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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sandwich on November 07, 2004, 12:37:03 am
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Whoa (http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/burn-a-dvd-in-two-seconds-025079.php).
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impressive, i take it thats using vast arrays of laser cells.
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what really is the point of that? ah, well... it'll probably cost an arm and a leg too.
and is that single layer, or dual layer?
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What costs an arm and a leg now becomes commonly available within 3-4 years quite often in the computing field.
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Jup. Go back for years and tell someone you've got an 250GB HD, they'll laugh at you.Tell em you find a way to fill it up. They'll lock you up.
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My bro was looking at a PC Magazine I had lying around my room from 2000. The top-of-the-line computer was a P3-933Mhz. Dunno offhand what the storage was tho. :p
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20GB.
I know for quite sure because my old rig was from that year, perhaps june '01, but I'm not sure. Not later anyway. My dads rig, 3,5 years old, had 2 30GB drives in it out of the store. Mind, that thing costed 10.000 guilders. (Call it 5 grand in euro's), and had only top of the line, fastest as can go parts in it. Was outdated 6 months after buying it.
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*pats dual SATA 160GB drives*
At least now I can downlo-....errr.... nm. :nervous:
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Gimme a flamethrower and I will burn any DVD in half a second.
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Dual 160? Jesus.
I've got an 80 gigger in my dekstop, plus a 40GB drive from the old rig containing my completely legally ripped music. (13GB, I'll let you figure out the rest.) Then there's a 20 gig HD in my laptop, but that's mainly windows and office. My dad as a dual 80GB setup in is new rig, and my llittle brother got a dual 80GB setup too, since that's my dad's old rig.
I hate both of them for that....
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triple 120GB... meh... only about 5 GB free... :(
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This has always tickled me. I remember looking at this catalog in 1998 and dreaming of owning the black computer (their top of the line desktop at the time), and nowdays you can get a computer with the same specs for $100.
From an Office Depot 1998 Summer catalog:
(http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/98computer.jpg)
And that price doesn't include the monitor even :p
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what really is the point of that? ah, well... it'll probably cost an arm and a leg too.
well i'm sure for someone that makes DVDs for a living or hobby or whatever, instead of spending 10 minutes burning one, you could do 300 in the time it took to do one...
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If I did DVDs for a living, I'd get a DVD plant.
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not everyone starts a company with $10 million... sometimes you have to start small, and work your way up.
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i find it difficult to fill a 40 gig hd. my old 500mgz rig only had an 8 gig drive (wich never got full while i was using it). right now i run a 40 gig and a 20 gig, and i back everything up to my 40 gig ipod. my data barely eats up 15 gigs of drive space. i dont get what you all are doing with theese 100+ gig hard drives.
my biggest concern is that processors have stopped evolving. ive had the same 2.4 ghz processor for about 2 years now and theyve only pushed it another 1 ghz last i checked. i kinda thought wed be running full 64 bit by now.
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Screw the DVD burner, check out the CDs made of Corn Starch.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Screw the DVD burner, check out the CDs made of Corn Starch.
Yeah Blue-Ray uses that
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mmmmmmmmmmm corn starch.....
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Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
Yeah Blue-Ray uses that
I just read it was Sanyo.
Anyway, They can keep that crap, I don't want my CDs decomposing on me. Scratching is a big enough threat, I don't wanna worry about bugs eating them, too. :doubt:
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Or me eating them. When I get hungry.
Goddamn that would be a ****ty choice. Tasty meal or playing Half Life 2? :sigh:
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Install the game, then eat it with salsa... :lol:
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Ha! What's really fun is to read PC magazines from the 80's :lol:
486 33Mhz, amazing 4Mb's of RAM etc.
over 2k euros (which is about the same amount in dollars)
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Originally posted by Ghostavo
triple 120GB... meh... only about 5 GB free... :(
how....
*pats his trusty 10 gig and it's companion 2 gig*
*weeps*
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Wow, I suddenly feel good about my IBM Deskstars (20.4 GB and 8 GB, respectively).
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Originally posted by Gortef
Ha! What's really fun is to read PC magazines from the 80's :lol:
486 33Mhz, amazing 4Mb's of RAM etc.
over 2k euros (which is about the same amount in dollars)
80's? Don't you mean 286, maybe 386? And the Euro didn't exist back then. :p
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Up until the mid 90's I had a custom built 386 20mhz desktop with 4 or 8mb of RAM, 60MB HD, Windows 3.1 over DOS. 256 color monitor, 4x CD-ROM, 16bit SB Card. Was pretty simple but it ran Gunship 2000 pretty good :)
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Originally posted by Nuke
i find it difficult to fill a 40 gig hd. my old 500mgz rig only had an 8 gig drive (wich never got full while i was using it). right now i run a 40 gig and a 20 gig, and i back everything up to my 40 gig ipod. my data barely eats up 15 gigs of drive space. i dont get what you all are doing with theese 100+ gig hard drives.
my biggest concern is that processors have stopped evolving. ive had the same 2.4 ghz processor for about 2 years now and theyve only pushed it another 1 ghz last i checked. i kinda thought wed be running full 64 bit by now.
And that wasn't even a proportionate GHz increase.....
I have a 28GB and 80Gb HD, incidentally. Just got the latter, although it's pretty full of installed-yet-never-played games and the odd DVD-rip (copies of my borthers flims).
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Yep, games with a 2GB+ install can sap your capacity pretty quick.
I was working from home recently doing a Quicktime animation for DVD and I soon used up 20GB of space with various renders/movie files.
I have SATA drives, which are excellent - a 160 which is 3/4 full, and a 120 which is about 1/4 full. I have to get some way of backing everything up next.....
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Lib, 360 GBs looks like a lot but it isn't... you can normally fill it one third of it in one week so...
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Originally posted by Sandwich
80's? Don't you mean 286, maybe 386? And the Euro didn't exist back then. :p
Didn't the 486's come at the late 80's or something... could be my bad memory.
Oh and I said the pize in euros because people might understand it better than fin marks :p
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Originally posted by Ghostavo
Lib, 360 GBs looks like a lot but it isn't... you can normally fill it one third of it in one week so...
i dunno dude... maybe if you were TRYING to fill it up, but you'd have to fill like 700+ MB per hour (11 megabytes+ per minute), for a week. unless if you've got 25+ hard-drive intensive games :p (Doom 3, Ravenshield, Warcraft III, etc.)