It's just a matter of storing them sensibly. I recently backed up four to five hundred CD-Rs to DVD, and had ONE dodgy disc, which I knew was flaky anyway (I didn't burn it myself). The CD-Rs dated from 1994 until about 2002.
(I always burn at the slowest speed possible, put the discs in slim jewel cases, then store the cases in a cardboard box in the spare room.)
I've been tearing my hair out trying to rip these damn Copy Protected CDs; 2 of my drives won't let me, period, and the 3rd will only let me rip with many many C2 errors (using PerfectRip in Windows). I've tried various tools in Ubuntu, no dice.
Have you managed to rip one of these discs with no errors at all?
But thinking that T3 was better than either of them?! That just smacks of poor taste.
Well, er, thanks. For me, T2 was just completely over-cooked and pompous (ditto 'True Lies', which I also detested). T3 had its flaws, but it was gone before it could leave a sour taste, plus it had a cool (for Hollywood) ending.
There are two types of people in the world: those who saw Starship Troopers and went "huh? that movie was dumb" and those who got it. The people who liked Starship Troopers should appreciate Air Force One on the same level.
Ah, I think you've both missed the trick of AF1. It's a send-up of the genre. It's subtle, I grant you that, but I've seen it a few times now, and I'm convinced that they were trying to make a film that played on two levels - the blustering OTT thrill-fest, and a piss-take. If you don't believe me, watch the DVD with the 'pop-up trivia' turned on...
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AaDB: It WAS a mess, and at times it felt like he was just looking out of the window and writing down everything he saw. Some of the cars and houses he described were utterly contemporary.
His previous book to this latest one, The Algebraist, certainly needed a heavier-handed editor, it would've been much better for it. It still rankles with me that I forced myself through masses of syrupy ramblings for a highly unsatisfactory ending.
I agree. I've never been more productive than when I was using WordPerfect.
Whenever I use Word, it feels like a fight. A fight that Word nearly always wins.
I give up my mod points to point out that you're not alone. Personally, I think it's the best, most grown-up ST film there's been. 'Wrath Of Khan' felt like it was made for TV, I don't remember a damn thing about 'Search For Spock', and IV was a kids' film with a couple of funny lines. (... there were films after #4?)
Warning: if you're going to buy the special edition 2-disc DVD of 'ST:TMP', there appears to be at least two versions out there. The sound/picture quality on mine sucks (scratchy artefacts on the picture, clipping in the audio), but some others have said their DVDs suffer no such problems.
A couple of weeks back, I made a (very amateruish) video for a song - 3 minute song, 720x576, 25fps. Retaining some of the critical intermediate steps (as I was doing some custom frame-by-frame processing), I ended up with 15-20Gb of files - and it would've been a LOT more had I not sacrificed speed to keep the disk usage down (I was keeping the intermediate frames as PNGs not BMPs).
Also, I like to backup my FLAC files. The more burnable disc-space, the better!
I think it's "When Everything Was Perfect" by The Alarm. (It sounds like Mike Peters' voice, and I took a stab at the title, and lo, that song exists - that'll be 99c please:)
>Check back in a century and I'd bet you'll see the singular "they" accepted
I must've gone to a very forward-thinking primary school (ages 5-10), as we were taught from the off that 'they' was the singular pronoun. And this was over twenty years ago... However, I have come across some grammarian snobs who baulk whenever I use 'they' in this manner. More fools 'they', eh?
Now, that's not quite fair on Peter Davison. The quality of the scripts took a severe nosedive towards the end of his reign, and bumped along the ground for the whole of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy's tenure.
IMO, some of the 5th Doctor's early adventures were amongst the finest in the whole Doctor Who canon.
The Doctor is supposed to be hyper-intelligent; Colin Firth and Sean Bean just don't have the depth, I couldn't believe in either of them. Plus Sean Bean has not an ounce of humour about him.
Sean Pertwee... interesting, off-the-wall choice. They could do worse (and probably will - if the rumours about Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann or Rowan Atkinson being the Doctor are to be believed).
Now, Peter Firth (Harry in Spooks / MI-5), I could see...
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Actually, I've realised I've made a mistake: it's 'Against A Dark Background' I was thinking of, not 'Use Of Weapons'. AADB is unfocussed and I didn't care about the characters. (Mind you, the Lazy Gun was great.)
Having said that, though, UoW is just too over-dramatic for my tastes, and the 'twist' is cheesy (IMO).
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Iain M. Banks: seconded - he's a great, great author who knows how important the STORY is, as well as the sci-fi. He's also expert at not over-reaching himself with science jargon that could look obsolete in 20,30,50... years. (Don't start with Use Of Weapons, though, it's not a good advert for his skills.)
Furthermore, I can heartily recommend Greg Egan, an Australian "hard sci-fi" author. Digital consciousness is a recurrent theme in his books - check out Permutation City and Diaspora for two darned intelligent reads.
"Americans bad. Capitalism bad. Socialism good. Drugs good. High technology cool, but the best technology (computers and aerospace) is American. Don't ask us to reconcile that." - you seriously can't think of what sort of people might subscribe to these views?
"I'm glad to see the Nebula voters have voted for right-thinking, American-proud authors like Gaimain, and avoided socialist anti-American clap-trap like McLeod[.]" Sorry, have I missed something, do the Klan and NRA write sci-fi now?
There were brief scenes in Final Fantasy that were nearly there - especially with the old guy (Sid?). The main problem for me was with the mouths, they didn't move enough; plus, you can often see inside the characters' mouths, and they seem to have some weird internal lighting effect.
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It's just a matter of storing them sensibly. I recently backed up four to five hundred CD-Rs to DVD, and had ONE dodgy disc, which I knew was flaky anyway (I didn't burn it myself). The CD-Rs dated from 1994 until about 2002.
(I always burn at the slowest speed possible, put the discs in slim jewel cases, then store the cases in a cardboard box in the spare room.)
"its main selling points are speed, simplicity and security"
Pick any two.
I've been tearing my hair out trying to rip these damn Copy Protected CDs; 2 of my drives won't let me, period, and the 3rd will only let me rip with many many C2 errors (using PerfectRip in Windows). I've tried various tools in Ubuntu, no dice.
Have you managed to rip one of these discs with no errors at all?
Wow. You have my sympathy (for all the good that does). What's the latest re: destroying your fingerprints and DNA?
Absolutely. And no-one can tell when you're using it. (Unless you're purposely doing something odd)
But thinking that T3 was better than either of them?! That just smacks of poor taste.
Well, er, thanks. For me, T2 was just completely over-cooked and pompous (ditto 'True Lies', which I also detested). T3 had its flaws, but it was gone before it could leave a sour taste, plus it had a cool (for Hollywood) ending.
In your opinion... (of course).
I loved T1, thought T2 was a bunch of overblown tiresome crap, and really enjoyed T3.
For me, it was T2 that stunk up the place.
There are two types of people in the world: those who saw Starship Troopers and went "huh? that movie was dumb" and those who got it. The people who liked Starship Troopers should appreciate Air Force One on the same level.
Ah, I think you've both missed the trick of AF1. It's a send-up of the genre. It's subtle, I grant you that, but I've seen it a few times now, and I'm convinced that they were trying to make a film that played on two levels - the blustering OTT thrill-fest, and a piss-take. If you don't believe me, watch the DVD with the 'pop-up trivia' turned on...
AaDB: It WAS a mess, and at times it felt like he was just looking out of the window and writing down everything he saw. Some of the cars and houses he described were utterly contemporary.
His previous book to this latest one, The Algebraist, certainly needed a heavier-handed editor, it would've been much better for it. It still rankles with me that I forced myself through masses of syrupy ramblings for a highly unsatisfactory ending.
I agree. I've never been more productive than when I was using WordPerfect. Whenever I use Word, it feels like a fight. A fight that Word nearly always wins.
I give up my mod points to point out that you're not alone. Personally, I think it's the best, most grown-up ST film there's been. 'Wrath Of Khan' felt like it was made for TV, I don't remember a damn thing about 'Search For Spock', and IV was a kids' film with a couple of funny lines. (... there were films after #4?)
Warning: if you're going to buy the special edition 2-disc DVD of 'ST:TMP', there appears to be at least two versions out there. The sound/picture quality on mine sucks (scratchy artefacts on the picture, clipping in the audio), but some others have said their DVDs suffer no such problems.
A couple of weeks back, I made a (very amateruish) video for a song - 3 minute song, 720x576, 25fps. Retaining some of the critical intermediate steps (as I was doing some custom frame-by-frame processing), I ended up with 15-20Gb of files - and it would've been a LOT more had I not sacrificed speed to keep the disk usage down (I was keeping the intermediate frames as PNGs not BMPs).
Also, I like to backup my FLAC files. The more burnable disc-space, the better!
I think it's "When Everything Was Perfect" by The Alarm. (It sounds like Mike Peters' voice, and I took a stab at the title, and lo, that song exists - that'll be 99c please :)
>Check back in a century and I'd bet you'll see the singular "they" accepted
I must've gone to a very forward-thinking primary school (ages 5-10), as we were taught from the off that 'they' was the singular pronoun. And this was over twenty years ago... However, I have come across some grammarian snobs who baulk whenever I use 'they' in this manner. More fools 'they', eh?
"AKA the Shark-jumping doctor"
Now, that's not quite fair on Peter Davison. The quality of the scripts took a severe nosedive towards the end of his reign, and bumped along the ground for the whole of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy's tenure.
IMO, some of the 5th Doctor's early adventures were amongst the finest in the whole Doctor Who canon.
The Doctor is supposed to be hyper-intelligent; Colin Firth and Sean Bean just don't have the depth, I couldn't believe in either of them. Plus Sean Bean has not an ounce of humour about him.
Sean Pertwee... interesting, off-the-wall choice. They could do worse (and probably will - if the rumours about Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann or Rowan Atkinson being the Doctor are to be believed).
Now, Peter Firth (Harry in Spooks / MI-5), I could see...
Actually, I've realised I've made a mistake: it's 'Against A Dark Background' I was thinking of, not 'Use Of Weapons'. AADB is unfocussed and I didn't care about the characters. (Mind you, the Lazy Gun was great.)
Having said that, though, UoW is just too over-dramatic for my tastes, and the 'twist' is cheesy (IMO).
Iain M. Banks: seconded - he's a great, great author who knows how important the STORY is, as well as the sci-fi. He's also expert at not over-reaching himself with science jargon that could look obsolete in 20,30,50... years. (Don't start with Use Of Weapons, though, it's not a good advert for his skills.)
Furthermore, I can heartily recommend Greg Egan, an Australian "hard sci-fi" author. Digital consciousness is a recurrent theme in his books - check out Permutation City and Diaspora for two darned intelligent reads.
I hope this is a troll.
"Americans bad. Capitalism bad. Socialism good. Drugs good. High technology cool, but the best technology (computers and aerospace) is American. Don't ask us to reconcile that." - you seriously can't think of what sort of people might subscribe to these views?
"I'm glad to see the Nebula voters have voted for right-thinking, American-proud authors like Gaimain, and avoided socialist anti-American clap-trap like McLeod[.]" Sorry, have I missed something, do the Klan and NRA write sci-fi now?
There were brief scenes in Final Fantasy that were nearly there - especially with the old guy (Sid?). The main problem for me was with the mouths, they didn't move enough; plus, you can often see inside the characters' mouths, and they seem to have some weird internal lighting effect.