a Yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000 000 Gigabytes.
The sun might burn out first.
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ACES! Another post by Maradön²:
Considering one yottabyte would represent more information than mankind has ever produced from the beginning of written history until now, I'd say...not for a good, good long time.The sun might burn out first.
At which point we will ahve already expanded into other, younger solar systems.
IT COULD HAPPEN!
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There was much rejoicing when Fennar said this:
When do you think we will get them?
Next Tuesday.
Im not saying that were gonna get them any time soon, but will get them within 200 years
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Fennar Model 2000 was programmed to say:
I can easily think of things that would fill Yottabyte drives (Full detail star/solar system maps, games with TRUE physics, full environment interaction, etc )Im not saying that were gonna get them any time soon, but will get them within 200 years
Yes but by the time we get them , Windows will take up half that space anyways.
Also, a great deal of games have been puting true physics in. It's not something that really hard to do, just time consumeing. Plus a haveing true physics isn't always a good thing for games I.E. In raceing games they usally bugger the engine to make the game more playable. Or could you imagine Something like Wing Commander with a true physics engine?
True fluid dynamics, and the rest are gonna eat up HD space and prosessing power like theres no tommrow.
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Fennar thought about the meaning of life:
I can easily think of things that would fill Yottabyte drives (Full detail star/solar system maps, games with TRUE physics, full environment interaction, etc )Im not saying that were gonna get them any time soon, but will get them within 200 years
MAYBE an entire solar system modeled down to the atomic scale would fill a yottabyte.
The physics thing wouldn't even come close, again, unless you were modeling everything down to the atomic level.
BTW, what's the single largest hard drive in known use today?
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Verily, Maradön² doth proclaim:
If I recall correctly ATA technology won't support anything bigger than 128Gb or so.
if i remember correctly, they are working on some sort of technology to SUPPORT drives of like 1 terabyte in size.
We are gonna have 1 terabyte drives in 5 years. likely much sooner. Hell, we were just regularly breaking gigabyte drives like 5 years ago 
http://harddrives.superwarehouse.com/3109prod.html
160 gig drive for sale *drool* [ 07-18-2002: Message edited by: Falaanla Marr ]
Imagine: Stable RAM. You can turn your computer off and back on, and the boot up time will be similar to a TV, and no data will be lost.
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Maradön² had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
If I remember correctly, Hard Drives were being phased out in favor of a new type of memory that was faster than RAM and with higher capacity than hard disks.Imagine: Stable RAM. You can turn your computer off and back on, and the boot up time will be similar to a TV, and no data will be lost.
So not RAM then? RAM is, by definition, volatile...
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Maradön² got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
If I remember correctly, Hard Drives were being phased out in favor of a new type of memory that was faster than RAM and with higher capacity than hard disks.Imagine: Stable RAM. You can turn your computer off and back on, and the boot up time will be similar to a TV, and no data will be lost.
I think I remember reading something like that. Involved magnetic fields or something.
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Maradön² had this to say about Optimus Prime:
If I remember correctly, Hard Drives were being phased out in favor of a new type of memory that was faster than RAM and with higher capacity than hard disks.Imagine: Stable RAM. You can turn your computer off and back on, and the boot up time will be similar to a TV, and no data will be lost.
and the ram you're thinking of is mram (magnetoresistive ram) It's still in R&D stage though...
No, Really. Bite me.
In the original first edition of Shadowrun, high end Cyberdecks actually had listed processor capabilities less powerful than modern P4's. Storage Capacity wasn't all that big either.
In one of the early episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, an alien probe attacks and overrides the Enterprise (and Data) with a forced upload they were in awe of that was terrabyte sized.
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Verily, The_Mac doth proclaim:
instead of making larger and larger drives, why not devellop better compression schemes, and data storage concepts?and the ram you're thinking of is mram (magnetoresistive ram) It's still in R&D stage though...
WOW! I was fully unaware we could even do things like that. that's really amazing considering the file size.
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Mattimeo had this to say about Robocop:
WOW! I was fully unaware we could even do things like that. that's really amazing considering the file size.
Yeah, that is pretty cool, but did anyone else get a bunch of little bits of text floating around? tagging various things seemingly?
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Cap'n Elethi had this to say about Pirotess:
A yottabyte is a lot of porn.
Especially with compression.
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Nobody really understood why Cap'n Elethi wrote:
A yottabyte is a lot of porn.
i think Deli as secretly engineered a yottabyte comp, and has nothing but porn on it, points at Deli admit it, aaaaaadddmiiitt it!!!
