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Blu-ray discs expand to 400GB, thanks to Pioneer
meh says,
Oh my gawt!!! 400GB is a bit overkill, no? Then again, I do remember when (that is, reading about when as I am too teeny to have existed) Bill Gates said something about 256kB being plenty. Or was it 128? Oh well, the future may hold 15YB games for us in this perspective and speed of advancement O_o.
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"People were impressed when Konami and Kojima Productions managed to fill up an entire dual-layered 50GB Blu-ray disc with Metal Gear Solid 4. But 50GB discs? That's so passe. Pioneer has just developed a sixteen-layer Blu-ray disc that holds 400GB of data (!). With this kind of disc, your PS3 hard drive could be copied five times over, just for...
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Posted 3 years ago
When I read your take, the very first thing I did was run off to do a google search on "bill gates quote memory" to dig up the real quote. What I found was a snippet of an interview that refutes this quote: "640K of memory should be enough for anybody."
Further research led me to someone else tracking the same information, wondering, "Did Bill Gates say the 640k line?"
Dammit! I had bought into this quote for years! What they found seems close enough, but not quite. It's like the whole "Al Gore said he invented the internet" misquotation -- skewed from what was originally said to be more entertaining, yet sadly not true. D'oh.
Further research led me to someone else tracking the same information, wondering, "Did Bill Gates say the 640k line?"
Dammit! I had bought into this quote for years! What they found seems close enough, but not quite. It's like the whole "Al Gore said he invented the internet" misquotation -- skewed from what was originally said to be more entertaining, yet sadly not true. D'oh.
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