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I hear that he wants to start using his real name for music and movies... How can one belittle someone's accomplishments and then seek to emulate that person?

Jeff, Timbaland... bout it...

Chappelle lost a lot of my respect.

Me again...

I haven't been to lorrettaville for some time now... How old are these kids? Better question... did someone set that poster straight?

I don't even know which clickable smilie to post for that...

I would probably be able to understand why they didn't play the video... but the track itself is hot.

Thanks for jinxing them Schnazz... :wiggle:

It's one of those things you don't notice unless you're expressly looking for it. Is the arrow significant?

Kobe's joint was half decent... Thug poet... Lol Didn't he do a piece on Destiny's Child's "Say My Name." Anyway, Tony Parker might be decent. We used to listen to French rap in a French class I took awhile back. Dudes can flow. Let's see what Tony can do. You never know, Tim Duncan might get in the act. The world is not ready for Tim on the mic. He'd change the game for sure... Um... yeah...

That's rough...

:paperbag: I know... But think of all the applications... We think the internet has boomed... think of the massive space that would be available to web developers on servers boasting multible holographic terabyte drives... and the speed increases in access... sigh I'm not even going to start. Storage is just the beginning. Intel and AMD have come out with their dual processors which eventually will have software that will be able to properly utilize their capabilities fully. Fiber optic cables are now cheaper to make than copper cables and will be used more and more in computers and everyday electronics... I hope Will has learned where that 101 Dalmatians CD-Rom goes on his PC... he's going to have a lot of catching up to do... Good times...

This is the same network who's own executives were a bit pessimistic about their viewers' level of intelligence. A wise man once said... "Never argue with a fool. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." Or something like that.

That's what's I'm talking about. Series 4 de-atomiz... wait... wrong reference. This is going to get interesting. Keep up the good job Tim.

If the holographic storage guys could market this technology as more of a replacement for internal hard drives (which I think it will eventually become) they can gain a lot of momentum. Their marketing of removeable media for the time being should be focussed more on the archiving sector where things need to be moved around, stored, and easily accessed when neccesary. I think that with the general consumer market, a reliable hard drive replacement would get things moving. If removeable discs about as thick as CDs and DVDs can hold terabytes of information, think of what a drive with internal media space about half as thick as today's conventional hard drives could hold. As with removeable holographic storage, the obstacle that would have to be overcome would be the hardware expense or more specifically, the cost of the media reader. This could be buffered by the already expensive cost of high end hard drives. But hard drives could be smaller (physically) and larger (storage wise) helping to push the technology. As the technology gains a foothold in the market, the movie industry should gain more of an interest, especially as the readers and the media become cheaper and improved. By that time, perhaps 7 years, we could totally do away with discs. Movies could be stored on cards half the size of a credit card (disks won't be necessary since the holographic media doesn't need to rotate). The main problem is time. The studios badly want to release HD video on disc to the public as soon as possible, all while trying their best to squeeze as much money as possible out of DVDs. Blu Ray and HD-DVD could have both come out last year. The problem that would arise with removeable holographic storage is that it would take a couple of years to come down in price enough to to be viable. HD-DVD and Blu Ray are already low enough in price to be the immediate solution (though only a temporary solution).

Lol, from the article... "The holographic disk promises to retail for $100, and by 2010, it will have capacity of 1.6TB each. That's pretty inexpensive," The article is referring to Maxwells announcement of their holographic storage stystem. Holographic discs for consumer use will be cheap to make in bulk and the prices for those will be closer to around 5-10 dollars... The article should have made this clear... I don't think anyone who would go out to get their HVD of Mission Impossible 3 would be looking to pay 120 instead of the 20 that they would probably have to pay for their HD-DVD/Blu Ray. Holographic discs will be comparable in price to today's DVDs when the prices go down... in about 5 years. Also, I've only seen the projected price for one drive. That was between 7,000 to 10,000 dollars. No one seems to be addressing the price for the hardware that will actually play the discs. According to some people, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray and the current format of Holographic storage should all be skipped entirely in favor of holographic optical storage that will exceed them all in capacity and speed. http://colossalstorage.net/colossal1.htm

I'm sure the young lady's boyfriend and parents feel that way as well... :thumbdown:

Will just performed in Philly in Live8... he should come 2 europ... Lol, he did the Nokia concert in Europe as well as the Hitch primere...

You'd think someone who's career was built on others writing his rhymes for most of his life would be a tad more humble...

Someone needs to sit Bow Wow down and have "The Talk" with him. He's still going through puberty... All the changes his body is going through are causing him to say stupid things. Damn those horomonal imbalances!

I agree. It would be ideal for the industry to use holographic storage. The problem is that by all estimates, though media will be relatively affordable, the holographic media readers and subsequent readers/writers are going to be priced in the 1000s and 10s of thousands for the next couple of years. Television stations and other businesses that are in need of massive archiving have taken quite a bit of interest, but the technology won't be affordable to general consumers for some time. InPhase has a product called Tapestry that was supposed to come out in 2004 but was delayed. The cost of the unit was supposed to be between 7,000 to 10,000 dollars. Unfortunately, HD content won't be released widescale on holographic discs or cards until the prices of the drives come down to a point where it is profitable for retailers to sell movies on holographic media. The technology is going to have to make its way through the private sector before it becomes marketable to general consumers. It seems that the industry wants the immediate answer to increased removeable storage sizes and the demand for HD content on removeable media. Really, the companies are taking their time and letting this HD-DVD/Blu Ray fight continue. They want to milk DVDs for all they're worth before the format is upgraded. Both HD-DVD and Blu Ray could have come out as early as last year. I do wish holographic media would develop much quicker though.

Too little, too late. If 50 had endorsed President Bush during the last election, senator Kerry would have won. I wish he would have done this sooner...

Holographic Video Storage by Vic Ferri If you are impressed by the holding capacity of 4.7 gigs for a single sided DVD disk, then you "ain't seen nothing yet". Last spring, at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, InPhase Technologies, (related to Lucent Technologies), unveiled Tapestry—a breakthrough 3D holographic video storage system...a video recorder that records and stores video data as holograms on disks. Just one of these disks can hold 100 gigabytes of video. You would need more than 20 of todays DVDs to equal the storage capacity of just one of these special disks, and that's just for starters. According to the developers, future disks for the system will be able to store 1.3 terabytes or more. One terabyte is equal to 1024 gigabytes or the equivalent of about 200 compressed dvd movies. The idea of using holography for storage isn't new. The potential has been known for several years, but the stumbling block has always been the unavailablity of an ideal and viable recording material for the disks. In previous experiments with holographic recording, overly expensive and problematic mediums were being used that had poor transfer rates and no commercial potential. The ideal material had to be extremely photosensitive, thermally stable, and affordable. And this is exactly what InPhase Technologies succeeded in developing—a special two chemical polymer material that is both highly photosensitive and stable at high heat levels, as well as cheaper than the old materials that were being used before. This new polymer is not only remarkable for its storage capacity—just a postage stamp size of it can store 2 gigabytes—but for its speedy data transfer rate of 20 mbs—about 10 times faster than the top video storage devices available today. The high photosensitvity of the polymer is what makes them fast. And significant, as well, is the fact that these disks have been determined to have an archival life span of 50 years—higher than that of CDs and DVDs. It's no surprise that this medium is the current buzz among the top optical drive companies who are eager to test it to see if there are ways it can be used with their drives. The Tapestry disks themselves are about the same size as a regular CD but that's where the similarity ends. These disks are enclosed in a cartridge, are non reflective, transparent, (see image below) and they do not spin. A main reason these disks can hold so much more information is that the entire thickness of the disk is penetrated (written to). With a conventional CD-DVD, only the surface is burned. Think of it as the difference between two dimensional and three dimensional. The way this holographic storage device records is by splitting the laser into two beams. One beam, called the signal beam, holds the encoded data and when the other beam, called the reference beam, crosses it at precise angles, a hologram of the data is created which is then recorded on to the disk. This is a very simplistic explanation. If you'd like a little more detailed description, see the following link, where you can also see an illustration of the process: http://www.inphase-technologies.com/techno...mages/tour1.gif InPhase plans to have Tapestry in the market by 2004, but it's not being geared towards the consumer market and it will be quite expensive. The first units are expected to sell for anywhere between 7 and 10 thousand dollars. However, like any new technology, prices should gradually drop if this takes off. Right now, the market focus of Tapestry is commercial—professional video editors, digital movie companies and the like. It will also be pushed towards companies that have massive storage needs and need quick access to it. According to Inphase Business Development VP, Slip Kilsdonk, "This is the future of content distribution. In 10 to 15 years, holographic storage will replace just about every application that uses other existing technologies." If that prediction comes true, then a DVD, in the not so distant future, may be no more impressive in its holding capacity than a 1.44 mb floppy disk is today. We shall see.

Well, as long as people are getting into the spirit...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/...a.ap/index.html If you guys remember, he was also in the 5th season episode of the FPOFB where Will gets into a fight with "Dark Gable" at the bowling alley and Lisa beats the dude up. Will goes to a sensei played by Pat Morita in order to learn to beat people up. The Karate Kid series was one of my favorites growing up. Rest In Peace Pat.