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2007-12-28 Science & Technology

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Posted by 3dc 2007-12-28 14:41|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 While it may last a long time, I find it hard to believe that there is nothing out there that would disrupt it. That is, even the best shielding can't keep out all sorts of energy, such as high speed neutrons and cosmic radiation.

But that's an extreme. Typical shielding lets through all sorts of energy, some of which is bound to affect something in the system.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-12-28 18:07|| 2007-12-28 18:07|| Front Page Top

#2 You'd still need to restart the OS regularly if we keep with current programming "standards".

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-12-28 18:20|| 2007-12-28 18:20|| Front Page Top

#3 The article reads to me like the research is pretty far upstream as yet. I won't delay my next computer purchase, waiting for it to come out... let alone descending to my budget.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-12-28 21:15|| 2007-12-28 21:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Somehow I doubt that storing my "Quake" scores for around a million years or so is a desirable, or even useful idea.

Computers live in "Dog years," Meaning that what's new today lives around seven years before it's obsolete, extremely long term storage seems so unnecessary, think what we stored on 7 1/2 floppys, it's unreadable today (Useless too) Because advancing technology made smaller (Floppy)and smaller (CD) media available, holding many mega-multiples of storage, retreval speed, and quantity both unmatched by past efforts, and unreadable with modern equipment.

So what does the future hold, unknown, but my bet is the optical disc (CD) will go the way of the LP record, Either Stereo, Hi-Fi- or mono.,

Seriously, how many of you still use (Not have, USE) a stereo record player? Damn few, I'd bet.

45's? Mono recordings? can you still get LP records(Anywhere other than museum, very old record stocks, or antique purveyors?

Didn't think so.

Anybody still got a handcranked Victrola?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-12-28 22:40|| 2007-12-28 22:40|| Front Page Top

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