DVDs obsolete in 10 years - Gates

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DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years: Bill
Gates

DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years: Bill
Gates 07/13/2004 10:30 PM

Gates Predicts DVD Obsolete In 10 Years

Gates Predicts DVD Obsolete In 10 Years 07/14/2004 10:11 AM

How many years before the Hard Drive is
obsolete

How many years before the Hard Drive is
obsolete 07/21/2004 04:20 PM

Some of us have had the misfortune of a hard-drive failure. It will happen to everyone eventually, and hopefully it will not be a painful death. I have been lucky as I have a aggressive backup plan in place others have been devastated by total loss of years of information. So it is not surprising that the hunt for technology to replace hard-drives are heating up. But I will bet that the ever popular hard-drive will be around for a very long time. [ZDNet]

We'll kill spam in two years - Gates

We'll kill spam in two years - Gates 01/26/2004 10:18 AM
Charging ahead

Gates pledges to crack spam in two years

Gates pledges to crack spam in two years 01/26/2004 05:17 PM
ZDNet Jan 26 2004 9:18PM GMT

FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete?

FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? 02/13/2003 07:32 PM
According to a rapid Google search, the experts say 1) HTTP is slower and less reliable than FTP and 2) HTTP is amateur and will make you look a wimp. ...

Obsolete (Forbes.com)

Obsolete (Forbes.com) 08/19/2004 06:28 PM
Forbes.com - AVOCENT (27, AVCT) is by far the market leader in KVM (keyboard, video, monitor) devices, which allow technicians to run multiple servers using a single computer terminal. Avocent has outsize gross margins (58%) on this stuff. In the first half sales rose 23% to $174 million, though it lost $5 million due to an acquisitions-related charge. The stock's multiple: 73.

99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete

99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete 09/04/2002 03:46 AM

TCB::System::Obsolete 0.99

TCB::System::Obsolete 0.99 05/15/2004 08:42 AM
Support for obsolete tables in TCB::System

Are Web Safe Colors Obsolete?

Are Web Safe Colors Obsolete? 07/03/2004 07:16 AM
"...He poked a finger into my chest and insisted it's absolutely essential to use web safe colors in graphics."

Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards

Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards 08/06/2004 04:27 AM

Why your personal firewall could be
obsolete

Why your personal firewall could be
obsolete 05/02/2004 08:49 PM
ZDNet May 3 2004 0:44AM GMT

Intel Researchers See Moore's Law
Becoming Obsolete

Intel Researchers See Moore's Law
Becoming Obsolete 12/02/2003 12:27 AM
Slashdot Dec 1 2003 6:52PM ET

In The Internet Era Dan Rather And Bill
O'Reilly Are Obsolete

In The Internet Era Dan Rather And Bill
O'Reilly Are Obsolete 09/17/2004 08:08 PM
American Daily Sep 18 2004 0:24AM GMT

Making Monkeys Obsolete Online

Making Monkeys Obsolete Online 03/11/2003 10:45 AM

The Page of Generators

"Steven Savage has the turn of mind that plays with permutations, and has come up with an entire page of generators. Mostly they’re just for fun, or as an aid to imagination for gamers; but a couple of them generated material that would catch my eye in a slush ms. One is the Academic SF Generator (inexplicably filed under character-related generators), which generates fields of study...

Even better is the Action Film Trailer Generator. It’s meant to generate parodic action-movie trailer voiceovers." [Making Light]

Notes and Tips: Apple's Obsolete

Notes and Tips: Apple's Obsolete 06/07/2004 10:25 AM
Apple updates its list of unsupported products.

HTTP and HTML: Obsolete or Timeless?

HTTP and HTML: Obsolete or Timeless? 12/24/2004 12:57 PM

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but I got to thinking today about the major protocol and language that drive the Web — HTTP and HTML — and I reflected on the fact that this pair is essentially frozen in time.

There hasn't been a major update to either of these specs in five years. The recommendation for HTML 4.01 was released on December 24, 1999. HTTP 1.1 is even older — it's been a standard since 1997. On the W3C's HTTP page, the last entry in "News, Updates, and Events" is from 1998.

HTML has had the benefit of CSS since then, and that's really where all the progress is. CSS 2.1 is a recommendation as of February 25, 2004, and CSS3 is in working draft mode. Still, very little has happened on the core HTML language. XHTML 1.0 is even four years old now.

HTTP has had WebDav since 1999, but there hasn't even been an RFC with "http" in the title for over two years (RFC 3310).

So, my question is: is this lack of activity evidence of (1) an obsolete protocol and language that is hampering the utility of the Internet, or (2) a rock-solid protocol and language that has been robust enough to get us where we are now with few changes?

I have no answer, just the question.

New DRM Scheme Could Make DVD Players
Obsolete

New DRM Scheme Could Make DVD Players
Obsolete 01/05/2005 04:44 PM
Extreme Tech Jan 5 2005 8:05PM GMT

Is Anti-Virus Software Obsolete?

Is Anti-Virus Software Obsolete? 07/19/2002 04:49 PM
FEATURE: Signature-based anti-virus scans running on the desktop aren't enough to fight the sophisticated nature of viruses and worms circulating through the Internet these days, experts say, which is helping managed security services gain traction.

Cutting edge obsolete technology

Cutting edge obsolete technology 04/07/2005 01:25 PM

I always feel a bit stupid when I purchase a movie on DVD. With networks getting faster and hard drives & flash memory prices dropping, it's only a matter of time until a gigantic catalog of movies is available online or on USB keys sent back and forth in the mail like Netflix rentals. Things are moving in this direction already: Sony wants to create an online movie service like the iTunes Music Store and a huge amount of movies are already available online on Usenet, BitTorrent, and various P2P networks. The upshot is that all those movies I have -- because the technology companies and the media companies are making it so I can't make copies of my movies to move them from the DVDs to whatever the hell device I'm going to play my movies on in the future -- I'm going to end up purchasing them all again (or worse, renting them each time I want to watch them...movie and music ownership may soon be a thing of the past if the media companies have anything to say about it). Which is great if you're a big media company but makes me, like I said before, feel a bit stupid when buying DVDs.

The Obsolete Internet: An Article from
DigitalWeb

The Obsolete Internet: An Article from
DigitalWeb 09/10/2002 08:44 AM

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest."

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest." 04/16/2004 08:49 AM

Is The New York Times The Paper Of An
Obsolete Record?

Is The New York Times The Paper Of An
Obsolete Record? 07/14/2004 06:35 AM
We've discussed many times how newspapers simply don't get the internet, and Adam Penenberg is suggesting that there may be no greater example than the NY Times. The Times, of course, was one of the first online newspapers to require online registration and set up a paid archive for articles after a short period of free time online. However, because of that, the New York Times results barely appear at all in Google. If they're striving to be "the paper of record" then they need to be where people are looking -- and these days, people are looking in Google. Penenberg notes that despite the fact that the Times makes very little money off of those archives, they won't open them, because it might endanger their $20 million per year deal with Lexis-Nexis. Talk about getting hung up by legacy systems. Either way, it's a good point that the folks at the NY Times (and other newspapers) need to realize. Being online means being accessible. If you're not, then today's surfers aren't going to care. You may believe you can hang onto a small group and sell their demographic data to advertisers, but the data is dirty and the times are changing. People don't want to jump through hoops when there's a lot of other content out there, and if the command line of the internet is a search engine, these sites that block themselves off are simply making themselves obsolete.

Think green when retiring those obsolete
digital devices

Think green when retiring those obsolete
digital devices 12/08/2003 02:21 AM
Boston Globe Dec 8 2003 1:53AM ET

New DRM Scheme To Make Current DVD
Players Obsolete

New DRM Scheme To Make Current DVD
Players Obsolete 01/06/2005 12:12 PM

New DRM Scheme Could Make Current DVD
Players Obsolete

New DRM Scheme Could Make Current DVD
Players Obsolete 01/05/2005 03:56 PM
Hewlett-Packard and Philips said Tuesday that they have developed a content-protection system for DVDs, designed to protect users from burning "protected" DTV broadcasts. The encryption system will be built into next-generation DVD players as well as media.

New Aries Adapter Provides Pin-For-Pin
Replacement for Obsolete Aromat Relay

New Aries Adapter Provides Pin-For-Pin
Replacement for Obsolete Aromat Relay 01/05/2005 06:35 AM
New Aries Adapter Provides Pin-For-Pin Replacement for Obsolete Aromat Relay [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]

London Underground sources obsolete
spare parts on eBay

London Underground sources obsolete
spare parts on eBay 12/27/2004 10:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: Parts of the London Underground are so old that they can only be serviced with parts acquired on eBay from speciality collectors.

Tube Lines has bought computer cards, old chips and other equipment which are now out of stock.

Company bosses said they had to use the internet because some of the signalling systems on the Tube were so old.

Link (Thanks, Nick!)

New Sound Amplifier by Aurilink Makes
Custom Hearing Aids Obsolete

New Sound Amplifier by Aurilink Makes
Custom Hearing Aids Obsolete 03/19/2005 02:43 AM
Aurilink has developed a soft, comfortable sound amplifier for those who need occasional hearing assistance because of mild hearing loss, with programmable settings for a variety of listening environments. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]

Price Guides February 2004: Memory and
Soon-To-Be-Obsolete AGP Video Cards

Price Guides February 2004: Memory and
Soon-To-Be-Obsolete AGP Video Cards 02/10/2004 10:36 AM

Atlascopy Introduces System that Makes
Replacing Inkjet Cartridges Obsolete

Atlascopy Introduces System that Makes
Replacing Inkjet Cartridges Obsolete 06/17/2005 03:41 PM
A new system that may radically affect the way people use their inkjet printers was announced today by Barry Shultz, President of Atlascopy, Inc., an international distributor of printer products. The system allows users of many inkjet printers to convert their printers, in about five minutes, to a system that connects the ink cartridges to ink bottles that sit outside the printer. The user just keeps the ink bottles filled and never again needs to replace an ink cartridge. [PRWEB Jun 16, 2005]

Multi-Zone Digital Music System Renders
the Traditional Black Stereo Rack
Obsolete

Multi-Zone Digital Music System Renders
the Traditional Black Stereo Rack
Obsolete 06/14/2004 02:56 PM
“Digital music fans can now listen to rock in the garden, punk in the playroom and fusion in the bedroom, with the launch of the Sonos Digital Music System, which is previewing this week at the “D2: All Things Digital” conference in Carlsbad, Calif. The Sonos offering is the first and only multi-zone digital music system with a wireless, full-color LCD screen controller that lets consumers play all their digital music, all over their home, while controlling it all from the palm of their hand.”

Software That Lasts For Years And Years

Software That Lasts For Years And Years 07/14/2004 06:51 PM
We were just talking about the rise of quick and dirty programs as a way for individuals (not necessarily programmers) to solve specific needs. However, as was mentioned at the time, that would be a different "tier" of software programming, and there would still be a need for programmers to do higher level "big" projects. In the past, we've also discussed the problem of data extinction, where old computer systems and formats die out, leaving content and applications virtually useless on ancient media. This is a big problem for many applications, and Dan Bricklin is now suggesting that people need to start designing "Societal Infrastructure Software" that can last for centuries, not just a few years. The idea is that this type of software shouldn't have to worry about new computers or new formats or new anything... but will be able to just keep on working. In order to build this, though, Bricklin believes it will require embracing open source programming, though not necessarily the way people view open source programming today. It's a fascinating concept, but getting people to think long-term is so difficult these days, that you wonder if such ideas will actually catch on.

Copy Your DVDs

Copy Your DVDs 07/27/2004 12:28 AM
G4 Tech TV Jul 27 2004 5:08AM GMT

DVDs set records

DVDs set records 01/06/2005 08:49 AM
USA Today Jan 6 2005 1:05PM GMT

Best DVDs of 2002

Best DVDs of 2002 07/31/2004 07:22 AM
G4 Tech TV Jul 31 2004 11:17AM GMT

Paper DVDs

Paper DVDs 04/16/2004 01:06 PM
Sony and Toppan Printing have developed DVDs consisting of 51 percent paper. Data is stored on the discs using a blue laser instead of red. The smaller wavelength of blue laser light means that 25 gigabytes of data can be packed onto each paper/polymer disk, more than twice the capacity of traditional polycarbonate plastic-based DVDs. Link

Mr. Clean Available for DVDs

Mr. Clean Available for DVDs 04/19/2004 05:52 AM
It's a control issue -- tone down the blood or foul language with a new genre of DVD player developed by RCA and ClearPlay. Parents, or those with weak stomachs, may like it, but studios object.

The Next Generation In DVDs

The Next Generation In DVDs 04/20/2004 03:24 PM
CBS News Apr 20 2004 8:09PM GMT
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