I would've thought that was replacing one security concern with another. All those saved passwords, you drop the key, lose it, that's *everything* compromised.
Are we also not getting to the point where DVDs are ceasing to be useful for backups? I remember when I used them but it's completely ridiculous now. I may as well just buy hard-drives now, they're that cheap.
I totally can't see it stopping at 10. What about the people that shoot for posters? I've seen some godawful posters out there that have obviously been upsampled from something like 1 or 2 megapixels and you can see the artifacting. People that shoot for billboards will need more...
And as for that maximum video resolution comment... Oh boy...
No, granted, this is true. But it would require a huge shift in the publics perception of digital technologies to get them to shift to lossless compression. I mean, I know it'll happen but I can't see the bridging technology. We're still dominated by lossy technologies in our digital culture. You try convincing the average bloke on the street that a 100gb movie looks that much better and more different on his home television set than an 8gb dvd. Most people have shitty setups. It's going to take bloody years before we even get HD-TV off the ground. We here in the UK don't switch over to a totally digital system until 2010. It's going to be at least another decade before a lossless system will come into being.
In the end it will all be dictated by television. The cough potatoes will decide the future of lossless broadcasting. Can you imagine the bandwidth implications of broadcasting losslessly compressed high definition video to 100+ million tv watching americans?! Think of the infrastructure overhaul that would be required.
In short, yes, it probably will happen but not without a MASSIVE MARKETING CAMPAIGN and an enormous expenditure for the networks.
Us home and business users will always see higher capacity but I imagine that it won't be just computers that use high capacity hard drives in the future...
I've never, ever, ever encountered a situation where I've had enough disk-space or at least enough disk-space to keep me going for a long period of time. I've got near enough 1Tb of home storage, just for myself and some of my friends think I'm a loon for having that much. It's not entirely unreasonable is it? 20gb for the OS partition, Applications and games have about 160gb, digital camera has about the same, FLACs and MP3s have 200gb, download drive has about 300gb and another drive for backups of ghost images is 160gb. It seems like a lot but it's really not. I can see every single one of those drives being full in a very short period of time.
I want to rip all my DVDs to a drive! It'll take about 2Tb of space to do that. How far away are we from getting that size of drive?
A year? Less? And what's going to happen once we see 1Tb drives? Are we going to go up in small increments or go the way of the processor and near enough double each time. I remember back in the mid nineties when processors were ramping up the clock speed, they doubled with each new release. I think they finally stopped doubling when they hit about a gigabyte.
Are there any plans from manufacturers to make LARGE capacity drives? I know they will, I just wanted to know if there was anything in stone.
I imagine a lot but bear in my mind how much money is pumped into each of them. A lot of thought will be put into Superbowl commercials. Your everyday run of the mill advert is usually halfassed. Creativity is spread really thin...
The idea of finite names is somewhat ridiculous is it not? If anything it fosters
creativity having to think of a new name when the one you originally thought of was taken.
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Seeing as how it's an entirely opinion based system it could indeed suck ... for him. There is no correct opinion.
Mmm Tobac and Cheese!
It'll render graphics and give you a close shave at the same time!
As long as their landmines are more stable than their phones they should be ok.
I want the original masters!
I would've thought that was replacing one security concern with another. All those saved passwords, you drop the key, lose it, that's *everything* compromised.
$60 a month for a reasonable internet connection and some company who eventually releases decent quality movies over the internet:
Priceless.
All your children are belong to us...
Are we also not getting to the point where DVDs are ceasing to be useful for backups? I remember when I used them but it's completely ridiculous now. I may as well just buy hard-drives now, they're that cheap.
I totally can't see it stopping at 10. What about the people that shoot for posters? I've seen some godawful posters out there that have obviously been upsampled from something like 1 or 2 megapixels and you can see the artifacting. People that shoot for billboards will need more... And as for that maximum video resolution comment... Oh boy...
No, granted, this is true. But it would require a huge shift in the publics perception of digital technologies to get them to shift to lossless compression. I mean, I know it'll happen but I can't see the bridging technology. We're still dominated by lossy technologies in our digital culture. You try convincing the average bloke on the street that a 100gb movie looks that much better and more different on his home television set than an 8gb dvd. Most people have shitty setups. It's going to take bloody years before we even get HD-TV off the ground. We here in the UK don't switch over to a totally digital system until 2010. It's going to be at least another decade before a lossless system will come into being. In the end it will all be dictated by television. The cough potatoes will decide the future of lossless broadcasting. Can you imagine the bandwidth implications of broadcasting losslessly compressed high definition video to 100+ million tv watching americans?! Think of the infrastructure overhaul that would be required. In short, yes, it probably will happen but not without a MASSIVE MARKETING CAMPAIGN and an enormous expenditure for the networks. Us home and business users will always see higher capacity but I imagine that it won't be just computers that use high capacity hard drives in the future...
I never thought I'd hear the day when 8Gb of a game install was describe as 'only'. Oh my!
I've never, ever, ever encountered a situation where I've had enough disk-space or at least enough disk-space to keep me going for a long period of time. I've got near enough 1Tb of home storage, just for myself and some of my friends think I'm a loon for having that much. It's not entirely unreasonable is it? 20gb for the OS partition, Applications and games have about 160gb, digital camera has about the same, FLACs and MP3s have 200gb, download drive has about 300gb and another drive for backups of ghost images is 160gb. It seems like a lot but it's really not. I can see every single one of those drives being full in a very short period of time.
I want to rip all my DVDs to a drive! It'll take about 2Tb of space to do that. How far away are we from getting that size of drive?
A year? Less? And what's going to happen once we see 1Tb drives? Are we going to go up in small increments or go the way of the processor and near enough double each time. I remember back in the mid nineties when processors were ramping up the clock speed, they doubled with each new release. I think they finally stopped doubling when they hit about a gigabyte.
Are there any plans from manufacturers to make LARGE capacity drives? I know they will, I just wanted to know if there was anything in stone.
I imagine a lot but bear in my mind how much money is pumped into each of them. A lot of thought will be put into Superbowl commercials. Your everyday run of the mill advert is usually halfassed. Creativity is spread really thin...
The idea of finite names is somewhat ridiculous is it not? If anything it fosters creativity having to think of a new name when the one you originally thought of was taken.