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    Rad Blaster Mini Boombox is the Freshest MP3 Player and Flash Drive Around

    Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies

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    4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film

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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/14/09

    In reply to Rad Blaster Mini Boombox is the Freshest MP3 Player and Flash Drive Around
    In spite of the fact that those kids were probably paid good money to do the ads for this thing, someone should slap them for not taking one look at the product and then stalking off the set in laughter.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/14/09

    In reply to Rad Blaster Mini Boombox is the Freshest MP3 Player and Flash Drive Around
    but... do the little speakers work?

    even if they did i couldn't justify $60 for a novelty that would sound tinny as shit, but still, pretty cool.
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    Image of Mayor McRib Mayor McRib
    12/14/09

    In reply to Rad Blaster Mini Boombox is the Freshest MP3 Player and Flash Drive Around
    My radio, believe me, I like it loud.
    I'm the man with a box that can rock the crowd.
    Walkin' down the street, to the hardcore beat.
    While my Rad Blaster vibrates the concrete.
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    Image of DaSmith DaSmith
    11/30/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    This is not accurate at all. It is full of mistakes. For example look at the Dual Layer DVD, Blu-ray, DL Bluray and Flash drive of the data section are in red squares, while they should be with green ones. The 4000 photos on the microSD is also 1600 according to the number and type of blocks next to it, probably a lot other mistakes exist but I'm kinda lazy to check them all.
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    Image of Scott Crawford Scott Crawford
    11/29/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Good and amusing but as others point out, still room for improvement. Surely film came before the photo....and there were more before the flloppy....starting with punchcards and magnetic reels, tapes. Still, good effort though!
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/29/09

    @Scott Crawford: But punchcards were not really an storage device, but input methods.
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11/29/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Actually, they were both.
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    Image of fate47 - Meh. fate47 - Meh.
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Teehee! I had forgotten all about Jazz drives!
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    Image of Theophilus P. Wildebeeste Theophilus P. Wildebeeste
    11/28/09

    @fate47 - Meh.: I had one, too volatile, lost my entire pr0n collection to it.

    That took a lot of getting, being dial-up an' all.
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    Image of Reavyn29 Reavyn29
    11/29/09

    @#c17158117:Sneaking up in the middle of the night covering up the modem speakers so no one heard you log on?
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment Edited by Reavyn29 at 11/29/09 12:51 AM Reavyn29 was starred Reavyn29 was unstarred
    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/29/09

    @Reavyn29: Those were the good times.
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    Image of denisnossevitch denisnossevitch
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    WTF is a wax cylinder? Is that that thing they use as candles in church?
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    11/28/09

    @denisnossevitch: I'm assuming you're kidding.. but just in case:
    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of denisnossevitch denisnossevitch
    11/29/09

    @lostarchitect: Wow that wiki changed my life. They had technology back in 1888?!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    he missed out C90 tapes and C120's with cassette tapes.. C60's were hardly used...
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11/29/09

    @KhaiJB: They were too. Longer cassettes got eaten more often, and the C-60s were dirt cheap.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/29/09

    @KhaiJB: *shrug* going by where I lived.. C90's and 120's sold more than the C60's. tho mainly C90's.
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    Image of RipRapRob RipRapRob
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    The constant change of units makes the chart much less informative than it could have been.

    The same goes for using the same color for a minute of music, one photo (what size?) and one MB.

    Plus the size of the Flash-drive compared to ... is that a CD, DVD or Blu-ray? One or two layers?

    And at first glance it looks like a 2.5" 500GB HD only contains 50 GB. Same for 3.5" 2TB HD.

    All because the 'headers' for these suddenly is the size of each unit/colored square, and not the to total capacity, as it is on the rest of the chart.

    It's not enough to make a chart that looks nice. It has to present the information in a way that makes more sense than just listing the data.
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    Image of os_2 os_2
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    ah.. 5 1/4" floopies, I remember punching holes on other side so I can use the backside for storage. It seems like it was yesterday.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/28/09

    @os_2: I just cleaned out my "tech and media" closet and found a set of like six 5.25" install disks for for some old software.

    Obviously, I need to clean out that closet more often.
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    Image of bubbagrump bubbagrump
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Syquest drives? tape drives? it's nice but not very complete.
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    Image of dingus dingus
    11/28/09

    @bubbagrump: No 9 tracks, disk packs, or punch cards. Clearly the guy who made this had his first computer come in a cow-patterned box.
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    Image of Kingofhearts589 Kingofhearts589
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Color fail on the Data Storage section. Otherwise, great chart.
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    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    I store everything in my shed. Does that count?
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    Image of ploopsy ploopsy
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Long story short.

    Anything that you send back in time will blow the recipients minds.
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    Image of The Dude The Dude
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    back when we used floppies we had to be much more selective about what we were going to save. i, too, like that we can store anything and everything we'd ever need to, however i still think there was something to be said for just saving the essentials (even without this crazy amount of personal storage we'd still have ways of accessing any information we'd need; it just wouldn't be on our personal machines). i'll go so far as to say that massive personal data storage capabilities (like multi-terabyte hds) are the reason cloud computing is still only in its infancy.
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    Image of adaorardor adaorardor
    11/28/09

    @back_at_it: hopefully it stays in its infancy. basically, fuck cloud computing.
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    Image of witeowl witeowl
    11/28/09

    @adaorardor: Care to elaborate?
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    something_unique_and_descriptive promoted this comment witeowl was starred witeowl was unstarred
    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    11/29/09

    @witeowl: Cloud computing sounds great to everyone who lives in a big developed area. But for those of us out in the sticks who have to deal with spotty wireless coverage, no land-based options for broadband, and the data caps of satellite the idea of relying on a data connection for our computing isn't the most pleasant prospect.

    Then you've got the issue of your data being subject to someone else' mistakes. See the recent Sidekick debacle for a textbook example of why people want to avoid it.
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