Is The Disc Dead?

[pk.sax]

Car stereo picks up the iPhone over Bluetooth and plays with full functions, fwd, skip etc. shows info too.

Btw, with the rearded Internet we get up here, I don't really fancy doing a picassa on a few hundred pics. Then I remembered that the person I was sending the pics to has moved out and is sorta on mobile Internet.....
Bugger that her laptop doesn't have a cd drive anymore anyway!

 

[Bribie G]

Since I got my new phone with a 10 megapixel camera I don't use the kodak digital any more. I just take a shot and the phone promptly uploads it to my Photobucket album. So rather than having to get out the USB cable and transfer my piccies to a folder on the hard drive, it's just there on PB and I grab the img code either using the PB App on the phone, or from my desktop, and can post on a forum, attach it to an email etc etc.

The thing that concerns me is if PB ever goes belly up, or if a massive Solar Coronal Ejection happens and fries everything - although if that happens I guess family photos will be the least of our worries.

 

[bum]

Nah, this is they way it's heading - at least for transporting data from A to B - which was the thrust of the thread.

Do Google even make their laptops any more?

I agree that industry is pushing hard for this but I don't know anyone who has fully moved into the cloud even though the technology is there and basically as stable as it is going to get. People just won't let go of their stuff - which is fair enough, IMO.

Industry (commerce, etc) will undoubtedly shift everything into the cloud (and, obviously, are already are doing so). At least for the short to medium term. Domestic users? Only if device manufacturers continue to hamstring their own devices so that people have no other option. I honestly hope we don't stand for it though - options are a good thing to have.

 

[pk.sax]

Even at work, they try to force you to use databases on remote servers not directly under your control. The user agreements are fashioned to pretty much kill any chance of being able to control that.
I try my best to avoid those.

Dropbox is actually fantastic. You have your local copy and a copy in the cloud. Best of both worlds. Integration with device (iPhone) isn't that hot though.

 

[Kiwimike]

Even at work, they try to force you to use databases on remote servers not directly under your control. The user agreements are fashioned to pretty much kill any chance of being able to control that.
I try my best to avoid those.

Dropbox is actually fantastic. You have your local copy and a copy in the cloud. Best of both worlds. Integration with device (iPhone) isn't that hot though.

Agree that Dropbox is great especially the 2Gb free! I use the auto sync for my business databases so that I can look at them at home as well as work. Works well with Android too!!

 

[Bribie G]

A few years ago I revisited some Harry Harrison Novels (The Stainless Steel Rat, Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers etc) and the Hero character Slippery Jim Di Griz was about to be raided by the authorities and before he destroyed his computers he downloaded all the data onto a couple of solid state chips that he then stored in secret compartments in his boots and made his getaway. Written in the late 70s early 80s, top marks Harry. Now available at Aldi for eight bucks :icon_cheers: :icon_cheers: :icon_cheers:

edit: the USB drives not the books, haha

 

[bum]

I'm sure the books were enjoyable but SSD technology has been around since the 50s, Bribie.

The price of storage these days is amazing. I bought SWMBO a 1TB USB powered drive the other day for $120. I think I paid something like $300 for a 40GB drive at one point. And the price of RAM? Forget about it - just get more. Upgraded my most recent computer to 8GB of RAM for something like $250. Crazy. I was able to run 2 virtual instances of WS2K08 R2 Enterprise (and network them) while still running other applications, mind you - all on a laptop! Imagine that even 5 years ago. No chance. Well, not if you actually wanted to do anything - you may have gotten away with opening them.

 

[tavas]

I'm not having a dig. Our car has a tape player.

A broken tape player.

8 track?

 

[bum]

It'd probably be worth more than the car if it was.

 

[Bribie G]

 

[pk.sax]

I know we survived on a 4Gb hard disk for a fair few years in the home computer while I was in school. It was larger than what my friend had at home.

CDs were too expensive so we used to pull out the hard drive to transfer 'big' files across between computers. Like trying to continue an age of empires game on a different computer...

 

[Liam_snorkel]

I remember playing Doom on a mates computer and it had to be loaded from 8 floppy discs. Brutal.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Mate of mine at school had one of the first PC's, it was an AT.... I remeber when he upgraded the graphics card to show 16 wonderfull colours....those where the days B)

 

[Bribie G]

My first computer was a 386 SX with 14" VGA monitor and 2 Mb ram and a whopping 40 Mb hard disk. Ahhh those were the days, Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein, Anyone remember Xtree Gold DOS menuing system?

Then my first 14.4 K ??? modem. Bulletin Boards. Porn

 

[WarmBeer]

My first computer was a 386 SX with 14" VGA monitor and 2 Mb ram and a whopping 40 Mb hard disk. Ahhh those were the days, Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein, Anyone remember Xtree Gold DOS menuing system?

Then my first 14.4 K ??? modem. Bulletin Boards. Porn

P'ah! Youngster! (Never thought I'd be saying that phrase to Bribie G).

My first computer was a Commodore64. Me and a mate ran a tape smuggling ring of over 350 games, all stored on TDK-C60 audio tapes. The C90's had more capacity, but were not as reliable.

Kept a catalog of all the games we had, and would copy them off to mates/schoolfriends at $2.00 per tape. This was the original "sneakernet".

A couple of years later I had saved up enough to buy the Skai-64 disk drive. Better, faster, cheaper than the OEM branded disk drive.

 

[Cube]

Vic 20 for me. Those days...... Had it hooked to a colour TV and dads stereo LOL.. Hyper olympics, F1 something, beach head etc. Commodore 64 was THE upgrade back then.

If only I had an apple computer back then.

 

[browndog]

The old man and I went halves in a VZ200 from dick smith, it was basically just a keyboard, I wanted to write a program to pick winners in horse racing. I learned a bit of basic and wrote the program, for some reason the horses didn't cooperate <_<

 

[bum]

C16.

 

[WarmBeer]

C16.

Hipster.

 

[pk.sax]

You guys are soooooo old!