[Ferrariman]

4chan meme is obvious

 

[the search never ends]

OP! now I know why my bank account doesn't always match up, I'm literrally losing money right on my hdd. Screw that, I'm getting the pencil/paper back out!

 

[MrGreen]

Quote:

Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif What happens 10-15 years down the road when those MP3 files are down to 0kbp but keep on loosing 12kbps each year? Will it start eating 12kbps of your video clips or like? He he

Bitrot actually does occur, however it occurs in all formats.
Things will just stop working when they have rotted enough and the hard drive is more likely to fail before then and data can be rewritten losslessly to prevent it.

Its a very slow process.

 

[fenixdown110]

*chuckle*

 

[iriverdude]

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrGreen /img/forum/go_quote.gif Bitrot actually does occur, however it occurs in all formats. Things will just stop working when they have rotted enough and the hard drive is more likely to fail before then and data can be rewritten losslessly to prevent it. Its a very slow process.

Do your hard drive platters look like this?

 

[Ninkul]

Use flac. Safer communities together.

 

[Steve999]

Quote:

Originally Posted by fordgtlover /img/forum/go_quote.gif This is becoming a real problem in our communities. It was only last week I heard that in a raid on one of the houses in my neighborhood they discovered a math lab.

I don't know if you've heard of the new "crystal" math or seen the street labs. All you need is an mp3 device with a digital optical output, a crystal, and some fishing line. Basically you send mp3 data in digital optic form through a rotatating crystal and--well, you do the math. Extreme parallel rotational velocidensities. Data rot, 12 mbps or even negative or imaginary bitrate mp3s, reverse vortexes everywhere.

Kids these days think they can just divide by zero and all of their problems will go away. What a surprise when they spawn a new identical universe and they're in the same fix they were in when the day began.

Some kids divide by .0001 or .00001 just for kicks. It's not imminent universal destruction, but I'll tell you what--it's enough to suck out a couple of front teeth and pull your eyeballs half-way out of their sockets--typifying the new crystal math chic look so prevalent among hockey players, runway models and washed-up situation-comedy television actors.

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrGreen /img/forum/go_quote.gif Bitrot actually does occur, however it occurs in all formats. Things will just stop working when they have rotted enough and the hard drive is more likely to fail before then and data can be rewritten losslessly to prevent it. Its a very slow process.

Yeah, but not at a steady 12kbps annually...

 

[etiolate]

it's a logarithmic decay...

 

[Armaegis]

Does it match the volume decay vs distance? If so, we may have just discovered the missing link!

 

[etiolate]

Einstein is smiling in heaven... We finished his discoveries.

 

[MrGreen]

******* /mu/ sucks

 

[markop2003]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SVghost /img/forum/go_quote.gif All jokes asside, someone please verify this.

The data lasts forever but the hardware does not. If you really love your music keep it on a RAID array then when one drive fails you've still got the data on the other. Also optical disks can corrode over long periods of time but unless you're dipping them into volcanic pools they should outlast you.

 

[Stitch]

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Originally Posted by iriverdude /img/forum/go_quote.gif Do your hard drive platters look like this?

I think pouring syrup over the platters may just be what we have been looking for.... It is definitely sticky enough for keep the 12kps in place. Just be sure to close the drive securely to prevent syrup leakage.

 

[deadly55]

that won't work it'll evaporate over a while loosing everything leaving you with a divide by 0 error.