Nonetheless, DVD-Rs are about 60 cents (I just ordered 100).
I see DVD-RAMs for about 6 dollars.
Which is easier? Being careful and burning multiple copies, or paying 10 times as much? Which takes more time? Burning 2 copies, or earning the money to pay 10 times the cost for all your data storage needs. (Answer: Depends how much you make per hour, really.)
And keep in mind those cartridge DVD-RAMs may not work in other people's DVD-ROM drives. If you want to give data to your friends, it's not the most compatible solution.
I would personally not be caught dead paying 10X the cost for the storage. The whole reason I am only now, as of December 2002, switching from CDR to DVD-R is because it is finally cheaper per-byte to store the data.
I have some 2 terabytes of information and aquire new data (mostly due to encoding tv shows I watch) at about a gigabyte per day. That comes out to a hefty sum each year (I have ordered 1000 cdrs 4 times in the past 2 years). For anyone wanting an economic solution, DVD-R is the way to go.
I tend to go by the cost of the media more than anything else.
For example, 1 DVD-RAM disc costs more than several DVD-R discs. If you are really concerned about data, you could burn 2 DVD-Rs for the cost of 1 DVD-RAM. (I always double-burn everything -- I've burned some 1900 cds, each twice.) Or even 3. Having a spare means when you scratch your precious dvd and lose 100M of data, that you can simply go back to your archive copy and re-copy a 2nd copy of it. Yay.
Also, the Panasonic LF-321U is one of the cheapest drives out there that does what it does. There is a good deal at
TigerDirect.com -- $199. You can add a 2nd year to the warrantee for $22 more. Grand total of $235 with shipping. I don't know how long this deal is going to exist, but I have one on order as my first DVD-Writer and am really looking forward to it. (It's a christmas present from my parents)
Actually, I met someone who had his eye gouged. By a bunch of skaters who jumped him for no reason at all while he was walking home from work... So... It's not completely uncommon.
They didn't gouge it all the way out. His sight was back to normal after 6 months or so I heard....
Granted I only have 786K SDSL, but I use 100% of my up and down bandwidth 99% of the time, and would welcome a doubling of this if the price was right.
I play all my games on my 36' TV. Actually, my monitor broke so I am using an old commodore 64 monitor (RCA in) as a secondary. So I pretty much ONLY use my TV (typing on it now).
Are there any 3-D glasses solutions that would work for tv out?
Big difference folks. All operating systems can have more than one commandline interpreter. Just go to JPSoft.com. I do most of my tasks by scripting. I even launch mp3s and such at the command line. It's not hard.
Tab filename completion, aliases, etc.. Hell I like it better than zsh.
Exactly. Passing a bowl to someone is considered distribution. In a drug free school zone this can be a life sentence. Owning a firearm not related to your drug offense (ie in a safe in your house) is a 10 year mandatory minimum. So many people can not (or at least should not) own a gun and in effect preemptively lose their 2nd amendment rights.
And no, there is no distinction for drug users / drug dealers. The average federal drug sentence is 10 years. No distinguishment from users or dealers. The avarege murder sentence is 6 years.
And no, giving somebody something, then having (not even the same person, but someone else in their party of people) ask you to hold the money for a day is NOT a sale. And lying in court is not right either. Especially when it's the police doing it. Or do you even know about the massive police corruption going on? I get a newsletter every week and they publish one police corruption story a week. Only there are more than one each week and they have to pick the most heinous "winner of the week". People's lives are being unjustifiably destroyed on a daily basis. By people like you. You should be dragged out and shot.
Go back to school? I already have my degree in Computer Science, though that is hardly relevant.
Would you rather have someone steal your nice truck than sell a dime bag to someone who would have bought it from someone anyway?
And as for your brutally shot 13 people comment -- this comment was about drug dealers, not murderers. If someone shoots something, there is no fucking economic defense. Over 50% of the people in federal prison have never comitted a violent crime. Shooting 13 people is a piss poor analogy.
Another EXAMPLE, I knew someone who was in jail / house arrest for 2 yrs for ecstacy conspiracy. She never actually had ecstacy. There was no evidence. She just talked about it on the phone. What a brave new world we live in.
Except that I'm in virginia, and I'M FREEZING MY ASS OFF AND FEEL LIKE I'M GOING TO DIE OF EXPOSURE. Virginia is too damn cold. I can't move north. I'd die.
Believe me, I'd be in canada already if it was located where Mexico is.
"The gang, and the government, are not different.
The gang, and the government, are not different.
The gang, and the government, are not different.
That makes me... 1%.
That makes me... 1%. "
So dealing drugs is a heinous crime now? Is that way drug users go to jail longer than rapists, murderers, and burglarers?
It's simple economics. Where there is profit to be made, someone will step up to the plate. It's all part of the "Algebra Of Need" as described by William S. Burroughs. You're an idiot.
It is very rare that what they take was actually bought for with profit. For example, I knew a guy in school who GAVE some pills to some deadheads. They then asked him to do a favor and HOLD his money (Framing him basically). The cops later testified that he had sold the drugs to them and had witnessed the purchase (PERJURY or as the pigs coined it TESTILYING). He had to buy his own car back at an auction. He was a redneck nobody who made zero money from the sale of the drugs (Which were Xanax -- not even schedule 1).
Yes, but where to move to?
Most other countries suck, or have crappy TV shows and/or internet services and/or job market and/or benefits for non-citizens, or are great but don't allow people in (Australia).
Where can we go?
I really want to know too. Because I want out. And america has little left to over me after being unemployed since Bush became president . . .
I'm sick of burning 5+ cdrs a day. I have over 1800 cdrs of data, all burned twice [in case the other gets scratched], for a total of close to 4000 cdrs.
Restoring and reburning to dvdr (which I don't have yet) is going to be a BITCH. I don't see it possible to do it all, ever. And even if it is possible, restoring cds takes forever.
When I lost my (60+G/12000) mp3s it took me 8 hours using 3 computers simultaneously to restore the 80 or so cds.... Yuck.
I need those 200G optical disks they talked about on slashdot awhile ago... when the hell are those going to cme out?
Most people in the tech field don't have CS degrees anyway.
I realized my degree was a waste when the guy who was hiring me was a history major, learned ASP while on the job, and wouldn't hire me because I didn't have any professinal experience doing ASP.
Now I haven't worked for 2 yrs and it's even harder to find a job {whooops)....
If you live in a "Right To Work" state, these contracts are unenforceable.
I live in Virginia, a Right To Work state, and such so-called "non-compete" contracts are considered "restraint of trade".
You can sign them, but they are merely scare tactics to scare a contractor from defecting. In reality they are unforceable.
I have never refused signing one, however I have pointed out that they are unenforcable AS I have signed them. In reality by not signing one you would be saving yourself, and your company, legal costs (That they would ultimately lose in a Right-To-Work state anyway.)
You may be doing both yourself and an employer a favor by refusing to sign one of these. Though they may not view it that way.
Well hopefully the questions would undergo some sort of evaluation system so they could be grouped by difficulty & subject, then a database would manage them such that certain questions could be used for games OTHER than trivial pursuit.
The idea would be to support as many different games as possible...
For a long time I've wanted a website to suppy open data for the purpose of playing board games / parlor games...
For example, ever run out of trivia questions in your version of Trivial Pursuite? Or used up all the word cards in Taboo... etc etc.
I think in the event of running out of data for your board game, it would be nice to download more. (And this would make a cool website.)
Especially if they came with PalmPilot/Windows versions that would administer the game for you. For example Taboo consists of a word that you must get the other people to say, but there are 7 words that you CANNOT say as a clue. For example the word may be "George Bush" and you can't say "Texan", "President", etc. This game is fun but we calculate we'll use up all the data that comes with it in about 30 hours. The "electronic" version is $40. That's hardly worth it. If we could just download data, we could play forever.
So.. um.. yes.. I want open data.
I have at times put *!*@*.sympatico.com into my IRC shitlist to prevent Sympatico users from being in any of my 10 or so channels.
It's quite simple: If your ISP doesn't stop spammers from abusing IRC, it will be klined/shitlisted/banned/prohibited. And if the ISP provides dynamic IPs, the WHOLE isp will have to be banned instead of just the offending IP(s).
I never go outside. It would be nice if somethign would instant message me saying "Hey, look at the sky, it's cool right now".
Someone (not me) should set up a site that finds local sightings like that (northern lights, comets, meteor showers, whatever) and sends them out to other local people (ie use zipcode data to IM everyone in a 50 mile radius).
Surely there is a site like this already? GIMME URL.
Can you make it portable to windows?
Well.. I do have access to a shell account.
I could ftp to it, split, ftp back down, it would be less time than cropping manually.
I've bookmarked your page!:)
Unfortunately it doesn't support parallel port scanners like the one we are using.
No money.. No job.. Gotta make do with manual cropping I guess. ):
thanks!
Slashdot Mirror
I see DVD-RAMs for about 6 dollars.
Which is easier? Being careful and burning multiple copies, or paying 10 times as much? Which takes more time? Burning 2 copies, or earning the money to pay 10 times the cost for all your data storage needs. (Answer: Depends how much you make per hour, really.)
And keep in mind those cartridge DVD-RAMs may not work in other people's DVD-ROM drives. If you want to give data to your friends, it's not the most compatible solution.
I would personally not be caught dead paying 10X the cost for the storage. The whole reason I am only now, as of December 2002, switching from CDR to DVD-R is because it is finally cheaper per-byte to store the data.
I have some 2 terabytes of information and aquire new data (mostly due to encoding tv shows I watch) at about a gigabyte per day. That comes out to a hefty sum each year (I have ordered 1000 cdrs 4 times in the past 2 years). For anyone wanting an economic solution, DVD-R is the way to go.
For example, 1 DVD-RAM disc costs more than several DVD-R discs. If you are really concerned about data, you could burn 2 DVD-Rs for the cost of 1 DVD-RAM. (I always double-burn everything -- I've burned some 1900 cds, each twice.) Or even 3. Having a spare means when you scratch your precious dvd and lose 100M of data, that you can simply go back to your archive copy and re-copy a 2nd copy of it. Yay.
Also, the Panasonic LF-321U is one of the cheapest drives out there that does what it does. There is a good deal at TigerDirect.com -- $199. You can add a 2nd year to the warrantee for $22 more. Grand total of $235 with shipping. I don't know how long this deal is going to exist, but I have one on order as my first DVD-Writer and am really looking forward to it. (It's a christmas present from my parents)
They didn't gouge it all the way out. His sight was back to normal after 6 months or so I heard....
Granted I only have 786K SDSL, but I use 100% of my up and down bandwidth 99% of the time, and would welcome a doubling of this if the price was right.
Once I dreamed I lived in one of these caves, and it had a cool ethernet connection.
Are there any 3-D glasses solutions that would work for tv out?
I'd prefer 36' 2-D Quake3 over 19' 3-D Quake3.
But 36' 3-D Quake3 would be awesome!
command.com = sh
4DOS/4NT = zsh
Big difference folks. All operating systems can have more than one commandline interpreter. Just go to JPSoft.com. I do most of my tasks by scripting. I even launch mp3s and such at the command line. It's not hard.
Tab filename completion, aliases, etc.. Hell I like it better than zsh.
And no, there is no distinction for drug users / drug dealers. The average federal drug sentence is 10 years. No distinguishment from users or dealers. The avarege murder sentence is 6 years.
And no, giving somebody something, then having (not even the same person, but someone else in their party of people) ask you to hold the money for a day is NOT a sale. And lying in court is not right either. Especially when it's the police doing it. Or do you even know about the massive police corruption going on? I get a newsletter every week and they publish one police corruption story a week. Only there are more than one each week and they have to pick the most heinous "winner of the week". People's lives are being unjustifiably destroyed on a daily basis. By people like you. You should be dragged out and shot.
Go back to school? I already have my degree in Computer Science, though that is hardly relevant.
Would you rather have someone steal your nice truck than sell a dime bag to someone who would have bought it from someone anyway?
And as for your brutally shot 13 people comment -- this comment was about drug dealers, not murderers. If someone shoots something, there is no fucking economic defense. Over 50% of the people in federal prison have never comitted a violent crime. Shooting 13 people is a piss poor analogy.
Another EXAMPLE, I knew someone who was in jail / house arrest for 2 yrs for ecstacy conspiracy. She never actually had ecstacy. There was no evidence. She just talked about it on the phone. What a brave new world we live in.
Believe me, I'd be in canada already if it was located where Mexico is.
Try converting your VHS tapes (420 x 8 hrs) to AVI at a decent bitrate (250M/ep) . . .
Fuck. It's supposed to read "are NO different" ...
The gang, and the government, are not different.
The gang, and the government, are not different.
That makes me... 1%.
That makes me... 1%.
"
-Janes Addiction
It's simple economics. Where there is profit to be made, someone will step up to the plate. It's all part of the "Algebra Of Need" as described by William S. Burroughs. You're an idiot.
It is very rare that what they take was actually bought for with profit. For example, I knew a guy in school who GAVE some pills to some deadheads. They then asked him to do a favor and HOLD his money (Framing him basically). The cops later testified that he had sold the drugs to them and had witnessed the purchase (PERJURY or as the pigs coined it TESTILYING). He had to buy his own car back at an auction. He was a redneck nobody who made zero money from the sale of the drugs (Which were Xanax -- not even schedule 1).
Oooh, don't let the Xanax get me and my children.
Yes, but where to move to? Most other countries suck, or have crappy TV shows and/or internet services and/or job market and/or benefits for non-citizens, or are great but don't allow people in (Australia). Where can we go? I really want to know too. Because I want out. And america has little left to over me after being unemployed since Bush became president . . .
Restoring and reburning to dvdr (which I don't have yet) is going to be a BITCH. I don't see it possible to do it all, ever. And even if it is possible, restoring cds takes forever.
When I lost my (60+G/12000) mp3s it took me 8 hours using 3 computers simultaneously to restore the 80 or so cds.... Yuck.
I need those 200G optical disks they talked about on slashdot awhile ago... when the hell are those going to cme out?
Says you, but I've had HR people (who are more likely to know than me) tell me otherwise . . . At least for Virginia.
Most people in the tech field don't have CS degrees anyway.
I realized my degree was a waste when the guy who was hiring me was a history major, learned ASP while on the job, and wouldn't hire me because I didn't have any professinal experience doing ASP.
Now I haven't worked for 2 yrs and it's even harder to find a job {whooops)....
Get out while you can.
I live in Virginia, a Right To Work state, and such so-called "non-compete" contracts are considered "restraint of trade".
You can sign them, but they are merely scare tactics to scare a contractor from defecting. In reality they are unforceable.
I have never refused signing one, however I have pointed out that they are unenforcable AS I have signed them. In reality by not signing one you would be saving yourself, and your company, legal costs (That they would ultimately lose in a Right-To-Work state anyway.)
You may be doing both yourself and an employer a favor by refusing to sign one of these. Though they may not view it that way.
The idea would be to support as many different games as possible...
For example, ever run out of trivia questions in your version of Trivial Pursuite? Or used up all the word cards in Taboo... etc etc.
I think in the event of running out of data for your board game, it would be nice to download more. (And this would make a cool website.)
Especially if they came with PalmPilot/Windows versions that would administer the game for you. For example Taboo consists of a word that you must get the other people to say, but there are 7 words that you CANNOT say as a clue. For example the word may be "George Bush" and you can't say "Texan", "President", etc. This game is fun but we calculate we'll use up all the data that comes with it in about 30 hours. The "electronic" version is $40. That's hardly worth it. If we could just download data, we could play forever. So .. um .. yes.. I want open data.
I have at times put *!*@*.sympatico.com into my IRC shitlist to prevent Sympatico users from being in any of my 10 or so channels.
It's quite simple: If your ISP doesn't stop spammers from abusing IRC, it will be klined/shitlisted/banned/prohibited. And if the ISP provides dynamic IPs, the WHOLE isp will have to be banned instead of just the offending IP(s).
I never go outside. It would be nice if somethign would instant message me saying "Hey, look at the sky, it's cool right now".
Someone (not me) should set up a site that finds local sightings like that (northern lights, comets, meteor showers, whatever) and sends them out to other local people (ie use zipcode data to IM everyone in a 50 mile radius).
Surely there is a site like this already? GIMME URL.
Can you make it portable to windows? Well.. I do have access to a shell account. I could ftp to it, split, ftp back down, it would be less time than cropping manually. I've bookmarked your page! :)
Unfortunately it doesn't support parallel port scanners like the one we are using. No money.. No job.. Gotta make do with manual cropping I guess. ): thanks!
That assumes that all pictures are the same size.
They are not.
Nor would I want to be held to a static grid the rest of my life.