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    Image of STiger STiger
    12/16/09

    In reply to Flexible Flash Memory Gets Us One Step Closer to Bendy Computing
    Stop making organic components and make stuff that will last! This is why I don't trust rewritable discs...
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    CaseyG promoted this comment STiger was starred STiger was unstarred
    Image of CaseyG CaseyG
    12/16/09

    @STiger: Stop making stuff that will last and make stuff that will eventually break down after we throw it away! This is why I don't trust e-waste recyclers.
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    Image of STiger STiger
    12/16/09

    @CaseyG: Organic data storage isn't exactly a bright idea if one wants to, you know, keep their data.
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    Image of CaseyG CaseyG
    12/16/09

    @STiger: No, but it's a bright idea if one wants to manipulate data in a flexible device. You can make a tiny square of rigid NAND memory, smaller than a MicroSD card, and store 32GB of data long-term, then curl the working memory and processing power into a device that curls into a 1/2" tube. Add a polyalkylene carbonate OLED screen, and you can unroll your laptop from a tube, and throw 99% of it away when it's obsolete. The QPAC screen and PEN backplate will biodegrade in three months. All you need to recover is the metal in that tiny NAND chip.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    12/16/09

    In reply to Flexible Flash Memory Gets Us One Step Closer to Bendy Computing
    I have been reading about electronic paper being 5 years away for 15 years now. The e-ink book readers just ain't doing it for me.
    My favorite version was paper that you could print to and then erase it and print to it again. The paper was covered with magnetic bits that were white on one side and black on the other. When you charged an image to it the particles would flip to either black or white and make an image. When you needed to reuse the paper you would just run it through the printer and it would just polarize the particles then put another image on it.
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    The5thElephant promoted this comment reddingofish was starred reddingofish was unstarred
    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    12/16/09

    @reddingofish: The tech you described is essentially how e-ink works. Except you don't need a printer.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    12/16/09

    @The5thElephant: But what I read about was on paper or a film and didn't need electricity to keep the image.
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    12/16/09

    @reddingofish: That's why the Kindle and Nook have such long battery life, they only need power to change pages or turn on the reading light.

    Also the thickness of the Kindle/Nook is from the electronics such as processor, memory, etc.
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    12/16/09

    In reply to Flexible Flash Memory Gets Us One Step Closer to Bendy Computing
    One step closer to floppy disks...YAY.
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    Edited by SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! at 12/16/09 1:08 PM SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! was starred SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! was unstarred
    Image of who.else who.else
    12/16/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: You said floppy? Store some pr0n in it and lo behold! It's no longer flexible.
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    Image of Charlesincharge Charlesincharge
    12/16/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: floppy rocked. We gotta bring them back somehow.
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment Charlesincharge was starred Charlesincharge was unstarred
    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    12/01/09

    In reply to SD Cards About to Get a Whole Lot Zippier (Like, 300MB a Second Zippy)
    How would this compare to the transfer speed of a Bluray disc?
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/01/09

    @DustyButt™: A 1x Blu-Ray drive transfers data at 36Mbps. At 8x, it's still 288 Mbps. Keeping in mind, that's bits, not bytes. The above transfer speed is measured in bytes.

    Assuming no errors (and that my math is correct), it completely demolishes the transfer rate of a Blu-Ray disc. Unsurprising as moving parts tend to be a huge bottleneck, generally speaking.

    (Also: this is all theoretical. Practical, likely different. Your mileage may vary.)
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    Image of kagehyo6 kagehyo6
    12/01/09

    @OCEntertainment: Your theory seems correct! When the price of SD cards go down, could it be possible to have an entire movie collection in a shoebox, so to speak? My question is... would sound quality be lacking on an SD card? Eg.: PCM vs. Bitstream? Or Dolby TrueHD?
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    dagamer34 promoted this comment kagehyo6 was starred kagehyo6 was unstarred
    Image of dagamer34 dagamer34
    12/01/09

    @kagehyo6: At 300MBps, isn't that the same bandwidth as a SATA II connection??!?!
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    Image of kagehyo6 kagehyo6
    12/01/09

    @dagamer34: I had to look it up, but yea, that's correct!
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    Image of Nitesh Singh Nitesh Singh
    12/01/09

    In reply to SD Cards About to Get a Whole Lot Zippier (Like, 300MB a Second Zippy)
    Just like SATA-III based mechanical hard drives all reach 600MB/s? Ha.

    The 300MB/s is merely the limit of the interface, the cards wont be that fast by far.

    On another note, supposedly the largest size for this is 2TB...Damn. Who needs SSD's?
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    DustyButt™ promoted this comment Nitesh Singh was starred Nitesh Singh was unstarred
    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    12/01/09

    @Nitesh Singh: Don't SD cards come in classes that note the minimum MBps speed that a card of a certain class operates?
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    Image of Nitesh Singh Nitesh Singh
    12/01/09

    @DustyButt™: Yeah. And if you look, none are even near this max speed.
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    Edited by Nitesh Singh at 12/01/09 1:04 PM Nitesh Singh was starred Nitesh Singh was unstarred
    Image of Spotpuff Spotpuff
    12/01/09

    @DustyButt™: I believe that only covers reads, not writes, which are almost always significantly slower.

    Also, card version is different than class; I believe I saw a class 10 SD card somewhere on the net the other day.
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    DustyButt™ promoted this comment Spotpuff was starred Spotpuff was unstarred
    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    12/01/09

    @Spotpuff: I suspect SDXC will also be divided into classes that will denote minimum "transfer speeds".

    I'm not sure but I think "transer speed" covers BOTH read and write speed.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    12/01/09

    In reply to SD Cards About to Get a Whole Lot Zippier (Like, 300MB a Second Zippy)
    Bah, I have my SmartMedia card, and I like it just fine!
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    12/01/09

    In reply to SD Cards About to Get a Whole Lot Zippier (Like, 300MB a Second Zippy)
    *raises hand* Can Matt or someone explain the durability comment from their experience? What's not durable about SD cards?
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/01/09

    @Fractal the Meek: Compact Flash is bigger than a frosted flake.

    Or, in the immortal words of J from the Men in Black, who I believe, if I recall correctly, was referring to SD cards: "I feel like I'm gonna break this damn thing!"
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    Image of Odin Odin
    12/01/09

    In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Fail sample size is fail, you're perfectly justified in throwing that "survey" out the door.
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    Image of Someone horked my name at engadget Someone horked my name at engadget
    12/01/09

    In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Sorry, ...... Vonnegut click-through.
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    Fractal the Meek promoted this comment Someone horked my name at engadget was starred Someone horked my name at engadget was unstarred
    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    12/01/09

    @Someone horked my name at engadget: Personally I came for the as-classy C&H click-through.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/01/09

    In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    If you sock Apple right in the face, you may find yourself being sacrificed on the Genius Bar altar. Don't do it.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/23/09

    In reply to Star Wars USB Drives Hands On Gallery
    I think I like the Mimobot versions better.
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    Image of Bruce Hawkins Bruce Hawkins
    11/23/09

    In reply to Star Wars USB Drives Hands On Gallery
    This will make a perfect match with my Darth Vader Toaster! To think I hated Christmas all these years @.@
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Bruce Hawkins was starred Bruce Hawkins was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/23/09

    @Bruce Hawkins: But do you have the Darth Vader cookie jar and Mr. Potato Head?
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    Image of Bruce Hawkins Bruce Hawkins
    11/23/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Errrr.. there is a cookie jar?

    (Potato head is still in the plastic)
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    Edited by Bruce Hawkins at 11/23/09 5:49 PM Bruce Hawkins was starred Bruce Hawkins was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/23/09

    @Bruce Hawkins: Yup, there is.
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    Nathan Obbards was starred Nathan Obbards was unstarred
    Image of Bruce Hawkins Bruce Hawkins
    11/23/09

    @Nathan Obbards:

    What a tease. Went to the official Star Wars store... those SOAB's have the f'n Death Star cookie jar on pre-order. Apparently it isn't fully operational YET!
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/23/09

    @Bruce Hawkins: That's awesome! It appears they no longer make the Darth Vader cookie jar, sad. At least you can get a pink Darth Vader helmet.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/23/09

    In reply to Star Wars USB Drives Hands On Gallery
    Just think how much more awesome Linux will be booting from Vader. I can feel the dark side coursing through my system already.
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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    11/23/09

    @Nathan Obbards: The proper distro in that case is Backtrack [www.remote-exploit.org]
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    Jason Chen promoted this comment Yerzriknot was starred Yerzriknot was unstarred
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Star Wars USB Drives Hands On Gallery
    "You don't know the power of the Dark Side... to store your data!"
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    Image of drsquirrel drsquirrel
    11/17/09

    In reply to Flash 10.1 Tests: Hardware Accelerated HD Hulu and YouTube Video? Yes Please
    Flash isn't what I want for HD Video, bugger that.

    Flash also isn't something that I want people to start making COD 8 in to play on the webpage. It's getting a bit annoying now to find a "little" flash game that I want to play on the laptop away from my main machine, only to find that its just slow as crap.

    HD in Flash, waste of time.

    Oh btw, flash sites suck, stupid site designers. #flash
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    Danny Allen promoted this comment drsquirrel was starred drsquirrel was unstarred
    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    11/17/09

    @drsquirrel: Hey, I'd love for Hulu to move to HTML 5 (or even QuickTime), but until they do, *alot* of users may disagree with Flash being a waste of time ;)
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    Edited by Danny Allen at 11/17/09 6:22 PM Danny Allen was starred Danny Allen was unstarred
    Image of drsquirrel drsquirrel
    11/18/09

    @Danny Allen: I wonder if the majority of Flash uses is Hulu.

    Hulu is another thing I couldn't give a care about either.

    By Flash sites I meant sites designed solely with flash, or flash for menus/important parts (and having fallback for flash-less users is a bad excuse).
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