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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
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> > welcome to povray.off-topic.pedantry
>
> Pedantry? Isn't that a place where you store cheese?
"Pedantry? Isn't that the medieval working class?"
:-)
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I mean that once you burn data onto a CD-R, it effectively *becomes* a
>> CD-ROM. Sheesh...
>
> Effectively and effectively... I think that there are CD players which
> can't read CD-R's.
There are.
Tends to be more of a problem with CD-RW (since the surface
characteristics differ more significantly from regular pressed CDs) but
I've certainly seen players and CD-ROM drives refuse to read CD-Rs.
Nominally, though, both a pressed data CD and a CD-R with data recorded
onto it function as "compact disk read-only memory".
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"Neeum Zawan" <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote in message
news:4b58ef68$1@news.povray.org...
> On 01/20/10 09:32, Captain Jack wrote:
>> I've got a quiz I made that I run candidates (for programming jobs)
>> through
>> now, and the first one I put on there is "How does an e-mail system work?
>> What happend from the time one person hits 'Send' and the other person
>> sees
>> a message in the In-Box?" I get the most amazing amount of hemming and
>> hawing over that one.
>
> I hope someone mentioned something about a series of tubes...
>
Not yet, but I'll keep an eye out for it. :-D
--
Jack
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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>
> Somebody suggested that by burning data onto a CD-ROM and getting students
> to cycle to the other side of Cambridge with the CDs in backpacks, you
> could achieve several GB/s mean transfer rate. Of course, the packet
> latency would be about 25 minutes each way…
I remember reading about a company that had to send engineering drawings and
data between shops just at the dawn of modem technology. They investigated
micro-ficheing the data and use carrier pigeons to transfer it, because of
the volume of data. I don't know if it's true, but I've always loved that
story.
--
Jac
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"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote in message
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>>
>> How do you burn data to a DVD-ROM?
>
> You mean you can burn data to a CD-ROM now? :-O
I tried burning a CD once... it'll never replace beer, I can tell you that
right now.
:-D
--
Jack
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Captain Jack wrote:
> I remember reading about a company that had to send engineering drawings and
> data between shops just at the dawn of modem technology. They investigated
> micro-ficheing the data and use carrier pigeons to transfer it, because of
> the volume of data. I don't know if it's true, but I've always loved that
> story.
Oh, I'm sure they *investigated* it. Some PHB somewhere would probably
think that's a great idea. Whether they ever *implemented* it is another
matter entirely, of course. ;-)
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Captain Jack wrote:
>> to cycle to the other side of
> I remember reading
Obligatory xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/691/
I like the roll-over text.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
I get "focus follows gaze"?
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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:18:55 -0500, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> But man was it slow compared to the modern Internet.
>
> Those old-school tubes get more efficient the more data you have to
> send. Say you put a harddrive in the tube, the effective bandwidth would
> be vast compared to even the fastest LAN... ;-D
As long as it doesn't smash into the 'landing pad'. ;-)
>>But it was quite
>> nostalgic. :-)
>
> Ah, nostalgia. Whatever happened to that?
It ain't what it used to be, that's for sure. :-)
Jim
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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:53:31 -0500, Warp wrote:
> How do you burn data to a DVD-ROM?
The way I'd do it is produce an ISO and ship it off to be pressed....
Jim
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Darren New wrote:
> Obligatory xkcd:
> http://xkcd.com/691/
>
> I like the roll-over text.
...now scroll up a few posts and see that I already did this exact one. ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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