DVD media is actually less sensitive, because it has much more robust error correction built in. The players are more sensitive, because they use lasers that put out less light at higher frequencies.
Since the principle is bounce the light off the disk, and if it comes back it's a 1, the less light the laser emits the crappier it works. But if you simply turn up the juice you run the risk of creating light in the wrong spectrum.
In the end, most players are just cheap shit and thats where the problems come from. I've put DVD's into my trusty Panasonic slot-loading drive that look like they've had a belt-sander taken to them.
Most people with these complaints have cheapo compusa-branded drives in their computer and a $20 Apex set-top from Wal-mart. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but it's the equipment that's at fault.
Unless your question is more along the lines of "how long until linux supports this" (answer - 10 years, dvd is still new to linux), or "how long until I can use Norton Ghost to image my HDD onto one of these things" (answer - a few months)
A DVD-+R is under 100 bucks. I predict it'll be around 50 by the end of the year. Blanks are coming wayy down in price, almost on parity with CD-R (well, on parity with CD-R if you go gig for gig cost)
So just frickin buy one. Unless you need 50 gigs per disc, and are willing to pay the crazy prices for the drives and media.
In a couple years, when blu-ray is the $100 dollar solution with uber-cheap media, buy one of those.
If $100 dollars is too rich for your blood, you need another hobby.
This is for pro graphic artists, and serious photo/movie editing.
You want to be able to manipulate that raw image from a 5 megapixel camera, have it all onscreen at once (no scaling).. Have it look closer to the printed output, etc..
Sheesh, I wonder how many more "all i do is write perl scripts, jerk off, and read slashdot, why should I buy this" posts are going to be made.
It's not about size or real estate, it's about pixel density and picture clarity.
Graphic artists would kill for a monitor with pixel density closely matching that of a printer (2400dpi or so).. That's not here yet, but this is closer.
...and it makes gcc a braindead pile of shit, IMO.
I'd drop it in an instant for intel's compiler if I could. I'd instantly have a 5-30% speed boost across the board. But I can't, linux (by which I mean userland apps, etc.. and the kernel too) code is chock full of stuff that only compiles with gcc.
But lock-in via embrace-and-extend is only a "bad thing" when MSFT does it, IIRC.
A mouse could cut it, move the mouse for 2D movement, roll the wheel for forward/back. It's the way it behaves now in many applications (ie; mouse wheel zooming the image,panning the text).
The c64 didn't ship with the schematics, they were a foldout in the back of the Programmer's Reference Guide - which was a seperate purchase, though you may have gotten it bundled.
The unit only shipped with the tiny little users manual which didn't have a whole lot to say about anything. It had some BASIC code examples, that was about it.
It's still ridiculous that the judge doesn't have enough brains to toss the case right out. The numeric address space belongs to NAC, a domain name (if registered) belongs to the plaintiff.
Like another poster said, this is like wanting to keep your street address and zip code when you move across country. Imagine how well the mail system would work when my address is "129 main st, smalltown PA 21132" and I live in an igloo in Alaska.
Obviously he doesn't know how TCP/IP works, how the IP address space is organized, or what DNS is (your DNS domain name is your "address", not your dotted-quad IP).
It's dangerous having these jokers ruling on cases like this. Small-time judges like this one tend to have a god-complex, and just love the chance to legislate from the bench.
The upside is, if he pulls it off, it'll give the RIAA a hell of a time trying to subpoena ISPs for information based on IP. They'd have no way to know who owns which address.
Unlike the whole "keep your cell-phone number" jiberjoo, this is unneeded and will do nothing but break the internet, will it not?
Isn't the whole DNS system set up to avoid the need to keep your numeric address? I mean, it's irrelevant if it only takes 5 minutes for my new IP to propogate.
Oh well, I hope this breaks the internet. I'm sick of the internet.
IBM made typewriters and adding machines years before they got into the first computers.
In fact, when they announced commercial-level computers a lot of investors thought they were morons to take such a risk, and dumped the stock like crazy. A bunch of lucky (or visionary.... naw, just lucky) a-holes got the cheap stock and made the Big Bucks(tm).
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Cynthia Breazeal holds out hope that within five years, robots will cross a critical threshold, becoming partners rather than tools - in other words, we'll have friends, not appliances.'
There's been a Cynthia Beazreahal, or counterpart thereof, saying this since the 50s.
You all hold out for your robot friends, but it's a friday night and I plan to go out drinking with some live human ones.
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DVD media is actually less sensitive, because it has much more robust error correction built in. The players are more sensitive, because they use lasers that put out less light at higher frequencies.
Since the principle is bounce the light off the disk, and if it comes back it's a 1, the less light the laser emits the crappier it works. But if you simply turn up the juice you run the risk of creating light in the wrong spectrum.
In the end, most players are just cheap shit and thats where the problems come from. I've put DVD's into my trusty Panasonic slot-loading drive that look like they've had a belt-sander taken to them.
Most people with these complaints have cheapo compusa-branded drives in their computer and a $20 Apex set-top from Wal-mart. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but it's the equipment that's at fault.
Record to the hard drive, sure, but then you want to put that 720p HDTV stream onto something so you can watch it later on your BluRay player.
These things are just big enough for feature length movies at HDTV resolutions. With nice high bitrates too (ie; less compression or artifacting).
How long? Just as soon as you go buy one.
Unless your question is more along the lines of "how long until linux supports this" (answer - 10 years, dvd is still new to linux), or "how long until I can use Norton Ghost to image my HDD onto one of these things" (answer - a few months)
the salesman said that DVD+R isn't the standard, and while DVD-R was supported on basically all DVD players
The salesman was full of shit. A salesman told me the opposite.
They're both standard. Some units work well with one, some with the other, some with neither (older ones).
The only "right" answer is to stick with what works, which has been DVD-R for me too (mostly because thats what my PS2 and XBOX like).
A DVD-+R is under 100 bucks. I predict it'll be around 50 by the end of the year. Blanks are coming wayy down in price, almost on parity with CD-R (well, on parity with CD-R if you go gig for gig cost)
So just frickin buy one. Unless you need 50 gigs per disc, and are willing to pay the crazy prices for the drives and media.
In a couple years, when blu-ray is the $100 dollar solution with uber-cheap media, buy one of those.
If $100 dollars is too rich for your blood, you need another hobby.
This is for pro graphic artists, and serious photo/movie editing.
You want to be able to manipulate that raw image from a 5 megapixel camera, have it all onscreen at once (no scaling).. Have it look closer to the printed output, etc..
Sheesh, I wonder how many more "all i do is write perl scripts, jerk off, and read slashdot, why should I buy this" posts are going to be made.
Not the same thing, at all.
It's not about size or real estate, it's about pixel density and picture clarity.
Graphic artists would kill for a monitor with pixel density closely matching that of a printer (2400dpi or so).. That's not here yet, but this is closer.
Think WYSIWYG.... to the X-treme!
...and it makes gcc a braindead pile of shit, IMO.
I'd drop it in an instant for intel's compiler if I could. I'd instantly have a 5-30% speed boost across the board. But I can't, linux (by which I mean userland apps, etc.. and the kernel too) code is chock full of stuff that only compiles with gcc.
But lock-in via embrace-and-extend is only a "bad thing" when MSFT does it, IIRC.
I thought hellboy was surprisingly well done.
Awwwwww! There's only one beer left... and it's Barts.
That made me wonder about the maturity of linux as a desktop platform, even more than before.
I'd just assume there would be a way to print envelopes/labels from linux. Even if it was an OO.o template, or some such. It's a fairly simple task.
Sad. Wake me when they come up with the calculator or cardfile clones.
This is newsworthy?
That's what Bart's aunt Selma got him for his birthday. It caused nothing but trouble.
A mouse could cut it, move the mouse for 2D movement, roll the wheel for forward/back. It's the way it behaves now in many applications (ie; mouse wheel zooming the image ,panning the text).
Think you could you be less productive?
I like it because it's new and shiny.
Now get back to work.
The c64 didn't ship with the schematics, they were a foldout in the back of the Programmer's Reference Guide - which was a seperate purchase, though you may have gotten it bundled.
The unit only shipped with the tiny little users manual which didn't have a whole lot to say about anything. It had some BASIC code examples, that was about it.
doesn't work. it's impossible to get networking working. virtual tap drivers suck
please use cygwin.
thanks for your time.
And just build a fuckin igloo.
I'm suing AMD because I want my new Athlon based laptop to have the same processor ID as my P3 machine.
It's still ridiculous that the judge doesn't have enough brains to toss the case right out. The numeric address space belongs to NAC, a domain name (if registered) belongs to the plaintiff.
Like another poster said, this is like wanting to keep your street address and zip code when you move across country. Imagine how well the mail system would work when my address is "129 main st, smalltown PA 21132" and I live in an igloo in Alaska.
Obviously he doesn't know how TCP/IP works, how the IP address space is organized, or what DNS is (your DNS domain name is your "address", not your dotted-quad IP).
It's dangerous having these jokers ruling on cases like this. Small-time judges like this one tend to have a god-complex, and just love the chance to legislate from the bench.
The upside is, if he pulls it off, it'll give the RIAA a hell of a time trying to subpoena ISPs for information based on IP. They'd have no way to know who owns which address.
Unlike the whole "keep your cell-phone number" jiberjoo, this is unneeded and will do nothing but break the internet, will it not?
Isn't the whole DNS system set up to avoid the need to keep your numeric address? I mean, it's irrelevant if it only takes 5 minutes for my new IP to propogate.
Oh well, I hope this breaks the internet. I'm sick of the internet.
MSFT believes in Free as in "no strings attached" and not Free as in "whatever RMS' philosophy is".
BURN THEM
IBM made typewriters and adding machines years before they got into the first computers.
In fact, when they announced commercial-level computers a lot of investors thought they were morons to take such a risk, and dumped the stock like crazy. A bunch of lucky (or visionary.... naw, just lucky) a-holes got the cheap stock and made the Big Bucks(tm).
"The medium is the message."
So said some old canadian fart.
Get dial up? Hell, in our dorms we could get cable. I'd imagine they'd offer cablemodem now in the 21st century.
Living in dorms sucked ass. Move off campus and live like a human being, not in some daycare for overgrown retards.
What's the story?
Cynthia Breazeal holds out hope that within five years, robots will cross a critical threshold, becoming partners rather than tools - in other words, we'll have friends, not appliances.'
There's been a Cynthia Beazreahal, or counterpart thereof, saying this since the 50s.
You all hold out for your robot friends, but it's a friday night and I plan to go out drinking with some live human ones.