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nivek

As Above So Below
Where do you see storage capacity going in the next five years? Will it reach a petabyte?

Possibly, but I think a new type generation of solid state drives will emerge that's affordable and reliable...

I think the emphasis is switching over to cloud storage.

Cloud is big but there's also a lot of people like myself who thinks you compromise way too much security for convenience...Our technology isn't there yet to securely support centralized digital storage...I never liked clouds personally, but others love it...

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wwkirk

Divine
Cloud is big but there's also a lot of people like myself who thinks you compromise way too much security for convenience...Our technology isn't there yet to securely support centralized digital storage...I never liked clouds personally, but others love it...

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I use it, but not for anything confidential.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
I use it, but not for anything confidential.

I have to use a cloud at work but it's all work related material...I can see the benefit of convenience for corporations...

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The shadow

The shadow knows!
DAD LOOK! I rushed over to see Chris my youngest son had finished metroid on the NES classic. "samus is a Girl! it's so cool! she is like my sisters so badass!" I was so impressed with his assessment of his sisters I did not punish him for the naughty word!
 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
Monday morning..I find Chris's homework sitting on his bed. it is not touched ... I then remembered him playing on his NES classic last night..
I called the school. then removed the NES. he will have a not so nice surprise waiting when he returns home. .
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Cloud everything.
Software, Infrastructure, Platform Development as a Service

Yeah that's most likely...ugh I don't like clouds...

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nivek

As Above So Below
I got really busy in the workshop yesterday, first I was all focused on my project and could not find some capacitors I needed...I had over 14 of them somewhere, which started me into an organization mode of all my electrical parts, 5 hours later, found those capacitors and have reclaimed many things I forgot I had lol...

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coubob

Celestial
Yesterday i went picked out a new gas range($750 on sale for $550)Black friday lowes till the 11/5 . the house had a gas double wall oven and a cook top that was new in the 70`s.OMG right. it`s out and gone, ready for the range, think i will put the cabinet for the wall oven back and use it for the microwave and a shelf. I sure wish i could`ve just went back with a wall oven and cook top but just the cook top is as much as a range and the cheapest wall oven i found was sketchy at $8-900. At least i got the gas line all wrapped up on a good day before cold sets in. i shouldve took a pic of the confuluted way they had it hooked up.lol
 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
went to talk to Chris's teachers..seems that last nights homework was not the 1st he has blown off. that all ends tonight.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Yeah that's most likely...ugh I don't like clouds...

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Yeah, my industry vanished in a puff of technical smoke for many reasons but broadband services was the biggest.
Had a Contact Center app running at a GE site. Maybe 150 agents and supervisors - people were hired & fired based on the metrics it constantly pooped out. It was the Subject of Big Meetings, Concern and manager's bonuses depended on the damned thing. That last point alone raises some interesting behavior worthy of deep study by someone who gives a crap. And then one day the server was in my garage and I was stripping it for parts like a Jawa.

What's new is old soon enough - just seems like that curve is hyperbolic anymore.
 

Toroid

Founding Member
Possibly, but I think a new type generation of solid state drives will emerge that's affordable and reliable...



Cloud is big but there's also a lot of people like myself who thinks you compromise way too much security for convenience...Our technology isn't there yet to securely support centralized digital storage...I never liked clouds personally, but others love it...

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Microsoft successfully archives Warner Bros. 'Superman' movie on a piece of glass
Forward-looking: Data storage and archiving technologies are areas of particular interest for companies like Warner Bros., where a significant chunk of the world's entertainment media is produced and archived. To help with preserving this film and television content, Warner Bros. and Microsoft collaborated to give a first proof of concept test for Project Silica, a Microsoft Research project that uses laser optics and AI to store data in quartz glass.
A piece of silica glass measuring 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 2 mm was able to hold the entire Superman (1978) movie in the shape of three-dimensional nanoscale gratings and deformations as part of Project Silica led by Microsoft Research, resulting in 75.6 GB of data inside the durable quartz glass that's no bigger than a drink coaster.

Redmond's research arm worked with Warner Bros. to store data by encoding it with laser and then used machine learning algorithms to decode images and patterns created by polarizing light as it shone through the glass.

"Storing the whole ‘Superman’ movie in glass and being able to read it out successfully is a major milestone," said Mark Russinovich, Azure's CTO. For Microsoft, the project focuses on developing long-term storage technologies for the cloud to meet exponential growing needs and shifting away from traditional magnetic media in favor of more durable silica glass.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
I had a back molar pulled today, damn thing cracked, no wonder the filling fell out...twice...

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The shadow

The shadow knows!
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two inches so far..
 

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nivek

As Above So Below
What a fine mess we have here on planet earth, it's really astonishing we as a species have made it this far in our short history on this planet...

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The shadow

The shadow knows!
last night we learned kate had survived the final cut for girls basketball . The coaches made it clear she needs to do well or she would see little floor time.
her skill set was "average" and so she is a bench player.
Meanwhile Chris got a strong message.
His SCA mentor told him "a knight does not forget his schooling. Should you forsake it again you will not be my squire."
that along with what Rikki and I have done. will insure he no longer puts his homework aside.
 

Sheltie

Fratty and out of touch.
We're supposed to get down into the low 20's next week, which is very unusual for November. Not looking forward to it! :ohmy8::ohmy8::ohmy8::ohmy8::ohmy8:
 
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