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Dark_Me

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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #15 on: 26 October 2005, 07:08 »
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Backing up 50GB at 2x speed. Now that's a punishment fit for gates,
That is seriously, extremely perverse. I'm impressed. What about at 1x? On Windows box, that's been relly badly configured and keeps crashing? No, that is too much, we just want punisment for his crimes aganist geeks everywhere, we don't want to touture him.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #16 on: 27 October 2005, 09:01 »
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I agree though the DRM will suck. No one thinks of the pirates any more.

Or the Linux, Macintosh, Solaris... users, huh, ya narcissistic sycophant?

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No, that is too much, we just want punisment for his crimes aganist geeks everywhere, we don't want to touture him.

Of course not.  If we wanted to torture him, we'd connect the play reel of a PDP-10 to a rope attached to his penis, and hang him upside-down off the Empire State Building by it.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #17 on: 27 October 2005, 13:19 »
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Backing up 50GB at 2x speed. Now that's a punishment fit for gates,

 Ouch!!!


Anyway. Is there any hope that this whole world domination "trusted computing" and copy-protectionism will have a happy ending?
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #18 on: 27 October 2005, 13:20 »
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Backing up 50GB at 2x speed. Now that's a punishment fit for gates,

 Add a "Are you sure ...?" query every 30 seconds or so - each one pausing the backup.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #19 on: 27 October 2005, 20:29 »
I believe that 2x is the maximum speed of a blu-ray disc.

On second thought, MS should use blu-ray. It's fitting, plus if all the windows users had to do that, they wouldn't have time to make fun of *nix users. I'm sick of hearing, "OMG MAC USER!!1 YUO DON;T HAVE T3H PROGRAMZZZZZZZZORZ111111"

It's either that or something about one button mice, which aren't even used anymore.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #20 on: 29 October 2005, 21:58 »
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Not enough change in storage?
CD-'bout 1GB max
DVD- 'bout 9.5GB max
HD DVD- 30GB max
Blu-ray- 50GB max
So a change of 20.5GB min isn't enough? And why can't you back up your hard drive on 50GB? Just how much stuff do you have on your comp?
I agree though the DRM will suck. No one thinks of the pirates any more.

1.  You forgot the huge change between floppies and CD-ROM.  1.38MB (not 1.44, check sometime) vs. 700MB.

2.  I have around 93GB total storage (80GB + 20GB - HD manufacturer bullshitting), and only 3GB free.  So...I got lots of stuff.
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Re: Gates describes Blu-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #21 on: 2 November 2005, 06:01 »
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How the hell do people get away with such hypocrisy????

Because many a hypocrite make up society :D
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #22 on: 4 November 2005, 03:44 »
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Not enough change in storage?
Blu-ray- 50GB max


I believe I read somewhere that TDK developed a 100GB Blu-Ray disc......with a whopping four recording layers.
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #23 on: 14 November 2005, 21:46 »
We could always stone Bill Gates by throwing microsoft cd's at him until hes dead. :fu: MICROSOFT!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #24 on: 15 November 2005, 12:08 »
Maybe finally the only good use for Windows...
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Re: Gates describes Blue-Ray DRM as "Anti-Consumer"
« Reply #25 on: 15 November 2005, 18:09 »
That does seem to make sense. But don't you dare do it without me. If all the CD's are destroyed in the process - mission accomplished 186 %
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