Use a disc doctor, or the toothpaste method, to get rid of as much of the hairline scratches as you can.
Next, grab yourself a good fine-pointed marker. The finest you can find.
Black out the large scratches with this. Be very careful to only cover the damage itself - look straight at the disc from the laser's perspective and if you can see any light reflection from the damage, black out the reflective spot. This is difficult, and requires a good marker and steady hand, and sharp eyes.
The idea is this:
The drive passes over the scratch - not only is the scratch unreadable, but any glare/reflections off of the damage interfere with reading the data that is immediately adjacent to the scratch. That neighbor data is used to reconstruct lost bits using reed-solomon parity coding. The more bits in the packet the drive can read, the more likely it can recover the damaged area.
After doing this, I suggest ripping the disc to a computer. The drives meant for reading/writing data have much more support hardware/logic for dealing with lost bits, where an audio drive is more geared for making such errors unnoticeable.
Your skin oils and the buffing from the paper help remove or pad the sharp edges on the scratch, reducing glare from the laser. This helps the drive read the data immediately next to the damage and get more bits to process with reed-solomon, data which is usually obscured by the reflections off the damage.
I've used a fine-point sharpie to black-out a scratch, and the disc read perfectly after that.
Your PC drive probably has better optics, and more firmware/hardware for processing the reed-solomon coding etc.
Your CD player is meant for analog data, where a bit doesn't really make much difference, where on a data CD a single bit gone can ruin it. So, you could see how resources were allocated for accurate data reading on a data drive vs an audio drive.
Hmm... we need adaptive blog software. On a heavy load, generate and store a static version of the page and display that, until the traffic winds down. Or something.
This is true. But my point being is that we only know that we do not know everything, we don't know how much we don't know. We've made so many advancements recently, so many that I would not rule out more advancements with quantum theory.
Perhaps not having an "inside" knowledge of the theory allows me to see it abstractly - as any other science.
Hmm. I always get hit by the 20 second one, but even if i hit it at 19 seconds, I can usually post just by clicking again (just passing that 20 second threshold).
Anonymous posts seem to have a separate counter, and that 15 minute one nailed me with a post in a completely different story.
I don't pretend to understand what it's doing, but it's quite annoying. It encourages one-shot stupid posts, and inhibits actual discussion. If it's intentional, I think the implementation is backwards.
Convert the PDF to postscript, then you should be able to either edit the postscript by hand, or use an editor to remove the boxes. The actual document is probably a jpg or other image format.
Good, they can pay for my living quarters and food for me. If they want to go around arresting people for not forfeiting their privacy, they can pay for it.
suitable for learning in about 10-15 minutes how to sketch out accurate scale models of houses and basic landscape, that imports and exports Collada format?
Blender is great, but if he needs to learn it in 10-15 minutes it won't work. Sure, once he did learn it he would be done with his model in 10-15...
hrm, maybe we could have an/setc for boot-critical config? Similar to how we have/bin and/sbin. For people who like the old way of one massive/etc, you could just symlink one to the other and there would be no practical difference.
Well, from what I've seen,/usr/local and/opt were reserved for the local sysadmin to manage, and the package management system generally stayed away from that. This meant that custom software and distro packages didn't have file conflicts.
Now, I like the way that works, a lot. But I don't have any objections against further partitioning of that scheme.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Decrypter
Non-windows users have cdparanoia at hand, I think it is a suitable replacement for EAC.
Use a disc doctor, or the toothpaste method, to get rid of as much of the hairline scratches as you can.
Next, grab yourself a good fine-pointed marker. The finest you can find.
Black out the large scratches with this. Be very careful to only cover the damage itself - look straight at the disc from the laser's perspective and if you can see any light reflection from the damage, black out the reflective spot. This is difficult, and requires a good marker and steady hand, and sharp eyes.
The idea is this:
The drive passes over the scratch - not only is the scratch unreadable, but any glare/reflections off of the damage interfere with reading the data that is immediately adjacent to the scratch. That neighbor data is used to reconstruct lost bits using reed-solomon parity coding. The more bits in the packet the drive can read, the more likely it can recover the damaged area.
After doing this, I suggest ripping the disc to a computer. The drives meant for reading/writing data have much more support hardware/logic for dealing with lost bits, where an audio drive is more geared for making such errors unnoticeable.
Your skin oils and the buffing from the paper help remove or pad the sharp edges on the scratch, reducing glare from the laser. This helps the drive read the data immediately next to the damage and get more bits to process with reed-solomon, data which is usually obscured by the reflections off the damage.
I've used a fine-point sharpie to black-out a scratch, and the disc read perfectly after that.
Your PC drive probably has better optics, and more firmware/hardware for processing the reed-solomon coding etc.
Your CD player is meant for analog data, where a bit doesn't really make much difference, where on a data CD a single bit gone can ruin it. So, you could see how resources were allocated for accurate data reading on a data drive vs an audio drive.
Hmm... we need adaptive blog software. On a heavy load, generate and store a static version of the page and display that, until the traffic winds down. Or something.
Brighter != More color
Brighter != Cartoonish
Brighter != Cleaner
Some of us like that real gritty feel. But that doesn't mean we like dark.
What!? Troll!?
Er.. I hope that was a mistake?
This is true. But my point being is that we only know that we do not know everything, we don't know how much we don't know. We've made so many advancements recently, so many that I would not rule out more advancements with quantum theory.
Perhaps not having an "inside" knowledge of the theory allows me to see it abstractly - as any other science.
At this point. Who knows what we may figure out in time?
Look where we were 100 years ago. 200 years ago. 300. Do you get what I'm hinting at?
Hmm. I always get hit by the 20 second one, but even if i hit it at 19 seconds, I can usually post just by clicking again (just passing that 20 second threshold).
Anonymous posts seem to have a separate counter, and that 15 minute one nailed me with a post in a completely different story.
I don't pretend to understand what it's doing, but it's quite annoying. It encourages one-shot stupid posts, and inhibits actual discussion. If it's intentional, I think the implementation is backwards.
No, it wouldn't.
Now, if you were threatened or intimidated into giving your wallet, THAT would then be robbery.
Convert the PDF to postscript, then you should be able to either edit the postscript by hand, or use an editor to remove the boxes. The actual document is probably a jpg or other image format.
Nowhere. Dick isn't a name, it's a foreshortened name. The real name is Richard.
Good, they can pay for my living quarters and food for me. If they want to go around arresting people for not forfeiting their privacy, they can pay for it.
Check the link in my sig. I've gotten yelled at for 15 minutes before.
It seems to punish anonymous posts particularly though. I'll admit to posting anonymously when I know I'm saying something people won't like.
These look fun, thank you! Shame they are windows only, but I'll try them anyways.
There ya go! That was much better, and I almost agree with you now ;)
Wait, aren't they doing that already? Well, between faps anyways...
We might say the same about you. Try to be considerate and civil, it makes you look like less of a tool.
What's a shmup? Sounds interesting...
suitable for learning in about 10-15 minutes how to sketch out accurate scale models of houses and basic landscape, that imports and exports Collada format?
Blender is great, but if he needs to learn it in 10-15 minutes it won't work. Sure, once he did learn it he would be done with his model in 10-15...
hrm, maybe we could have an /setc for boot-critical config? Similar to how we have /bin and /sbin. For people who like the old way of one massive /etc, you could just symlink one to the other and there would be no practical difference.
Well, from what I've seen, /usr/local and /opt were reserved for the local sysadmin to manage, and the package management system generally stayed away from that. This meant that custom software and distro packages didn't have file conflicts.
Now, I like the way that works, a lot. But I don't have any objections against further partitioning of that scheme.
The quests are boring:
Blah blah blah kill # $mob.
Blah blah blah collect # $item.
Blah blah blah kill # $mob blah blah collect # $item blah blah.
Blah blah blah go to $place and talk to $NPC.
My biggest issue is with the killing-for-items quests - when I kill a bird I get more than one goddamned feather, not one feather for 20 birds.
Did I make my point clear enough?