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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 ;)
For all we know, the page could be saying, "look at all those Slashdot fools who thing that this page actually contains information, HA HA HA!!!"
It would be very impressive if this is for real... Question is how much will it cost, will it be recordable, etc?
i.e. does it have any showstoppers that will prevent it from making Philips' blue laser disc technology stillborn?
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Fuck it. I tried to reply twice and got filtered based on time.
Damn! Where are my mod points! +1 Funny!
Sorry, that's centimeters, not inches, which is of course even better ;)
Your girlfriend says different.
I don't know about blondes, but brunettes don't fall for the ol' "it's not the size the matters" line.
What's the difference between a blond and a Porsche?
You don't loan a Porsche to your friends.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
A blonde woman doesn't get much respect from her boss because he thinks she is stupid. So she decides to study a few things and see if she can earn his respect. A few days later, she passes her boss's office and asks him to name a state, and she'll tell him the capital of it. He says "Okay... Wyoming."
The woman paused for a moment to recall the answer. Suddenly her eyes lit up, she had the answer at last: "W?"
Maybe he/she thought the joke was "completely inane"?
John Susek
That's possible. Had the moderation been 'Overrated' (and I did get one of those) I wouldn't have posted that.
This is slashdot, you are only allowed to rehash the text that is in the story, do not discuss outside the text, draw conclusions, make jokes or otherwise stray from the immediate specific article, or we (the insane offtopic-moderators union) will have to take action, thank you.
One of my colleagues will be by shortly to moderate both you and me offtopic for daring to use slashdot to comment comments and moderations, I think we all learned something from this.
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Wow dude, now you're getting 'Off Topic' mods for challening a moderation to your post that was on topic?
Why is challenging a moderation off-topic? Why does that result in a mod but no response? I'm serious here. The AC's original comment was a sarcastic response to the article, not some out of the blue topic change. When he got modded down, he pointed that out and challenged the validity of the moderation. Then he got modded down again. That's off-topic? The proper thing to do would have either been for a moderator to fix the crappy moderation, or for the moderator who modded him down to explain why.
I know, I'm going to get modded as 'off-topic' as well. I was only aiming for a little understanding here. I hope at least one person reads this and performs more helpful moderations down the road.
"Derp de derp."
Um right.
Moderation is an expression of how one person interprets a post. By commenting on the moderation, you are seeking clarification. There is no difference between saying "Why was I modded down?" and "What did you mean by that?"
The explanation you gave me is a cop-out for people with moderation points to burn. You're playing games with semantics. Duh.
"Derp de derp."
Yes, but sometimes moderations are so off that it's worth paying attention to them, the -1 offtopic moderations being such a plague, it's used randomly for trolls, flamebaits, funny comments or other things that are on a slight tangent off the topic
Wax-Museum Fire Results In Hundreds Of New Danny DeVito Statues
at the risk of insulting your intelligence, you might want to post without the +1 bonus when replying to not especially important threads. or threads whose parents are +1 or 0
You know, many people have informed me of that, you are the only one who has done it tactfully. For that, I thank you.
:)
I do use that button sometimes. Unfortunately, sometimes when I run into the 120 second limit and things get farqed. Oh well. T'was an interesting day karma wise. One post alone (the one about blondes not knowing the difference...) so far has had 13 moderations. Fun stuff, eh?
Again, thanks for being polite, it is in such short supply here.
Heh. My coworker had me type 'make love'. The response was like "unable to make love". heh. That was a while ago, I don't think it works today, but it was funny. :)
"Derp de derp."
I'm not taking back the comment about semantic games. You're WRONG.
"The topic is "One Terabyte On a 12cm Disk"."
No. The topic is what the article covered. You can talk about the media itself, that's on topic. You can talk about quotes in the article, that's on topic. You can make fun of the sudden correction in the headline, that's on topic. In this particular case, the moderator that modded the AC down had a very strict idea (just like you do) about what is on-topic. He actually used the subject of the article in his post and he still got an offtopic moderation for it. Did you look at the mods he got? He didn't challenge the 'overrated' mods, he challenged the offtopic one. It was wrong. He had every right to fight it. The answer is not to have the users 'just take it and move on'.
Modding a comment as funny is basically the moderator's way of expressing "This comment was funny.", or in other words, he's expressing his point of view. If somebody responds to one of my posts and says "no, your idea won't work.", then it is not Off-Topic to say "Why don't you think my idea will work?" There isn't a difference there. So if I a moderator makes a moderation that I find confusing, there should be no punishment for asking why. Instead, the right thing to do is for the moderator (or anybody else who knows the answer) to pipe in and say "he probably thought you meant something else. Your wording is a little ambiguous." That is so much better than modding me down to shut me up.
Seeing as how Slashdot provides us with 0 ways of reporting bad moderations, then you're just going to have to shut up and deal with the noise it generates.
There might be a solution that makes us both happy: Create a forum dedicated to challening bad moderations. Got a questionable moderation? Think you can provide concise proof that the moderation sucked? (or want to know if it was misinterpretable?) Go post over there and keep it out of the main discussion area. That way you don't get your noise, and when I get mod bombed I can do something about it.
Whatcha think of that?
"Derp de derp."
Seems like Slashdot isn't the best place for you, since you're looking for politeness, fair moderation and, apparently, people with a sense of humour. Not to say you can't find it here, but have you tried kuro5hin?
Looking into it now, thanks! :)
:)
I'm not anti-Slashdot, I just think a moderator or two needs to be a little more open minded and stop being so literal. I wouldn't blame the whole site for that.
To be honest, though, I wish all the 'i hate microsoft' posts would die down. Too many people doing that just because it makes them cool. It's not inspiring people to be informed. Heh.