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DVD's obsolete in 10 years?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...yle_germany_us Not that Bill is always right... -- -- rec.photo.equipment.35mm user resource: -- http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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DVD's obsolete in 10 years?
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says... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...yle_germany_us Not that Bill is always right... Bill is almost always wrong in his predictions. Especially the ones he makes public. The only reason he said that no one would ever need more than 640K was that he didn't have anything to sell that handled more than that. As soon as he had something to sell, he forgot all about his prediction and started bragging about how much memory Windows could address. The only reason Bill is 'predicting' that DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years is to try to kill sales of the technology. He does this all the time. What Bill really wants is for everyone to have to be on-line all the time and get all their files and programs from some huge server in Redmond that he controls. Or, at the very least, a server that someone has to pay him licensing fees for. This is what he keeps trying to push with .NET but isn't being too very successful. The fact that DVDs are becoming larger and faster is making it possible for people to carry more and more data with them rather than having to connect to some central server. I'm sure this has Bill a little scared. |
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DVD's obsolete in 10 years?
The only reason he said that no one would ever need more
than 640K was that he didn't have anything to sell that handled more than that He denied that he ever said that. |
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DVD's obsolete in 10 years?
The only reason he said that no one would ever need more
than 640K was that he didn't have anything to sell that handled more than that He denied that he ever said that. |
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DVD's obsolete in 10 years?
The only reason he said that no one would ever need more
than 640K was that he didn't have anything to sell that handled more than that He denied that he ever said that. |
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DVD's obsolete in 10 years?
Alan Browne wrote:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...yle_germany_us Not that Bill is always right... "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates circa 1981 Terry D. |
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DVD's obsolete in 10 years?
We already have memory card disks that go in cameras that will hold 2
gigs. It will not be long that something on this order will come along as standard for music and video. Music and video recorder/players with no moving parts. No motors or bearings to wera out, no 'skipping' when you hit a bump. etc. Imagine something the size of a Memory Stick holding 4 gigs or more! It will not be long until we start transferring those DVDs to memory cards. Edward |
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DVD's obsolete in 10 years?
We already have memory card disks that go in cameras that will hold 2 gigs. It will not be long that something on this order will come along as standard for music and video. Music and video recorder/players with no moving parts. No motors or bearings to wera out, no 'skipping' when you hit a bump. etc. Imagine something the size of a Memory Stick holding 4 gigs or more! It will not be long until we start transferring those DVDs to memory cards. Edward Gates is absolutely right that DVDs are ridiculous in that they scratch easily and are too easily damaged. Nanotech is around the corner. Within 10 years we'll probably have more durable media. |
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DVD's obsolete in 10 years?
We already have memory card disks that go in cameras that will hold 2 gigs. It will not be long that something on this order will come along as standard for music and video. Music and video recorder/players with no moving parts. No motors or bearings to wera out, no 'skipping' when you hit a bump. etc. Imagine something the size of a Memory Stick holding 4 gigs or more! It will not be long until we start transferring those DVDs to memory cards. Edward Gates is absolutely right that DVDs are ridiculous in that they scratch easily and are too easily damaged. Nanotech is around the corner. Within 10 years we'll probably have more durable media. |
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