|
Great Burner!
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: 1) Nice looking front panel (black model).
2) Short form factor, excellent for microATX system.
3) Very quiet when burning and reading discs.
4) Bitsetting capable.
5) Very good burning with low errors (scanned with DVDInfo) even on cheap generic blanks.
6) Can be set to region free with LtnRPC tool that can be found on Google. (NewEg...
[Sony LAYER DVDRW WRITER - DRU800A / DRU810A (DOUBLE) review by SB can be read at Newegg.com]
|
|
Reviewed by:
|
SB
|
|
Review Date:
|
11/30/2006
|
|
User Location:
|
|
|
Review From:
|
User Review
|
|
|
95%
(21 of 22) Users Found This Review Helpful
|
|
|
|
"Honest Jim's" Version of a Major Scientific Event
+++++
In this book (first published in 1968), "Honest Jim" (as a scientist friend called him) or Dr. James Dewey Watson has explained his "version of how the structure of DNA was discovered" and "this account represents the way [he] saw things then, in [the fall of] 1951 [to the spring of] 1953." (The discovery was announced in April 1953.) That is, he has "attempted to re-create [his] first impressions of the relevant events and personalities" that he encountered along the way to ma...
[Sony LAYER DVDRW WRITER - DRU800A / DRU810A (DOUBLE) review can be read at Amazon.com]
|
|
Reviewed by:
|
|
|
Review Date:
|
01/27/2004
|
|
User Location:
|
|
|
Review From:
|
User Review
|
|
|
|
92%
(23 of 25) Users Found This Review Helpful
|
|
|
|
Sony DRU-120C
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: Solid burner. Burns @16x with no problems on Verbatim 16x media. The RAM media burning is very good for data backup.
Cons: -
Other Thoughts: Make sure we're using the 80-wire IDE cables for burners that burn at 12x and faster. Some of us are not aware of this and connected the burner with an older 40-conductor wire then believe it was the burner's fault...
[Sony LAYER DVDRW WRITER - DRU800A / DRU810A (DOUBLE) review by N/A can be read at Newegg.com]
|
|
Reviewed by:
|
N/A
|
|
Review Date:
|
12/14/2006
|
|
User Location:
|
|
|
Review From:
|
User Review
|
|
|
|
91%
(11 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful
|
|
|
|
It does not distort the facts; pay attention when you read!
This review is from: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) (Paperback) I read this book for the first time when i took undergraduate biochemistry in college. I could not put it down. Now, ten years later, i found it at a second-hand store and re-read it, and once again read it in two sittings. This book reads like a thriller. You definitively catch a sense of the urgency of their research. I was flippin...
[Sony LAYER DVDRW WRITER - DRU800A / DRU810A (DOUBLE) review can be read at Amazon.com]
|
|
Reviewed by:
|
|
|
Review Date:
|
05/13/2000
|
|
User Location:
|
|
|
Review From:
|
User Review
|
|
|
|
90%
(18 of 20) Users Found This Review Helpful
|
|
|
|
How to Become Better Informed about Rosalind Franklin:
This review is from: Double Helix (Scribner Classics) (Hardcover) Several previous reviewers of "The Double Helix" have, rightly it seems, upbraided Watson for his negative portrait of Rosalind Franklin and his downplaying of her contributions to his and Crick's elucidation of the structure of DNA. The new book by Meyer Friedman and Gerald Friedland, "Medicine's Ten Greatest Discoveries," of course contains a chapter on this achievement, interestingly ...
[Sony LAYER DVDRW WRITER - DRU800A / DRU810A (DOUBLE) review can be read at Amazon.com]
|
|
Reviewed by:
|
|
|
Review Date:
|
10/17/1999
|
|
User Location:
|
|
|
Review From:
|
User Review
|
|
|
|
83%
(15 of 18) Users Found This Review Helpful
|
|
|
|
Fascinating
This review is from: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Paperback) This firsthand account of the discovery of DNA dispels a lot of the notions that ousiders have about how science really works. Watson's descriptions of the competition, politics, dead ends, personality clashes, mistakes, and eventually inspiration reveal that discovery is not as clear-cut a process as it sometimes might seem.Watson is honest in his introduction t...
[Sony LAYER DVDRW WRITER - DRU800A / DRU810A (DOUBLE) review can be read at Amazon.com]
|
|
Reviewed by:
|
|
|
Review Date:
|
05/08/2002
|
|
User Location:
|
|
|
Review From:
|
User Review
|
|
|
|
83%
(10 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful
|
|
|
|
A peek inside an ivory tower
This review is from: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) (Paperback) Double Helix is a worthy read. In a few hours of reading, one catches a fairly representative look into the scientific commmunity, though the eyes of one man. Some people critique this book as being one-sided. Of course it is! Watson admitted that up front. The book was written as an account his perceptions of the events and people in...
[Sony LAYER DVDRW WRITER - DRU800A / DRU810A (DOUBLE) review can be read at Amazon.com]
|
|
Reviewed by:
|
|
|
Review Date:
|
02/25/2000
|
|
User Location:
|
|
|
Review From:
|
User Review
|
|
|
|
81%
(13 of 16) Users Found This Review Helpful
|
|
|
|
Understated Account of a Really Big Event
This review is from: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) (Paperback) Clarification is in order. First of all, this is not a substantive science book. For all the significance of the discovery it chronicles, The Double Helix never bothers to explain how, for example, x-ray crystallography actually works, or what the difference between a keto- and an -enol is, or even why Watson's and Crick's discovery brought...
[Sony LAYER DVDRW WRITER - DRU800A / DRU810A (DOUBLE) review can be read at Amazon.com]
|
|
Reviewed by:
|
|
|
Review Date:
|
11/07/2002
|
|
User Location:
|
|
|
Review From:
|
User Review
|
|
|
|
78%
(18 of 23) Users Found This Review Helpful
|
|
|
|
Emphasis on the "personal"
This review is from: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Paperback) I recently reread The Double Helix and greatly enjoyed it, because (a) Watson conveys vividly (but perhaps not completely) events leading to the discovery of the structure of DNA, one of the great discoveries of the century and (b) he gives a warts and all description and shows that science is not a glorious straightline progression. What distinguishes him from m...
[Sony LAYER DVDRW WRITER - DRU800A / DRU810A (DOUBLE) review can be read at Amazon.com]
|
|
Reviewed by:
|
|
|
Review Date:
|
09/21/2000
|
|
User Location:
|
|
|
Review From:
|
User Review
|
|
|
|
76%
(10 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful
|
|
|
|
2 Helix as 1
The Double Helix was a one of the books on my high school biology teacher's reading list for the class. The name itself, The Double Helix, had shied me away from reading it; it sounds like some boring old book that will describe the structure of DNA in some very big and boring words. However, after finally reading the book, I completely changed my thoughts on this book. I found the novel to be an easy and exciting to read in an almost fictious hero-like story.
Watson's story is not just a ...
[Sony LAYER DVDRW WRITER - DRU800A / DRU810A (DOUBLE) review can be read at Amazon.com]
|
|
Reviewed by:
|
|
|
Review Date:
|
11/22/2005
|
|
User Location:
|
|
|
Review From:
|
User Review
|
|
|
|
75%
(9 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful
|