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    The First USB 3.0 Flash Drive Is a Wide Load

    4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film

    Rap Group Hands Out Uzi-Shaped Flash Drive Album

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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    11/04/09

    In reply to The First USB 3.0 Flash Drive Is a Wide Load
    Yup. Fat and cutting edge. Screams "Zatoichi" to me too. #supertalent
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    Image of MrBangBam MrBangBam
    11/04/09

    In reply to The First USB 3.0 Flash Drive Is a Wide Load
    Maybe one day when global warming melts the polar icecaps and meteors pummel the mountains, and a submerged landless world emerges...

    I'll live inside one of these. I call the 128 GB. :) #supertalent
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    Image of Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
    11/04/09

    In reply to The First USB 3.0 Flash Drive Is a Wide Load
    I wonder, 3.0 drives have got to work with 2.0 slots, just at slower speeds right? 2.0 works with 1.1..... #supertalent
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    Image of Christian Turkoanje Christian Turkoanje
    11/04/09

    @Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: 3.0 is backward compatible with 2.0 but I don't know about older 1.1 hardware. Also 3.0 has more contact areas. #supertalent
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    Image of hodge22 hodge22
    11/04/09

    @Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: Yeah I remember reading something that it would work like that, but as a bonus you get the higher power provided to 2.0 devices, making them charge even faster. #supertalent
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    Image of Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
    11/04/09

    @hodge22: Really? Sweetness. #supertalent
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    Image of EBone EBone
    10/12/09

    In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
    If you order the two-disc DVD edition (not the BluRay) you get a digital copy of the movie as well. Not on a nifty flash drive though.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/12/09

    In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
    The insignia needs to be in pin or tie tack format so I can walk around clicking it and telling Scotty to beam me up.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    10/12/09

    In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
    Any idea what the series number is?
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    10/12/09

    In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
    Why exactly would they want the DVD stored off a 4gb flash drive? The compression would murder the quality.
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    10/12/09

    @bagellord:
    DVDs store 4.8gb...and a lot of it is used up by menus and other crap. I guess there are dual layer DVDs but most of the time that is not used to give you better picture quality.

    I wouldn't be surprised if it was Full MPEG-2 "quality."

    It'd be nice if they gave us the HD version on a larger drive...I don't understand why in this day and age I can't get HD movies sans Blu-Ray...the HD content on iTunes isn't actually HD.
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    10/12/09

    @TheCrudMan: When I back up dvd's with DVDShrink I back them up with no compression and end up with nearly 8gb video ts rips.
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    Image of trickflip1 trickflip1
    10/12/09

    @bagellord: That's because you're backing up the whole Image of the DVD, not just ripped videos.

    Use Handbrake and rip a DVD's main Title (the movie alone) and check out the size difference. Rip it at full DVD resolution even.

    Of course if you don't have a multi-core processor, it may take quite a long while to do it.
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    10/12/09

    @bagellord: Fine point, most DVDs these days are dual layered.
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    10/12/09

    @trickflip1: Except it's not an image of the dvd like an ISO. It's the video_ts folder. I also like having the menu structure so that if my disk is messed up I can easily create a new one.

    PS - not sure where the processor thing came from but I have a 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo in my iMac. The bottleneck for me copying a movie is the crappily slow DVD drive.
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    Image of trickflip1 trickflip1
    10/13/09

    @bagellord: Oh, I was just simply saying if you had the time to test it, that it might take longer if you don't have a multi-core processor.

    I, for example, am still using a Prescott P4 in my laptop as well as my current desktop setup. So it naturally takes me a long, long time to rip a DVD.

    My mentioning of the file size was merely to state that it is possible for them to have a full DVD-quality video on the flash drive, given that the file size would be no larger than 2.2GB.

    All I was saying is that I'm sure the flash drive does not contain the DVD iso. That I was sure it just contains a DVD quality "rip" of the movie itself, maybe a few special features as separate videos.

    However, after someone saying they read the video will only take up 1.0 GB, it sounds like it will be less than DVD quality, or a "digital" copy like so many movies come with now.
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    10/11/09

    In reply to Rap Group Hands Out Uzi-Shaped Flash Drive Album
    Ain't nothin but a G:\ thing, baby.
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    Image of bucho54 bucho54
    10/11/09

    @njdevil: That deserves a star.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    10/10/09

    In reply to Rap Group Hands Out Uzi-Shaped Flash Drive Album
    Eh, you can always delete the contents, right?
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    Image of M1A1D M1A1D
    10/10/09

    In reply to Rap Group Hands Out Uzi-Shaped Flash Drive Album
    For some reason I could see Kaiser Machead and Git'em Steve/Dave (whatever his name is this week) doing the "Rat-a-tat-tat" musical number with two of these.
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    Image of Barion Barion
    10/10/09

    In reply to Rap Group Hands Out Uzi-Shaped Flash Drive Album
    Does the album contain tracks like "Uzi-er Said Than Dunn" and "We Want Uzi"?
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    10/10/09

    @Barion: No, but it does have their cover of Happiness Is a Warm Gun.
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    Image of Thorax707 Thorax707
    10/10/09

    In reply to Rap Group Hands Out Uzi-Shaped Flash Drive Album

    Here's the Get Busy Committee. If you'd like to see every rap music cliche that ever existed in one convenient location visit their myspace page. The guy in the middle is named "Apapthy". I know the feeling.
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    Image of topcatyo topcatyo
    10/10/09

    In reply to Rap Group Hands Out Uzi-Shaped Flash Drive Album
    What kind of strange pun would it be if I were to put a game by PopCap on my computer with this...
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    Image of friend-o friend-o
    10/10/09

    In reply to Rap Group Hands Out Uzi-Shaped Flash Drive Album
    Anything that glorifies violence is as dumb as a bag of dicks.
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    Image of krztov krztov
    10/10/09

    @friend-o: ill have you know bags of dicks are economically great, you save by buying in bulk, thus, not dumb.
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    Image of Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!! Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!!
    10/11/09

    @friend-o: Your statement is an ad-hominem, which in some places constitutes "fighting words", which in turn glorifies violence.

    Care to retract your statement?
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    10/11/09

    @Soldier_CLE: Negatory. An Ad Hominem (which does not require a dash) refers either to a specific person or to a general characteristic or flaw in the argument of the person; all I referred to was violence. I declared no opponent, sir.

    Care to retract your statement?
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    Image of psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland
    10/09/09

    In reply to Rap Group Hands Out Uzi-Shaped Flash Drive Album
    I'd buy one, erase the contents, fill it with "The Clash" and strap it on my keychain. The Pillows can come too.
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    10/10/09

    @psychonaut2021: You're my new favorite.
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    10/10/09

    @psychonaut2021: I most definitely just clicked that heart.
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    Image of psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland
    10/10/09

    @psychonaut2021: This toast (post) goes to everyone; Cheers~
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