May 21, 2009
A new method of writing onto gold nanorods may provide as much as 10 TB of space on a single DVD sized disc!
10 TB is… it’s unimaginable to the average person. It’s far more than the information in an average library; it’s 521, 000 minutes of music at 320 kbps; it’s 400 Blu-ray discs; if the US Library of Congress digitized all its holdings into plain text, two of these discs could hold all of it.
The full article here:
BBC tech news.
May 20, 2009
So I’ve just come back from watching Star Trek with a couple of friends, one who is a Trekkie, and two who aren’t. There’s just so much I want to say about it, but firstly, something not about the movie, but about the camera work involved. This will be the only part of this post related to the title, by the way.
Aside: I know, I know, it’s a Sci-Fi movie, what camera work? It’s all green screen, ain’t it?
There was so much lens flare it actually took my attention off Spock’s ears and Uhura’s ass. WHAT KIND OF IDIOT LET THIS COME OUT OF THE EDITING DEPARTMENT? Lens flare is not in fashion anymore, people. In fact, from the earliest days of cinema, photography directors have been trying to reduce lens flare as much as possible! The thing is, it got accepted as the norm by the average moviegoer, and so they kept it around, even artificially adding it as in many, many SF films, including this one (since, I presume, they weren’t able to film in space, where the most gratuitous lens flare abuse takes place).
Okay, now that that’s over with, onward to the review/summary (Beware of spoilers.):
Oh, the rest of this post is rated NC-17 for content, okay?
