All you need is for someone to finally integrate hand-writing recognition (still alpha at this stage in the proceedings), speech recognition, and visual communications (again, still alpha at this stage) into the Operating System's Human User Interface (more comprehensive than the Gui, faster than punched cards, etc) - and the next thing you know, those TeraBytes will have vanished.
(One of the jokes in Dark Star was that the entire starship was being run off a MicroComputer - I forget what it was, anyone know?) Wesley Parish On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:07, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Wow that means I could make 50 backups of my entire data on one such drive! > Seriously I have no idea what anyone could want with a desktop with one > Tb except for excessive (illegal) downloading of movies/music. Also the > same data takes often much more space uder NTFS than under ReiserFS as > the used space by a file under NTFS is calculated as (size - size % 4k + > 4k) which means that in the mean every file uses 2 to 3 kb more space > than it is big. Linux applications are also much smaller than many > widows-applications (One game can use many Gb). I do not think that any > of us even if he does it like me and installs three OS's one one > computer will use much more than 200 Gb. > > >>The company is already testing sample drives based on perpendicular > >>recording and says the technology could allow for 1TB desktop drives or > >>20GB Microdrives in 2007. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
