Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 27.10.2011 19:30, schrieb Dale:
I just wonder how much data they will be able to pack into a 3.5" drive
tho. Hmmmmm. Surely they will run out of room at some point. I mean,
the heads have got to have a little room to work with.
Dale
:-) :-)
Well, then this story might cheer you up ;)
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/10/researchers-increase-hard-drive-density-sixfold-with-salt.ars
Regards,
Florian Philipp
Good Golly Ms Molly.
"and have been able to fabricate magnetic storage media with a density of
3.3 terabits per square inch."
What is there about 10 or 12 square inches for a 3.5" drive? That's about
30TBs. O_O That would take me a while to fill up even if I had a really
fast DSL line. WOW !!
Hmmmm, NCIS, all the CSI's, Criminal Minds, Numb3rs, and lots of others.
Heck, I could cut off DirecTv then. Just get that Hulu thingy and go nuts.
Does Hulu work with Linux? Seems I read it doesn't. Anyway, still a LOT
of shows.
Dale
Hulu works with Linux last time I tried but I typically use a Windows
VM to watch it..
NetFlix works with Linux but only in a Windows VM.
Amazon streams now but I haven't tried them yet. (Watch out for 'One
Touch' and accidentally spending money...)
Most of the TV networks have web site streaming of their programs
which work in Linux.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that it would take 6TB to
digitize the Library of Congress. Whether that's true or not, we're
close to the point where every person can have a personal copy of the
Library of Congress.
- Mark
I have to say this. I worked at a computer place in the late 80's.
Back then a 25Mhz CPU was fast as lightening. Hard drives were maybe
100MBs. Memory, lucky if you have a 1 or 2Mbs. Now look where we are.
I'm still trying to play Steve Jobs and imagine where we will be 20
years from now.
I'm real bad to download videos. I have been working on NCIS here the
past few weeks. I try to get HD when I can. One day I hope to hook my
TV up to my puter. I have a HDMI connector on the video card and my TV
has a couple on the back of it. I just don't know yet how to make them
work or if they work already. I need to test that one day. Anyway, if
I get enough stuff downloaded, I could in theory suspend DirecTv for a
month or two. Put the money on some bills.
Oh, I use downloadhelper to get the videos. It stopped working with
Seamonkey 2.4 so back to using Firefox right now. It keeps crashing
tho. Still scratching my head on that one. ;-)
Hulu works with Linux huh? I got to remember that. I did know that
Netflix didn't tho. I thought about trying it but they went up.
Life.
Dale
:-) :-)
