Posted on 09/30/2004 1:50:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Your super DVDs are nothing compared to the ABC news team.
ABC has posted the results of the debate, 3 hours before it happened.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1231863/posts
Recap of Tonites Debate by AP Posted on ABC 3 hours before Debate Begins
CBS News ^ | 9/30/04 | AP
Posted on 09/30/2004 2:46:06 PM PDT by Clintons Are White Trash
Article removed from ABC News is a recap written by AP of the debate that hasn't happened yet.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1231863/posts
I use that a bit, burt this allows me to find things a bit quicker.
As "K" said in "Men In Black" -- great, now I have to buy the White Album again. ;') Blu-Ray and other laser based storage systems are in a race that I think they will ultimately lose.
Those tiny memory chips we use in our iPods and digital cameras (and other devices -- wouldn't it be nice to have answering machines that used those same chips?) are huge -- I saw 512mb in various formats tonight -- and cheap -- $46 and change for one. 512mb is a healthy fraction of a CD. The contents can be rewritten as needed, and more quickly. The price is coming down all the time. Also, they're more compact than a CD, and use very little power.
Zip Disks are handy, I've used them for years (since my Apple II days; and got interested in them because InSite Peripherals, which developed the enabling technology, licensed it to Iomega after their own drives, which were 20mb, didn't quite work right), but the media price was never competitive with CD-Rs. Burn a bad one? Suncatcher, try again. Cheap. Even the CD-RW (which IMHO isn't a very good format) uses cheaper media than the Zip.
Jaz, Jaz 2gb, and Clik (a silly 40mb mini format) were even worse when it came to media prices.
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