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- NeddieSeagoon, on 08/28/2009, -11/+23560 MINUTES = 1 HOUR
Good thing they pointed that out, I would have got confused otherwise. - LoudMusic, on 08/28/2009, -4/+179"Physical Storage vs. Digital Storage"
Ooops! You don't know what those words mean! - grantmoore3d, on 08/28/2009, -4/+152It's secretly an Apple add, the Macbook Pro at the end sealed the deal IMO
- megaton, on 08/27/2009, -3/+138So... CDs aren't digital, huh? Hmm....
- DeadFox1, on 08/28/2009, -4/+137This explanation was necessary for the rest of the world that uses "metric time", where 100 MINUTES = 1 HR.
- anthropodeus, on 08/28/2009, -1/+104title is VERY poorly phrased. isn't ALL storage physical in some way? he makes it sound like hard drives are metaphysical entities.
- NathanielJ, on 08/28/2009, -3/+105"If you taped every movie on Hulu back to back on VHS tapes, you'd need 259 tapes."
Er... so basically Hulu has about the same number of movies as a small to medium-sized video store? Wow. What an age we live in. - yourmanstan, on 08/28/2009, -3/+78buried for only referencing apple as if they invented storage. i have an apple. i like it. i don't like disguised advertisements.
- MrFreeman, on 08/28/2009, -3/+73mirror http://imgur.com/4Br0v.png
- iheartbakon, on 08/28/2009, -0/+60Also comparing the storage in minutes is a bit misleading when comparing cd-r to ipod 5GB. CD-R can hold a lot more than 60 minutes if storing the same compressed files as ipod.
- FortyCaliber, on 08/28/2009, -0/+49lose... maybe?
- confoundedjoe, on 08/28/2009, -0/+47"Remember this time people, 80 past 2 on April 47th, it's the dawn of a new enlightenment."
- akang95, on 08/28/2009, -0/+36why the hell is there so many apple references!! (ipod and macbook pro)
especially on the macbook pro part, there are so many laptops with more storage than that nowdays, why use the one with one of the least?! - scboi, on 08/28/2009, -4/+37What's up with the thumbnail?
- BananaGrabber, on 08/28/2009, -2/+31117 hours is a little too generous for 5 gigs. The standard mp3 at 128 kbit/s is about 1 minute per mb, which is 85 hours for 5 gigs. And to be fair to the cd, they could hold 700 mb, which is 12 hours worth of mp3s.
- dhughes, on 08/28/2009, -0/+27 It's to fool the RIAA shhhh!
- digxag, on 08/28/2009, -8/+33Yet another sucky infographic.
The purpose of a graphical presentation is to convey information that can't be conveniently expressed in text. Typically, graphs and charts, Randomly sized clipart is not "info." It's confusion. All of that could've been better presented as pure text. - HeavyWave, on 08/28/2009, -0/+23It wasn't even the first MP3 player, lame article.
- XTomTomX, on 08/28/2009, -2/+25I would have read your comment,
but there was no sexy graphic attached, so
meh.. - DaviDTC, on 08/28/2009, -1/+18All the people trying to go to mozy.com for their backedup data are probably ***** themselves right now with the site down due to digg.
- havocjaw, on 08/28/2009, -0/+17He did make a mistake. It should just be the evolution of physical storage.
- inactive, on 08/28/2009, -2/+19Physical storage = Shelves, cupboards, etc
- inactive, on 08/28/2009, -0/+15Dugg for not calling it an "Infographic". But why the hell was a macbook provided as the archetypal entry-level computer?
- Animan351, on 08/28/2009, -6/+21And who cares what the lousy entry level mac can hold when you can get a far cheaper laptop with a 500 gig drive in it, or upgrade the laptop you have with a 500gig for a mere $90.00
- FredFredrickson, on 08/28/2009, -0/+15Because when you pay twice as much for a computer with the same parts as others inside, you have to try to get people excited about it so you feel like your purchase is justified.
- Ford_Prefect2nd, on 08/28/2009, -0/+15Note that the site said APPLE released the IPOD. Then later... you can put x amount movies, music and photo's on you MACBOOK. Does that answer your question?
- FortyCaliber, on 08/28/2009, -0/+15It said Photos AND Songs AND Movies.
- XZanatos, on 08/28/2009, -0/+14Another technical point of contention: All the musical storage methods all had UNCOMPRESSED sound whereas the iPod had compressed sound. Not a fair comparison. They should have shown how much music the iPod could have stored in uncompressed sound files.
It would have come to about 9.5 hours of music for the 5gb iPod - SamuraiGhost, on 08/28/2009, -0/+14What kind of unit is "movie" or "song"? This is useless.
What I'd like to know is how many Libraries of Congresses the various devices and media can hold. - FitteMas, on 08/28/2009, -2/+15lol
- Apocryphax64, on 08/28/2009, -1/+14But think of all the midis you could store!
- inactive, on 08/28/2009, -0/+13Canada is on metric time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydw4kj9P90w - FredFredrickson, on 08/28/2009, -0/+12You can already do that. Can't you remember things?
- DangerCollie, on 08/27/2009, -6/+18Amazing how we've come to take digital storage for granted. It's so cheap and ubiquitous.
Make backups. You could use years and years of music and memories in a blink. - falstaff, on 08/28/2009, -0/+11My family's first computer with a HDD was 5 megabytes. The computer I brought to college in 1995 had a whopping 200 megs.
My phone today is superior to that computer in every way, less than 15 years later. - FortyCaliber, on 08/28/2009, -0/+11I think the Zune is a decent piece of equipment.
I Can't wait for the ZuneHD. - ChuqAU, on 08/28/2009, -0/+10+1
I was expecting to see 5 1/4" disk, 3 1/2" disk, CD, DVD, hard disk, CF card, SD card, micro SD card.... - DJKWOK, on 08/28/2009, -0/+10What kind of low bit rate and low res world do you live in?
- imakecomments, on 08/28/2009, -0/+10http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/
- tgc1, on 08/28/2009, -0/+10I was going to comment that. The graphic did not even attempt to acknowledge other products. I mean iPod, MacBook etc... WTF?
Be aware people. Advertisers are getting sneakier by the day. - inactive, on 08/28/2009, -0/+9Shouldn't the macbook comparisons say "or" not "and"?
- jester55, on 08/28/2009, -2/+11I can't wait until the SSDs get as big and affordable as the HDDs they sell. It's not hard to imagine a 2TB SSD. In the future our children will say "You needed HARD DRIVES? Now we can just store it directly in our brains!"
- FredFredrickson, on 08/28/2009, -1/+10Why do they use an iPod? The iPod uses a hard disk or ssd to store the data, and that is the actual storage medium. The iPod is just the device that utilizes that medium. It's like showing a Walkman as a tape cassette or a Victrola for vinyl records.
Same goes for the MacBook. It's all just hard drives.
Makes no sense in an article about storage, and not about actual devices. - mogebier, on 08/28/2009, -0/+9Yawn.
- FredFredrickson, on 08/28/2009, -0/+9It doesn't help when they point out ***** like 60 minutes = 1 hour, or they use words that as so large, you feel like they are yelling at you.
- whatimbipolar, on 08/28/2009, -3/+12Wow I have never caught the fact that a 4.7" DVD holds 4.7GB is data
- someology, on 08/28/2009, -0/+9@Thandor, while all digital storage is also physical, some physical media is analog.
- offycakes, on 08/28/2009, -4/+12Somebodies ass is wet with eager anticipation of Apple's flaccid *****.
- yaboyAllen, on 08/28/2009, -2/+10GOT = GOTTEN.
- GliTCH82, on 08/28/2009, -4/+12I think I clearly said entry level MacBook *Pro*. And a standard DVD movie trans-coded to MP4 at medium quality would put it at about 700 megs. I mean, what the *****, are you guys straight ripping 720p Blu-ray movies to your laptops? And there's nothing wrong with 128 kbps MP3s. Damn kids, with your 720p rips and your FLACs.
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