[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

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BCS Wrote:

> Hello Nick,
> 
> > "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message
> > news:a6268ff1b9ca8cd1c2c66c866ba at news.digitalmars.com...
> > 
> >> Hello Nick,
> >> 
> >>> "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message
> >>> news:a6268ff1b9958cd1bfa012970d8 at news.digitalmars.com...
> >>>> Hello Nick,
> >>>> 
> >>>>> Ugh, don't even get me started on MicroSD. Ordinary SD is already
> >>>>> too small if you ask me, although I still put up with it anyway.
> >>>>> Now MicroSD, well I can't say anything about it without raising my
> >>>>> blood pressure...
> >>>>> 
> >>>> My point was that space (volume) is not what limits how much space
> >>>> (GB) a phone has.
> >>>> 
> >>> And my link dispelled that myth. Try putting 200GB+ into a MicroSD
> >>> form factor at the cost of a 2.5" HDD. Yea, eventually that'll
> >>> happen, but by then I could get a HDD many times bigger than that
> >>> for the same price.
> >>> 
> >> I wouldn't. I'd put it in a package about 4-5 times as big and mount
> >> it on the PC board. Besides, what the heck do you need more than
> >> about 32GB for on a phone? If you need to shoot that much video, get
> >> a real camera!
> >> 
> > Like I said, there's two kinds of "phones": "phone" phones, and PDA
> > "phones". For the former, I *still* agree with you. For the latter: If
> > I were going to blow the money on a "smartphone" (as they're calling
> > them now) or on some sort of iPad-like device (which is the other
> > thing I've been talking about), I would expect it to replace a
> > dedicated camera and a dedicated portable music player. And they can
> > easily do so just by slapping a HDD in there. (BTW, by current music
> > player, which also does video - a feature I rather like is 40GB and I
> > find it uncomfortably tight. Plus, with that tightness, I can't really
> > use it as an external HDD, which I used to do, and found very
> > helpful.) I'm not interested in toting around twenty different
> > gadgets. There can be only one!
> > 
> 
> Stuff a person has to store expands to fit the space they have to store it 
> in. It's some kind of immutable law of nature that transcends computers and 
> closet space. If you had 4.5TB of storage space, then you'd just want to 
> store 5TB. The solution isn't more storage space as that just stalls the 
> problem for about 10min/Mb.

That's only true when you're working for Google and steal personal wifi data. Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard movie/audio CD/DVD/Bluray/HD-DVD discs have DRM copy protection. According to DMCA breaking the encryption is illegal. Online shops only rent the same material. Software developers may need more space, but 99.9% of people are not software developers. Thus q.e.d, you don't need that much space.