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One of the greatest deals I ever got (in my mind) was buying the entire set of National Geographic magazines on DVD disc for about $15. More than 100 years of a
by gramie 3y ago
One of the greatest deals I ever got (in my mind) was buying the entire set of National Geographic magazines on DVD disc for about $15. More than 100 years of articles!
Too bad that they have gone the way of the dodo, but the writing has been on the wall for many years.
- Blahah 3y ago1888-2020 is a torrent that will never die. Not to be trite, your $15 made effectively no difference to the longevity of the corporation while torrenting it made absolutely all the difference to the longevity of the content. I have for free what you got for $15. The person who made it a torrent is a hero. If the dodo genome had been torrented it would be alive today.
- swyx 3y ago> the writing has been on the wall too soon man, too soon
- kiwijamo 3y agoToo soon? Is there a context to this I'm missing?
- irrational 3y agoWriters were laid off… writing on the wall…?
- gramie 3y agoI was speaking in terms of almost every kind of print journalism struggling and, usually failing to adapt their business model. It has been going on for a couple of decades now.
- blinkingled 3y agoIs it possible to backup and use the DVD content from local disk? Haven't had the best of luck with DVDs and buying one of eBay makes me feel even less optimistic the DVDs will last long.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoManufactured discs usually last a very long time.
- worthless-trash 3y agoOP might be concerned with not having a CDROM in their machine. Same concern that many of us may have in 20 years. I have older software on 3.5" floppy disks that I can no longer access, and fortunately have the disk images.
- WalterBright 3y agoYou can get a 3.5" drive with a USB cable. Works well.
- worthless-trash 3y agoThanks, i'll look into it as a secondary backup.
- Casteil 3y ago"Usually" Not sure I'd trust my only copy of something I want to keep long term to a "usually."
- mixmastamyk 3y agoMy CDs from 1986 are fine.
- kayodelycaon 3y agoI remember Disk Utility on macOS being able to dump the raw data from a DVD or CD into a disk image. And I think virtualization software can mount the image as if it was a disc. It’s been at least 5 years since I’ve done anything like that though. Edit: You can always use dd to grab the raw data.
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- busyant 3y ago> was buying the entire set of National Geographic magazines on DVD disc for about $15. More than 100 years of articles! What file format were the issues/articles? PDF? Something else?
- PawgerZ 3y agoJPEG I believe
- WalterBright 3y agoI bought that, too, but the resolution of the images is so low it makes my eyes bleed to read them.