Quote from: DigitalBuddha on September 28, 2011, 01:11:57 PM

Quote from: SouthernDude on January 18, 2010, 11:33:25 AM

It is my conclusion that Jeff Bridges is the greatest of all underrated actors in the parlance of our times. Is their anymore out there?

I would say that Jeff is definitely an underrated actor, but in the past few years he has begun to receive the credit he merits. I.e., his Oscar, which was well deserved. IMHO True Grit really gave Jeff a chance to show a lot of what he could do. He played a great role and I think a little bit of the dude came out of him in True Grit. Fabulous stuff, man!

He did better then John Wayne did imho.

~thinkingdude

This is true. But in all fairness to the Duke; Jeff had a role model to build off of, but the Duke had to create the character from scratch.

Nice collection you got there, M5, completely unspoiled. 

Personally I'm waiting for these, 5-D Discs to Store 2000 Times More Than DVD, to become commercially available. that would solve the problem in one disk.

Whoa, and I thought 8 gig jump drives and 2 terabyte hard drives were badass!

Quote from: meekon5 on September 30, 2011, 11:01:15 AM

Personally I'm waiting for these, 5-D Discs to Store 2000 Times More Than DVD, to become commercially available. that would solve the problem in one disk.

Whoa, and I thought 8 gig jump drives and 2 terabyte hard drives were badass!

Personally I carry a half TB 2.5 inch protable usb disk for my incidental stuff.

Let's see - that's 4GB (one sided) X 2,000 = 8 TB.  That'll cover my DVD/BR collection! Imaging misplacing it... "Honey, seen my movie collection anywhere? It's worth - like - 50 grand!" 

By then it will all be on your private cloud available 24-7-365

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on September 30, 2011, 11:09:18 AM

Quote from: meekon5 on September 30, 2011, 11:01:15 AM

Personally I'm waiting for these, 5-D Discs to Store 2000 Times More Than DVD, to become commercially available. that would solve the problem in one disk.

Whoa, and I thought 8 gig jump drives and 2 terabyte hard drives were badass!

Personally I carry a half TB 2.5 inch protable usb disk for my incidental stuff.

Quote from: Hominid on September 30, 2011, 12:06:10 PM

Let's see - that's 4GB (one sided) X 2,000 = 8 TB.  That'll cover my DVD/BR collection! Imaging misplacing it... "Honey, seen my movie collection anywhere? It's worth - like - 50 grand!" 

By then it will all be on your private cloud available 24-7-365

Damn, drives are getting massive. Just saw 2 TB drive on sale for $119.00US, think I am going to have to grab one. I have a 1 TB drive for this laptop, but I have already use 2/3 of it.

And how does it get there? Gotta have the disk in the first place, right? Unless society moves to the whole Netflix paradigm. Then no-one will own anything digital, thanks to upcoming DRM legislation...

You wont have to own the disk, the cloud suppliers will own the hardware you will subscribe to resources, like you do with broadband, except the "machine" (your PC) will be a virtual machine, on their hardware.

We're doing this already at the museum, you get a box that sits  on your desk that plugs into the network (monitor, mouse, and keyboard, plug into it), the "PC" is a virtual image on a vast server in another place.

The films/music/book/game will be created on the cloud by someone else, and you rent time in the cloud to use it.

Fewer people will own hardware (except obsessive collectors like myself), your cerebrally implanted interface will deal with the transactions.

Another collection of mine:


And yes that is a Mac in there second from left.

I agree on the privacy issues.

But look how easily people accepted things like Tivo. You no longer have tapes and so on. Or even "Love Film", where you rent the film but can download it.

I know old paranoids like us will always have our own private stashes of hardware, a bit like the "lowtechs" from Gibsons novels. Unfortunately I see it going in that direction (everything on the cloud).

What do you do when the big companies have all the tech and the only way to use it is to buy into their control?

I didn't have a mobile phone until a few years ago an agency as much as refused to sign me onto it's books if i didn't have one.

When was that?

Late nineties, by Sun and some others. The PC booted locally, but everything else came off the network.  I think it failed due to lack of standards, though I'm just guessing.

Ya, I see it going that way as well... although hardware is pretty darn cheap these days. My wife just got a new laptop for 500 clams, and a nifty little netbook for 150. (CND dollars). And, she got rid of eight inches of reference paperwork with a Kindle, cheap as well.

Another thought on cloud computing: when a lightning bolt takes out my Internet feed, how do I access anything? I'll have to go to the drug store and actually buy the latest Playboy  ;-)