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One Terabyte On a 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm Disk
News for nerds writes: "At InterOpto'02 - international optoelectronics exhibition hold in Chiba, Japan - OPTWARE Co.Ltd. made up of ex-Sony engineers, demoed(in Japanese) 1-terabyte super-high speed optical disk system "T-VRD." It uses hologram and stores 1 terabyte data in a 12-cm-CD-size disc, with 100Mbps - 1Gbps transfer rate. Available in 2003 as 19-inch rackmount, 2005 for PC." Update: 07/16 18:33 GMT by T : Sorry, that's centimeters, not inches, which is of course even better ;)
Is your real name Bill Gates by chance?
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
and there's a world market for maybe 6 computers total....and 256KB should be enought memory for anybody....and I thought I'd never find a use for my 250MB HDD.... as long as they keep building more storage and faster CPU, we will find ways to write in enough code bloat to use it.
> Computer technology has pretty much advanced about as far as is necessary.
Its almost grammarically incorrect to say something like that without punctuating it by sticking your foot in your mouth in 3 years.
"Old man yells at systemd"
(cut to shot of rocket blasting off, lifting 5 feet off the ground, then falling back to earth in a huge fireball)
NASA Scientist: Oops.
---- El diablo esta en mis pantalones! Mire, mire!
Salesman: "For only $150 more, you could get a 1.2GB hard drive instead of this 850MB."
Me: "What would I need all that space for?"
Trust me, Windows 2012 Supa Dupa edition will find a way to take up a 1TB disk during initial install.
Please don't tell my girlfriend!
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
In related news. Sony announces it will immediatley begin selling these disks to consumers.
;-)
Optware Spokesman:
"We were thinking it would take 10 years the technology to be needed, but bad jokes about our hardware's "12 inch vs. 12 cm" capabilities, beowulf of them, and how much prOn one could store on it completly overwhelmed previous storage technologies"
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
"12 cm or 12 inch? There's a big difference there...."
Most blondes don't know the difference.
Headlines from 2003/2005
Software pirates in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia immediately began selling copies of NBC's entire 2006 TV lineup, Warcraft IV-10, Photoshop 2008, and MS Office Xtra-Ultra-Uber-Nextgen on the new disks for a street price of $5, all on one disk.
RIAA and MPAA lawyers assaulted Sony with lawsuits today, claiming that the disk assited in storage and dissemination of intellectual property and violating copyright control schemes.
Immediately after, Canadian and European lawyers under the control of movie and recording lobbyists added a hefty tax to the sale of each disk, with collected fees sent to movie and music companies.
Australians quickly installed $1 per/disc copy machines in Lucky Dragon stores across the continents.
Citizens of the USA tried to read reports about the new discs, but because a Microsoft lead consortium refused to provide digital certificates to news releases, Americans cannot view the files on their computers.
All these numbers are very confusing to me. Can someone please break it down into meaningful numbers, such as how many Library of Congress's can be put on each disc??
Optical Solid state storage?
IT'S CALLED PAPER.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
bash$ stty erase ^H
That should take care of the problem.
Imagine if you weren't allowed to use roads because a bus company complained about your driving 3 times. --skunkpussy
Its 12 cm, until you rub it. Then... ;>
its says so in the first line of the article, and its not in kanji.
bla bla bla InterOpto'02 bla bla bla 12cm CDbla bla bla
RTFA!
Well, I don't know kanji!!!! For all I know "cm" is the kanji characters for "inches"...
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
'640 Kb should be enough for anyone.' - Bill Gates
I can see it now... con't. on p.44"
"Free with a purchase of a new Dell!: Sony's all-in-one 40x/12x/32x/CDRW//20x/8x/4x/DVDRW//2x/1x/T-VRDRW.
All Your media are belong.. oh screw it
Operator, give me the number for 911!
Yeah in the next Angelina Jolie movie some government agency will accidently lose the entire genetic code of every living thing on earth on one of these disks and there will be massive quantities of Chick-Fu to retreive it.
Because she heard they had a guy hung like _this_ *stretches arms*.
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One word for you: Holodeck!
I'm done with sigs. Sigs are lame.
Of course IBM has something up the sleeve. Good bye, rotating media!
Exabyte (1 million Terabytes): This amount of storage will be useful if you want to record in hig-quality digital video all of yor life from your wearable computer that you take everywhere. You will be abel to access every moment of your life, every conversation and play it back at anytime.
Yeah - and I thought my girlfriend bringing up crap from three years ago was bad enough.
*busily scratching hard drive platter* What was that you said?
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?