Oh look, more rain. Again. For the umpteenth time. I hear Los Angeles could use some of this. Can we send it to them? I'm feelin' generous.
I'm at the office, but bleah! what a gloomy commute in. I enjoyed many short podcasts from (related link) along the way.
Happy to get some good news: AMD takes performance crown from NVIDIA with new 4870 X2 (related link)
Wow! Recent study says a third of people who bought their homes in the last five year have negative equity.
2 Gigabytes of flash in a micro SD form factor for ~$10 still boggles my mind. So much, so small, so cheap!
Stormy drive home. Otherwise a quiet night at home. Ho-hum...
I remember the first 1GB drive I ever saw, in the early 90s - a $700 white box about the size of a cinder block. The prepress company I worked for was splurging on storage space!
Won't be too long before we see $1/terabyte.
Posted by: Bill White at August 13, 2008 02:56 PMYes, that's exactly what I was thinking. In my first job in the USAF I bought a bunch of removable hard drives (for security purposes, of course) that were in the range of 300MB to 1GB. Big, bulky, expensive, power hungry, and by God, Don't Drop Them! We had a huge safe to store them in when they we were computing in non-security mode. Now 8GB microSD cards are about $40-50, use milliwatts, are about the size of your pinky nail, and can easily be misplaced under a postage stamp if you're not careful. I'd imagine the data access speeds rock as well! Almost no "seek time" and not limited by the rotation speed of the platters.
PS. In the end I bought a cheapy 2GB microSD for my phone. For $20 I thought I'd experiment with the "music phone" capabilities of my yesteryear Nextel phone, the Motorola i880. Perhaps put some "time shifted" Pandora.com songs or some podcasts on it, see how it goes...
Posted by: Scott at August 13, 2008 03:05 PM