"Are there any projections/estimates related to how stable this media would be when used for long-term archival storage?"
Not very long. Most titanium oxides of any sort are semi-unstable and degrade fairly easily, which is why they're used en-masse in sunscreen - it works for a short period of time but it degrades quickly under visible and UV wavelength light, requiring you to re-apply it.
I'd bet exposing one of these discs to normal light for any lengthy amount of time would render the disc unusable.
It seems Nero listened to my e-mail. I told them they should be doing something about this because it would drastically affect their market otherwise. I sent that e-mail right after the original MPEG-LA brouhaha broke a couple weeks ago.
Just playing around with lights and plants got me one sweet job designing LED panels for growing stuff. Hopefully I get it ultra-efficient and get to put it in space one day!
Guess you haven't seen me smacking EA around, and now Sony's about to become my bitch, as well.
I don't need luck - all it takes is a quick and easy "Here, Judge, have this evidence that completely shows these people usurping my copyright/property rights."
Become a successful litigant, spend time in the court system, then you'll have some idea of how easy it really is to take down a company one notch at a time.
"All the stop light does is suggest that you should power down or you restart the car."
Which is the dumbest fucking thing in the world as you'll use MORE gas starting back up than idling for the two or three minutes a typical traffic light takes to cycle.
"There are no plans to recover the flight test vehicle"
Really? You want to just let a potential security threat sit around in the ocean for someone to salvage and copy?
Goddamn, let me call China right quick and let them know where they might want to start looking. If you're just going to leave it out there I might as well get paid to clean up your damned mess!
If he changes his tune suddenly he faces a lawsuit from me.
Yes, we set this trap up for the RIAA/MPAA. Now I have them violating my copyright and usurping my copyright control (I use that site for distribution,) and my legal authority to determine how my films/lessons/self-recorded audio files are disseminated. BIG NO-NO and THEY BURIED THEMSELVES BY FIGHTING FOR SUCH LAWS.
I'm about to own them and win, no matter what they try to do - my resources are worth far more, as I can prove my resources will drop TRILLIONS into the global economy (space travel, USA on the moon/Mars before everyone else, total national security issues,) whereas their crap music only touches a few billion.
Watch what happens when I drop the axe upon them. Watch closely - I'm about to show you how to PROPERLY conduct industrial espionage in a legal fashion. They step on another industry, that industry rails them for all they're worth. Watch the economic hammer drop, especially if I threaten to sell the tech to a USA competitor.
BYE RIAA/MPAA. Nice knowing you. You can't buy your way out of the future of mankind. You just signed your own death warrant. DIE UNDER MY THUMB.
"Double booms aren't being used in most places, they are aren't being anchored right, no catch basins are being used to collect the oil being trapped, with no pumps at the nonexistent catch basins to remove it. Meaning, the oil will build up and overtop or run under the booms instead of being collected and removed."
I have friends that have worked *HUGE* rigs offshore (6 months on, 6 off, $40K+ a year) *THIS* is the most accurate statement. Every oil guy I met/knew has been consistently saying BP's efforts are TOO LITTLE AND NOT EVEN TOO LATE, and they should have just bombed the shaft long ago and sealed it, then drilled a pressure-release core out and set up another rig to pull the oil up.
Sad that a bunch of barely out of high-school people working professionally on these rigs know more than the oil company pumping the shit out.
"It took them 3 freaking tries to properly replace my bad gtx8800oc with a WORKING card"
Yea, you do realize that's nVidia's fault for having a faulty die packaging for their 8 and 9 series GPUs, right? Not BFG's problem nVidia had other higher-volume retailers they had to take care of first.
"The GP point is still valid they would have to prove that you had the files on your computer when you went through customs"
You do realize we've moved to journaling file systems for quite some time, now? It would be fairly trivial to find out when a particular file was around.
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"I don't think I've heard a GPS give that direction except on a rotary"
Drive in LA. You'll pretty much tire of the GPS telling you nonsense and learn the city by heart.
The i740 wasn't integrated. It was a discrete AGP-bus card.
God I remember playing POD on that thing.
Actually, we use Titanium Oxide for cleaving DNA all the time in bacterial genome recombination.
Documented troll, my ass.
Signed,
Director of Research, EcogroLED USA.
The difference between something that's perfectly harmless and something that will cleave DNA.
Packard Bell 8088. 20MB HDD, 1x CD-ROM. 512KB RAM. CGA. 2400 baud modem. PC Speaker only (except plugging headphones into the CD-ROM.)
"Are there any projections/estimates related to how stable this media would be when used for long-term archival storage?"
Not very long. Most titanium oxides of any sort are semi-unstable and degrade fairly easily, which is why they're used en-masse in sunscreen - it works for a short period of time but it degrades quickly under visible and UV wavelength light, requiring you to re-apply it.
I'd bet exposing one of these discs to normal light for any lengthy amount of time would render the disc unusable.
It seems Nero listened to my e-mail. I told them they should be doing something about this because it would drastically affect their market otherwise. I sent that e-mail right after the original MPEG-LA brouhaha broke a couple weeks ago.
Just playing around with lights and plants got me one sweet job designing LED panels for growing stuff. Hopefully I get it ultra-efficient and get to put it in space one day!
Guess you haven't seen me smacking EA around, and now Sony's about to become my bitch, as well.
I don't need luck - all it takes is a quick and easy "Here, Judge, have this evidence that completely shows these people usurping my copyright/property rights."
Become a successful litigant, spend time in the court system, then you'll have some idea of how easy it really is to take down a company one notch at a time.
"All the stop light does is suggest that you should power down or you restart the car."
Which is the dumbest fucking thing in the world as you'll use MORE gas starting back up than idling for the two or three minutes a typical traffic light takes to cycle.
"There are no plans to recover the flight test vehicle"
Really? You want to just let a potential security threat sit around in the ocean for someone to salvage and copy?
Goddamn, let me call China right quick and let them know where they might want to start looking. If you're just going to leave it out there I might as well get paid to clean up your damned mess!
Apparently you've never dealt with a BBS. FreeNet gives me megabit+ connections.
If he changes his tune suddenly he faces a lawsuit from me.
Yes, we set this trap up for the RIAA/MPAA. Now I have them violating my copyright and usurping my copyright control (I use that site for distribution,) and my legal authority to determine how my films/lessons/self-recorded audio files are disseminated. BIG NO-NO and THEY BURIED THEMSELVES BY FIGHTING FOR SUCH LAWS.
I'm about to own them and win, no matter what they try to do - my resources are worth far more, as I can prove my resources will drop TRILLIONS into the global economy (space travel, USA on the moon/Mars before everyone else, total national security issues,) whereas their crap music only touches a few billion.
Watch what happens when I drop the axe upon them. Watch closely - I'm about to show you how to PROPERLY conduct industrial espionage in a legal fashion. They step on another industry, that industry rails them for all they're worth. Watch the economic hammer drop, especially if I threaten to sell the tech to a USA competitor.
BYE RIAA/MPAA. Nice knowing you. You can't buy your way out of the future of mankind. You just signed your own death warrant. DIE UNDER MY THUMB.
"Why can't Slashdot just host the PDF?"
Because the editors/managers have a lower IQ than most of us?
I mean, it shouldn't be *THAT HARD* to implement the solution you state.
But then again, they *ARE* after your money, no matter what good you think the site is doing.
http://i49.tinypic.com/14mf8uv.jpg
"I don't think piracy will be so widespread for many more years."
Are you that blind that you forget about sneakernet?
Holy shit half of slashdot needs Alzheimer's medication.
"Double booms aren't being used in most places, they are aren't being anchored right, no catch basins are being used to collect the oil being trapped, with no pumps at the nonexistent catch basins to remove it. Meaning, the oil will build up and overtop or run under the booms instead of being collected and removed."
I have friends that have worked *HUGE* rigs offshore (6 months on, 6 off, $40K+ a year) *THIS* is the most accurate statement. Every oil guy I met/knew has been consistently saying BP's efforts are TOO LITTLE AND NOT EVEN TOO LATE, and they should have just bombed the shaft long ago and sealed it, then drilled a pressure-release core out and set up another rig to pull the oil up.
Sad that a bunch of barely out of high-school people working professionally on these rigs know more than the oil company pumping the shit out.
Without his influence, I would not be in the position I am in now to influence the viability of man living in space.
RIP to one of the greatest influences on my life. While the mathematics got beyond me, everything else inspired me.
California is all over this already. They're pushing to ban all textbooks using Texas' information.
"It took them 3 freaking tries to properly replace my bad gtx8800oc with a WORKING card"
Yea, you do realize that's nVidia's fault for having a faulty die packaging for their 8 and 9 series GPUs, right? Not BFG's problem nVidia had other higher-volume retailers they had to take care of first.
I'll toss in the word "Translator" to make it more precise.
You neglected to mention getting vexatious litigant status placed upon the patent trolls and parent companies sponsoring said patent trolls.
Youtube, Vimeo, etc, all transcode after you upload - they'll put it in whichever file format they deem best.
"The GP point is still valid they would have to prove that you had the files on your computer when you went through customs"
You do realize we've moved to journaling file systems for quite some time, now? It would be fairly trivial to find out when a particular file was around.
Of course, Wikidiots IGNORE THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE, which FIRMLY puts Australia in the EAST.