There was no copy protection on any of the PC-FX games, because at the time the system was released, the high price of CD-R burners and blank CDs made piracy expensive.

Initially, Sony believed that it would take a decade for CD-R prices to become affordable ( starting at about $ 12 per blank CD-R disk in 1994 ).

** blank CD-R / RW, MiniCD-R / RW, MiniDVD-R / RW, MiniDisc, audiocassette DAT: € 0. 12 / disc

A recorder encodes ( or burns ) data onto a recordable CD-R, DVD-R, DVD + R, or BD-R disc ( called a blank ) by selectively heating parts of an organic dye layer with a laser.

The company's notable products are batteries -- the company's name is a contraction of " maximum capacity dry cell " -- and recording media, including audio cassettes and blank VHS tapes, and recordable optical discs like CD-R / RW and DVD ± RW.

* Media ( CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and blank VHS tapes )

TDK used to manufacture an extensive portfolio of magnetic and optical media, including several formats of videotape and blank CD-R and recordable DVD discs until it licensed the rights to do so to Imation.

The blank CD-R media they use is very inexpensive, typically costing less than US $ 0. 15 per disk.

It can now be found online under the name The Blank CD referring to the fact that the CD has no artwork or label on it, making it look like a blank CD-R.

One such event is the landing in Europe itself, when the mingled familiarity and strangeness of the Occident, after the blank immensities of Asia, shocks the returning traveller into a realization of the infinite possibilities of human life.

One had to manage the given subjects, three diverse recent events, so as to make them part of a classical frieze, -- that is, a pattern of large figures filling the space, with not much else, against a blank background.

It is hard, on the other hand, to blame the policeman, blank, good-natured, thoughtless, and insuperably innocent, for being such a perfect representative of the people he serves.

The emotional effects of anxiety may include " feelings of apprehension or dread, trouble concentrating, feeling tense or jumpy, anticipating the worst, irritability, restlessness, watching ( and waiting ) for signs ( and occurrences ) of danger, and, feeling like your mind's gone blank " as well as " nightmares / bad dreams, obsessions about sensations, deja vu, a trapped in your mind feeling, and feeling like everything is scary.

By using the palette to mask the top area of the display and taking care about when it changes mode it can shift the continuous graphics at the bottom of the display down in two pixel increments because the internal display counter is not incremented on blank scanlines during non-continuous graphics modes.

A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side.

When working with weeks rather than months, a continuous format is sometimes more convenient, where no blank cells are inserted to ensure that the first day of a new month begins on a fresh row.

For the next seven years, the record of events in the north is blank.

* Lower half: identical, except it does not contain the blood type, and the reverse is blank.

Each end is marked with a number of spots ( also called pips ) or is blank.

The board starts off with a portion of the map left blank: when players expand into the blank region, terrain hexes are drawn at random from a supply and placed in the empty space, and, if a land hex is " discovered ", a number token may be assigned.

The phrase " Cogito ergo sum " ( I think, therefore I am ) is also commonly associated with Descartes ' theory, because in his own methodological doubt, doubting everything he previously knew in order to start from a blank slate, the first thing that he could not logically bring himself to doubt was his own existence: " I do not exist " would be a contradiction in terms ; the act of saying that one does not exist assumes that someone must be making the statement in the first place.

Locke is famously attributed with holding the proposition that the human mind is a tabula rasa, a " blank tablet ," in Locke's words " white paper ," on which the experiences derived from sense impressions as a person's life proceeds are written.

It is important to distinguish between a secco work done on top of buon fresco, which according to most authorities was in fact standard from the Middle Ages onwards, and work done entirely a secco on a blank wall.

Thus, a Good attribute is considered to be Great if you were to roll two plus sides, one minus side, and one blank — the minus side cancels out one of the plus sides and the remaining plus side raises the result by one step.

It concludes with blank pages which the owner is meant to use as a journal, should they endure a zombie outbreak, lending the book a stronger, if satiric, kind of realism.

The use of such weapons is tightly restricted to the film industry under direct supervision of the master of arms holding the permit, and the weapons are often altered so they will not fire " factory " ammunition, but rather only special " light-primer " blank cartridges produced specifically for the film industry.

Black powder is well suited for blank rounds, signal flares, burst charges, and rescue-line launches.

Ida is the only Gilbert and Sullivan work with dialogue entirely in blank verse and is also the only one of their works in three acts.

The effect of " endecasillabi sciolti " ( loose hendecasyllables ) is similar to English blank verse.

The notion of tabula rasa (" clean slate " or " blank tablet ") connotes a view of mind as an originally blank or empty recorder ( Locke used the words " white paper ") on which experience leaves marks.

To create complex designs, many web designers had to use complicated table structures or even use blank spacer. GIF images to stop empty table cells from collapsing.

The Wu-Wo Tea Ceremony pursues the circular rainbow and goes towards the blank light or empty circle in the flag's center.

After firing a total of six rounds, Martinez threw his empty revolver onto the deck and grabbed McCoy's shotgun, running to Whitman's prone body and firing point blank into his upper left arm.

* A blank information carrier, like an empty sheet of paper or an empty hard disk.

Voting " blank " is not the same thing as abstaining, and so it has been argued that blank votes should be recognized as legitimate by apportioning empty seats in representative bodies according to the number of blank votes.

This party aims to give blank ballots the meaning of representing empty seats if the amount of votes indicate so as for any other party, disbanding the party when such law would be approved.

This follows a tradition of most eroge protagonists, so as to allow the character to be a ' blank slate ' so that the player can place themselves in his metaphorically empty shoes.

Akira is essentially an empty shell ; his powers have overwritten and destroyed his personality, leaving someone who almost never speaks or reacts to external stimuli, with a constant blank expression on his face.

Voters identify themselves by their ID cards and are given the full number of ballot papers for the constituency plus a blank ballot paper and an empty envelope.

At point blank range, one British soldier had to empty four bullets into a Boxer before he stopped, and the American Captain Bowman McCalla reported that single rifle shots were not enough, multiple rifle shots were needed to halt a Boxer.

He asks that one of the duelling pistols be loaded while the other remains empty, the combatants having to toss for it and then stand a yard apart and fire at each other at point blank range.

If a graph can be reduced by steps to the blank page or an empty cut, it is what is now called a tautology ( or the complement thereof ).

The Wu-Wo Tea Ceremony pursues the circular rainbow and goes towards the blank light or empty circle in the flag's center.

He left unknown areas of continents blank and noted doubtful information as such ; compared to the lavish maps of his predecessors, his maps looked empty.

Sometimes, students receive blank pieces of paper wrapped with a ribbon or empty leather binders during the graduation ceremony ; when this occurs the actual diploma is received later.