I have read past articles on this.
If I recall, the high quality CD-Rs with the gold background last for one hundred years. The ones with the blue background ten.
However, a research team once wrote data to different discs made by different manufacturers. They stored them in a dark place for two years. After this period of time some of the discs would not read. Unfortunately they did not disclose which brands did not last.
I am thinking about putting a small sum, like $100 or so, into the company. Hopefully it will pay off. The people who run Google are brilliant and innovative people. I am pretty sure they have big plans for the future of Google.
Why doesn't Sony just release a hard drive based player that reads their propetary ATRAC format? From what I hear ATRACs take up way less space than MP3s. They could possibly win out in the war over propetary sound formats.
I agree. I have a Panasonic MP3-CD player. I paid about $50 for it. When buying CD-Rs in bulk they come out to less than ten cents a piece. I get around 40 hours of battery life on two AA batteries.
I enjoy songs as part of an album. It's sad that the mind numbing majority are getting their way with random shuffle.
No one will ever create a Dark Side of the Moon or Downward Spiral again.
I remember back when I had a ZIP 100 drive and got the good old "Click of death."
That damaged several of my disks and lost me lots of data.
A class action lawsuit got filed against Iomega, it got settled. People like me had the choice of either accepting twenty dollars as an agreement not to pursue legal action or not accept the money at all.
It will be a cold day in hell before I buy an iomega product again.
I hope they go out of business.
God, I hate the RIAA and the big music corporations.
I thought prices on MP3s were supposed to go DOWN not UP. What a bunch of jerks.
I guess the consumer exists as partly to blame. The people actually BUYING downloadable music do not even realize that the music quality is not as good as CDs. Furthermore the files have copy protection. Can someone please point me out the attraction of this?
Personally, I hate it when any company treats their customer base like potential theives.
I feel that will digital music eventually gave the consumer more freedom by allowing them to share music files with each other that in the longterm it gave the music companies more power.
Standardizing digital music eventually will lead to the end of used music purchases. Since nothing is tangible how can someone sell it back or return it? Hate that new album you bought and downloaded? Tough. Want to make a mix album for a friend? Too bad.
Now the big five music corporations can sell us copy-protected files that absolutely comes in no tangible forms. Great. They win in the longrun.
Sure AAC may get cracked now. But I am sure they will fix that and that another crack will come out so on and so forth. Do we really want to play this cat and mouse game?
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To bring your towel!
That will teach SCO to screw with Linux!
I have read past articles on this. If I recall, the high quality CD-Rs with the gold background last for one hundred years. The ones with the blue background ten. However, a research team once wrote data to different discs made by different manufacturers. They stored them in a dark place for two years. After this period of time some of the discs would not read. Unfortunately they did not disclose which brands did not last.
I'm not a crook!
What a jerk! I doubt anyone would be that eager as to pay $200. Eventually everyone will have one anyways!
I am thinking about putting a small sum, like $100 or so, into the company. Hopefully it will pay off. The people who run Google are brilliant and innovative people. I am pretty sure they have big plans for the future of Google.
Why doesn't Sony just release a hard drive based player that reads their propetary ATRAC format? From what I hear ATRACs take up way less space than MP3s. They could possibly win out in the war over propetary sound formats.
I agree. I have a Panasonic MP3-CD player. I paid about $50 for it. When buying CD-Rs in bulk they come out to less than ten cents a piece. I get around 40 hours of battery life on two AA batteries.
Move to India.
No, not really.
Dr. Sbaisto?
I only operate off of 512k memory.
DENIED! Burn on Real. That was the biggest pimp slap in the technology industry!
I enjoy songs as part of an album. It's sad that the mind numbing majority are getting their way with random shuffle. No one will ever create a Dark Side of the Moon or Downward Spiral again.
Now I really am living in the 21st century! What next? Flying cars?!?
That's Lintastic!
Agreed.
I remember back when I had a ZIP 100 drive and got the good old "Click of death." That damaged several of my disks and lost me lots of data. A class action lawsuit got filed against Iomega, it got settled. People like me had the choice of either accepting twenty dollars as an agreement not to pursue legal action or not accept the money at all. It will be a cold day in hell before I buy an iomega product again. I hope they go out of business.
The Creative Nomad Jukebox Xtra's seem to have the same flaw. Perhaps the mobile hard drive MP3 technology has not been perfected yet?
People should just boycott iTunes. But it's not like any of the /. people buy that stuff anyways.
God, I hate the RIAA and the big music corporations.
I thought prices on MP3s were supposed to go DOWN not UP. What a bunch of jerks.
I guess the consumer exists as partly to blame. The people actually BUYING downloadable music do not even realize that the music quality is not as good as CDs. Furthermore the files have copy protection. Can someone please point me out the attraction of this?
Personally, I hate it when any company treats their customer base like potential theives. I feel that will digital music eventually gave the consumer more freedom by allowing them to share music files with each other that in the longterm it gave the music companies more power. Standardizing digital music eventually will lead to the end of used music purchases. Since nothing is tangible how can someone sell it back or return it? Hate that new album you bought and downloaded? Tough. Want to make a mix album for a friend? Too bad. Now the big five music corporations can sell us copy-protected files that absolutely comes in no tangible forms. Great. They win in the longrun. Sure AAC may get cracked now. But I am sure they will fix that and that another crack will come out so on and so forth. Do we really want to play this cat and mouse game?
I never said that! I said it was SEXY.
But it's so sexy that I could make love to it!
Good, fuck those guys!