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...Tennis Shoe network?
*headtilt*
Huh?

You never heard of sneakernet?

I'm sure I'm not the only one who used the 5.25" variety.

Oooooh.

I geddit.

I think there was an xkcd what-if article about this sort of thing...

FedEx Bandwidth

When - if ever - will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx?

AmriloJim wrote:I'm sure I'm not the only one who used the 5.25" variety.

*Raises hand* Used them with the old CompEdit photocomp machines, which were just about obsolete when I got started on them.

What did those floppies hold, about 1 kb? Sometimes it took 3 of them to set one table.

Typeminer wrote:

AmriloJim wrote:I'm sure I'm not the only one who used the 5.25" variety.

*Raises hand* Used them with the old CompEdit photocomp machines, which were just about obsolete when I got started on them.

I did some of my early work on 8" floppies!

One project involved using an 8" floppy as a software swap/paging device. Each sector held an individual software subroutine, all the subroutines expected to be loaded at the same location in RAM (we didn't have much on that device) and I wrote a library that let you call from one subroutine into another and then return (reading in the new code during the call, and restoring the old software when the call returned).

It wasn't fast, but it let us do some very complex operations on a micro that had only a kilobyte or so of RAM available.

AmriloJim wrote:I'm sure I'm not the only one who used the 5.25" variety.

Yeah, I remember moving to that smaller size.

(The first 5.25" floppy drive I worked with had greater capacity per disk than the 8" drives of the time. The first 3.5" drive I worked with had greater capacity than the 5.25" drives of the time. I wondered what the capacity would be when they first come out with 0" floppy drives.)

And now you can acquire a flash drive that can hold 128gb. Think about that. The storage disk of an old 1gb drive was the size of a dinner plate. Now you can hold more than a hundred times that on something the size of your thumb.

In ten years or less, we'll be seeing terabyte flash drives.

Somewhere around then, someone will figure out, in theory, how to actually store memories.

From there, we'll have externalized memory, organic in origin, and memory recording implants. Which means a lot of crazy, scary cyberpunk stuff...

Whoa... Maaaaybe I shouldn't be watching creepy pasta videos on YouTube this late at night...

Alkarii wrote:Whoa... Maaaaybe I shouldn't be watching creepy pasta videos on YouTube this late at night...

Oh, it's creepier than you think, my friend.

Riddle me this: How do you know, for certain, that you aren't just a disembodied memory recording, bring exercised in some very elaborate reality simulator running in a high-end cloud server in an internet of the future?

Of course, you can decide that this is an utterly impertinent question to be asked by a simulated personality like I might be!

Dave wrote:

Alkarii wrote:Whoa... Maaaaybe I shouldn't be watching creepy pasta videos on YouTube this late at night...

Oh, it's creepier than you think, my friend.

Riddle me this: How do you know, for certain, that you aren't just a disembodied memory recording, bring exercised in some very elaborate reality simulator running in a high-end cloud server in an internet of the future?

Of course, you can decide that this is an utterly impertinent question to be asked by a simulated personality like I might be!

If I am a disembodied memory, as you are suggesting, then I need desperately to find the sick bastard who created me and choke the living dogsnot out of him for inventing child support and alimony...

We already have terabyte flash drives

Realm now...

Which means, right now, someone is researching digitizing organic memory.

As for being a simulation... If that's the case, someone better get me some damn cheat codes.

Alkarii wrote:Realm now...

Which means, right now, someone is researching digitizing organic memory.

As for being a simulation... If that's the case, someone better get me some damn cheat codes.

That research has been happening for a while now. I've heard of some concepts of expanding the hippocampus with an implanted memory device, and the idea of uploading a mind to a computer has been around for a very long time.

GlytchMeister wrote:We already have terabyte flash drives

Based on the size reference, I think the intent was terabyte microSD cards.

And those also already exist.

Yeah,I'd already heard of that, more than a decade ago. Which means the idea is probably decades old, at least.

I also noticed that friggin' autocorrect changed a word that was already correct in my post...

OH MY GAWD the charge port on my iPhone 4 was absolutely disgusting!

I need to clean my ports more often... It was so clogged with crud only half of the plug would fit into the port. I never bothered until it stopped charging... I just cleaned it out. *shudder*

Public Service Announcement: CLEAN YOUR PORTS. It's gross if you don't.

GlytchMeister wrote:Public Service Announcement: CLEAN YOUR PORTS. It's gross if you don't.

Also clean the ones on any electronic devices that you may own.

I'm expecting a Client's PC be dropped shipped to my door Tuesday AM, it'll be Win10 and the older broken previous PC was (is )Vista.

I've already copied the 'Users' directories, inc AppData* (to archive MS Mail folders), any tips, obvious or not? (My ego can take me asking the question...)

(It's not called AppData, I just ferget the proper name; Application... blah, blah, blah. (Same place Outlook places it's on-system mail folders, etc...)

PS- anyone have experience w/ ordering MS Office licenses off of the Internet? I'm defaulting to a company called SoftwareKing.com . Ever heard of them?

Previous to now I've either gotten s/w through a Corporate Discount or through a Non-Profit...

Ferget all the above; system came w/ WIn 7x64...

Glytchmeister wrote:Public Service Announcement: CLEAN YOUR PORTS. It's gross if you don't.

Good advice for all facets of your life...