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Fuck Apple.

But also, but Epic too.

Apple needs to get their bitch ass slapped back to the stone age and has for a very long time now.

But it's not like Epic is some bastion of perfection. They have the moral high ground only because Apple cedes it at every opportunity.

Although if it had been moving as fast as he claims, it would have been effectively vaporised. More likely the tracking data was inaccurate and it did not enter at interstellar velocities.

Everything I read about the US tax system makes me think "they found a way to make it even worse?". Where I live we have PAYE, the tax office tells my employer how much tax I should pay, and my employer pays it, and I get the net of my salary. That's 99% of my interactions with the tax system right there.

You would only need one DVD though (they can hold 4.7GB), and if the data was text, it might compress down small enough to fit on a single 650MB CD-R. (Compression ratios of 70% are easily achievable with text).

...is fleecing its customers in various ways, be it this sort of thing, or somehow convincing everyone their products are perfect. They are fantastic at it, you'll never hear me say differently, and it's made them the richest company on the planet. But they're doing it at the expense of a horde of zombie sucker customers, and this is just more of the same.

It's 0118 999 881 999 119 725 ... 3

...I have 64Tb of space in my home server currently, spread across 8 8Tb hard drives. Jumping over to Microcenter.com, the cheapest 8Tb spinner I can currently get is $150, while the cheapest 8Tb SSD I can get is $500.

So, $1,200 versus $4,000.

I'd LOVE to switch to all SSDs, but not with that price disparity... and especially in today's economic climate, I don't think businesses are going to want to do it either (setting aside those that NEED SSDs for speed reasons).

I know this guy is talking about 5 years from now, and the price disparity IS shrinking over time, but I just can't believe it's going to shrink THAT much in just 5 years. I don't doubt that he's right with the basic point about no more hard drives, but I think his time horizon is off by probably 5 years.