87GB On DVD-Sized Media 354
BostonMACOSX points to this report in the Detroit News that says, in part, "Boston College researchers have found a way to store about 19 times more data on a disk than a common DVD can hold, using optical media made with common products, the December issue of Nature Materials reports." And it's a mix of high and low tech: the disk is formed of "an epoxy glue sold at hardware stores and a glass-like substance," but written with a currently expensive laser.
And in other news (Score:2, Funny)
Epoxy Glue + Disposable Media (Score:3, Funny)
obligatory UHF reference (Score:2, Funny)
So...If I understand this.... (Score:5, Funny)
Must go buy more popcorn now.
Common [ ] products (Score:5, Funny)
(ya see, when _I_ was your age, floppy disks were actually bigger, and floppy, not 3.5" on a side and 'stiff')
Re:So... (Score:2, Funny)
what? (Score:5, Funny)
c'mon, what is this? MacGyver's [imdb.com] guide to making storage media???
So... (Score:3, Funny)
Journalism grammar school? (Score:3, Funny)
"and the data don't degrade"
Looks like Mr. Stebbins might be a slashdotter himself!
Word of Caution: (Score:5, Funny)
Suggestion. (Score:3, Funny)
PLEASE BRING BACK THE CADDY!
Breathe the wrong way on this baby and you've wiped out HOW MANY library of congresses worth of text?
Okay, no panic, we're not there yet. But we will be.
CADDY! CADDY!
I'm tired of renting blockbuster dvd's with cigarette burns on them.
Um, yeah. I just got a down-mod shiver, so here's something insightful.
a DVD-size disk able to hold about 87 gigabytes, equal to 87,000 paperback books
EXCUSE ME?? Are you saying a paperback book is 87 megabytes? NOT EVEN IF YOU SCAN EACH PAGE IN BITMAP!!! (Because paperbacks are black and white.)
What's the writer smoking?
Re:Common [ ] products (Score:4, Funny)
Dude, be careful! You'll start a new rumour for those silly audiophiles - first it was cd greening, next it will DVD pledging!
(No offense to the not-so-silly audiophiles - you know who I'm talking about
Re:What happened to our 100 gig CDROMS? (Score:5, Funny)
You will be happy to know that today,
I wrote into law legislation that will ban the RIAA forever.
The bombing will start in 5 minutes." - Former President Ronal Reagan
speaking on behalf of the US Air Force in response to the RIAA saying no.
Re:Too bad about the expensive laser (Score:5, Funny)
You also have to wonder what is being left out of the transcription of, say "War and Peace", to make it use the same amount of disk-space as "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing".
Re:Too bad about the expensive laser (Score:5, Funny)
forget gigabytes (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What happened to our 100 gig CDROMS? (Score:4, Funny)
Maverick: Yes ma'am, the data on the DVD reader is inaccurate.
Charlie: How's that, Lieutenant?
Maverick: Well, I just happened to see a DVD containing...
Goose: We!
Maverick: Uh, sorry Goose. WE happened to see a DVD containing 89 megabytes.
Charlie: Where did you see this?
Maverick: Uh, that's classified.
Charlie: It's what?
Maverick: It's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
(All credit to IMDB [imdb.com] and none to me - I didn't even try to make it funnier. I'd say I am a lazy karma whoring bastard, but I think i'm capped
Re:Suggestion. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What happened to our 100 gig CDROMS? (Score:1, Funny)
Why did Windows peak at W2K and start to get worse again then?
Re:Too bad about the expensive laser (Score:4, Funny)
"...equal to 87,000 paperback books."
My mother in law knows what a gigabyte is. I think it's safe to stop with the point-of-reference crap.
Actually, the most understood way would be to say "Can hold 174,000 songs that you haven't paid for."
Re:Too bad about the expensive laser (Score:3, Funny)
Since nobody else has pointed it out yet... (Score:1, Funny)
Mmm...87 GB of pr0n...
Erm...eh what? Sorry...I was busy imagining.
Re:87 GB of pr0n (Score:2, Funny)
graspee
Re:What happened to our 100 gig CDROMS? (Score:3, Funny)
Can I demand money from the RIAA when all I use it for is to burn copies of my home movies? Oh right, I forgot, only big corporations are allowed to fuck the consumer and get away with it.
Well, not exactly... (Score:3, Funny)
If you want the extended-super-extra-feature making of the movie 94 disc feature set, which includes the entire life history of every actor, including those guys in the orc suits, as well as how Tolkien came up with the idea, and the complete works of Tolkien and every author he liked as read by Charlton Heston and William Shatner (with special guest appearances by Macho Man Randy Savage for the part of Sauron), there's no way its going to fit.
Dr. Evil (Score:2, Funny)
Damn... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Screw Media (Score:5, Funny)
The circumfrence of the earth is roughly 40,000 km, so the farthest you can be from a given spot is 20,000 km.
Add to that, that you also need to send the request, you somehow need to think up a transport medium, that can travel at 20,000 km / 0.0025 seconds == 8,000,000 km/second.
We'll get in tuch with you, when we manage to send data at 26 and 2/3rds the speed of light at a distance of 20,000 km.
Re:What happened to our 100 gig CDROMS? (Score:3, Funny)
RIAA (Score:3, Funny)
Big deal... (Score:3, Funny)
Not all at once, mind you...