in 5 years we may be seeing some powerful pda’s with 40gb flash storage
and an external hd that holds 1-2 terabytes…
good lord… i remember the days when we were counting bytes… kilobytes… then megabytes… now gigabytes… tomorrow terabytes… :shock:
hahaha i love this quote from that site
“with this much storage, faster cpu’s on the way and faster broadband internet the porn industry is going to be hard pushed to keep up with the 30 - 40% of the internet that they control, technology may advance but humans will always remain bound by their primary drives ”
the love… the friendships… the sibling rivalries… :oops:
i can’t wait until there’s a laptop with no moving parts. that’ll be soo sweet; especially for those that live in the humid areas where things tend to fail.
Just in the last 8 months, i’ve seen over 20 laptop drives fail. I’ve never seen so many hd failures in such a short amout of time. :?
[quote author=“Drachen”]TruthSeeker and the Church of Flash will like this story from Slashdot . The general geek community doesn’t think it will fly.
I don’t know about that. Some of the geeks that were against flash becoming mainstream were also still using CRT monitors and floppy disks stating that the other technologies have not advanced enough. Whats that all about?
There are a surprising number of people who want to see storage become better. Flash is just one of the hopefuls. Of course there are others like Blu-Ray. We all know that the storage medium is a huge bottle-neck in the industry right now. Something is going to happen, and the days of the old mechanical drives as we know it will some day come to an end. And I am sure some of the geeks on slashdot will still use the mechanical drives just like they do with floppies and CRT monitors. Whatever!
[quote author=“jso902”]the love… the friendships… the sibling rivalries… :oops:
i can’t wait until there’s a laptop with no moving parts. that’ll be soo sweet; especially for those that live in the humid areas where things tend to fail.
Just in the last 8 months, i’ve seen over 20 laptop drives fail. I’ve never seen so many hd failures in such a short amout of time. :?
I think your wish will come true. Not tomorrow, and not in the next few years. But it will come. :wink:
[quote author=“TruthSeeker”]And I am sure some of the geeks on slashdot will still use the mechanical drives just like they do with floppies and CRT monitors. Whatever!
Don’t knock CRTs. There are very few LCDs out there that can reproduce color accurate enough for professional design use. True blacks for example are impossible on an LCD. High-speed gaming is much better on a CRT and there’s no pixel interpolation involved in switching resolutions.
I don’t know what drugs the guy with the floppy hard-on was on…
[quote author=“Drachen”]Don’t knock CRTs. There are very few LCDs out there that can reproduce color accurate enough for professional design use. True blacks for example are impossible on an LCD. High-speed gaming is much better on a CRT and there’s no pixel interpolation involved in switching resolutions.
Unfortunately, very true. That’s why it’s all about OLED! True blacks (they actually turn themselves off completely for a true black and not some mask) and nearly 100x faster refresh and true colors. Alas, we’re still a few years away from this to be mainstream…at least it’s out and being used (Kodak digicams, mp3 players, some phones) and not just in the labs.
[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”][quote author=“Drachen”]Don’t knock CRTs. There are very few LCDs out there that can reproduce color accurate enough for professional design use. True blacks for example are impossible on an LCD. High-speed gaming is much better on a CRT and there’s no pixel interpolation involved in switching resolutions.
Unfortunately, very true. That’s why it’s all about OLED! True blacks (they actually turn themselves off completely for a true black and not some mask) and nearly 100x faster refresh and true colors. Alas, we’re still a few years away from this to be mainstream…at least it’s out and being used (Kodak digicams, mp3 players, some phones) and not just in the labs.
Yup, thats why I still have one CRT…3 LCDs are nice, but you need the CRT for some things an LCD just won’t do correctly.
Well, this certainly explains a lot. Now I understand why you will hang on to mechanical drives when flash becomes a bootable drive for me using Windows XP and another 5-8 GB of space for apps. I will only use a mechanical drive for backup purposes via an external drive. This will be possible at a reasonable price ($200-250) in the next two years. I realize you will all be using 2 TB drives by then, but I do not need that much for my everyday tasks.
now he’s probably got his own custom tablet pc that has some crazy specs under its hood that attaches to his supercomputer… with probably over a gazillion bytes available at his whim. :wink:
[quote author=“TruthSeeker”]... when flash becomes a bootable drive for me using Windows XP and another 5-8 GB of space for apps. I will only use a mechanical drive for backup purposes via an external drive. This will be possible at a reasonable price ($200-250) in the next two years.
