OT: ILM's new computer systems

[inigma]

VR will never happen.

Holodecks will become a reality in 15 years, the first prototypes will be developed in 2008.

Tactile holodecks, however, will never become a commercial entertainment reality though.

[inigma]

Tactile holodecks will only be developed and practically usable for only large scale planetary industry, and experimental materials development. The quantum energy involved in such a device would cost more than the total output of most stars, and I would assume that such a technological development would be banned between most interstellar governments once it is perfected as a weapon.

Commercially, destroying stars will not be considered a viable option in the long run, and most likely will be a form of experimentation that is shunned and persecuted for its destructive concequences.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I wasn't refering to ST holodecks, but to mind-machine interfaces.

[Suicide Junkie]

If you're trying to create a tactile interface, you don't want to be building your matter stuff up from pure energy.

Manipulating pre-existing atoms into the chemicals you want and then moving them to where they are needed would be much simpler.

Or forego the matter entirely; just stimulate nerves for fine tactile sensations, and use VR exoskeletons for blunt forces.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Or simply stimulate the nerves in the spinal cord to simulate all that.

[Atrocities]

150TB

Really when you think of that, its not all that big. Its like a 15o gigs by the standards of only five years ago. So in five years they will have to upgrade again.

Say what is it called once you surpase 999 TB's?

[Kamog]

Say what is it called once you surpase 999 TB's?

The next prefix 10 x bigger than tera is peta, so it must be 1 petabyte (1 PB)
Now, it is 1000 TB = 1 PB, or is it 1024 TB = 1 PB ?