Overwriting is definitely bad writing, and there is a lot of it out there.

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And so he took the step of overwriting the hard drives multiple times and then having them physically crushed.

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You'll also find a few software additions, including a Creative Shot mode that duplicates the image you just captured and applies "Intelligent Scene Analysis, " cropping the frame and adjusting color and brightness without overwriting the original file.

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It's really - the overwriting theme is that, you know, we can find wisdom in music and we can find things to relate to and solace and power and peace and all these things in music, no matter what genre you love the most.

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Overwriting is a problem throughout.

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We judge CD-RW packet-writing performance by copying a folder containing 100MB of files to a CD-RW disc three times: first to the newly formatted blank disc, again after deleting the files from the first copy operation, and finally by overwriting the files from the second operation.

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