Tapes (even cheap DDS-tapes) can take several tens of thousands of read-write cycles (DLT tapes have the most: >1 million cycles)
AFAIK, CD-RW have much less cycles.
Oh, and another word:
Lifetime.
CD-R's become a pile of dirt after a few years in bad conditions (non-constant heat and humidity) and need constant climate and darkness to last decades. i dont konw the numbers for CD-RW (since im not interrested in them), but i would guess they last even less than CDR's.
This license violates German (and European) law, and is therefore invalid (nichtig).
So - can i happily download the FULL database and use it as a source of a free replacement ?!? (i dont know if this is covered by an older/other license term which does not violate german or european laws [note: ALL microsoft license terms have parts that violate german law - even the german versions of these licenses... especially those "you agree to this license before you get the chance to read it" is completely invalid and can be happily ignored in germany])
There is a very simple way to insert DNA into (all) cells of a mature human beeing: a virus.
viruses do nothing else - they paste their payload DNA into the infected cell.
You only have to put the modified/watermarked DNA into a harmless, but widespread virus (influenza, Bio-Weapon engineers have dozens of carriers at their hands) and there you go...
The only question is: why should any1 do such a thing ? your genetic code is already unique...
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Just one word:
Cycles.
Tapes (even cheap DDS-tapes) can take several tens of thousands of read-write cycles (DLT tapes have the most: >1 million cycles)
AFAIK, CD-RW have much less cycles.
Oh, and another word:
Lifetime.
CD-R's become a pile of dirt after a few years in bad conditions (non-constant heat and humidity) and need constant climate and darkness to last decades.
i dont konw the numbers for CD-RW (since im not interrested in them), but i would guess they last even less than CDR's.
Tapes last for decades.
my 2 cents (euro)
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Jor
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This license violates German (and European) law, and is therefore invalid (nichtig).
So - can i happily download the FULL database and use it as a source of a free replacement ?!?
(i dont know if this is covered by an older/other license term which does not violate german or european laws [note: ALL microsoft license terms have parts that violate german law - even the german versions of these licenses... especially those "you agree to this license before you get the chance to read it" is completely invalid and can be happily ignored in germany])
--
Jor
--
There is a very simple way to insert DNA into (all) cells of a mature human beeing: a virus.
viruses do nothing else - they paste their payload DNA into the infected cell.
You only have to put the modified/watermarked DNA into a harmless, but widespread virus (influenza, Bio-Weapon engineers have dozens of carriers at their hands) and there you go...
The only question is: why should any1 do such a thing ? your genetic code is already unique...
--
Jor