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    USB Cigar Puts Your Laptop One Martini Away From Benderhood

    Western Digital's SiliconDrive III Lineup Are Their First SSD Offerings

    Sony Ericsson Ditches Memory Stick Micro in Cellphones, Goes with MicroSD

    Flash Storage Is About to Hit a Brick Wall

    A Glimpse at the Eye-Fi's Teeny Tiny Wi-Fi Antenna

    The USB Thumb Drive Bracelet: Pure Class, Baby
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/01/09

    In reply to USB Cigar Puts Your Laptop One Martini Away From Benderhood
    Is it Cuban? Is it legal? Do I have to cross to Canada to get one legally? Would I really want one? No, definately not.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    07/01/09

    @Curves: Cuban cigars are overrated. They are good but not noticeably better than other good cigars. They are only sought after because of the forbiddenness.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/01/09

    @Xeno: Forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest, or so I hear from certain southern governors. ;)
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    Image of Monty Monty
    06/02/09

    In reply to Sony Ericsson Ditches Memory Stick Micro in Cellphones, Goes with MicroSD
    Come on, guys - show a little sympathy for the poor company. Their proprietary formats were nothing more than a sign of their market dominance and ability to shove things down our throat, regardless of how much we might scream. Mini discs, Betamax, UMD, memory sticks, Blu-ray - every Sony turn involved formats that no one wanted, and most survived purely on Sony's gumption. Now they are dropping formats faster than I dropped my drawers on prom night (unfortunately, I should have waited until after the dancing portion of the evening).


    Seriously, not all of Sony's formats are "bad", it just happens that seemingly none of them are very successful. All that will be left of Sony now is products that look like everyone else's, and is that really what we want? Maybe (or perhaps we just want them to disappear) - but, I would not mind Sony dabbling in some more unwanted formats in the future, if for no other reason than to let us know they are still Sony.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/22/09

    In reply to Flash Storage Is About to Hit a Brick Wall
    To this, I say: Good.


    It'll mean having to make the most of the capacity given, rather than simply having to increase capacity more and more to handle it

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    05/22/09

    In reply to Flash Storage Is About to Hit a Brick Wall
    Spintronics to the rescue!
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/22/09

    In reply to Flash Storage Is About to Hit a Brick Wall
    Pffft. Everything in the history of computers says there is no wall. Not only is memory capacity increasing, the rate at which it is increasing is increasing.
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    Image of Kakkoister Kakkoister
    05/22/09

    @frigg: They may have been true before, but that obviously can't go on forever. And we are finally reaching a wall. Because the size of the transistors and lanes is becoming so small that they will leak electrons, a problem called "quantum tunneling". This is already a proven problem. So around 16 or 11nm we need to figure out a new way of making chips, and a new material to use that can prevent this. The most popular idea is using graphene.
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    Image of RustyO918 RustyO918
    05/22/09

    @Kakkoister: Had to Wikipedia graphene, and it sounds pretty damn cool. Makes me want to own something made of graphene.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/22/09

    @RustyO918: You already do. Graphene is in every pencil (layers of graphene make up graphite).
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    05/22/09

    @Kakkoister: Just as there are always arguments why Moore's Law can't continue, and then it does, storage also has a way of overcoming barriers.


    Not that it's not real, but I'd bet that the notion that quantum tunneling signals the end of road is like saying 960 bits is the end of the road because an IBM punch card can only be punched so many times before the paper falls apart.

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    Image of djdare djdare
    05/22/09

    In reply to Flash Storage Is About to Hit a Brick Wall
    He says the brick wall is still 5 years off... that's so far away in terms of computer technology as to be ridiculous. Something will come along, just like something always comes along with processors, and HDDs, and my girlfriend is humping my leg, so i gotta go.
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    05/22/09

    @djdare: she wanna go for a walk or what?
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    05/22/09

    In reply to Flash Storage Is About to Hit a Brick Wall
    well, maybe by then SSD will be the norm and virtual memory won't be such a horrible thing anymore
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    Image of jakebathman jakebathman
    05/22/09

    @misses preview button_Nick: Isn't SSD flash-based, too?
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    05/22/09

    @jakebathman: well, i am working off the assumption people get lots of RAM to prevent from having to tap into virtual memory aka their standard spinny/slow HDD. replace that bottle neck and maybe it won't matter.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/22/09

    In reply to Flash Storage Is About to Hit a Brick Wall
    Du-uh. The obvious answer is to use live human brains to store information.
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    Image of jakebathman jakebathman
    05/22/09

    In reply to Flash Storage Is About to Hit a Brick Wall
    So we can only link them together? What would the difference in speed/efficiency be between a 64GB chip and 2 x 32GB chips linked?
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    05/22/09

    @jakebathman: my guess is you will be limited by the number of banks you can use (which is growing) which will mean if you can't fit more memory on a chip you will be forced to revert back to extra banks. with that i think it would rely on whether or not the CPU, or whatever they will be called at that point, can handle the number of banks.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    02/02/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at the Eye-Fi's Teeny Tiny Wi-Fi Antenna
    Aren't you a little small for a Wi-Fi Antenna?


    It's not the size of your WiFi antenna, it's the band"width".

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    02/02/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at the Eye-Fi's Teeny Tiny Wi-Fi Antenna
    It will be interesting to see how quickly this mini Wifi technology will start appearing in all kinds of household gadgets. You could control things like lighting and appliances (dishwasher, washing machine etc.) with your computer.
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    Image of fogmaster fogmaster
    02/02/09

    @Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake! ohhhhhhhh it's snake!: they already have that. Called X10.
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    02/02/09

    @fogmaster: [www.obviousobscurity.org] <-- Control your home devices from your blackberry.


    Similar scripts can be written in python and run on your server / home pc

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    02/02/09

    @fogmaster: The Secret Service went on alert b/c the lights were flashing on and off and the stereo kept coming on in the Lincoln Bedroom. Until they found BHO in the Oval Office clutching both his BlackBerry and his sides laughing.
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    02/02/09

    @Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake! ohhhhhhhh it's snake!:


    I agree. What's really interesting to me is at&t's move to put 3G in all electronic devices. They are going to subsidize the crap out of every electronic device on the market.


    I am waiting for Apple and at&t's work on a new AppleTV. I think people are missing what Apple has accomplished with AppleTV.

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    02/02/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at the Eye-Fi's Teeny Tiny Wi-Fi Antenna
    That is crazy, Mark. How the hell do they pack all those electronics in that tiny wafer?


    Amazing!

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    12/31/08

    In reply to The USB Thumb Drive Bracelet: Pure Class, Baby
    if this will stop the overweight past-gen IT guys from wearing it on a lanyard around their necks, it's a step in the right direction.


    I feel bad for those guys. especially the ones who have the tiny sticks.


    like 256 or 512 MB sizes. Get your head out of the gutter

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    12/31/08

    In reply to The USB Thumb Drive Bracelet: Pure Class, Baby
    This looks like some shit you'd put on your cat name "little miss princess".
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    12/31/08

    In reply to The USB Thumb Drive Bracelet: Pure Class, Baby
    Those aren't gems, they're fish poop!
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