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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 ;)
> 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!
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
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.
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...
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.