He has a knack for suggesting stocks that should not be invested in.

So I want to know if he’s full of crap or not. Did he at any point say to pull out and take some profits?

It seems like there is some stuff missing.

But there is one thing, I don’t see their product anywhere in Walmart.

I am confidant, also, that the standard that replaces Blu-Ray will also require that Audio CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray to be read. Its silly to have a universal 8cm disc size and not be able to read all past formats using it.

You’re going to be screwed by finding software that reads the data on the disc, not the disc itself.

The only way around that problem, however, is to avoid using a commercial undocumented format like, well, every single business uses.

For example with SQL databases, dump your DBs to CSV (base64ing the binary data if needed). You can always import plain ASCII or UTF8 data like that later on to any format you want.

Imagines can be handled by converting them to PNG, which is now the standard forevermore for lossless image encoding. Even if PNG falls out of favor, there will always be software to read it because the specification is free to everyone and there is at least one major open source library to do it with.

BTW, if you’re required by law to backup data, you may consider tape. Most companies I know of have a tape fetish and eschew disc media altogether.

While I am now more comfortable with choosing the correct media, my greater concerns in long term storage have to do with the future availability of hardware and software that can read this data in 20-30 years. I’m required by law to abide by such retention schedules and I am struggling to find a storage medium as relaible as paper but without the obvious shortcomings of efficient search/retrieval and portability. Any comments?

western cartoons, for the most part (and im sure some people will disagree with me) just plain suck!!

and in the article, it doesnt say that anyone isnt allowed to make animne or that they just cant
it says that they cant because they wont pay attention to whats going on, wont develop plotlines, characters, always keeping everyone safe and happy
and its boring!!
only someone under the age of 6 would give a shit! and thats only because theyre looking at all the petty colours

most western cartoons dont even have any shadows, its all solid colour, which discards all possibility of depth
also many of them are woefully drawn

read the article please before you start making stupid comments

Verbatim is now making Gold DVDs, so they should be as good as TY’s, but for the extreme cost they should have a significantly lower failure rate, and from what I’ve heard, they don’t.

So if you’re really hell bent on using Gold DVDs, at least be smart enough to use Verbatim’s.

But to be absolutely clear on what I’m saying, I’m not discounting Gold DVDs purely out of the fact no one makes Gold DVD+Rs. If the discs never fail, DVD-R or DVD+R should not make an actual difference.

Also MarkW (posted on october 22)
could you give a bit more info?

I want to move all of my art elsewhere, but it seems that they have a hold on the market. They also make it easy to fill a whole shop with items, unlike the others I’ve tried. I’m going to keep looking until I find something better. Until then, I’ll keep my stuff there. People are buying it. I just wonder what they are getting…

It only makes sense to buy these if your printer supports printing on them.

It only makes sense to buy any of the inkjet printable discs if you plan on using an inkjet printer to print on them.

If you plan on labeling them by hand, get the silver thermal discs and use a Sanford-brand Sharpie pen.