A little bit on the lighter side of life. A list of some 87 'predictions' that didn't quite work out as expected.
http://www.2spare.com/item_50221.aspx
It seems this site is broken as it is not possible to log on using the Firefox browser anymore. Anyone else having the same problem?
Gigabyte made a small video clip of their I Ram drive showing off how fast a machine can boot up. No joking, no cheating - it went from running, shutdown, restart to up and running in less than 10 second! That is f@#king amazing!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-51784544344753709The only downside is the cost of the drive plus that it can only be up to 4GB currently.
Just imagine having a drive like that for a Laptop. No more wasting power to spin up, wait for Windows to load up. You can start working almost immediately (in less than 10 seconds). The Windows "loading" screen flashes past so fast it doesn't even get a chance to show the progressbar!
I sometimes really miss my old Commodore 64 that was on and ready to use within one second from switching on.