I've got a rather large media collection myself, I won't pretend it's as big as theirs, but it's large, I tend to buy bargain bin movies at Big Lots and other places, and I also buy new releases I actually want to see.
I've run into lots of bit-rot, especially on Warner Brothers releases - I've emailed them about it and they won't even give me the courtesy of a "go fuck yourself" reply.
Take this Blu-Ray of A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas" for instance. It is unique in my collection as a single disk has both the Blu-Ray extended version and the DVD Theatrical release. It's well cared for, not a scratch on it - I'm a stickler about my disk. As my friends tend to have that sort of sense of humor this movies been watched a few times.
When I first got it I watched the extended uncut Blu-Ray side. That side of the disk doesn't work anymore. I can hold it up to the light and see the deterioration through the disk - the DVD side places perfectly - not a scratch on either side of the disk anywhere.
Again - that Horrible Superman Returns movie - DVD - rotted. Natural Born Killer - DVD - rotted. The Green Mile - DVD - rotted Samurai Jack Season 3 - one little spot of rot, one of the episodes is now unwatchable, I had it ripped it a couple of years prior at low-res for use on a netbook and PSP. I re-ripped the whole disk save that one episode where I kept the old low-res version of the one. The Greatest American Hero - straight into ripping off-the-shelf, never watched off the disk, like Samurai Jack, one episode.
I bought the twin pack of The Day The Earth Stood Still. The old one - AKA the good one rotted. The newer tree-hugger edition works fine. Those were both DVD and scratchless - I actually went out and bought the BluRay of the older one.
Granted some of these disks were really old and had literally underwater in a Hurricane - most of them - especially the BluRay - cannot.
Oddly I don't think any of the bit-rotted movies were out of the bargain bin, those seem to have held up despite the scratches on the used ones. It's the ones I've bought new, off-the-shelf and removed the cellophane myself that have rotted.
I would say I have 1 out of 150 rot? Maybe a bit more. To say the least I feel justified ripping and compressing my movies to put on my media server at this point.
We've got at least a weekly "feel bad because you're male and you work in the computer field" article, and we mostly flame those, but we've come to expect them.
It was great - I've considered attempting to compile it on a modern system. I've stayed up with modern KDE but 1.x worked exactly as it should have, didn't have a lot of overhead, and was incredibly usable.
Women occupy "the center" of "the ladder". There's a few at the top, percentage wise less than men, but they're well established at the top as CEO's board members, elected officials etc... There's next to none at the very bottom, an area all but exclusively occupied by men. In the middle women get preferential treatment to men due to government pushes.
Why aren't people bitching women aren't at the very bottom also? If they really want equality they will want to be equal across the entire spectrum, not just the middle and top. Women not wanting to do open source where the door is literally open to anyone who wants to help from anywhere with an Internet connection, and in the case of OLPC's and the like even open to those who don't is not the fault of men. It is because women aren't doing it.
It is dishonest to say they want equality then not take the bottom rung too.
Stop pointing the finger at men when women chose not to do something.
I have shoveled shit, painted fences, picked cantaloupe, chopped weeds, washed cars, and moved furniture myself. I know what the workplaces are like, is it up to men to soften up or women to toughen up? I've worked with women that had toughen up and were worse than the men, they all hold a special place in my heart and I respect them greatly for it. I can't wrap my head around the concept of expecting the entire world to change to accommodate the incompatibilities of a few unwilling individuals because another part of the society thinks those unwilling individuals need to be in positions they're incompatible with. The case of open source, being so accepting and wide open proves my point, not the other way around.
this story is forgotten, swept under the rug, no longer referenced.
Just as suddenly as it appeared in the news, it disappears from the news and our short memories caused by modern low attention-span media causes us to forget.
Then the parallel construction and misuse of data will continue.
Just like everyone has forgotten about the persecution of real reporters that began in 08 and was heavily reported on for a short time. We still have mainstream news that's a result of what happened back then, but no mention of that fact.
Just like everyone forgets about the global cooling scare that was a big deal in the 70's and still covered in the 80's.
Just like everyone forgets about the various legal entities that have found "the smoking gun" and plan to go after the administration or some other powerful organization, never to hear anything more about it past the initial breaking news stories.
I modded it down because it looked like spam at first. After modding I got curious and clicked the link, I found that it actually was on topic.
I take my modding duties seriously and don't mod as a joke, which I'm pretty sure I saw someone else doing last time I had points, I mean the other guy countered my down mod of the "brought to you by the Golden Girls" post. Usually I don't have misfires like this one, but I'm human.
My first experiences with the game had to do with children who wanted to run the game but couldn't because the code was so buggy it needed more horsepower than the systems in front of them could provide. They could play UT2004 on the system smooth as glass and it looked great, but Minecraft looked like hammered shit even when it was running smoothly. The kids insisted on that game and that game only, even though it caused them massive amounts of frustration even when it wasn't crashing. I've encouraged other sandbox and build your type games, but no, they want the crap fest.
I let my nephew play with my well hacked and stocked PSP with hundreds of games from multiple systems. He asked me at least a dozen times if I could make ANY version of Minecraft work on it, during a very important event.
Between the fits caused by its poor performance and buggy code and the weird obsession it's followers have for it I just can't resist bashing on it.
I bought my daughter the developer Humble Bundle that included a lot of RPG tools, I'm going to have to go learn that and Unreal Ed myself just so I can teach it to the kiddies in my life to kill the Minecraft obsession.
I'm a systems administrator, I do a lot of work through my phone and other devices. I replace my phones at about the rate I destroy them, right around the two year mark usually. I'm usually happier with the new phone, and I do appreciate the added speed, RAM, storage, whatever. Reality is though, if it weren't for the fact the previous one was limping along or dead I could probably work just as effectively from it. My old HTC Evo with WiMax was arguably the best network performing phone I ever owned, that WiMax was incredible when I had a signal and the phone was great all around. I've since gone through the Evo 4G LTE and I'm now on a One M8. The 4G LTE was slightly problematic, mostly due to the lack of a really good non-Sense ROM, but I can't honestly say my latest edition can do much the old WiMax couldn't do. In fact it was easier to get the old WiMax one hooked up to an HDTV, of course the newest can be used as a remote control. My old iPhone, a 3G model, is still being used as a music player, I found it to be not useful as a carry around device, it just couldn't do that much and I had to convert music to MP3 before I could even use it as a music player.
Moore's law is hitting its peak in the processor world, and we're hitting "peak technology" in so many other ways as well. We're no longer at the point where you trade a two year old 5lb phone on a 12oz phone with three times the battery life. Everything is tiny increments these days.
I think the drive to replace your phone at least once a year is shallow and an example of what's wrong with people in general.
That being said, if they develop a program to support the minority of people who must have the latest Hipster Phone when it comes out, by all means let it thrive. I'm not going to sign on, I see the problems with the program the built in expense, the money drain, etc... I would be tempted by a similar program, if one existed, for the latest HTC hardware with a straight up non-Sense ROM (Google Play Edition), but I probably wouldn't sign on to the program. I don't like cumbersome contracts and documented commitments. You have to earn my money each time I have to replace what I have. I'm married to my wife, not my phone. That being said as a Libertarian if people want to marry their mobile phones who am I to stop them? I think signing onto a commitment like this should involve photos, announcements on social media, and maybe even a ceremony, why be a closet contract signer, make a production of it!
Just because I don't support it doesn't mean I condemn it.
Improved hipster compatibility! No more ring-around the collar! Advanced light-up logo placement so everyone knows you have an Apple! Even more trendy than previous release!
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I've got a rather large media collection myself, I won't pretend it's as big as theirs, but it's large, I tend to buy bargain bin movies at Big Lots and other places, and I also buy new releases I actually want to see.
I've run into lots of bit-rot, especially on Warner Brothers releases - I've emailed them about it and they won't even give me the courtesy of a "go fuck yourself" reply.
Take this Blu-Ray of A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas" for instance. It is unique in my collection as a single disk has both the Blu-Ray extended version and the DVD Theatrical release. It's well cared for, not a scratch on it - I'm a stickler about my disk. As my friends tend to have that sort of sense of humor this movies been watched a few times.
When I first got it I watched the extended uncut Blu-Ray side. That side of the disk doesn't work anymore. I can hold it up to the light and see the deterioration through the disk - the DVD side places perfectly - not a scratch on either side of the disk anywhere.
Again - that Horrible Superman Returns movie - DVD - rotted.
Natural Born Killer - DVD - rotted.
The Green Mile - DVD - rotted
Samurai Jack Season 3 - one little spot of rot, one of the episodes is now unwatchable, I had it ripped it a couple of years prior at low-res for use on a netbook and PSP. I re-ripped the whole disk save that one episode where I kept the old low-res version of the one.
The Greatest American Hero - straight into ripping off-the-shelf, never watched off the disk, like Samurai Jack, one episode.
I bought the twin pack of The Day The Earth Stood Still. The old one - AKA the good one rotted. The newer tree-hugger edition works fine. Those were both DVD and scratchless - I actually went out and bought the BluRay of the older one.
Granted some of these disks were really old and had literally underwater in a Hurricane - most of them - especially the BluRay - cannot.
Oddly I don't think any of the bit-rotted movies were out of the bargain bin, those seem to have held up despite the scratches on the used ones. It's the ones I've bought new, off-the-shelf and removed the cellophane myself that have rotted.
I would say I have 1 out of 150 rot? Maybe a bit more. To say the least I feel justified ripping and compressing my movies to put on my media server at this point.
I am glad to say I find less knee-jerking on Slashdot than most of places I see online, mostly due to the well educated flamings that tend to follow.
Crank-yanking on the other hand is quite plentiful.
We've got at least a weekly "feel bad because you're male and you work in the computer field" article, and we mostly flame those, but we've come to expect them.
Now we're getting the opinion poll to manipulate opinion.
I miss the real / old Slashdot that exposed shit like this instead of propagating it.
It was great - I've considered attempting to compile it on a modern system. I've stayed up with modern KDE but 1.x worked exactly as it should have, didn't have a lot of overhead, and was incredibly usable.
My argument is:
Women occupy "the center" of "the ladder". There's a few at the top, percentage wise less than men, but they're well established at the top as CEO's board members, elected officials etc... There's next to none at the very bottom, an area all but exclusively occupied by men. In the middle women get preferential treatment to men due to government pushes.
Why aren't people bitching women aren't at the very bottom also? If they really want equality they will want to be equal across the entire spectrum, not just the middle and top. Women not wanting to do open source where the door is literally open to anyone who wants to help from anywhere with an Internet connection, and in the case of OLPC's and the like even open to those who don't is not the fault of men. It is because women aren't doing it.
It is dishonest to say they want equality then not take the bottom rung too.
Stop pointing the finger at men when women chose not to do something.
I have shoveled shit, painted fences, picked cantaloupe, chopped weeds, washed cars, and moved furniture myself. I know what the workplaces are like, is it up to men to soften up or women to toughen up? I've worked with women that had toughen up and were worse than the men, they all hold a special place in my heart and I respect them greatly for it. I can't wrap my head around the concept of expecting the entire world to change to accommodate the incompatibilities of a few unwilling individuals because another part of the society thinks those unwilling individuals need to be in positions they're incompatible with. The case of open source, being so accepting and wide open proves my point, not the other way around.
There aren't many women unclogging sewers, collecting trash, or scooping shit at feedlots either, but I don't hear people bitching about it.
That's right, one day you'll wake up and not be in your own country any more because now we'll be in the TPP.
this story is forgotten, swept under the rug, no longer referenced.
Just as suddenly as it appeared in the news, it disappears from the news and our short memories caused by modern low attention-span media causes us to forget.
Then the parallel construction and misuse of data will continue.
Just like everyone has forgotten about the persecution of real reporters that began in 08 and was heavily reported on for a short time. We still have mainstream news that's a result of what happened back then, but no mention of that fact.
Just like everyone forgets about the global cooling scare that was a big deal in the 70's and still covered in the 80's.
Just like everyone forgets about the various legal entities that have found "the smoking gun" and plan to go after the administration or some other powerful organization, never to hear anything more about it past the initial breaking news stories.
This one will fall off the earth too.
and Operation Bullrun weren't give-aways before now?
Either of them is more accessible than Facetime.
I can SMS with Hangouts.
Sure it's a bit locked, but it's at least cross-platform.
Gosh, makes you wonder if changing it from encrypted peer to peer to unencrypted in the middle for NSA client-server was a good idea.
Hangouts works great, I'm trying to break the iPhone / Facetime habit those locked ecosystem people seem to be suffering on.
From what I can tell Hangouts works rather well on that ecosystem too.
because I've been calling the new iPad Pro the Apple Surface Tablet.
Got root - bought AT&T version - it's a GPE now.
I figured it was mostly for the corporate identity change and logo changes Google is has been doing recently. I could see this fix being in there.
On another note I mourn the loss of the GPE edition. It was a good idea and should stay.
Down mod.
I modded it down because it looked like spam at first. After modding I got curious and clicked the link, I found that it actually was on topic.
I take my modding duties seriously and don't mod as a joke, which I'm pretty sure I saw someone else doing last time I had points, I mean the other guy countered my down mod of the "brought to you by the Golden Girls" post. Usually I don't have misfires like this one, but I'm human.
Posting to undo mod.....
My point is the game from 2004 still looks great today. Minecraft from any era looks like shit.
I never miss a chance to rip on Minecraft.
My first experiences with the game had to do with children who wanted to run the game but couldn't because the code was so buggy it needed more horsepower than the systems in front of them could provide. They could play UT2004 on the system smooth as glass and it looked great, but Minecraft looked like hammered shit even when it was running smoothly. The kids insisted on that game and that game only, even though it caused them massive amounts of frustration even when it wasn't crashing. I've encouraged other sandbox and build your type games, but no, they want the crap fest.
I let my nephew play with my well hacked and stocked PSP with hundreds of games from multiple systems. He asked me at least a dozen times if I could make ANY version of Minecraft work on it, during a very important event.
Between the fits caused by its poor performance and buggy code and the weird obsession it's followers have for it I just can't resist bashing on it.
I bought my daughter the developer Humble Bundle that included a lot of RPG tools, I'm going to have to go learn that and Unreal Ed myself just so I can teach it to the kiddies in my life to kill the Minecraft obsession.
If you want to teach good programming Mine Craft is the LAST place to go!
Old Quake engines are open source.
I'm a systems administrator, I do a lot of work through my phone and other devices. I replace my phones at about the rate I destroy them, right around the two year mark usually. I'm usually happier with the new phone, and I do appreciate the added speed, RAM, storage, whatever. Reality is though, if it weren't for the fact the previous one was limping along or dead I could probably work just as effectively from it. My old HTC Evo with WiMax was arguably the best network performing phone I ever owned, that WiMax was incredible when I had a signal and the phone was great all around. I've since gone through the Evo 4G LTE and I'm now on a One M8. The 4G LTE was slightly problematic, mostly due to the lack of a really good non-Sense ROM, but I can't honestly say my latest edition can do much the old WiMax couldn't do. In fact it was easier to get the old WiMax one hooked up to an HDTV, of course the newest can be used as a remote control. My old iPhone, a 3G model, is still being used as a music player, I found it to be not useful as a carry around device, it just couldn't do that much and I had to convert music to MP3 before I could even use it as a music player.
Moore's law is hitting its peak in the processor world, and we're hitting "peak technology" in so many other ways as well. We're no longer at the point where you trade a two year old 5lb phone on a 12oz phone with three times the battery life. Everything is tiny increments these days.
You're free to disagree.
Let's get that out there.
I think the drive to replace your phone at least once a year is shallow and an example of what's wrong with people in general.
That being said, if they develop a program to support the minority of people who must have the latest Hipster Phone when it comes out, by all means let it thrive. I'm not going to sign on, I see the problems with the program the built in expense, the money drain, etc... I would be tempted by a similar program, if one existed, for the latest HTC hardware with a straight up non-Sense ROM (Google Play Edition), but I probably wouldn't sign on to the program. I don't like cumbersome contracts and documented commitments. You have to earn my money each time I have to replace what I have. I'm married to my wife, not my phone. That being said as a Libertarian if people want to marry their mobile phones who am I to stop them? I think signing onto a commitment like this should involve photos, announcements on social media, and maybe even a ceremony, why be a closet contract signer, make a production of it!
Just because I don't support it doesn't mean I condemn it.
Smart Keyboard connects magnetically.
Hey! They introduced their own Surface Tablet!
Improved hipster compatibility!
No more ring-around the collar!
Advanced light-up logo placement so everyone knows you have an Apple!
Even more trendy than previous release!