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Thrax
7 Jul 2007, 6:53pm
Ars delivers again with the skinny on microholography (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070707-microholography-milks-500gb-out-of-dvd-sized-discs.html), a technique whereby optical disks boast up to ten layers of information, read by up to five different LASER wavelengths. The technology has a very prosperous outlook, and hopes to boast 1TB of storage with 200Mb/s I/O by 2010.

In other news, stocks for companies producing optical disk scratch-repair devices are expected to soar.
Kwitko
7 Jul 2007, 10:01pm
1.21
shwaip
7 Jul 2007, 10:09pm
gigawatt
Kwitko
7 Jul 2007, 10:19pm
Fixed. And cool technology, by the way. Are hard drives going to go the way of the dodo with these advancements in technology? Think about it, TBs of portable data. Granted, the access times need to improve drastically, but if they can match those speeds, I can't see HDs lasting. Of course, that's a biiiiiiiiiiiig "if" we're talking about.
Thrax
7 Jul 2007, 10:44pm
I really did want jigawatt, please.
Kwitko
7 Jul 2007, 10:58pm
Sorry :(

/me wanders away sheepishly
shwaip
7 Jul 2007, 11:13pm
gigawatt has two pronunciations, one that sounds like giggle, and one that sounds like jiggle.
airbornflght
7 Jul 2007, 11:37pm
but its still spelled giga either way isn't it?
shwaip
7 Jul 2007, 11:43pm
mmmhmmm
Thrax
8 Jul 2007, 12:20am
Back to the Future reference. hi2u.
airbornflght
8 Jul 2007, 12:39am
before my time.
shwaip
8 Jul 2007, 1:46am
Back to the Future reference. hi2u.


yes, it is from back to the future. However, someone wouldn't write tomahto just because that's how they say it...
Thrax
8 Jul 2007, 2:07am
It's "Jigawatts" in the final script, sir.
Thelemech
8 Jul 2007, 4:00pm
Back to the Future reference. hi2u.

Great movie!
And great scene reference - Marty and The Doc:cool2:
NiGHTS
8 Jul 2007, 7:25pm
I'm actually finding "jigowatt" in the movie scripts.

http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/back_to_the_future_original_draft.html
Lincoln
8 Jul 2007, 9:36pm
http://catjiggawatts.ytmnd.com/
RADA
10 Jul 2007, 3:17pm
Back to the Future reference. hi2u.



Sorry Thrax, you're dealing with a tough crowd here. The reference short right over their heads, and they never even looked at it going by....
checkmate
11 Jul 2007, 2:02am
This sounds really interesting. I may have to look more into this...