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New DVDs For 1,000-Year Digital Storage
anonymous cowpie sends word of a Utah startup that is about to introduce technology for writing DVDs that can be read for 1,000 years after being stored at room temperature. (Ordinary DVDs last anywhere from 3 to 12 years, on average.) The company, Millenniata, is said to be in the final stages of negotiation with Phillips over patent licensing and plans to begin manufacture in September. 1,000-year "M-ARC Discs" are expected to retail for $25-$30 at first, with the price coming down with volume. "Dubbed the Millennial Disk, it looks virtually identical to a regular DVD, but it's special. Layers of hard, 'persistent' materials (the exact composition is a trade secret) are laid down on a plastic carrier, and digital information is literally carved in with an enhanced laser using the company's Millennial Writer, a sort of beefed-up DVD burner. Once cut, the disk can be read by an ordinary DVD reader on your computer."
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Dubbed the Millennial Disk, it looks virtually identical to a regular DVD, but it's special.
These new non-degradable disks are larger, black, and made out of vinyl.
Thanks to the fact the data is literally "carved in", these discs are playable by a wide range of easily obtainable readers. Not only can you put them in a DVD player - in fact, it's possible simply to put a needle in the grooves of the disc, which gives detailed instructions on how to make a DVD player.
I don't know. But it's interesting to think that people watching the DVDs 1000 years from now will probably find our speech as odd and different as we find Beowulf now...
Yeh, they'll find it odd how we call it Christmas instead of XMas. How we saw Ask instead of Aks. And these rain forests we keep talking about.
John Titor told us.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.
I dreamed of Freud: What does this mean?
How do we KNOW that they'll REALLY last 1,000 years?
People from the future told us. They also told us to bury more porn.
Ask Philip J. Fry.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
And finally and most importantly, Congress would *never* consider extending the copyright term to 1000 years
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
The rain what now?
Good god, I hadn't thought of that.
/b/ is _nothing_ compared to the unfathomable transdimensional Lovecraftian virtual Horror-Porn that our descendants will be fapping to in .
I'm sure the multi-endowed tentaclebeasted transfurry lolirape stuff that comes out of Japan and
I have 8 floppy drives on my desk if you want to make a long term investment!
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I'm just thinking of how old porn collections will be used in medical classes.
1,000 years ago, women had only two breasts...
I drank what? -- Socrates
He was moded flamebait because he talks like a fag, and his shit's all retarded.
I dunno, at the moment it seems like people will be telling sagas of M'kell J'ackson in at least a thousand years time. How I came down from heaven and wrestled small evil dwarfs that attacked him in bed and so on. Rather like Beowulf.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Yeah. If it was rocket science, you'd reuse or lose the media, and we'd have to hope somebody found copies in Australia or something.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
I'm just thinking of how old porn collections will be used in medical classes.
1,000 years ago, women had only two breasts...
And the larger males had breasts on their backs.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.