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Flash Memory And Its future

NETHED writes "C|NET News is running an article about Flash Memory's future. Here is a How Stuff Works link about Flash memory. An interesting read especially considering how small these things are currently. Does the slashdot crowd have a new size benchmark for small sizes?"

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  1. flash memory is the future! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    get in on the ground floor here folks, it's going nowhere but up

  2. I've got one by slutdot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does the slashdot crowd have a new size benchmark for small sizes?

    Yeah...my penis.

  3. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post

  4. Does the slashdot crowd have a new size benchmark by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Does the slashdot crowd have a new size benchmark for small sizes?" "

    Yeah, and the FLAMEBAIT worked like a charm Mr. Editor.

    *Insert umpteenth penis joke here*

  5. Flash Memory sizes by Ballresin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well...that kind of depends on what kind of flashing you're doing.

    To some, there is already a well thought out system...
    Don't know how it works...but:

    Mardi Gras Method of Flash Measurement (Also Known as the "Girls Gone Wild Method")
    A
    B
    C
    D
    DD

    Along with measurements that usually range from 24-36.

    --
    I got nothin'.
  6. Re:FIRST POST by brnsurgon1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fuck, i thought i had it :'(

  7. LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS FOUND by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Archaeologist Finds 12,000 Year Old Magazine From Atlantis!
    Friday March 21, 2003

    By MARSH FENLEY

    A leading archaeologist claims to have found a glossy, 48-page magazine that was published on the Lost Continent of Atlantis in 10,000 B.C. -- thousands of years before the ancient Egyptians figured out how to scratch crude hieroglyphic "pictographs" on crumbly papyrus scrolls!

    In a letter to the prestigious Antiquities Review journal, Dr. Kenton Croler says The Atlantean Star-Sun was "lushly produced for an audience of highly educated readers" and "provides tempting clues" to suggest America's own Indians are direct descendants of the advanced civilization.

    He also drew chilling parallels between our modern war on terror and events that may have led to the collapse of Atlantis, which appears to have been reeling under a series of strikes by Al Qaeda-like terrorists armed with a nightmarish array of nuclear, chemical, biological and "magnetic" weapons, one of which "appears to have disrupted all but the most primitive and violent urges of the human brain."

    And that's not all. Croler, who found the near-perfectly preserved periodical sealed in a bronze urn, says the magazine dated "Lunar Cycle 62,998" contains a treasure trove of news items, features, hand-drawn images, cartoons and advertisements that provide a fascinating sneak peek into daily life on the Lost Continent, including:

    * A report on the most dangerous "flyway" on the Continent -- and the 264 hover-vehicle accidents that helped "Air Route 12" lay claim to the title.
    * An advertisement for a "holographic television receiver" that, instead of relying on "old-fashioned screen technology" such as we use today, projected three-dimensional images into the center of a home theater, enabling viewers to "walk around" actors and entertainers and even "see them from behind."
    * A humorous drawing and short article on the magazine's search for the Lost Continent's fattest snakes and rats, which appear to have been revered as living gods in some quarters.
    * An expose on hidden design flaws in the government's new "citizen transport tubes" that, it was alleged, were "ripping the heads off children" and "other people of short stature."
    * A somewhat cryptic and possibly threatening appeal for more citizens to voluntarily undergo "brain-chip surgery" to link them to the "central library" before "we have to do it for you."
    * A call for a ban on dangerous "backyard reactors" that appear to have been in wide use by homeowners who were hoping to reduce their power bills.
    * A "health page" touting medical breakthroughs, including the development of a cure for male-pattern baldness that testing had shown to be equally effective as a "morning after" abortion pill and topical treatment for eczema.
    * A classifieds page selling everything from collectibles and fishing equipment to human infants, boats and at least 50 different varieties of narcotic and hallucinogenic drugs and beverages.

    "What I find so intriguing," the Washington-based Croler said in his letter to the journal, "is that the magazine not only gives use a glimpse into the past, it also presents us with some rather unsavory implications for our future.

    "The parallels between terrorist activity then and terrorist activity now are quite clear, as are the lessons to be learned: If terrorists destroyed the greatest civilization the world has ever known, they can destroy us, too."

    Croler plans to publish a comprehensive report on the magazine, which sophisticated dating techniques confirm is between 11,500 and 12,000 years old, by late summer.

    In the meantime, he says early research indicates the periodical was written in what appears to have been a lost "but fairly easy to translate" Native American dialect based on an alphabet far more advanced than the crude "picture writing" Indians were using when Europeans arrived in the New World in the 15th century.

    "The suggestion is that

  8. Re:CompactFlash all the way by PukkaStoryTeller · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    With my friend's digital camera, if the memory card has some free space but enough to store another picture and you press the shutter... all the pictures become corrupt. What gives? I can't think of the model (except that it's a Nikon) but is this a deal with the camera being stupid or some sort of thing flash memory trait?

  9. already got one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Does the slashdot crowd have a new size benchmark for small sizes?"

    The penis of my ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend.

  10. Sigh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't know why we don't just use qubits to store data. Linux already runs on qubit machines anyways. why reinvent the wheel? Besides, Unix had flash memory 30 years ago.

  11. Reparations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    http://www.ncobra.com/

    Assalam Alaikum

  12. Flash balls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am Nigger, leader of the nigtards from the ancient land of nigadia.
    ALL YOUR NIG ARE BELONG TO US!