OT: new tech rave.... Was: rsync and fP - never mind. *sigh*

[John Esak]

> Now I have to demand more disk.  :)
>
> mark->

Yeesh, disk space is SO cheap these days... ask for 140GB!  It's
unbelievable.  Hell, I just got 2GB on a usb jump drive the size of a big
peanut for about $400. Of course, a non-moving media device is too slow for
most things we do, but it is sure good enough to carry around whole filePro
systems and applications.  As for the latest 140GB and higher SCSI drives...
yeesh, they are so fast and probably half the price of the 2GB memory stick.
It amazes me that all that machinery, moving parts, technology, etc. is half
the price of the single chip in the peanut plastic shell of the jump
drive... you would think it would be the other way around... eventually, I
bet memory becomes almost completely negligible in the price of any system.
This just puts a virtual zero in that equation from the 70's form the Xerox
PARC guy... (forget his name just now...) but, soon, if things progress as
they are... it will presage the speedup of technology rollovers to faster
than every two years and lower to every month or every day! Can you imagine?
I am holding this cool little iPod in my hand and it is so cool, with its
20GB drive... spinning, working, and I can't even feel it.. it might as well
be non-moving media... that I can't even imagine what little devices kids
will have at their fingertips in just, say 5 years from now... I'm thinking
small spaceship time traveling devices at least. :-) Okay, so maybe 10
years.  :-)  :-)

Seriously, the new color iPods are out this past week and the power one can
now hold in one's hand is just beyond belief compared to say exactly 20
years ago today... (Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play...) [sorry].  Heck,
forget that, we just ordered one of those little OQO or QOQ Windows CP
handheld thingies... I'll let you know if that is as cool as it looks. One
thing seemed bothersome, it has XP Pro on it and only 256MB of memory...
what's up with that... I would never provision a machine running XP with
less than 512... wonder why they feel it can work well?  Who knows, we'll
let you know. (unless someone has one already) I assume we will get our
order shortly.

Take care,
John