Indeed, however the optical technology isn't keeping up with the magnetic technology. We'll soon all be using 200GB drives. I already have 200GB storage and I'm not rich, I would have even more otherwise.
True, but i'm sure a better method could be used today. Minimalise the amount of electronics on the drive so it limits the chances of things going wrong on the drive.
Sadly we appear to be going the other way with serial ATA.
DVD isn't vastly more storage than a CDR though, 4.7GB is about 6-7 times the storage of a CD.
So you now only need 35 DVD-Rs instead of 210+ CD-Rs. That's progress, but not enough progress.
Anyway, think of what often fails on a hard disk, more often than not it's the circuitry. It would be a lot better IMHO if the drive contained a much simpler circuit and much more of the clever stuff was done by the motherboard. At least then the circuitry could be cooled easier and if the controller died you could change motherboard.
Just try finding the controller for a hard disk if yours dies, I think hard disk makers actually run these data recovery centres looking at the prices they charge.
That was always the attraction of Jaz drives and the like, if the drive fails you get another one.
Freedom not to be locked into a license that tells you when you have to upgrade. Nobody should ever force you to upgrade just so you can get volume discount.
That was a right pain in the butt, having resource and data forks etc..
At least with AmigaOS they stored similar things in another file (.info file). Much easier to transfer, but you do run the risk of losing the.info file.
Going on articles and news reports they love open source in India. Now that Win98 support is coming to an end soon it'll be crunch time for some offices. Windows 2000/XP or Linux.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, you can't do this on newer printers, they have chips that stop the printer printing when the cartridge gets low on ink.
Indeed, they would encase the whole PCB in opaque resin or glue the case shut if they wanted the XBox to be a huge secret. They didn't and so they must live with their decision.
Sure the business model is sell for a loss and make back the money on licensing etc.., this just exposes how stupid that business model is. It's being tried on printers and printer ink now, the consumer is getting screwed. Sure printers are affordable, but heavy users of inkjets would sooner pay more for the printer and have cheaper ink.
Not to mention there's quite a lot of clustering experience out there. Knowledge you can actually gain for free instead of employing some Windows expert to design you a solution.
Which all goes to show that open source allows data and software to be rescued at lot easier. If a copy protection company goes bust and data on a disc can't be decrypted due to DMCA style laws then you're stuffed?
As well as buying up other people's hard work then rebranding it Disney (see Winnie the Pooh). They act like Microsoft in the way that they swallow up good characters and established stories instead of creating their own. These purchases are then rebranded robbing the original author of credit (I'm sure they get a tiny mention somewhere).
It varies from £9 an album to £17. Supermarkets tend to discount the most, but they often import from the European mainland to get the price down.
One supermarket was importing Levis from the US and the cost was much lower, a high court battle ensued and the supermarket lost. Branding sucks, you don't see Intel, AMD or Microsoft complaining about where their products are sold.
Then they're barking up the wrong tree, there's plenty of bootleg CDs being sold at markets near me. People lap them up and pay £5 for 4 albums, it's these scumbags who need arresting since they're profitting from piracy.
Except with shoplifting someone is stealing something and the money lost can easily be accounted for. When someone downloads an album on P2P you have no real proof that they would have bought that album anyway.
I quoted a few crimes to convey that the average P2P user isn't a criminal. They're not stealing to sell, they're downloading music to listen to (and in some cases to listen to before buying). If P2P users are criminals then prosecute them instead of suing them.
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Indeed, however the optical technology isn't keeping up with the magnetic technology. We'll soon all be using 200GB drives. I already have 200GB storage and I'm not rich, I would have even more otherwise.
True, but i'm sure a better method could be used today. Minimalise the amount of electronics on the drive so it limits the chances of things going wrong on the drive.
Sadly we appear to be going the other way with serial ATA.
DVD isn't vastly more storage than a CDR though, 4.7GB is about 6-7 times the storage of a CD.
So you now only need 35 DVD-Rs instead of 210+ CD-Rs. That's progress, but not enough progress.
Anyway, think of what often fails on a hard disk, more often than not it's the circuitry. It would be a lot better IMHO if the drive contained a much simpler circuit and much more of the clever stuff was done by the motherboard. At least then the circuitry could be cooled easier and if the controller died you could change motherboard.
Just try finding the controller for a hard disk if yours dies, I think hard disk makers actually run these data recovery centres looking at the prices they charge.
That was always the attraction of Jaz drives and the like, if the drive fails you get another one.
You are using a P2P network as the negotiator, the actual upload goes direct to another user.
Geez, these law maker types are thick buggers.
Exactly, due to the low cost of printers there's pretty much no second hand market for inkjets.
But it's certainly still worth wearing :)
Programs like Lyx will ensure it's popularity anyway, it's a lot less time consuming for documentation than buggy Word.
I'm sure they'll secure those machines well, padlocks, keycard entry systems.
:)
Oh you meant the OS....
Might be because freedom comes at a premium?
Freedom not to be locked into a license that tells you when you have to upgrade. Nobody should ever force you to upgrade just so you can get volume discount.
That was a right pain in the butt, having resource and data forks etc..
.info file.
At least with AmigaOS they stored similar things in another file (.info file). Much easier to transfer, but you do run the risk of losing the
It does both of the things you mention. Not perfectly, but then neither does Word when importing older doc versions.
What rock have you been hiding uder?
Going on articles and news reports they love open source in India. Now that Win98 support is coming to an end soon it'll be crunch time for some offices. Windows 2000/XP or Linux.
They want the artists to get paid yes, but not the smegging RIAA.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, you can't do this on newer printers, they have chips that stop the printer printing when the cartridge gets low on ink.
It did make sense until the arrival of the internet.
Once a console's copy protection has been busted and the method is easy, then it's game over. See Dreamcast for an example of that.
You need a huge knife and gallons of jam.
Indeed, they would encase the whole PCB in opaque resin or glue the case shut if they wanted the XBox to be a huge secret. They didn't and so they must live with their decision.
Sure the business model is sell for a loss and make back the money on licensing etc.., this just exposes how stupid that business model is. It's being tried on printers and printer ink now, the consumer is getting screwed. Sure printers are affordable, but heavy users of inkjets would sooner pay more for the printer and have cheaper ink.
64MB is a problem too, yes you can solder on another 64MB if you're skilled enough. But that's a lowly amount of RAM by modern standards.
Not to mention there's quite a lot of clustering experience out there. Knowledge you can actually gain for free instead of employing some Windows expert to design you a solution.
Which all goes to show that open source allows data and software to be rescued at lot easier. If a copy protection company goes bust and data on a disc can't be decrypted due to DMCA style laws then you're stuffed?
As well as buying up other people's hard work then rebranding it Disney (see Winnie the Pooh). They act like Microsoft in the way that they swallow up good characters and established stories instead of creating their own. These purchases are then rebranded robbing the original author of credit (I'm sure they get a tiny mention somewhere).
Cus we all know who would win it :)
SCO have created the patent parasite company. It won't be long before SCO employs more lawyers than programmers.
It varies from £9 an album to £17. Supermarkets tend to discount the most, but they often import from the European mainland to get the price down.
One supermarket was importing Levis from the US and the cost was much lower, a high court battle ensued and the supermarket lost. Branding sucks, you don't see Intel, AMD or Microsoft complaining about where their products are sold.
Then they're barking up the wrong tree, there's plenty of bootleg CDs being sold at markets near me. People lap them up and pay £5 for 4 albums, it's these scumbags who need arresting since they're profitting from piracy.
Except with shoplifting someone is stealing something and the money lost can easily be accounted for. When someone downloads an album on P2P you have no real proof that they would have bought that album anyway.
I quoted a few crimes to convey that the average P2P user isn't a criminal. They're not stealing to sell, they're downloading music to listen to (and in some cases to listen to before buying). If P2P users are criminals then prosecute them instead of suing them.