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4Gb CF Card Announced

Posted by Hemos on from the bigger-bigger-better dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Lexar has today announced that it now shipping a 4 GB 40x Compact Flash card. The card's claim to fame is the ability to store 600 RAW images taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera. This card also features Lexar's WA (Write Acceleration) technology which can improve performance further with WA enabled cameras. Because this card is larger than 2 GB, you will need a camera which is FAT32 compliant. This card is available now at the heady price of $1,499 ($0.37/MB). It looks like Lexar has managed to be faster then Hitachi (Former IBM storage division) with their 4Gb Microdrive."

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

    First Post!!!

  2. Is the word "than" dying? by muyuubyou · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry for being off-topic, but man am I tired of hearing people writing "then" instead of "than"...

    1. Re:Is the word "than" dying? by hyperstation · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      mod parent up. slashbots are modding people down for pointing out failings in the editoral staff.

      if you wanna be accepted as a "real" news source, get used to criticism.

    2. Re:Is the word "than" dying? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

      One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

      You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

      FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

      Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

      OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

      Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

      All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

      Fact: *BSD is dying

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

    titan corp sucks.

  4. So fucking what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that $1500 could feed a lot of starving children.

  5. Re:4Gb or 4GB by Cereal+Box · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's 4GB you pedantic nerd. It was fairly obvious to anyone who has the slightest capacity for understanding the context of what they are reading.

  6. Re: You need to fix your brain by maxume · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Loose means not attached firmly. You can wear loose clothing, it would probably be somewhat baggy. Or perhaps you have a screw loose.

    Lose means to no longer possess. You lost something, like 'How could you lose the keys to my car!?"

    It is quite clear that you don't know the difference, you did it like eight times in four posts...

    Thank you for trying harder.

    --
    Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
  7. Breaking news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002
    From: Bennett Haselton
    Subject: Re: Please resolve the censorware conflict.

    Any discussion of the Censorware.org controversy has to start from the fact that Michael and the rest of the former CWP are not "equal sides" in this, are not "both right and both wrong", etc.

    Michael did not own the Censorware Project and did not do a majority of the work involved, he just hi-jacked the domain name and stole it from the rest of us. The fact that people look at what he did, and look at the response from the rest of the group, and call it "infighting" or "airing dirty laundry" is frankly an insult to the Censorware Project and its work. If the EFF webmaster put the eff.org domain in his own name and then hi-jacked it from the organization, he'd be branded a traitor and a pariah in the Internet community for the rest of his life, and nobody would ever forget what he did. Same if it was the CPSR.org webmaster, the EPIC.org webmaster, or whoever. But if the Censorware Project webmaster does it, we're expected to "work out our differences" with him?

    There is an absolute difference between Michael and the rest of us. None of us, despite some personal animosities (not between me and anybody, but between people that I know), would ever, ever do anything like what Michael did. But Michael did it.

    It doesn't matter whether or not Michael promotes anti-censorship work in his position as a Slashdot writer; he's hardly making much a difference by saying things that were going to get said anyway, and nothing he does there will ever come close to canceling out the harm he did by shutting down the one-time Censorware Project website.

    The only legitimacy that Michael has is through his position as a Slashdot writer; he has just enough writing skills to make his writings sound seductively intelligent to anybody who doesn't know the real story. The fact that Slashdot hired Michael should be deeply embarrassing to them, and is in fact eroding Slashdot's credibility according to comments made by some people who found out about the Censorware.org site. But Slashdot is apparently too deeply wedded that decision to reconsider, and comments from [Michael Sims' direct supervisor] have been more of the same along the lines of "They should work out their differences" instead of acknowledging Michael Sims's utterly disgraceful behavior as compared to the average person. You think Slashdot really believes Michael is trustworthy, after what he did? Do you think they're going to let him put the Slashdot.org domain in his name? :)

    -Bennett

  8. Speaking of iPods by spagiola · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What I'd like to see is a convenient way to download pix from a digital camera directly to an iPod, from where I could then transfer them to a laptop or desktop. There needn't be a way to actually see the pix on the iPod, just a way to get them in and out so that I can clear (or back up) the pix on a CF card while travelling without having to have a laptop with me at all times.