Classic song.

He doesn't look that bad, but I know what you mean cyke

*Catches plate humorously down front of baggy trousers*

Bugger... if I'm now a clown then who's the bloody ringmaster?!

Wheeeeeeeeeee! This is a fun ride

I believe it was a major court case about smokers being responsible for their own ill health. There we go, back on track now

Glad it wasn't just you making that connection.

Well, I'm sure there are some evil disabled individuals out there too. Now... how the hell did we get onto this subject?

Hello Peter Burlingham you ideal job is a Circus ring master

In perfect English no-less! Well, running a website is a lot like running a circus. You have your clowns and... no.. sure there was something else. Oh well!

I think it's a thousand terabytes. The article I read went on to say something like if you recorded everything you see on TV or DVD in a lifetime at 320 x 240 resolution, with mono sound, you could fit it on a petabyte disk.

Dunno whether it's true, or whether the average person died young or what, but it puts a bit of perspective on how big a petabyte is

The best leaps forward as far as home computers are concerned will happen when these disks replace Hard Drives. The access speeds are supposedly going to go up to several gigabytes a second in future - bit more than Maxell are estimating for the near future

No... more... loading... screens

I remember having a conversation a while back - you can just imagine Osama with his life support machine or whatever sitting in a cave saying something like "Only 3,000 more copies of Pirates of the Caribbean to sell before we can afford our very own tank, and then the world shall tremble at our presence!"

Anyone else think there's something wrong with that picture?

Well us humans frequently talk out of the wrong end, so peraps they think that's where the intelligence is located within the human body?

Our governments and general way of life would give them no reason to think otherwise

Yeah, read smoething about this in Micromart a weel ago. Maxell aren't the leaders in this thing. I think the other guys who started the ball rolling with holographics storage are waiting til they can releasea reliable enough drive - I think with the holograms and the light beams getting bits of data from them that one slight tap of your PC buggers up the reader at the moment.

It's one of the problems they'll have to overcome before any kind of release or the whole thing will just be a joke. It's such a sensitive technology and prone to dust and knocks at this early stage. I do look forward to the toher company's (can't remember their name) predictions of 1 petabyte (that's enough to store your life on pretty much) disks in the not-so-distant future.

It could just be a case of the former defense minister losing his marbles though...

So... should we start building an Avenger to take on the Sectoids at Mars now, or in a couple of years? Surely that's the bigger question

Aye, seen it before... last week in fact! Loks like good stuff I agree

I wonder how long they'll be up... I heard Suprnova went on to create some other bit of kit for peer to peer or something?

Remember kids - piracy is illegal.

Hehe, cheers Azrael. Doing my small part to make the web a better place... or something

(Changed the topic title now the site's open - makes more sense now ).

Yes. It should read "Corrupt government's fund piracy! Enjoy your film"