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04/28/09
"All of them"
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"Plus the entire Jerry Garcia."
"Uh...you mean the entire Jerry Garcia discography?"
"No, the entire Jerry Garcia, all the capacity of his burned-out brain. And version 2.x of holographic storage can add in all of Up With People."
"Oh. Wow."
"Of course, a floppy disk can do all that now."
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Basically, the disc is still made of polycarbonate.
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But I'm not sure. I didn't watch the video. But then, what else does he have those goggles for if not to protect his eyes from inevitable Jello splatter?
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Take a cassette tape, for example, the information is linear, you must fast forward, stop, rewind the tape, and that takes time to access the information.
In a disk, the media keeps rotating, and the head (the mechanical part who reads/write the info) can search any part of the media in a fraction of a second.
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