Capacities increase again.
Western Digital just announced 5 and 6TB capacity HDDs, the latter just $300.
Expect to see 10TB before long as new technologies achieve the heretofore impossible. The HDD is far from dead.
6TB drives
Category Archives: Photography
600,000 books. $10 monthly storage cost.
Amazon moves forward.
For $10 a month Amazon will allow you to read any one of some 600,000 titles for no additional charge. As I buy some 6 books a month from them this is a slam dunk.
The library as we know it has long been doomed, and this will only spur its demise. High time we redeveloped all that costly real estate and put it to better use. Yes, Hitler would be proud. Now we really can burn all those books with no feelings of remorse, together with the diseases they carry in their pages.
The next step will be to extend this service to art and photography books which take up the most space and poundage in the average home. Please, Amazon, get on it. And while you are at it, Mr. Bezos, wrest control of obscenely priced academic books from the likes of the thieves at Pearson and add them to your service.
Signing up is a one click thing and this is the result:
How to blow $7bn in 3 months
Monkey Boy rules!
All of the CEOs of Microsoft.
Microsoft closed its acquisition of a near-dead Nokia for $7bn in April, 2014.
Yesterday it announced 18,000 layoffs, mostly from the 25,000 Nokia workforce, cementing Ballmer’s achievement of perhaps the greatest waste of money in corporate history. And you thought the US military was a spendthrift?
New CEO Satya Nadella has a dream job. After all, how could anyone be worse than Ballmer?
Wall Street loved the move, naturally:
No need to get excited about anything MSFT makes. Yet. Excel is fine. Otherwise, fughedaboutit.
As for Ballmer, with a net worth of $18bn, he’s living proof of the dictum that has it “It’s who you know, not what you know”. Or should that be “Screw up and go up”?
Dirt cheap
How much further can prices fall?
These seem to be falling faster in price than the Deutschemark in the Weimar Republic.
When I built the home theater in the vineyard home eight years ago, the 100″ screen with the overhead projector likely cost twice as much ….
There’s one born every minute
A fool and his money ….
Click the image for Lomography’s site and hang on to your wallet.
Lomography specializes in selling plastic crap cameras to photographers idiots who desire to take crap pictures. It’s a winning combination, one must admit. The two are made for one another, proving yet again that not only is a fool and his money easily parted, but also that there are lots of fools.
Now the ‘anything to be different’ crowd who need technology, even if distinctly retro, to excuse their total lack of creativity and imagination can blow $600 on a lens first designed in 1840. This comes complete with the most ghastly rendering of OOF areas, dizzyingly bad, and with a set of drop in aperture stops because, let’s face it, for that sum of money who could possibly expect an adjustable iris diaphragm. (“Hang on love, gotta stop down. Dang, just dropped the stop in the cow patty.”)
Of course, if you dare use this on your digital Canon or Nikon, the self-combust device kicks in and your prized DSLR melts. You understand this is intended for film users only? But of course.