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Team Fail said:
I don't have a VPN, but I rarely torrent anymore. I just haven't found the need for downloading anything lately.
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yeah, same for me too. Lately when I want to watch a show or something like that, I can just find a website where they stream shows and movies for free...and then there's netflix. xD Can't recall the last time I've downloaded a TV show or movie.
 
Meganium90 said:
yeah, same for me too. Lately when I want to watch a show or something like that, I can just find a website where they stream shows and movies for free...and then there's netflix. xD Can't recall the last time I've downloaded a TV show or movie.
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Same for me. I really mostly watch cartoons anyways and I can find websites to just stream those online without the need to download anything onto my computer :p
 
Back when I had a destop and a MyBook to store things, I always preferred downloading over streaming. When it's on my hard drive, I can watch it uninterrupted at any time, without an internet connection… not to mention I only have to download it once. Then there's the ability to edit and manipulate the video, which is always useful. :3

What I'd do is I'd start streaming it, and then I'd use a Firefox add-on to download it from the streaming link.
 
I don't expect my network connection to be stable, seeing as I rely entirely on 3G connections. I prefer offline media by a significantly large degree.
 
Never had problems with downloading here. I got pretty good internet, so the longest time I had to wait for a download was half an hour. When I had AT&T U-Verse in San Diego, the longest wait time was 3 hours, and I was only downloading a 1 GB folder (comparing to 15 min or so on this internet iirc).
 
Speaking of storage, I find myself making use of blank optical media (specifically, of the rewriteable variety) because, well, they're ridiculously cheap and compatible.
 
Wind Heart said:
Like DVD-RW or even DVD-RAW? I heard these types of optical media are nice, even though I'm still resorting to DVD-R to store my media. I can even add my files one by one despite using DVD-R for some reason.
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These days you pretty much only need to know about DVD-RW and DVD+RW since these are far more common that DVD-RAM (but I can still see them sometimes.)

Pretty much the only advantage DVD-RAM has is random access times compared to both RW variants, but remember that RW variants can be used as if it were a USB flash drive anyway with packet writing (which should be built-in since Windows Vista).

Cost per GB is quite a lot smaller than USB flash drives, though they're small in terms of individual capacity and somewhat slow in random writes. However, as long as you handle them gently, they can potentially outlast flash memory.

You can use packet writing on a normal -R disc, but remember that once something is written, the space taken by it can never be claimed back. Deletion is more like "mark inaccessible" when it comes to -R discs, while on -RW and -RAM, it's actually deleted.
 
Since I deal with normal data files a lot, I tend to use discs that are rewriteable. It's easy to change their contents combined with packet writing.

I also rely a lot on +R discs for one-time burns of ISO files (things like all the Visual Studio Express disc images).
 
Some OEMs are very good at detecting hardware and software changes, though.

Either way, there's one thing DVDs always beat everything else (aside from CDs) - it's easier to boot them in case you need to do so.
 
Wind Heart said:
As in Windows installations? I heard that DVD has much faster speed than in CD's, but I wonder if that means the boot can be faster though.
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DVDs pack in a lot more data on the surface of the data layer. Given the same rotational speed, a DVD will give you more sequential throughput.

You can't even have Windows on CDs after Vista. :) And even then, you had to ask to change your Vista DVD into CDs. A lot of them.
 
♪Twiggy♪ said:
DVDs pack in a lot more data on the surface of the data layer. Given the same rotational speed, a DVD will give you more sequential throughput.

You can't even have Windows on CDs after Vista. :) And even then, you had to ask to change your Vista DVD into CDs. A lot of them.
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I bet the Windows after Vista have become bigger and bigger, and I even doubt if Windows Vista Ultimate can fit in into a CD. And I'm reminded that the first Windows version come in the form of floppy disks iirc, and I have no idea Windows will become this big and this far in DVD.

And I'll definitely get mind-blown if the next Windows after 8.1 come in form of Blu-ray Disc, especially 'cos I couldn't afford to buy Blu-ray Drive yet.
 
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Wind Heart said:
I bet the Windows after Vista have become bigger and bigger, and I even doubt if Windows Vista Ultimate can fit in into a CD. And I'm reminded that the first Windows version come in the form of floppy disks iirc, and I have no idea Windows will become this big and this far in DVD.

And I'll definitely get mind-blown if the next Windows after 8.1 come in form of Blu-ray Disc.
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Fun fact: Windows started to ship in CDs since 3.1. (Bootable CDs didn't exist back then, so you needed a boot floppy. These CDs tend to also include MS-DOS to install, giving you a working Windows environment in one fell swoop.)

I don't expect any breaking changes in the media format - even with the x64 version, there's still quite a bit of space. Remember that the contents of the Windows image in the DVDs are pre-packed.
 
Come to think of it, this reminds me now with my XP SP3 install disk that I got a few years ago with Media Center.. the whole box is packed with three CDs (one installs the OS, one installs Media Center, and the third "upgrades" Media Center to 2005).. but I think those are all DVDs and not CDs.. not sure though, just never bothered to check :p
 
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