I predict that gambling will be broadly legal in the United States by the end of this decade. It will start with online poker, which is currently legal only in Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware. But it will expand from there, both in categories of games and in geographic acceptance.
CDDB (CD DataBase) The first online music database used to identify music CDs in order to obtain the missing album and track information. Developed by Ti Kan and Steve Scherf, it was originally a community driven service, but became a commercial product when CDDB, Inc. was founded in 1995.
As you learned in my All About CD-R and CD-RW Daily Drill Down, CD-ROM data is stored in patterns of pitted and unpitted (âlandâ) areas on a disc. DVD data is stored the same way, except the pits are much smaller and closer together. Thatâs why CD-ROMs top out at about 650-700 MB of data, while DVDs can hold multiple gigabytes of data. Since the pits are more tightly written on a DVD disc, the mechanism in the drive for reading them also has to be finer and more precise.