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Re: Can Microsoft be trusted? William Stacey [MVP] 10-05-2005
Posted by William Stacey [MVP] on October 5, 2005, 12:02 pm
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Where exactly is the lie again? Could you quote it please as I can't find
it.

--
William Stacey [MVP]

> "Well, they've done it again. In prime-time. With malice aforethought. The
> duplicitous droogs, the denizens of deep-doodoo, I'm talking about Bill
> Gates' Microsoft: caught in a bald-faced lie about HD DVD-ROM discs. This
> is news? Not any more than the fact it's hot in Texas this summer or that
> Katrina caused a lot of damage. It is, after all, the Microsoft way:
> dishonesty in all things."
>
> http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/05/10/01/1548246.shtml?tid=29
>
> Imhotep



Posted by Patrick Dickey on October 5, 2005, 3:38 pm
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William Stacey [MVP] wrote:
> Where exactly is the lie again? Could you quote it please as I can't find
> it.
>

I think his quote would be the portion of the ***Commentary*** where the
writer says that the specifications that Microsoft gave are faulty.
That being, that Microsoft quoted the specifications of the Blu-Ray DVD
as their lowest setting, not their highest, while quoting the HD at it's
highest setting.

Please (not so much you William) note, that I emphasized the word
Commentary. Because this ISN'T a news article, it's an editorial. It's
a writers OPINION based on the facts as he/she sees them. Because, in
the end, the actual capacity of EITHER of the types of DVD will be much
lower then what they rate it at. Why? Because the manufacturers will
put limits on it. (This is my opinion only, and I don't have facts to
back it up).

Look at a CD-R. Do you know why a CD-R or RW can only hold as much data
as it can hold? Because the manufacturers based it on how much time and
data it took to hold Beethoven's ninth Symphony (approximately 74
minutes). Whos' to say, if they had decided to hold two of Beethoven's
symphonies, we wouldn't have 2.5GB CD's? Or, if they had decided only
to base it on a portion of the symphony, we'd have 10 minute CD's.

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