Also, it may be hard to believe but having worked with Pete on the project that was "Crashed and burned" I can testify to the fact that the article is in fact non-fiction.
Looking at the specsfor this thing it is "Equivalent to an appendable single session CD-R". I get the impression that this might be just a standard CDR. What's new is that the've developed some faster way to write the disc.
The reason they don't have RW is because they cost a lot more and also because a user could accidently erase the entire disc (or important tracks). One of the selling features is to create a disc with your software and then burn a second session with a disk-id or DRM info. You wouldn't want the user to be able to delte the disk-id.
NOTE: This came from google news so it might not be the same
Business Editors
DCD Expo 2003
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2003--Optical Disc Corporation (ODC), a leader in optical disc mastering systems, today announced the introduction of its CDR-ROM(TM) disc. This revolutionary new product provides many new possibilities for digital content delivery, not previously possible.
ODC's CDR-ROM (patents pending), combines CD-R and CD-ROM on the same disc using its advanced mastering technology. The CDR-ROM is a standard size 12 cm disc that provides a pre-recorded ROM area and a writable CD-R area on the same disc. Although the format has been published for years, available manufacturing technology has limited the ability to record on standard CD-R writers worldwide. ODC's advanced technology provides a breakthrough, allowing the writable portion of the CDR-ROM to be recorded by the content provider, or the end user on their own computer. Either area can be as large or as small as required by the application with a total capacity of up to 700 MB. The CDR-ROM conforms to all specifications of the industry Orange Book standards for hybrid discs and is compatible with standard CD-R writers worldwide.
The ODC CDR-ROM, with its desktop CD-R writer compatibility, provides the ultimate in application flexibility. The CDR-ROM opens a world of opportunities for new applications such as, Anti Piracy/Copy Protection, Enhanced Data Security, Direct Marketing with mail-merge, and unlimited other software applications.
"The major challenge in CDR-ROM disc manufacturing has been the requirement to produce a stamper with widely varying pit and groove geometries from the same master. This has proven very difficult to do with photoresist mastering, which is why this type of disc has not yet been readily available. ODC is uniquely capable of readily producing CDR-ROM masters, stamper and replicas because of the tremendous flexibility in ODC's Dye Polymer Mastering process," states Richard Wilkinson, President and CEO of Optical Disc Corporation. This capability has been demonstrated within the last year and is ready to be placed into pilot production. Major software companies and copy protection companies such as Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN) and Smarte Solutions have expressed a keen desire to develop applications for the CDR-ROM.
ODC is now taking orders for the CDR-ROM, which is manufactured at ODC's headquarters facilities in Santa Fe Springs, California. ODC also plans to license the CDR-ROM technology to other manufacturers.
For More Information
Optical Disc Corporation is a leading and the world's only remaining independent supplier of mastering systems for CD, DVD, and other optical disc formats, and has been in the business for over 20 years. The company provides a complete line of high-quality optical disc mastering equipment to CD and DVD manufacturers worldwide. Optical Disc Corporation's corporate headquarters is located at 12150 Mora Drive, Santa Fe Springs, California 90670 USA; tel. +1.562.946.3050, fax +1.562.946.6030, http://www.optical-disc.com. ODC maintains regional sales and customer support facilities in Europe/Amsterdam, tel. +31.36.546.3095, fax. +31.36.546.3074; Asia-Pacific/Hong Kong, tel. +852.2541.1732, fax. 852.2541.1766.
I wish ISPs would just bill like other utilities. You pay a fixed cost per month + X dollars for every GB of traffic. Instead they charge a flat rate and put all sorts of rules on what you can do such as no Servers, no NATs, etc. They should just provide Internet service to me rather then sniffing my packets to try and see if I'm running a Windows machine and XBox behind a NAT. The electric company doesn't care what appliances I hook up, they just bill me for what I use.
It's been happening to me for the last month or two now. I get about 10 or 20 bounced emails a week on an email account that is only used as the contact for my domain name. The fact that I only get a few a week makes me think that the spammer is sending out a thousand or so emails for every contact in the whois database.
Have any other people that manage a domain run into this problem?
No, they are saying that they did not use any GPL code.
The RISC OS... kernel did not contain work taken from or derived from the ARM-Linux or Linux kernel."
If you mail them a floppy you get a copy of components source code that allegedly violates the GPL so that you can see for yourself that it's all-legit.
We'll just have to wait and see if anybody gets a copy of the code mailed back to them and if it violates the GPL or not. Personally I find it fishy that they just don't post it on the web right now to clear their name. I suspect the mail in a floppy is a stall tactic.
The Star Trek previews sucked. It had no 'new' plot, it seemed like an extension of any normal weekday movie. You weren't going back to earth, you weren't doing anything original.
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Oh come on! Anyone with half a brain can see that this was obviously caused by rampant downloading of illegal copies of the film. What we need are laws to protect the hard working American who pored their hearts and soles into the making of this fine movie only to have it stolen by hackers, pirates and terrorists.
Is sharing a journal of all your daily thoughts and emotions the best strategy to employ in order to win a court case as a lawyer?
No, but they've already lost the court case. What's needed now is for the general public to become more aware of the issues at hand and a journal is one way of doing that.
Only 800 resumes in a year? You should upgrade to the new Resume Spammer 3.0 software. It's multi language features allow you to send resume to every job opening in every country.
Seriously though, are these quality resumes your sending out that include a cover letter tailored to the particular position you're applying for? I also like to tweak my resume a bit to emphasize the particular skills they're looking for.
If nonprofits are exempt then can't they just solicit everyone on the do-not-call list?
Suppose I have an unlisted number, then it's unlikely that a charity will be able to get my number (unless someone sells it to them). But if I register with the do-not-call list then I've basically published my phone number for every nonprofit and political party to add to their call list.
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Wouldn't ripping the tracks from the CD into Ogg Vorbis defeat the track watermarking
I think you could also defeat it by buying 10 copies of the same song then digitally comparing them for any differences caused by watermarking. That way you wouldn't loose anything by going to a lossy compresion like Ogg and you would also remove the noise created by the watermarking process.
The downside is you have to buy a number of copies of the same song but I suspect you'll see some groups shell out the $10, then post a "clean" version of the song on a P2P network.
An even easier alternative is to just buy the song with a fake name and address. The watermarking isn't removed but they have no idea who bought the original copy in the first place.
The reason the scenes were cut is because the original AOTC was 143 minutes but an IMAX flick can only be 120 minutes (although apparently AOTC is 128 minutes so they must of crammed a few extra feet onto the reel).
the bad news is that computer jobs are scarce and I may end up just packing groceries or something.
You should look at going into the trades you can make more then doing programming. Up hear in Canada the average age of a tradesman is in there mid fifties. I imagine the US is in a similar situation. The problem seems to be that all the Gen X people went to University because none of them wanted to be plumbers or carpenters. Now we have a shortage of trades people and it's going to get worse as most of them retire in the next 5 to 7 years.
If you love programming but are having trouble paying the bills then get a job as a carpenter and work on an open source project during the weekends.
Some of these might have actually got a pull from/. in getting the award
I think we'll soon see a grant to send all those old cell phones into orbit by building a space elevator that uses open source software that runs under Linux because it has a lower TCO.
With a specification and price like that, it makes the new Palm Zire [palm.com] look rather overpriced wouldn't you say?
Especially when you consider that you can't necessarily trust the Palm specifications.
I think Palm really hurt their reputation as well as the rest of the industries with that move. It's sad but the first thing I thought of when I saw that the Kaii has 16 bit color was "Gee, I wonder if it really does have 16 bit color or if they're just fudging the specs".
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Also, it may be hard to believe but having worked with Pete on the project that was "Crashed and burned" I can testify to the fact that the article is in fact non-fiction.
Looking at the specsfor this thing it is "Equivalent to an appendable single session CD-R". I get the impression that this might be just a standard CDR. What's new is that the've developed some faster way to write the disc.
The reason they don't have RW is because they cost a lot more and also because a user could accidently erase the entire disc (or important tracks). One of the selling features is to create a disc with your software and then burn a second session with a disk-id or DRM info. You wouldn't want the user to be able to delte the disk-id.
Business Editors
DCD Expo 2003
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2003--Optical Disc Corporation (ODC), a leader in optical disc mastering systems, today announced the introduction of its CDR-ROM(TM) disc. This revolutionary new product provides many new possibilities for digital content delivery, not previously possible.
ODC's CDR-ROM (patents pending), combines CD-R and CD-ROM on the same disc using its advanced mastering technology. The CDR-ROM is a standard size 12 cm disc that provides a pre-recorded ROM area and a writable CD-R area on the same disc. Although the format has been published for years, available manufacturing technology has limited the ability to record on standard CD-R writers worldwide. ODC's advanced technology provides a breakthrough, allowing the writable portion of the CDR-ROM to be recorded by the content provider, or the end user on their own computer. Either area can be as large or as small as required by the application with a total capacity of up to 700 MB. The CDR-ROM conforms to all specifications of the industry Orange Book standards for hybrid discs and is compatible with standard CD-R writers worldwide.
The ODC CDR-ROM, with its desktop CD-R writer compatibility, provides the ultimate in application flexibility. The CDR-ROM opens a world of opportunities for new applications such as, Anti Piracy/Copy Protection, Enhanced Data Security, Direct Marketing with mail-merge, and unlimited other software applications.
"The major challenge in CDR-ROM disc manufacturing has been the requirement to produce a stamper with widely varying pit and groove geometries from the same master. This has proven very difficult to do with photoresist mastering, which is why this type of disc has not yet been readily available. ODC is uniquely capable of readily producing CDR-ROM masters, stamper and replicas because of the tremendous flexibility in ODC's Dye Polymer Mastering process," states Richard Wilkinson, President and CEO of Optical Disc Corporation. This capability has been demonstrated within the last year and is ready to be placed into pilot production. Major software companies and copy protection companies such as Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN) and Smarte Solutions have expressed a keen desire to develop applications for the CDR-ROM.
ODC is now taking orders for the CDR-ROM, which is manufactured at ODC's headquarters facilities in Santa Fe Springs, California. ODC also plans to license the CDR-ROM technology to other manufacturers.
For More Information
Optical Disc Corporation is a leading and the world's only remaining independent supplier of mastering systems for CD, DVD, and other optical disc formats, and has been in the business for over 20 years. The company provides a complete line of high-quality optical disc mastering equipment to CD and DVD manufacturers worldwide. Optical Disc Corporation's corporate headquarters is located at 12150 Mora Drive, Santa Fe Springs, California 90670 USA; tel. +1.562.946.3050, fax +1.562.946.6030, http://www.optical-disc.com. ODC maintains regional sales and customer support facilities in Europe/Amsterdam, tel. +31.36.546.3095, fax. +31.36.546.3074; Asia-Pacific/Hong Kong, tel. +852.2541.1732, fax. 852.2541.1766.
Ummm... This is Slashdot you don't need to read the article to be able to post an informed opinion about it.
I can't find the article on BBC but United Press has one here
I wish ISPs would just bill like other utilities. You pay a fixed cost per month + X dollars for every GB of traffic. Instead they charge a flat rate and put all sorts of rules on what you can do such as no Servers, no NATs, etc. They should just provide Internet service to me rather then sniffing my packets to try and see if I'm running a Windows machine and XBox behind a NAT. The electric company doesn't care what appliances I hook up, they just bill me for what I use.
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Have any other people that manage a domain run into this problem?
The RISC OS ... kernel did not contain work taken from or derived from the ARM-Linux or Linux kernel."
If you mail them a floppy you get a copy of components source code that allegedly violates the GPL so that you can see for yourself that it's all-legit. We'll just have to wait and see if anybody gets a copy of the code mailed back to them and if it violates the GPL or not. Personally I find it fishy that they just don't post it on the web right now to clear their name. I suspect the mail in a floppy is a stall tactic.
<sarcasm>
Oh come on! Anyone with half a brain can see that this was obviously caused by rampant downloading of illegal copies of the film. What we need are laws to protect the hard working American who pored their hearts and soles into the making of this fine movie only to have it stolen by hackers, pirates and terrorists.
</sarcasm>
Otherwise you would be able to take them into a theatre and record an entire movie then post it on Kaza. :)
CBC has a good article that explains how publication bans work in Canada.
No, but they've already lost the court case. What's needed now is for the general public to become more aware of the issues at hand and a journal is one way of doing that.
Only 800 resumes in a year? You should upgrade to the new Resume Spammer 3.0 software. It's multi language features allow you to send resume to every job opening in every country. Seriously though, are these quality resumes your sending out that include a cover letter tailored to the particular position you're applying for? I also like to tweak my resume a bit to emphasize the particular skills they're looking for.
It does seem rather ironic that nowadays my firewall blocks more traffic coming from my own machine then from hackers on the net.
If nonprofits are exempt then can't they just solicit everyone on the do-not-call list?
Suppose I have an unlisted number, then it's unlikely that a charity will be able to get my number (unless someone sells it to them). But if I register with the do-not-call list then I've basically published my phone number for every nonprofit and political party to add to their call list.
and it also appeared as an answer to an Ask slashdot back in October
For $40,000,000,000 we could have built a B Arc and got rid of the useless third of our population.
I think you could also defeat it by buying 10 copies of the same song then digitally comparing them for any differences caused by watermarking. That way you wouldn't loose anything by going to a lossy compresion like Ogg and you would also remove the noise created by the watermarking process.
The downside is you have to buy a number of copies of the same song but I suspect you'll see some groups shell out the $10, then post a "clean" version of the song on a P2P network.
An even easier alternative is to just buy the song with a fake name and address. The watermarking isn't removed but they have no idea who bought the original copy in the first place.
This article has the details.
Oh the mighty hordes
Trample a server so small
Please post a mirror
You also only have to pay for it once. *cough* subscription *cough*
- nuclear-powered cars
- daily commuting by personal helicopter
- lunar colonies
- human control over the weather
- automated-houses with a robot butler
Dam it! I've been predicting this stuff will happen since the 1950's and I just know this is going to be the year!You should look at going into the trades you can make more then doing programming. Up hear in Canada the average age of a tradesman is in there mid fifties. I imagine the US is in a similar situation. The problem seems to be that all the Gen X people went to University because none of them wanted to be plumbers or carpenters. Now we have a shortage of trades people and it's going to get worse as most of them retire in the next 5 to 7 years.
If you love programming but are having trouble paying the bills then get a job as a carpenter and work on an open source project during the weekends.
I think we'll soon see a grant to send all those old cell phones into orbit by building a space elevator that uses open source software that runs under Linux because it has a lower TCO.
Especially when you consider that you can't necessarily trust the Palm specifications.
I think Palm really hurt their reputation as well as the rest of the industries with that move. It's sad but the first thing I thought of when I saw that the Kaii has 16 bit color was "Gee, I wonder if it really does have 16 bit color or if they're just fudging the specs".