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New 100GB Optical Disk From Taiwan
Alt173 points to this article from Taiwan Economic News , excerpting: "The National Science Council (NSC) said Sunday that a local research team has successfully developed a new optical disc that can hold more than 100 gigabytes of information.
The research team was led by professor Tsai Ding-ping of National Taiwan University. The new disc can store 150 CDs of favorite songs or an equivalent of 20 DVDs, Tsai said.
By using "near-field" optical technology, the 100-gigabyte disc stores more than any other similar product in the world. The super-sized disc will be used at home to store large movie or music files, according to Tsai.
The near-field optical technology also allows the bits of information on a disc to be spaced closer together to increase the disc's storage capacity."
Commented today, "This is it. We're done. This will kill the movie and music industry just like the VHS tape, CD and DVD."
Senator Hollings responded, "We're asking China to invade Tawain today to stop this evil horde from joining the axis of evil."
Great. Now instead of an album costing $15.00, and containing one hit and 14 filler songs, the CD will cost $1,500.00 and contain one hit and 1499 filler songs.
The article failed to mention the most important use of this storage: all your porn on one disc!
The new disc can store 150 CDs of favorite songs or an equivalent of 20 DVDs, Tsai said.
What he forgot to mention was that, at present, the disc is roughly the size and thickness of a small kitchen table.
"super-size" means that it holds an amazing number of french fries.
Can please somebody translate super-size in centimetres?
'Le size grande'
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Forget the 100GB, I'm more facsinated that the guy's name is Ding-ping.
No link or mention of the original source of the above information.
It is therefore in violation of copyright law and should be removed accordingly.
Jack Valenti? Is that you? Eiser? Hollings?
I only ask because so few people are capable of that leap of logic from "I don't know anything" to "it is a copyright violation".
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No. Bill said $640 ought to be enough for Microsoft Office.
Get your facts straight.
... "single to noise ratio"
The CD full of junk that you buy to get that one song that you _really_ like.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
I think it's hilarious how you could substitute a few words in your post above, to be having the same problem seven years ago.
80 Gig HD --> 2 Gig HD
writeable DVD --> CDR
100 CD-RW's --> 100 floppies
Until writable CD's come along, there isn't even a usable, cheap way to do a backup of my 2 Gig hard disk as it is. Right now, it'd take a stack of 100 floppies to do it, and about a year or so. It seems the only practical solution is to buy two (or more) identical hard disks...
I used a screwdriver, worked pretty well.
sic transit gloria mundi
In France it's called a CD Royale...
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"