Warp wrote:
> But it's curious how one can see such strong parallels between audio
> and video recording formats.

I'm waiting for cylinders to come back as a recording format.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I'm waiting for cylinders to come back as a recording format.

  Aren't many USB sticks almost cylindrical?

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> I'm waiting for cylinders to come back as a recording format.
> 
>   Aren't many USB sticks almost cylindrical?

I think they might come in cylindrical packaging. I was thinking more like this:

http://www.tinfoil.com/cylinder.htm

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I was thinking more like this:

> http://www.tinfoil.com/cylinder.htm

  I know what you meant. It's just that a cylindrical surface is not the
most efficient nor cost-effective. It wasn't even back in the beginning of
the last century when the cylinders vs. disc format war was going on (and
why the cylinders lost early on).

  It's unlikely that storing formats will go back to that.

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Warp wrote:
>   It's unlikely that storing formats will go back to that.

Sadly enough. :-)

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>>   It's unlikely that storing formats will go back to that.
> 
> Sadly enough. :-)

But I hear some PhD somewhere managed to make a technology that 
transfers data using human skin as the connecting medium. As the 
reviewer put it, "this raises the disturbing possibility that users 
could transfer data from one to another while having sex".

(Now, maybe it's just me, but I'm *far* more concerned by the fact that 
this is the first use-case that sprang into the reviewer's mind... Why 
the **** would you have your iPhone with you anyway?!)

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> "this raises the disturbing possibility that users
> could transfer data from one to another while having sex".

Huh. And all along, I thought that's what sex was for.

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> But I hear some PhD somewhere managed to make a technology that 
> transfers data using human skin as the connecting medium. As the 
> reviewer put it, "this raises the disturbing possibility that users 
> could transfer data from one to another while having sex".

  I really don't understand what's so disturbing about that.

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>> "this raises the disturbing possibility that users
>> could transfer data from one to another while having sex".
> 
> Huh. And all along, I thought that's what sex was for.

Indeed. The transfer of digital data. (It even has a simple 
error-correction mechanism.)

I wonder what the, uh, "upload rate" is? Taking into account all the 
redundancy in the data, it's gotta be pretty large. (Terribly latency 
though.)

...sorry, what were we talking about?

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Warp wrote:
> Before the digital disc (DVD) there was an analog magnetic tape (VHS),

And between those... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc

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