Of course we could change these things. If my local power plant could take in some money for investing in such a crazy system we might actually see something like it.
Maybe it would be better for other situations like storing emergency power or making batteries for space craft....
In this case it's gotten to the point where other products can't enter the market because of the controlling power of said company.
It's almost sick that innovations can't be made. I'm not being an open source zealot here - there are other proprietary projects which also have problems.
Hardware vendors are getting shoved into crazy deals that limit their own business.
The funniest thing I've heard lately was this; coming from a guy who bought XP and is waiting to install it because some of his old flight sims don't work:
"I'm going to wait until Microsoft releases a fix - they don't work now on XP"
They don't care. They already have the market - if you want to develop a "fix" you need to buy their coding software and work with incomplete or hidden API's.
After going from XP on one machine from 98 I have accidentally "broke" USB on my system; which is only two years old. It's simply not supported or tested. We are talking the USB chipset, not the whole system.
There are a number of things that need to be fixed at Microsoft; if need be it will be the law that fixes them because the situation is out of hand.
It's almost as if there is some sort of mind control going on.
Bill sends waves to certain people and they respond with:
"Bill Gates will lead us through the computer revolution!!!"
I don't think they have perfected this trick using your monitor; alas they have been trying and getting people for years.
Because of this people have placed that 800 pound primate on their own backs. The mind share has been extended to the senate, state's attorneys and federal government.
No one feels like the world would continue if Microsoft was to be punished. People fear the "future" will never come - in terms of their imaginations.
The funny thing is I browse over to freshmeat and see projects for everything. I can see the seeds of the "future" in all these projects that mainly one person works on.
There can be a 640 pound primate out there but something needs to be done.
People need to realize that one company can't be producing all the code, dictating what projects could be squashed and making choices for the computing future.
As week look forward into the future we realize that computers - no matter how simple - will be in our lives.
It's going to be hard as things get more complicated - a precedent needs to be set.
You bought a phone AND[!] signed the contract. Did you read the contract? Chances are they do in fact 0wn your phone.
I have worked with and around mobile phones since cellular and up until now and the big bust of digital carriers.
Many [i.e. Verizon] companies started out as Cellular and still work on the same principles. They are buying the phone for you and selling it to you at a significant loss.
A local company that is now part of Verizon would, for example, sell you a Star TAC for $99 but they still 0wned the phone. They wouldn't go to great lenghts to retrieve it if you canceled your contract because you would have to pay the lump sum to get out of it. That lump sum is for the phone itself - not for any service.
Your contract isn't for service at all. Maybe it is. You would have to be stupid or desperate to get into a wireless contract today. I was a GTE customer when they rolled out in my area [one of the first] and ever since then Cellular has been dead.
Great quality, CDMA, no contracts, low minute charges and cool phones.
The down side to this new wireless telephone access is that when you buy a phone at the mall it is a "Sprint Phone" or a "Cingular Phone" - it's not "My Phone".
Actually if you watch the ads you will see that they advertise phones as "Get this nifty, cool, Sprint phone" but not "Get this nifty, cool, Nokia phone".
Alas, this was the reason that if you had provided your own equipment in the old Cellular game you could get out of signing the contract.
Imagine your local ISP sells you a computer for $49. You pay them a monthly fee for net access. He isn't going to let you move with it and likely they are going to make you sign a contract to recover the costs of your machine.
I don't mean thumbnails - and there is no need to 'peek' inside each file. The content is known just as fast as the file name.
Also, there is no "three character limit". For years I've been working in different MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 applications which will only save to four characters.
Good idea to rely on those letters which anyone could/can/will/does change.
How long will the Scientologists trample freedom of speech, expression, and fair use, until Congress gets it into their thick skulls that this is a BAD RELIGION, and repeals it?
The Co$ seems to be all about ruining everything not involved in the Co$. If that is your gov't then you should worry!
Before there was CDMA, the days when there was cellular ONLY the phone was "Free!!" -...but there was a contract.
The thing was the phone cost nothing, a penny or maybe $100 in the case of the "cooler" ones. The phone was being paid for by the cellular provider because you were signing a contract.
But what was the contract for? In many cases the contract wasn't for service at all. Sure, it's nice to have a steady customer for years - but you just gave some idiot a $400 phone for free so you need to collect on that.
It would be like the cable company giving out Tivo's for "Only $20!!". They may disable some features and not let you move with it but you would have to sign something right?
I'm guessing that there is a loophole that let's them not "unlock" the phones. They are taking a loss on every phone sold.
Who believes the phones with wireless web and vibrating features cost $39.95? I don't.
It's quite a problem working on a XP/2000/9x machine which won't show me mpeg files when looking for mpg and the reverse.
There is little need for extensions what so ever when you are working in a graphical environment. The GUI can assign icons to types [if someone hasn't already monopolized on that media type and got their icon on the 'top].
In a console based environment there is also little need. Most users know what files are what and if they don't there is sometimes a color coding involved which helps you know what you can edit. [of course jpeg is little use to a console user].
As far as I know linux has no problem reading the content headers of files but I'm not an expert, just a user. I assume this is done on the interface level, somone speak up!
With lowering memory prices, and the fact that last years PC memory goes into next years [insert crap product here] why isn't part of the solution smarter drives?
What would be wrong with a CD-ROM which reads ahead during idle and records it's information into memory? Sometimes you wouldn't even need to spin the disk [er, disc] at all.
I've got 384 MB in my desktop and that cost about the same of a no-name CD-ROM. Offer a CD-ROM which advertises "UP TO!" a speed.
Of course you would need a gigabyte of RAM to cover most discs [some do go up to 99 Minute!] at 'on the fly' reading would be limited to the 52x. But while playing audio, mp3s, games, movies, etc there could be an awsome read ahead.
But then again my solution to computer limits is almost always making components 'smarter'. My question can fit here: "Why not use Pentium I's in CD-ROMS?"
Videocards have gotten that market attention that they have processors which are half my CPU's speed - why not have 10 components which use 350MHZ chips and let them do the work?
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Racism isn't tolerated? It is, in fact browse over to CmdrTaco's page and you might find something. In this type of situation there are many, many views which get modded up and down - deal with it.
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But you are a troll: you have little idea what you are speaking about.
Do you know how many people "The Church" has killed in cold blooded persecution? Shamanism in Europe (the real witch hunts), Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land - people who came to Rome to "find" the Holy Grail... Spain, Spain, Spain...
You say that these Priests are being wrongfully "prosecuted" although they are not. There are many who won't even be persecuted because the statute has run out; The Church has covered it up and the public will never see the evidence - there won't be a conviction.
There won't be an Internet site which lists there names with other sex offenders.
When you belong to such in institution which not only ignores the law of the country you reside in (Render unto Caeser...) but has covered up and not prevented more crimes you should leave that institution or do what you can to clear things up.
The "Church" is horrible. IMHO (thinking on my own!) it's out of date and now only exists for political reasons. (As it always has)
We have a right to not just believe them because they are a religious institution. If you don't want to hold them accountable then you deserve your reward.
Who said there would be no fraud in 'net banking?
ATM's were also known to not be the most secure item when they were invented, but they are only as secure as you are [duh].
Fraud is a considerable thing to deal with for a bank - many times the person who was defrauded demands not to pay and the bank does as their customers want. Getting your ATM card stolen by someone you know can cost you a lot of money - sometimes up to ten times more than you lost if you try to push on with the investigation. A bank isn't the police, and the police can do little in these situations even when there IS a picture. In the end more is lost that what was stolen in the first place.
Fingerprint technology could bring those fees down, but we will need to see it work.
But where is the Fee? It's basically the same as that sticker in your car that pays the toll or the barcode on your keychain that charges gas to your credit or debit card.
Adding fees would destroy such a flimsy top-level service and force it into the hands of Mastercard or Visa which only get paid when you use it anyway.
Fees? It's your money - learn where to shop it around.
I would hack upon this idea yet and make it scary. If you use a debit or credit card you've already tied your purchases to yourself. I don't mind if the police or the store knows I buy the cheap Zippo fluid and not the real thing.
Sometimes people actually don't care about privacy - they want technology to work for them to make things like shopping easier.
The problem I have is when you have to give them a fingerprint for food. Just because this system has been "invented" doesn't mean we must become evil. That will be up to us.
The most obvious thing would be not only Linux on DC, but the other applications.
Imagine your cool Dreamcast MP3 player with no disc swapping because the MP3's are on the drive. It sucks now, even though I have all my MP3's on CD because I must swap and look for the CD I want to play.
Imagine the cool shit - rip CD's to the drive and you've got a cheap unit similar to the HP or the others.
I'm excited! I loved the Dreamcast - IMHO the coolest console to come out in a long time. For some reason I scoff at the new ones because my love runs so deep. Fsck Xbox, PS2 and GC!
Dreamcast I Love You! - Please Don't Die
I'm lame, mod me as such
Too bad it's not protected under the First Amendment!
Now, because of the DMCA do we go to the library and remove all the fictional works? My county has a wonderful library system which contains so many works I couldn't guess how many individual books, audio, microfilm, movies and other forms of media.
My local system takes donations, buys media and even copies a few things. There are several texts which are printed and bound for them - so you can borrow them.
Certainly non-fiction is information, but are works of fiction? We have library systems; reading is not only a way to gain knowledge - but a fruitful way to entertain yourself. I can "check out" Ellison's work almost indefinitely.
Do we now have precedent to shut down the library system? If he wins does that mean that we don't have a right to read his work without paying a fee?
I think I'm starting to see a future where we have to pay to see everything...
Vegas not for geeks?
What about the hacker conventions?
It's marketing. That's all.
Look at your Best Buy [boycott!] ad next time it comes. You always see rebates for *NEW!!* AV software and Peter Norton's products.
They never work with the older versions of Windows - and these companies always make a fortune off of new releases of that OS.
So why buy stock in Microsoft when you should be buying it in McAfee and Symantec.
First: love the sig.
I see a future where there are powerful computers which are used just like our computers today.
There will be devices throughout your house which may connect to this main computer (so you don't have to get up to see what is in the fridge) - but they will stand on their own as well.
As high speed internet trickles into every home the reality of these devices will become clearer.
Maybe your toaster is a computer - but simply a dumb terminal as your 10GHZ desktop does all the work.
We are already seeing devices spin off of the PC. MP3 players - both for your component system and elsewhere. We are seeing console video games which are tiny PC's [Think Dreamcast and up].
The future hopefully will be voice based interaction with these machines. My hands hurt now.
I praise the points the OSS community makes when it complains about people like nVidia, who release drivers but not trade secrets, or a company which only gives the community so much information to get the device to work.
I understand their need. What if it doesn't work. Not having the source makes it almost impossible for there to be a good work around. What if you want to do something cool with your device? You can't until more is known.
BUT! In some cases your device manufacturer may have just sold that same source code for a pretty penny. You can't expect them to publish on the web as well. If they are subcontracting - making hardware for a non-computer company then don't expect them to reveal all the secrets.
Let them support the hardware first. Sometimes there are things you may not understand that keeps them from just saying:
The hardware business is one of secrecy.
The question was... "What is actively supported"
Not what isn't.
"Sheesh, I just want my company to buy some real networking equipment..."
Please don't tell me you work for my ISP. Some how I'd believe you.
What man?
My regional power company mainly burns coal. This is going to cost them a fortune because of new legislation [that I agree with] to cut down on DEATH.
Enron was the groundbreakers when it came to buying and selling power - look where they ended up. Many companies have moved back to the notion of "this power is ours - get your own".
Of course Bush still runs the show - fucking faggot.
The problem is they are selling a system, a course to learn how to copy DVD's.
;-) copy and convert that to mpeg-1.
You can do it now legally, it's called fair use. If you have the DeCSS code [which can be found most anywhere] or a closed source imitation [usually with an interface] you can extract the movie data.
Then simply convert to mpeg-1 and viola!.
There is an unlimited amount of tools to do this - but you could also get a DivX
I would suggest getting this for a Windows platform because it can handle any movie type that you can play in Media Player. There are two versions out there but the 'free' version's site looks to be down so the link above is to the "Plus" homepage.
Now that you have an mpeg-1 movie file simply convert it with GNU's VCDImager. There are versions for both Windows and Linux [Hell, even solaris and MacOSX of course, it's GNU]. I also see there are frontends for most platforms.
Works very well. Let me say though it's easier to download a DivX and break the law because fair use has been removed from the system.
Everything posted before this seems to knock this idea.
Granted it's not the best - people are letting other current problems stand in the way.
So, let's recap:
Lower the cost of getting things in orbit.
Make better working solar cells.
Costs too much [for whatever other reason].
Of course we could change these things. If my local power plant could take in some money for investing in such a crazy system we might actually see something like it.
Maybe it would be better for other situations like storing emergency power or making batteries for space craft....
It's almost sick that innovations can't be made. I'm not being an open source zealot here - there are other proprietary projects which also have problems.
Hardware vendors are getting shoved into crazy deals that limit their own business.
The funniest thing I've heard lately was this; coming from a guy who bought XP and is waiting to install it because some of his old flight sims don't work:
They don't care. They already have the market - if you want to develop a "fix" you need to buy their coding software and work with incomplete or hidden API's.
After going from XP on one machine from 98 I have accidentally "broke" USB on my system; which is only two years old. It's simply not supported or tested. We are talking the USB chipset, not the whole system.
There are a number of things that need to be fixed at Microsoft; if need be it will be the law that fixes them because the situation is out of hand.
Bill sends waves to certain people and they respond with:
I don't think they have perfected this trick using your monitor; alas they have been trying and getting people for years.
Because of this people have placed that 800 pound primate on their own backs. The mind share has been extended to the senate, state's attorneys and federal government.
No one feels like the world would continue if Microsoft was to be punished. People fear the "future" will never come - in terms of their imaginations.
The funny thing is I browse over to freshmeat and see projects for everything. I can see the seeds of the "future" in all these projects that mainly one person works on.
There can be a 640 pound primate out there but something needs to be done.
People need to realize that one company can't be producing all the code, dictating what projects could be squashed and making choices for the computing future.
As week look forward into the future we realize that computers - no matter how simple - will be in our lives.
It's going to be hard as things get more complicated - a precedent needs to be set.
Karma Whore!
And posting the MSNBC article at that!
It works just fine!
Many ask "how can I use this?" and etc. I suggest getting a Hush-mail account and getting your friends to do the same.
Hush-mail has no problems with adding in PGP keys - and I've e-mailed my buddies who have Hush-mail with my PGP'd mail.
I think the software needs to be maintained, but of course it's far from dead. I'd just like to see PGPhone 'grow-up'. It's an awsome app.
Ok, you are not smart.
You bought a phone AND[!] signed the contract. Did you read the contract? Chances are they do in fact 0wn your phone.
I have worked with and around mobile phones since cellular and up until now and the big bust of digital carriers.
Many [i.e. Verizon] companies started out as Cellular and still work on the same principles. They are buying the phone for you and selling it to you at a significant loss.
A local company that is now part of Verizon would, for example, sell you a Star TAC for $99 but they still 0wned the phone. They wouldn't go to great lenghts to retrieve it if you canceled your contract because you would have to pay the lump sum to get out of it. That lump sum is for the phone itself - not for any service.
Your contract isn't for service at all. Maybe it is. You would have to be stupid or desperate to get into a wireless contract today. I was a GTE customer when they rolled out in my area [one of the first] and ever since then Cellular has been dead.
Great quality, CDMA, no contracts, low minute charges and cool phones.
The down side to this new wireless telephone access is that when you buy a phone at the mall it is a "Sprint Phone" or a "Cingular Phone" - it's not "My Phone".
Actually if you watch the ads you will see that they advertise phones as "Get this nifty, cool, Sprint phone" but not "Get this nifty, cool, Nokia phone".
Alas, this was the reason that if you had provided your own equipment in the old Cellular game you could get out of signing the contract.
Imagine your local ISP sells you a computer for $49. You pay them a monthly fee for net access. He isn't going to let you move with it and likely they are going to make you sign a contract to recover the costs of your machine.
You are such a tool.
I don't mean thumbnails - and there is no need to 'peek' inside each file. The content is known just as fast as the file name.
Also, there is no "three character limit". For years I've been working in different MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 applications which will only save to four characters.
Good idea to rely on those letters which anyone could/can/will/does change.
How long will the Scientologists trample freedom of speech, expression, and fair use, until Congress gets it into their thick skulls that this is a BAD RELIGION, and repeals it?
The Co$ seems to be all about ruining everything not involved in the Co$. If that is your gov't then you should worry!
Before there was CDMA, the days when there was cellular ONLY the phone was "Free!!" - ...but there was a contract.
The thing was the phone cost nothing, a penny or maybe $100 in the case of the "cooler" ones. The phone was being paid for by the cellular provider because you were signing a contract.
But what was the contract for? In many cases the contract wasn't for service at all. Sure, it's nice to have a steady customer for years - but you just gave some idiot a $400 phone for free so you need to collect on that.
It would be like the cable company giving out Tivo's for "Only $20!!". They may disable some features and not let you move with it but you would have to sign something right?
I'm guessing that there is a loophole that let's them not "unlock" the phones. They are taking a loss on every phone sold.
Who believes the phones with wireless web and vibrating features cost $39.95? I don't.
It's quite a problem working on a XP/2000/9x machine which won't show me mpeg files when looking for mpg and the reverse.
There is little need for extensions what so ever when you are working in a graphical environment. The GUI can assign icons to types [if someone hasn't already monopolized on that media type and got their icon on the 'top].
In a console based environment there is also little need. Most users know what files are what and if they don't there is sometimes a color coding involved which helps you know what you can edit. [of course jpeg is little use to a console user].
As far as I know linux has no problem reading the content headers of files but I'm not an expert, just a user. I assume this is done on the interface level, somone speak up!
With lowering memory prices, and the fact that last years PC memory goes into next years [insert crap product here] why isn't part of the solution smarter drives?
What would be wrong with a CD-ROM which reads ahead during idle and records it's information into memory? Sometimes you wouldn't even need to spin the disk [er, disc] at all.
I've got 384 MB in my desktop and that cost about the same of a no-name CD-ROM. Offer a CD-ROM which advertises "UP TO!" a speed.
Of course you would need a gigabyte of RAM to cover most discs [some do go up to 99 Minute!] at 'on the fly' reading would be limited to the 52x. But while playing audio, mp3s, games, movies, etc there could be an awsome read ahead.
But then again my solution to computer limits is almost always making components 'smarter'. My question can fit here: "Why not use Pentium I's in CD-ROMS?"
Videocards have gotten that market attention that they have processors which are half my CPU's speed - why not have 10 components which use 350MHZ chips and let them do the work?
Modular...