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Here's a link to the new 1650 firmware BCHC
Odd they'd bring out a new version so quickly. Must've fucked something up in the last one.
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Minty comes up with some pretty amazing shit.
What pissed me off was when I bought the Battlestar Galactica mini-series DVD set. It was a goddamned flipper! Arrgh. In 2004 a friggin' flipper. Cheap bastards.
That's Universal for you.
When I bought the "British"* version of S1 of Battlestar Galactica the disc trays were held together by scotch tape!
Needless to say, I'm not falling for that shit again.*Which was a silly thing to call it, because a real British version would have been PAL not NTSC. What iit really was, was a no-frills episodes only set. No extras. Which I don't mind. 99.99% of extras are worthless filler anyway.
It appears to be an incredible fucker design.
Check out the reviews on Amazon.com for some possible insight:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E6ESX...?v=glance&n=130
What APPEARS to have happened was Universal used a DVD-18 in the production process for both discs, even though one was supposed to be only a DVD-5. So, Universal decided to just blank out one side of one flipper. So, it appears there are 2 flippers, but, 1 flipper has data only on one side, and that it was made this way at the factory. Notice the file names. My guess is the book standard required some data to exist on that flipper side? I don't know. Maybe the other data side wouldn't work with a blank side on the other flipper? Anyway, it's a dumb production "error" apparently. That 2nd flipper was never supposed to be one?
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and everyone in the parliment stood up and said here here and there was much nodding
Sadly, the only way you're going to get unanimity out of our Congress is when they vote to raise their own salaries. Which currently stand at just shy of $150,000/yr (80,000 pounds sterling).
For trivia's sake:
President: $400,000 (213,000 ps)
Vice President: $200,000 (106,000 ps)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court $192,000 (102,000 ps)
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court: $178,000 (94,000 ps)
Cabinet Officer: $178,000
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there's not much I can add to that except the dollars I send Lightning's way. That's the best tribute any of us can give him for all he does. But this is quite nice.
Yup, that's right, I just upped and walked away.
Hey LUK and all the folks here, It's good to see the familiar "site" names. I've been busy doing life and recently found out the demise of our dear departed friend DVDD. I have the IMGBurn and love it, thank you LUK and everyone else for all your dilligence and support. I always get the solutions from you guys I'm looking for when I need them.
For the "Newbies" like me,.... I can't stress it enough either,.....read the directions carefully,.....you'll find what I did. A beautiful software program that enables you to back up your cherished memories to DVD, period. No one here will straight tell you how to commit a crime. LUK has been through the ringer.
Stop harrassing those who spent years giving you, yes, giving you free of charge you knuckleheads, a way to do things you had to and still have to pay for.
LUK, we have a mutual business acquaintance I understand, so now you have my undying loyalty for sure. (and donations)
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Day labor is what you're talking about. Growing up in San Diego, I'm all too familiar with the vicissitudes of the construction and real estate businesses. My parents missed becoming very, very rich by inches because a deal fell through. If it had worked out, I'd be a trust fund kiddie; and rich as well as cynical.
That rocks your boss fired the assholes.
I've nothing against protesting in principle. But there's a time and a place for it. And it shouldn't be on your boss's (or any other employer's) dime.
They had the same silly-assed protest here in Vegas, but the casinos convinced the main union (the Culinary Union) to schedule it for after the first shift. So the casinos weren't hurt by it. How one can hope to help one's cause by hurting one's employer--not to mention losing a day's pay or one's job--and one's self is beyond me.
But then again I've never understood this hippy protesting bullshit mentality anyway.
yep he gave them the boot, we are in the last couple of weeks of finishing a remodeling job and the owner of the house is up our ass to get finished so them taking off was bad timing and where does their loyalty lie To protest that they shouldn't have to go through the same steps as the people who came here legally was bullshit, that you 've managed to stay under the radar for a few years gives you any standing or the right to bypass the immigration laws doesn't fly with me .I dont see any of them paying a dime in taxes , use the system at no cost to them ,ship what money they do make out of the country ,I can't count how many I've talked to that are only here to make enough to set themselves up back in their country.Pain Man in the construction buissness its real common to hire and let go depending on the amount of work that you have lined up if you dont have jobs lined up then you're LAID OFF call it what you will you're not working .These guys were picked up every morning and dropped home every night at no cost to them a nice deal. I'd like to not have to pay for gas ,insurance ,upkeep ,hell the truck itself 'I could go on and on but I think my views are pretty clear
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Never seen or heard of this CD. Sounds like it might be a UK only thing. Regardless, I'd hold on to that. It's probably quite a collector's item.
Yep, same here Polo. Moved everything from LP to CD. Mind you had to flood a couple of LPs, especially the older ones that had been through a few parties...............
. Do have the original pulse CD though that came with a built in flashing red LCD on the side of the case, apparently they only put these LCDs in the first release CDs any future ones were missing the it. Been through 5 batteries so far............ 
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Funny, ain?t it. Roger Waters didn?t seem to be missed a great deal as Pink Floyd continued along their merry way. Well, I didn?t miss him. I thought The Final Cut sucked bigtime but that?s just me. ?Pulse? epitomised Pink Floyd at their best.It really, imo, can't be disputed that it was Waters' brilliance that made Floyd one of the four most successful acts of the 70s (in order of sales: Zep, Floyd, the Eagles & Fleetwood Mac).
I hope you?re joking as you seem to have missed one or two. KISS spring immediately to mind with a gold or platinum record for every album released between 1974 & 1982 with the exception of The Elder (1981). I have trouble believing the four acts above were making 100 million dollars a year. KISS had reached that by 1980.
<huge KISS fan mode off>
It's all opinion. As I said I don't consider anything without Waters to be Pink Floyd. But that's my opinion.
And their creative peak will always and forever be Darkside with Wish You Were Here and The Final Cut following respectively. I do know that "The Wall" tour was one of the most successful of the 70s.
Total record sales to date: 73.5M units (Hah! They've outsold Streisand! Thank God.
)Personally, I never got the whole "glam rock" thing--from T. Rex and Bowie to Kiss and Motley Crue.
I am using only American sales figures. And Rush, my favorite band, has sold more albums than Kiss. Kiss isn't even in the Top 20.
Given their relatively modest record sales, I find it hard to believe Kiss was making anywhere near $100M/yr in the 70s. I'm no student of Kiss so I could be wrong. I could more easily believe they made $100M for the entire decade.
Total sales to date for Kiss: 19M units
And Led Zeppelin still holds some single-day attendance records. Total sales to date: 109.5 M units.
Rush toured with Kiss the early days, before they surpassed Kiss commerically, and it sounds like Kiss was a complete disaster backstage. They make these observations on D2 of R30
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I can't take the set back because it was a gift (no receipt plus I don't know where it was bought). Actually, maybe I have something special here. Hell, maybe it's Bush's plan on how he was going to steal the elections.
that would make a difference. (I try to get gift receipts when I give one.)
And, no need to steal what you've won fair and square. It's even sweeter when your opponent's voters are too damn stupid to know how to vote.
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Thanks for explanation.
Generally we reserve biscuit for something sweet. Cracker for something, uh, not sweet.
The one exception is Animal Crackers which are really biscuits.
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It's the slang. Like that Jerry Seinfeld Amex commercial where he goes into a restaurant and orders "bangers and mash." Now mash is potatoes, that's easy enough. But what the hell is/are bangers???
=))I think you call them "links" but to us they are sausages. The only other difference that has really stuck is when i mention "biscuits", as well call them, you call them "cookies"
courteous of RecipeTips.com.....
A British term for the English sausage that became popular during World War II during a time when it was made with pork meat. The typical Banger made today may contain a mixture of beef or pork meat with cereal or rusk added as a filler. The term "Banger" arose during the war era as the sausages were roasted and exploded due to the excess water contained in the sausages. Since the Banger is a mildly seasoned sausage, various counties in the country add their own seasonings such as fresh sage, pimento, and thyme to name a few, to enhance the flavor of their sausages.
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Seriously I'm not trying to bust your balls. I know Americans & our British cousins love to needle each other about football.
I'm just trying to understand the attraction of soccer or British football. If I were the only American that didn't get it, it would obviously be an idiosyncrasy of mine.
But I'm in the huge majority of Americans who don't get it. I have no idea if we have a team in the World Cup; or if we've had one in the last few years. And most Americans don't.
There have been several attempts to start an American pro soccer league and they've all failed quickly and disastrously.
On the other hand, American sports (football, baseball and especially basketball) become more and more popular, around the world, every year. Someday, in the not so distant future, the Woild Serious may actually be a world event.
But a viable US soccer league? More likley to be bacon in the trees when I open the door in the morning.
Hey Pain_Man hope your wellThe score at the end of the 90 mins in the final was 3-3, including an own goal and one for Liverpool that was disallowed, I don't expect you to understand but it was exciting mate !
It then went to a penalty shoot out (Best of 5 or sudden death if tied after 5 shots each) - Liverpool scored their first (1-0), West Ham missed (1-0), Liverpool missed their next one (1-0) and West Ham scored to make it 1-1. Liverpool scored their next two and thanks to some great saves from the Liverpool Goalkeeper West Ham missed their next two so it ended 3-1 on Penalties.
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Just flashed mine - thanks PM !
Bitchin'.
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If only it WOULD flash!! It would also be nice if I could know why it won't.
I've tried everything I can think of...and nothing. The last thing left is plugging it into another PC and flashing it and then putting it back into my desktop.
My grandfather would have called that "goin' 'round the mountain to piss next door" but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
I have to find out if my second desktop (a PIII 1000) is compatible with DW1655.
DIP says that for mine too but that's just because thats what the drive reports.It CAN be flashed though.
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Personally, I'd return it for a replacement. If you get the same goofiness, then you might contact who ever made the set.
Seems that DVD goofiness it going around.
That's just plain...
I've just received a 2 disc set (Marlene Dietrich: The Glamour Collection). The set is supposed to consist of a double-sided disc 1 and a single-sided disc 2 (see here).It appeared to me that disc 2 was a double-sided disc so I flipped it over and attempted to play it. It wouldn't play so I put it into my computer to see what it was. Here is what I found:
1. The disc has no label and is 4.01GB in size.
2. It contains 5 files all of them are the same size (842,461KB) the only difference being the creation and modified time.
3. The files all have the same name except for the file extension. The name is RANDUM.000 through RANDUM.004.
I realize that the extension could be one of a number of things, a DoubleSpace Compressed File, for example, but I am wondering why the heck they are on the disc when there shouldn't be anything there.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
If LUK says it is OK I will gladly upload one of the files but I am hesitant to do this because I'm not sure of what it is, plus the size of it. In addition to those concerns there is also the concern that it is coming from a commerical disc.
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I'm only here to entertain.
and when you get to Virginia you'll be able to tell the married couples real easy there will be tobacco juice on both doors of the pickup
I think our power supply is 240v but you will have to excuse me I can't stop laughing at the randomness of PM's post above From power supply to hookers in two pages !!! @polopony....
when i was last over there i was given some "Dip". I can't see the enjoyment of it as it burned the hell out of my mouth and tongue, although I now see why you spit....... :& @lfcrule... i know, i'm in so much "Pain Man" from
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Hey polo your boss sounds like he made a stand
here that kind of action would probably cost him a court case and compensation for distress or some shit like that Where is snazz ?? He used to put it so much more eloquently than I can !
That's truly sad, crule. An employer can't fire an employee for "no call/no show" (as we call it here)?
One thing you guys do that we absolutely MUST emulate is requiring a losing plaintiff in a lawsuit to pay the court costs and legal fees of the defendant.
That's the primary reason y'all have far fewer lawsuits than we do.
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I have to agree, but the other extreme is shutting down the borders and patrolling them with troops to stop the inward flight....oops we're about to start doing that shortly.....disregard.....
The Prez says he's going to deploy 6,000 National Guards (that'd be Reserve Troops) to patrol the border along with Border Patrol.
A good start. But I say we use regulars.
Did you know that Mexican soldiers regularly fire shots at our Border Patrol agents and police? Which, it seems insane to have to point this out, is an act of WAR.
Yet the government ignores it.
If 9/11 had to happen, I wish it been done by guys who'd wetbacked the Mexican border. Maybe THAT would have gotten the politicians off their asses.
Both parties are running around trying to kiss the asses of the mythical "Hispanic" voter. In fact, polls have shown that Mexican-Americans (like my wife, 90% of so-called "Hispanics" are of Mexican origin), i.e. citizens, WANT stronger immigration laws. They want stronger enforcement.
So the politicians are afraid of something that doesn't exist. This step by Bush is the first step in the right direction in a long time.
Now if Congress will pass a tough immigration bill (with life imprisonment for alien smugglers) and we put troops permanently on the southern border...
The northern border's a problem as well, but not nearly as bad as the southern. Not by a long shot. That's because the Canadians actually care about working with us.
Mexico patrols its southern border (with Guatemala) rigourously. But they refuse to give us any help.
Perhaps we should shut down all money transfers to Mexico for six months. That would get their attention.
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Forgive me, polo, but I just want to be clear.
Your boss fired these twerps???
If didn't fire them (
) then he should inspect their documents with a microscope to make sure they're genuine. Not that it matters; the Feds don't enforce the law against hiring illegal aliens.PLS confirm this. I'm have a shitty day dealing with fucking insurance companies.
Oh and the assholes were "protesting" a proposed change in Federal law that would make the first time you wetback the border a felony (right now only the third time you wetback the border is a felony).
we had 2 workers who took off that Monday to protest I dont know what and I sincerely hope they find the time to protest the fact that they no longer have jobs ,we'll yeah I guess they have plenty of time to protest all sorts of things.They were well taken care of by the owner of the company and he was so mad he said keep going you're fired -
Scanning is a way to monitor integrity of a data bank, especially for idiots that built the bank with disregard for MID's. Tweaking cdspeed for more measure points in a quick scan is a good mass production tool.
The last sentence there, I'm not sure exactly whatcha mean by that. I've noticed that the faster the scan speed, the worse the results.
I scanned a couple of CDs at DW1655's max speed of 48x and the scans were a mess. I dropped it down to 16x and the scan was much better. My guess would be that the faster the disc is being read, the more likely false readings are to occur.
Just as you're more likely the miss words or misunderstand their meaning reading quickly than when reading carefully.
BTW, I'm sorry about the Falcon. I was dead broke and just couldn't keep the maintenance up on it. When the hyperdrive failed, I had to junk her
. One of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make. There's actually more to this than silliness. I had a '78 Olds Cutlass Supreme Stationwagon, the model right below the very biggest one. It was a metallic grayish, silverish color. My friends took to calling it the Millennium Falcon.
Seeing your moniker, brings back some very good memories. A lot of good times were had in that car.
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Personally, I just them use when testing new media to give me a feel for the disc and media ID and to check the quality of disc backups that I need to keep.
I don't know enough about them to quote the pro's and cons but if I get quality ratings of 99% and low PI/PIF's I am more than relaxed about the backup.
I have had some bad burns with low quality and high PI/PIFs that my standalones can't play - I can't say where the line between playability/longevity and scan results lies but I think common sense tells me when to re-burn !
Nearly all of my scans have been of discs that I have had for anywhere from several weeks to nearly three years.
Oddly, the only 99% I've yet to get was from a disc that was 2 yrs old (!).
I can't say where the line between playability/longevity and scan results lies but I think common sense tells me when to re-burn !
Which is a good idea, one I've already adopted. I had one copy of a disc--the kid had destroyed the original when she was a good deal younger ("Look, Daddy, it flies!!!"). So I had but one copy, the backup. When I scanned it with DIP, the quality rating was 48%, with a gigantic, fat block of red in the top graph.
I managed to get a clean image and reburned it. The scan of the back ups back up was 95%+.
With DVD5s, if I can get a quality rating above 95%, I can live with that. With DLs, it if the number is above 90%, then I can deal.
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Thanks for the answer. It clears up a good deal.
The problem appears, if I understand that part of your explanation, that there really isn't a standard that everyone is using. Both the drivemakers and the software writers (of the scanners) seem to use differing criteria for their metrics.
If different drives are using different methodologies (right term?) then it goes a loooong way toward explaining the differences in scan results.
Thanks, again.
I dunno but I tend to think about it in terms of driving a car.Tell 2 people to drive 100 miles at a steady 80 MPH.
1 has a Ferrari, the other a VW Golf TDI.
They'd both reach the 100 mile way-point just fine but would use very different amounts of fuel.
So it's impossible to say 100 miles will use up X amount of fuel - FULL STOP.
But what you can say is 100 miles will use up X amount of fuel IN A FERRARI when driven at a constant 80 MPH.
All drives are different and have different reading abilities. That's why it's never a good idea to compare scans between drives - some are just going to report less errors as they're more able to read through problems areas that others may find quite taxing.
Hopefully that explains the drives side of things.
As for differences between programs... well in all honesty, there should be. The drive reports the data/values, the software just has to plot it on a graph.
Trouble is, (from what I've heard) some report in a different way to others and so it's the softwares job to try and find a common ground between ALL the drives - messing around using certain calculations to make them all seem the same. This is where the anomalies can creep in.
Again, every attempt to read the disc could end with a different result. A scratch that you couldn't get past on your first attempt may be invisible on the second... that's just drives for you!
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the shock of a live wire
@ LFC...a little hint...IT WON'T HAPPEN IF YOU DE-ENERGIZE THE CIRCUIT FIRST...
@ PM...110-115-120 are all acceptable voltages since the NEC mandates a maximum 20% error factor for operating voltages.
Thanks, wheel.
This explains why my APC Monitoring software for the UPS has a tolerance of 88 to 132, something like that.
I HATE electricity. Well, I hate messing with it. I got badly shocked when I was about nine or ten and ever since then...
Besides, that's what electricians are for.Thank God my kid never showed any interest in the outlets when she was an infant/toddler.
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This just keeps getting weirder.
--NOTE: the following comments refer only to a personal DVD--
When I made an image and mounted that on Alcohol the defect, the single second of silence during the guitar solo in "Dreamline" was gone.
When I burned that image to a DL, the goddamn silence was back!!
How the hell is this possible? So now we have intermittant freakin' problems on disks???
If there is a mastering error, why would it be present in the image? And when it's not present in the image, why does it reappear on the (completely legal) backup copy???
To add to my stress one of my insurance companies is busting my balls.
AAARGH!!!! Valium time! Pay these bastards seven grand a year and I can't get them to pay my doc $80 a month. I think my grandparents had it infinitely easier when they paid the doctor with a couple of chickens and pint of panther piss.
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Reading Chewie's recent post made some thoughts about scans congeal.
Here they are:
Going tangenital...
I'm beginning to wonder if there's any real efficacy to scans.
Something Lightning posted really made me think about it. He cautioned never to compared scans from one burner to the next.
I got to thinking about that. Why not?
If the metrics used by the scans are based on the same criteria then why should it matter what machine you're using? If the standard(s) are objective, then the results should be either exactly the same or the differences should be statistically insignificant.
Perhaps my lack of skills in this area is causing wild giggling as this is being read--and pls point out where I'm going wrong if I am.
But it doesn't make sense to me. Two thermometers, scales, speedometers, odometers, hygrometers, barometers, pick your instrument (and I realize all of these are much simpler than scanning an optical storage reader) should return nearly the same readings in the same condition.
Yet with disk scans, what gives?
I've gotten wildly different scans on the same disks in the same burner using different tools. Granted, the quality of the tool plays a huge factor and perhaps some are worthless.
To repeat, I really have to wonder: Are these scans really efficacious?
If they are, why the wild variations between different tools and different drives?
And why does there seem to be no correlation between image quality and scan numbers? If the scans are really to determine disc longevity, that question's answered. If they are supposed to determine image quality as well, then the question becomes an even bigger one:
Are we wasting our time running scans?
There's certain thngs I know a good deal about. Optical media isn't one of them (beyond the user level). I don't possess anywhere near the level of knowledge that Lightning or Shamus or Nic Wilson or Minty or any number of people who post here.
So if someone could explain, in relatively non-technical terms, whether or not I have a point, I'd really appreciate it. If its just my technical ignorance, I don't mind being told so (as long as its done nicely).
But I'm having trouble understanding the seeming discrepancies and whether they mean anything? Or whether its not the discrepancies but the scans themselves.
now i'm really confused..........
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