On 10/09/2016 08:54 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-10-09 03:44, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 10/08/2016 05:10 PM, David T-G wrote:
I happen to have gotten some good 64G AData thumb drives recently, but I'm seriously interested in some 512G or even 1T cards for easily-swapped data storage.
At the 1T mark it might be simpler to get a boxed 'portable drive'.
Beyond 64G I think I would buy a hard disk, either rotating rust or flash, what's the name now... ssd?
WOW! That's some pretty cool technology to get a thin piece of rotating rust to fit in the slot on my tablet. Right now, the 64G chip is a little over half full; by the time I've converted all my DVDs and all my CDs I'll need a larger one. But that's just consumerland. The future applications of tablets in medicine and engineering and finance are going make them into not just Tricorders but will demand not only LAN/hospital/clinic level network access but will need their own on-board databases and reference libraries. In engineering there are already applications where a tablet and a a google-glasses like HUD visualizations for maintenance in areas where there is no network, and have a huge set of engineering diagrams, maintenance manuals for all the possible equipment and scenarios. We got a hint of that in Michael Creighton's "Airframe" novel years ago. q.v. 640K wasn't enough. When Bill Gates said that in 1981 I had already been running UNIX variants on 16 bit microprocessors for nearly half a decade. Although there were quite a number of firms that had produced UNIX systems based on the Zilog/AMD Z-8000 before that date, SUN was founded in February 1982, put the idea of a UNIX workstations into high gear and was profitable by July 1982. How many start-up can claim that kind of rise and the subsequent presence and enduring 'image'? 8g isn't enough. Local banks here were giving away 'crippled' Android tablets with only 8G of memory free when you opened an account. Many people brushed them off; their phones had 'large enough' screens, were pocketable, and had twice as much memory. Now phones seem to be normalizing at 32G. It said something about the comparative cost of memory. While the s/h market is overloaded with these devices they aren't completely useless.. I know a guy who buys them up, strips them and installs them in cars, not just as dashboard devices but in the back of head-rests as 'entertainment devices' for the back-seat passengers. The lack of memory doesn't matter as they are wire-networked to the console which has, among other features, a DVD player. This started, for him, as a home project, but a fried saw it and said 'cool' and word got out. It's now a business and on a larger scale. There are other uses for these old junkers. You can see a variety of 'maker' projects from things like front door camera&screen with wifi so that you can view callers on your phone even if not in the house, through to adding sophisticated 'control panels' in all manner of devices making them very sophisticated "IoT" things. Somewhere along the line you main phone in your pocket is now a command centre. its going to need more and more capacity, that is memory; We've already got plenty of CPU power. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org