That's crippled in my book.

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Post #12,241

by inthane-chan

10/8/01 12:31:00 PM

That's crippled in my book.

Apparently, the DVD consortium, in an attempt to avoid the CD burner debacle, specified that only the single-layer burners would be released to the average consumer - in order to guarantee that "we the peepul" would not be able to copy Hollywood releases.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Intel wants to lose the FDD and other things. - (static) - (26) - Oct. 4, 2001, 10:15:51 PM EDT

Floppys to stay on Bizness computers - (Andrew Grygus) - (16) - Oct. 4, 2001, 10:40:59 PM EDT

I'm waiting with anticipation - (pwhysall) - (5) - Oct. 5, 2001, 01:32:50 AM EDT

Well I guess I cheat... - (Meerkat) - Oct. 5, 2001, 02:50:08 AM EDT

I generally agree. - (static) - Oct. 5, 2001, 04:06:20 AM EDT

I can probably live without a floppy, but the serial ports? - (hnick) - (2) - Oct. 5, 2001, 08:26:11 AM EDT

nog that noise! - (Yendor) - (1) - Oct. 5, 2001, 11:34:55 AM EDT

fer sure, - (boxley) - Oct. 5, 2001, 12:25:42 PM EDT

Huh? Izzat true? - (Ashton) - (9) - Oct. 5, 2001, 05:34:49 AM EDT

Home users? Hell . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (8) - Oct. 5, 2001, 12:37:01 PM EDT

I need to recover my data...Load your backup tapes... - (kmself) - (7) - Oct. 5, 2001, 03:21:27 PM EDT

Situations can get bad enough that . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (6) - Oct. 5, 2001, 03:37:53 PM EDT

!!! - words fail.. -NT - (Ashton) - Oct. 5, 2001, 05:08:39 PM EDT

Ounce of prevention - (kmself) - (4) - Oct. 5, 2001, 07:45:29 PM EDT

Re: Backups are a PITB - but ... - (dmarker2) - (3) - Oct. 6, 2001, 09:34:44 PM EDT

Filesystem structure - (kmself) - (2) - Oct. 6, 2001, 10:55:07 PM EDT

Others by implication. - (static) - (1) - Oct. 7, 2001, 01:35:27 AM EDT

Arcserve has one terrible, terrible feature - (pwhysall) - Oct. 7, 2001, 03:36:29 AM EDT

Woop! - (inthane-chan) - (7) - Oct. 5, 2001, 12:47:06 PM EDT

Zip drives won't win, IMO. - (Another Scott) - (6) - Oct. 5, 2001, 01:20:14 PM EDT

The problem is, once again, the installed base. - (inthane-chan) - Oct. 5, 2001, 01:49:36 PM EDT

From what I understand of DVD-RWs . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (4) - Oct. 5, 2001, 02:05:03 PM EDT

True of some. - (inthane-chan) - (3) - Oct. 5, 2001, 03:12:10 PM EDT

Maybe not crippled, but single-layered - (Meerkat) - (2) - Oct. 5, 2001, 08:31:16 PM EDT

Re: I have dumped zip in favour of 2.5 in USB disks - (dmarker2) - Oct. 8, 2001, 10:01:28 AM EDT

That's crippled in my book. - (inthane-chan) - Oct. 8, 2001, 12:31:00 PM EDT

Re: Intel wants to lose the FDD and other things. - (wharris2) - Oct. 5, 2001, 07:58:56 PM EDT

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