On 11 January 2010 WizardStan
said
WizardStan said:
We won't be hitting 2 TB for a long, long time. I will eat my hat if we don't see a Pandora2* before SDXC cards larger than 256GB.
*offer void if OpenPandora dies before a Pandora2 can be produced.
On September 2014, SanDisk introduced a high capacity 512 GB SDXC Card at the International Broadcasting Convention.
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And actually around that time (plus minus 2 months) we started seeing Pyra designs and what not... note that WizardStan said "seeing", as in forum pictures or text, not as in "finished product". Well played mr Wizard, you may keep your hat.
Then I read further...
12 January 2010 DaMummy
said
by the time 2tb SDXC come out, there will be a 3d pandora like all the new TVs
So now that's 200Gb this year. And by
obscurely applying
Moore's law to storage capacity, in 4 year we would hit the 2TB mark, as predicted by DaMummy. All he can say to this is "No. Go away." (for the logic inclined, he indeed did not say that, just bare with me ok? This is the absurd-ism corner)
If this year, plus two months, Pyra comes out (please note that Pyra had a daughter called Pandora II), it would certainly mean that 2 years later, when hardware starts becomming obsolete (but, because of a strong community, the apparatus will be fine for about 4 years) a 3rd pandora would come out BEFORE that 2TB comes out (probably as a new daughterboard/chip to upgrade it). And "3d" is very close to "3rd" (just an extra "arrrrrr", which pyrate would think less of that?)
We actually already have
a real 3d game in the repo (which would immediately mean that all we are waiting for now is a 2TB microSD card for our Pyras)
We then conclude that WizardStan and DaMummy are right on the mark. Either they are time travellers, or they smoke peyote and consult spirits. Wizard Stan is, well, a wizard (so he used sorcery to do his prediction). No surprise there. As for Da Mummy; not any person is mummified, only exalted beings, like ancient Egyptian kings, or the kings pet. Both have the power of premonition. For example,
Paul and
Solomon (or was it
Simon and
Garfunkel? Anyway, I digress). DaMummy's avatar has a blue scarab, indicative of ancient Egypt (or a rich art collector around the word that is personally "preserving" Egypt's treasures)
And what do we know of this animal (the latter, not the former), you say? Well, let me quote it (the source, not the animal):
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...it would most certainly be devoured as was the scarab beetle. The effect of an experience such as this would be an alteration of one's conscious state or the ecstatic separation of body and spirit....
And thus, in this (some say permanent) altered state, DaMummy was able to predict the future.
disclaimer: I'm disregarding the ability to connect an
Infiniflash (512 TB) to an OpenPandora, I'm also putting the OP classic and OP 1Gb in the same "generation".
disclaimer2: Should I suddenly stop posting, please entertain the possibility a reader did not like this post and took drastic measures. (for example, B-zar, for leaving him out of this fascinating tale, while actually playing a keyrole in this story)
disclaimer3: