Terribly sad is the drop in traffic due to the end of the traditional school year for many of my college-going readers. That means they get all lazy and summery on me and sit outside on their porches drinking country time and smoking butts and generally ignoring their computers all summer. It's sad because little do they know - when they return to them in a few short months they will not be the shiny and new happy computers they thought they had. When they return to them they will discover old and slow bohemoths - outdated technology barely fit for the city dump.
Such is the way of technology. Moore's law predicted the astronomical advancement of computer chip processing power and the extreme miniaturization of said chips - but it didn't say anything about storage mediums.
Storage mediums are blowing the chips out of the water. Samsung has recently released 1.5GB hard drives on 1" platters. ONE INCH. They're working on a video camera the size of a pack of cigarettes that will record MPEG-4 video.
The big companies are fighting right now on blue-laser DVD technology - shit that will put 30, 40, or more Gigabytes on a single disc.
Ten years ago my first Intel based machine came with a 260mb drive.
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