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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 06:32 PM EST |
They are still the easiest way to install a new OS. USB could take over that
role, but it is still uncertain in that regard. And UEFI coming in at the same
time doesn't help.
On the positive side there is a switch towards notebooks tablets and phones. And
the majority OS on those devices is Android.
Google - THANK YOU. Particular thanks for the genius who saw the world headed
this way before almost everyone else and started the Android project. Free
software would be caught in a trap right now and facing extinction if it wasn't
for that.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 07:21 PM EST |
WORM drives were a required backup media in some industries. By their very
design, data could only be written once (WO) and read many (RM) time. In this
sense, there was some certainty that the data backup had not been altered.
Though tape drive was still used in these industries for general backup and
recovery reasons, WORM drives were used along side them for specific data
archival for legal reasons, primarily because of this write once feature.
These WORM drives were not your average CD/DVD as they used magneto optics
technology through many small businesses actually used DVDs for backup medium
for cost reason.
But accurate predictions of the demise of CD/DVD are elusive. In fact accurate
predictions are elusive. Here's just a few predictions/quotes that made me
smile:
“We will never make a 32 bit operating system.” — Bill Gates
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. " - Thomas
J. Watson, chairman of IBM
“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a
message sent to no one in particular?” — Associates of David Sarnoff responding
to the latter’s call for investment in the radio in 1921.
“Lee DeForest has said in many newspapers and over his signature that it would
be possible to transmit the human voice across the Atlantic before many years.
Based on these absurd and deliberately misleading statements, the misguided
public … has been persuaded to purchase stock in his company …” — a U.S.
District Attorney, prosecuting American inventor Lee DeForest for selling stock
fraudulently through the mail for his Radio Telephone Company in 1913.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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