The technology was in danger of being replaced with SSDs. You would be CRAZY to create a new HDD plant at this point.
I think it might be a combination of both - inability to recover and/or shrewd reasoning.
After all, there's still a market for tape drives, indicating that no matter how fast, light and cheap SSDs become, HDDs might still offer an attractive alternative (especially with new media technologies).
It's quite possible that there might have been some HDD or sub-assembly mfgrs who were just hanging on, what with the constant shrinking in the desktop market.
The flood might have just pushed some of them over the edge, so to speak.
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I thought of this image a couple of days ago, finished it last night.
This seems to happen every few weeks: I draw something that relates in some weird way to some current event I had no previous idea of.
I've tagged these images as "psychic", for want of a better term.
Anyway, I apologize for hijacking the conversation - couldn't help myself. As you were.
It's because data centers don't have sparkly vampires
One of my (so far unused) fake headlines:
"Music 'Stuck in Head' is Theft, According to RIAA Chief"
When the name of your company turns into a verb, you know you're successful.
Or commoditized, i.e., kleenex, xerox, band-aid, etc
I want to be the Google of naming things "The Google of ..."
Your shell. Give it to me
They're looking for developers, but only if you're hip enough.
Hip Enough for Google
As someone who uses Google Image Search quite a bit, I have this to say:
Please.
Someone look at my images, either at my site or at Google
I'm shocked at how many people here are saying bad things about Microsoft. Shocked.
It worked for Bombs
This is what the chose to publish instead of my piece on "How to Deflect Bullets with Your Mind"
Cannot. Resist. Link. To. Image.
The first car I owned (1962 Chevy half-ton) had those features and a non-collapsible steering column!
Your face is the crumple zone
I'm so using that. Thanks. :)
Yeah, and bright red reproductions of vintage french telephones just scream world-saving super-hero.
Or something.
Cast aluminum dashboard cladding was well-known for its cushioning ability in the 1960's
Hey, thanks
To me, at the time - I graduated high school in '73 - rock and roll was Beatles, Stones and The Who.
It may not be as apparent now, but AC/DC when I first heard them, seemed to do a lot more screaming than singing.
Which is not to say that I didn't like them - I did. But they definitely nudged the dial up closer to 11.
Please say it's not so - I remember thinking that "AC/DC" was what the "kids" were listening to now...
Thirty-year-old rock group with fifty-year-old members:
"I'm on the sidewalk to heck"
The technology was in danger of being replaced with SSDs. You would be CRAZY to create a new HDD plant at this point.
I think it might be a combination of both - inability to recover and/or shrewd reasoning.
After all, there's still a market for tape drives, indicating that no matter how fast, light and cheap SSDs become, HDDs might still offer an attractive alternative (especially with new media technologies).
Can you ever have too much storage?
It's quite possible that there might have been some HDD or sub-assembly mfgrs who were just hanging on, what with the constant shrinking in the desktop market.
The flood might have just pushed some of them over the edge, so to speak.
I wonder how long it will take the system to stop flagging dancing as suspicious behavior?
What are the odds on how long it runs before being taken down by a DMCA Bot?
I find everything Susan McLean writes offensive.
If only there were someplace I could complain about her...
Ha!