I think I've tried every DVD repair kit on the market. Even those that I figured probably were a hoax. Just because I have so many damaged DVD's that it was worth the risk I thought.
I have tried my damaged DVDs on many different players so I don't think that the laser is the problem.
I honestly think that DVDs are much more fragile than CDs.
Another thing which is weird with DVDs is that once it does find a bad spot it tends to lock up the system. I can't even skip forward or backwards.
These should really come in some type of protective casing. Like a floppy or something.
I have many CD's and they were pretty resilient to scratches. They played fine even if they had a pretty hefty scratch on them.
Then I bought DVD's and I brought them on over sea flights for entertainment. I was transporting them in one of those CD wallets and they just started getting unusable really fast. The smallest scratch and it would stop working.
I'm thinking that these disks can get a scratch that is smaller than can be seen with the naked eye and it'll still be a real problem for the disk.
So they should either have a protective cover like a floppy or they should have lots of redundant information physically far away from each other on the disk.
They can mail you a summary of all Emails that they have received and "parked" in your web gui as spam.
This mail would be sent to you once per day or maybe once per week, depending on your preference. It would have a small obscure little group of text ads and occasionally you'd have to log in to the web gui to "release" an Email that was mistakenly marked as Spam.
Hmm... There must be other services which people would _want_ to have.
They can inject ads in your Email. They can also send an ad to your Email address once every month.
But being Google they are probably trying to keep the goodwill of the people so my guess is that they will provide some type of service, such as a monthly summary of your correspondence, or something like that, and include ads in those service Emails.
Oh, that works to make your friends think you are a geek.
On/. on the other hand I suggest that you reply to my parent post, informing the world that you already knew of this puny little command and then proceed to talk about some _really_ obscure Linux command that only works on Slackware for the s/390 distro.
There is a command in many unices and Linux called factor.
If you want to be a true geek you can try it on your friends phone numbers and find out if it is a prime.
Then, the next time you talk, inform them that their phone number is a prime, or tell them of their phone numbers prime factorization, and enjoy watching them think that you are a super geek and a super genius.
For even better effect, pretend to count in your head before you tell them this.
My parents had a flower bed that the neighbourhood cats used as their litter box.
Dad got fed up with that and built a little contraption.
He rigged up a booby trap with a wire and a clothes peg. When the cats tripped the wire the clothes peg pulled off and broke a circuit with a battery and one of those old style magnesium flashes that one used to have for cameras in the 70s.
So the cats would walk in there at night, with pupils dilated to the size of grapes and preparing to do their business.
And trip the wire and.... *flash*!!!
The wire got tripped a few times. Once per cat in the area I would presume. And then never again.
It is a very interesting chipset. But the Nvidia Ultra 4 seems to have better SATA support.
Nvidia supports 300MB/s while ATI has 150MB/s. Also, ATI does not support Native Command Queue-ing, but Nvidia's chipset does. Nvidia also supports 0+1 RAID while ATI doesn't. They both support both RAID 0 and 1 though.
Is it a strategy on Microsofts part to legitimize software related lawsuits?
They have really deep pockets. They can afford to pay. When the pay they achieve two things:
1) They can stop worrying about the lawsuit and continue with their business. 2) They also legitimize the claim of the other company, in this case Novell, thereby setting a precedent.
When Microsoft sets a precedent it means that the next company that Sun or Novell or SCO sues will almost certainly have to pay. There is a precedent after all. But that company might not be able to pay. And then Microsoft has one competitor less.
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I think I've tried every DVD repair kit on the market. Even those that I figured probably were a hoax. Just because I have so many damaged DVD's that it was worth the risk I thought.
I have tried my damaged DVDs on many different players so I don't think that the laser is the problem.
I honestly think that DVDs are much more fragile than CDs.
Another thing which is weird with DVDs is that once it does find a bad spot it tends to lock up the system. I can't even skip forward or backwards.
Somewhere out there in the world there are 8 little boys who are crying because they can't play Halo 2.
This just goes to show that sometimes my English isn't as good as I want to think it is.
I thought that they had had a home made movie of one of their conferences that was 1995 minutes long.
Man, am I stupid.
These should really come in some type of protective casing. Like a floppy or something.
I have many CD's and they were pretty resilient to scratches. They played fine even if they had a pretty hefty scratch on them.
Then I bought DVD's and I brought them on over sea flights for entertainment. I was transporting them in one of those CD wallets and they just started getting unusable really fast. The smallest scratch and it would stop working.
I'm thinking that these disks can get a scratch that is smaller than can be seen with the naked eye and it'll still be a real problem for the disk.
So they should either have a protective cover like a floppy or they should have lots of redundant information physically far away from each other on the disk.
Here's something they can do.
They can mail you a summary of all Emails that they have received and "parked" in your web gui as spam.
This mail would be sent to you once per day or maybe once per week, depending on your preference. It would have a small obscure little group of text ads and occasionally you'd have to log in to the web gui to "release" an Email that was mistakenly marked as Spam.
Hmm... There must be other services which people would _want_ to have.
The people who use POP3 are much cheaper just because they won't be using 1GB.
Google can probably aim to get a 10th of the revenue off of a POP3 user compared to a web mail user.
Also, Google is entering a mature market. They have to really stand out if they want to persuade users to move from other web mail systems.
They can inject ads in your Email.
They can also send an ad to your Email address once every month.
But being Google they are probably trying to keep the goodwill of the people so my guess is that they will provide some type of service, such as a monthly summary of your correspondence, or something like that, and include ads in those service Emails.
Not among humans. And they are the only ones with phones.
This is why I'm sharing this with the rest of you so that someone can use it.
Oh, that works to make your friends think you are a geek.
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There is a command in many unices and Linux called factor.
If you want to be a true geek you can try it on your friends phone numbers and find out if it is a prime.
Then, the next time you talk, inform them that their phone number is a prime, or tell them of their phone numbers prime factorization, and enjoy watching them think that you are a super geek and a super genius.
For even better effect, pretend to count in your head before you tell them this.
Make it the goal of next years International Obfuscated C Code Contest.
I'm sure we'll get a really cryptic one liner that actually is a fully functional RDF browser.
Hahaha...
Good comeback.
So,
My parents had a flower bed that the neighbourhood cats used as their litter box.
Dad got fed up with that and built a little contraption.
He rigged up a booby trap with a wire and a clothes peg. When the cats tripped the wire the clothes peg pulled off and broke a circuit with a battery and one of those old style magnesium flashes that one used to have for cameras in the 70s.
So the cats would walk in there at night, with pupils dilated to the size of grapes and preparing to do their business.
And trip the wire and.... *flash*!!!
The wire got tripped a few times. Once per cat in the area I would presume. And then never again.
You seem to be at conflict with your boss. Have you ever tried watching porn together? It should bring the two of you closer together.
I couldn't tell you if the XGen development team has a good sense of humor. What I _can_ tell you is that I'm the only developer in that project.
It is also an open source project so you could see the source code.
Hey,
I write code like that every day for a living.
I'm just about to finish a world wide, 3-tier, trouble ticketing system in the shape of a Maze.
You can compare CPU benchmarks here.
AMD is beating the crap out of Intel.
So, I met this chick at the bar. She was beautiful. I turned on my famous charm. So I was able to get her to give me her IP.
So this morning I decide to VoIP her and it turns out that she had spoofed the IP.
I've worked for Ericsson and the exchanges they had 20 years ago had redundancy built in and their own powersource.
If you took out the whole building (flood, tornado, bomb) you'd lose your line. But it was still pretty resilient.
Here's another slogan:
The skype is the limit!
Hmm...
It is a very interesting chipset. But the Nvidia Ultra 4 seems to have better SATA support.
Nvidia supports 300MB/s while ATI has 150MB/s. Also, ATI does not support Native Command Queue-ing, but Nvidia's chipset does. Nvidia also supports 0+1 RAID while ATI doesn't. They both support both RAID 0 and 1 though.
Exactly how will this stop a dirty bomb from going off on Manhattan?
Well,
I don't have anything interesting to say. I just thought that that was a witty subject for someone that might have something clever to say.
They have more IP and more patents than most software companies I should think.
If it came to a shake down they'd own all software companies in the world. Well, that was an exaggeration, but you get the idea.
Is it a strategy on Microsofts part to legitimize software related lawsuits?
They have really deep pockets. They can afford to pay. When the pay they achieve two things:
1) They can stop worrying about the lawsuit and continue with their business.
2) They also legitimize the claim of the other company, in this case Novell, thereby setting a precedent.
When Microsoft sets a precedent it means that the next company that Sun or Novell or SCO sues will almost certainly have to pay. There is a precedent after all. But that company might not be able to pay. And then Microsoft has one competitor less.