Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 04/22/06 04:13

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:07:38 -0700, Gene E. Bloch
<spamfree@nobody.invalid> Gave us:

>Confession of ignorance: I have read essentially nothing about
>holographic storage. However, I am very skeptical that it can be made
>practical.

They are already doing it, and it WILL be a product, eventually.
The problem is that it will be far too costly for ordinary consumers
for quite a while. Sort of like DAT when it first came out. The only
folks using it will be medium and large businesses. JMO.

> Note: my background *is* physics,

So.

> so my intuition is good.

Apparently not as it relates to this realm. :-]

>Note 2: I have been wrong before, and this may be yet another error :-)

I have restored all faith in you now, for knowing this one immutable
truth about us all.

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I have always thought this "mode on" "mode off" stuff was silly.

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