It's the new Dual Disc format. Which is the CD on one side/DVD on the other. It's thicker than regular CDs or DVDs.
I guess technically that's not a double-sided DVD.
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Kristen - May 26, 2005 8:46:59 am PDT #3124 of 10003
tommyrot - May 26, 2005 8:56:07 am PDT #3125 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh. That makes sense.
Kristen - May 26, 2005 8:59:27 am PDT #3126 of 10003
I'm not sure if it applies to slot loading CD players or not. I guess I'll find out this weekend when I try to watch the DVD side of Devils & Dust.
NoiseDesign - May 26, 2005 9:42:38 am PDT #3127 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I've had to bake master tapes. It's a very delicate procedure and you need a very accurate oven. It is a one shot deal. When I've done it I've had a print going into ProTools and Sonic Solutions as well as no less than 3 safety copies. (DA-88, DAT, and another analog, usually half inch running at 30 ips.)
Jon B. - May 26, 2005 10:17:00 am PDT #3128 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It occurs to me that if you're baking a cassette, you can only rescue the stuff on one side. The other side will be ruined after the first pass.
tommyrot - May 26, 2005 10:25:22 am PDT #3129 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It occurs to me that if you're baking a cassette, you can only rescue the stuff on one side. The other side will be ruined after the first pass.
Unless you run it through a four-track cassette deck. Of course then you'd end up with two stereo signals, one backwards.
Wolfram - May 26, 2005 10:38:16 am PDT #3130 of 10003
Visilurking
Man, can anyone explain Apple's reasoning behind the Tiger Media Exchange program?
In some ways, Steve Jobs is to computer users what George Lucas is to movie theaters: trying to force the consumer to embrace future technology. Lucas did it with digital film on his Star Wars movies forcing theaters to upgrade. Jobs did it when he put out the original Imacs sans floppy drives. My guess is he's doing the same with DVD media, punishing folks who can't use it yet.
thegrommit - May 26, 2005 1:39:14 pm PDT #3131 of 10003
Um.
They're so damned cute. And a great floppy substitute. I hate seeing all that wasted space on the full sized one.
Burn as a multi-session disk, don't finalise it. Subsequent sessions can add/replace data. Some older drives don't handle multi-session disks well, but those should be few and far between.
§ ita § - May 26, 2005 2:54:26 pm PDT #3132 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is there anything special to know about an array of objects? I have a function that returns them, but when I try and use a method on the elements (either like $photos[2]->tag() or by assigning $photo[2] to $photo) I get the "Call to a member function on a non-object" error.
But when I do a print_r on either the single variable or the array, it reports them as objects. I even defined $photo as new Photo before the assignment.
DCJensen - May 26, 2005 3:27:39 pm PDT #3133 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
I think it's a matter of the DVDs being quicker and easier to produce, and the fact that Tiger is meant for newer machines.
Maybe they figure to add a CD-based installer after the initial thrust.
There was also a lot of complaining when Apple and Microsoft both went to the CD as default install media.