dbminter

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Well, you can still get the MID from a DVD+RW, even if it's not formatted. But, it brings up a legitimate complaint. Someone at Office Depot told me that Maxell makes all their OD company branded writable disc media, both DVD and CD. So, that means that Maxell is outsourcing their DVD-R's to Ritek, because their 8x and 16x DVD-R's were Ritek, as well as their DVD+RW for them. And that they outsourced their CD production to PNY, because their MID's say PNY. So, you never can tell. Office Depot's name is on the discs, Maxell sent them to them, but, at least 2 other companies, Ritek/Ricoh and PNY, made them.

Has anyone ever bothered to ask this? If DVD+RW's require formatting to use, which they do... why aren't they then shipped from the manufacturer already formatted? Much like how floppy disks are... well, when you can find those ancient things anymore.

Hate leads to anger!

Okay, I've got a question on one. What exactly is strewth? (I still remember that moment in the US Transformers comic book when Simon Furman, writing for us on this shore at the same time, had Shockwave rise out of the Thames? I forget, and crush this bum who sees him rising, who shrieks "STREWTH!" as a giant hand shadow falls over him. ) It's The Truth? "'s the truth!"

Well, admittedly, that is an usual circumstance. If I was only 5 and someone chased me down the street in a Dalek prop, yeah, I'd be scarred for life, too.

Oh, man, was this a blast from the past! Adult Swim on Cartoon Network is rerunning one of the best cartoon series from my past. Voltron, Defender Of The Universe, featuring the first and best team, the Lion Force! 4:30 AM CST.

IMG-88?

This still amazes me. I've loved Daleks since I first saw them in an picture in a Starlog publication when I was 8. Had not seen a single episode or movie, just an image. Then, I managed to find the 20th Anniversary Special magazine at my Spencer's of all places, reduced on sale, and, I was hooked. Got to see the Doctor Who And The Daleks movie a little later and finally the first American VHS release circa 1987, when, the next year, a local PBS station carried the Tom Baker years. I got to see my first full fledged Dalek story with one of the best, Genesis Of The Daleks. I've never found the Daleks scary on sight. Only scary in what they mean, something which children aren't going to get. What they represent, the feelings of racism, xenophobia, fascism, and particularly Nazism. Those are scary... but... even I admit... it gives me such a thrill to hear those little pepper pots shriek "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!"

Or a certain celebrity oops!

Have you tried using TweakUI's icon repair thing? Also, try going into Internet Explorer and deleting the disk cache.

So, they replaced her with one willing to press her bumps against a Dalek?

Apparently, even worse in England: a merchant banker.

He's right. The 64 is for 64K of RAM. Had a whopping 1.02 mHz processor, too. (NTSC) For $599 upon release, you got a whopping 64K of RAM in a "machine." Actually, I had the C128, so, it had 128K RAM.

Well, I say berserk only because it was so unrelated to anything he'd ever done before and his advanced age made me think he might have lost his mind. It was almost as big a 180 as when Pat Boone went punk. As for the music video and song, I forget what it was. Was definitely in the 2000's. And, it may not have been jewels but there was a video with Cash pouring out a goblet of wine near the end over his life's successes or something like that. Sounded like a Reznor song, a bit self indulgent, biting the hand that feeds it, etc. Cash was old in it because he resembled more... well, there's no other way to say it, he looked more like Pope John Paul II. Okay, found the video here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2...dfeed&hl=en It is Hurt and about 2:56 in he starts pouring out a goblet of wine over what I believe is supposedly to represent his worldly goods and how they will amount to nothing at the end of his life. When I saw this the first time years ago, I just thought he had lost it in his old age. Now, I think it was more losing it from a fear of his own mortality.

And a whopping 32 bits, too! Man... I can remember working on things like the TRS-80 and those Texas Instruments and Commodore 64 ones that connected to the RF on the TV.

Oh, is that when Cash went berserk and started covering Nine Inch Nails songs and making weird music videos where he's pouring out goblets of wine over large piles of jewels? It's the only explanation I have of that odd Cash piece that plays over the opening credits of the remake of Dawn Of The Dead.

Spencer's Gifts catalog used to offer that for a long time.

OMG! THAT REALLY WAS HIS BRAIN! I saw that lump in the first picture, and thought that was what it was... but, eventually just convinced myself that was a colored pipe...

Remember the words of MST3K: keep circulating the tapes. When I saw the Village People perform in 2001, I... accidentally... had a microcassette recorder in my shirt pocket... that had been in my briefcase... and somehow made it's way to my pocket... and got turned on just before start... From there, it was just a simple matter of connecting a 1/8's male double ended cable into the earphone out for the recorder and then to the sound card mic in and make a CD. So, again, that leads me to think this initial question was just one of someone making a digital copy from an analog source. Now, the funny thing is... they never questioned why someone was bringing in a briefcase into a Village People concert?

I don't know if it's something that should be considered, but, I've noticed one case that made me wonder if some check should be included for it. When folders of the same name from different sources are placed into a image, say, C:\WINDOWS and D:\WINDOWS, where both C:\WINDOWS and D:\WINDOWS contained different file names. C:\WINDOWS is added first, so, D:\WINDOWS contents are ignored because the folder names are the same. As in the past, this may be that great a consideration because the image building is supposed to be quick and dirty, e.g. not a facing GUI driven Nero clone, as I think was the terms once used. But, I thought I'd mention it in context of this post.

Yeah, I'd have to say the recordings he made may be digital, but, the SOURCE was still analog. An old trick from the early days of, pretty much, all digital formats that have ever been. It's still digital, even if the source is just a real time, etc. conversion. Like how "letterboxing" may really just be framed borders placed over the video, etc.

Yeah, as for Memorex, I wouldn't give them the chance to restore their name just to take it away again after they know the ruse worked. Let Memorex try to be an example to the other manufacturers out there... IF people were well informed and, well, could really do that much to stop it, I suppose.

If you composite in an image of a mouse doing something here, I'm off! :&

Everyone, it may not be my place to say it, but, I want to. I was the one who started this. In private exchanges to Pain. I spoke out of turn for reasons he knows well enough now and understands. I think. I just wanted to say I (Don't think I did.) did not mention any names, just a generality over things that I shouldn't have brought up, in context. I've been pressed pretty hard for a long time, too long, and, I'll leave it at that. And, I took it out on some people for some things that didn't deserve it. For that and for it coming out here, and for my taking the box, so to speak, to come clean, again, so to speak, I'm sorry. To all parties involved.