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Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To

Posted by Zonk on from the why-not-a-little-innovation? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Flexbeta.net has an article which describes 5 great technological advancements in computing that just about every PC user wants." From the article: "Why has there been such a sudden lack in innovation as of late? Are we in a technological drought? I like to stick to my own diagnosis of the industry as being too concerned with keeping a steady cash flow over social experimentation with new products but then again that's just an opinion from a little guy."

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  1. Things I'd like to see become prevalent by millennial · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1. Large-capacity, solid-state hard drives
    2. What about those HDDs that were being developed where the bits were "standing on end"?
    3. Biometrics instead of passwords
    4. Improvements in voice-recognition software
    5. DECREASED prices on things that shouldn't be as expensive as they are. For example, why do floppy disks often cost ten times as much as CD-Rs?
    6. Large-scale ad-hoc networking. It'd be really nice if you could create a mobile hotspot with a range that increases with every computer that connects. I suppose this would mean that we'd have to make wireless adapters that can operate in ad-hoc and client mode at the same time.
    7. Quantum computers, dammit!

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    1. Re:Things I'd like to see become prevalent by millennial · · Score: 0, Redundant

      The CD-R is not plastic - it's plastic, metal, protective acrylic coating, and, sometimes, ink.

      I care about floppy disks because some schools still use them. One of my professors makes us turn in our VB .NET homework on a floppy. If it were left up to me, I'd never use floppies. You can hold over 1000 times as much data on 3 CDs for $1 as you can on one floppy for $1. It's ridiculous, really.
      On that note, why do Jaz, Zip, etc. disks cost so much?

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    2. Re:Things I'd like to see become prevalent by millennial · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Well, many places sell them individually for $1 each. That's what I was basing it on.

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  2. Re:This is a joke, right? by mwilli · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I can't believe this is on Slashdot.

    No kidding. This is quite easily the worst story I have ever seen on Slashdot. No wonder this guy posted anonymously!

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