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A reminder - please, please, please post this article regularly between now at the 11th of September.

Also, are the comments sent in now 'official' with the digital signatures act? Would sending in now be a legal petition?

JHK
CASCAP, Inc.

One of the issues with holographic storage is throughput speed. You can store a tremendous amount of data, but unlike a CD-ROM, where the medium moves very quickly and the laser is relatively fixed, holographic storage is relying on moving lasers throughout the medium, which is inherently slower for the time being.

The trick will be to find a way to use many lasers at various points to illuminate the storage medium at near simultaneous speeds. It's essentially parallel retrieval, but it will speed things up.

JHK
CASCAP, Inc.

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JHK
http://www.cascap.org because you care.

Does that mean, according to the most recent legal arguments about intellectual property, that NSI is in violation of IP law for owning someone else's trademarks? Could a company like Microsoft sue NSI for trademark infringement and demand ownership of the name microsoft.com, which would necessitate direct access to the root nameservers?

Just a thought.

JHK
http://www.cascap.org and then some

Does that mean, according to the most recent legal arguments about intellectual property, that NSI is in violation of IP law for owning someone else's trademarks? Could a company like Microsoft sue NSI for trademark infringement and demand ownership of the name microsoft.com, which would necessitate direct access to the root nameservers?

Just a thought.

JHK
http://www.cascap.org and then some

Question - does NSI *OWN* domain names? It was my impression that they owned now non-exclusive rights to the root servers. Their service provides fast updates, but they no longer have the monopoly on it. So if I registered with another provider, say Register.com, would NSI in its mistaken efforts put up my domain for auction? The right thing to do, IMHO, is to put the name back into the public domain until someone else tries to buy it.

JHK
http://www.cascap.org and stop on by for a latte, huh?

Nice idea by Intel, but let's see what Transmeta and AMD come up with. I'd personally like to see an AMD-powered system like the iOpener but a little more full featured for close to that pricing point. Plus, what will this do to their Celeron line, and more to the point, with Micro$oft's latest goat-loving technique with Win2K CDs, how will M$ position the product? Or will they create their own or even try ot roll it into xBox?

JHK
http://www.cascap.org and if you don't visit, you'll never know...

Yes, so far the problem has been in quantum state degredation. Already even standard microprocessors make use of limited quantum effects - mainly electrons on both sides of a barrier acting in a similar way - even on Intel chips.

The real challenge is going to be maintaining quantum states that are stable enough for work to get done. Right now standard computing is either on or off, and if something goes wrong, you just have to set up the computation again.

With quantum computing you may have a lot of work to reset, unless you can find a relatively easy way to generate quantum effects.

JHK
http://www.cascap.org and you'll never know unless you look

Ray Kurzweil's "Age of Spiritual Machines" goes into more depth - that the brain, rather than being digital or analog, is a quantum computer, storing information in quantum states in the brain, which is supposedly a bridge to the next level of processing. It's definitely worth a read, and gives an idea of where this may all be going.

JHK
http://www.cascap.org