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Data Transfer Has A Speed Limit
ChrisHanel writes "Yahoo News is reporting that despite the infinite climb data speeds seem to be making, scientists at Stanford say we'll eventually hit a barrier due to the inability to keep the data stable after a certain transfer speed. But no worries just yet; the watermark they've set is still 1,000 times faster than what we have now." Apparently: "The scientists confirmed this problem by firing up the particle accelerator at Stanford University and blasting electrons at a piece of the magnetic material used to store computer data."
Porn.
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I am still confident that a 747 full of DVDs will beat anything we have in the next few years. Sadly the latency is a bit too high for quake.
"The scientists confirmed this problem by firing up the particle accelerator at Stanford University and blasting electrons at a piece of the magnetic material used to store computer data." I wish I had a particle accelerator just lying around, that'd be sweet.
However, Seagate's chief technology officer, Mark Kryder, said the project had few real implications for the data-storage industry.
"Certainly we are not going to start packaging linear accelerators into hard disk drives,
Fools, cutting themself out of the linear accelerator harddrive market already. I'm switching to WD..the transit rate of the average human digestive system has a maximum speed too, but you don't need to feed someone a cayenne and wasabi-laden, amoebic dysentery-infested mexican dinner plate in order to prove it ;-P
but, i suppose, you don't need to throw elemental sodium into a swimming pool to do basic chemistry either
so rock on particle physicists!
it must be fun to play with accelerators...
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
c
should be enough for everyone.
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Infinite pigeons with infinite discs yields infinite data speed.
No, the reason they used humans was that the cows didn't look nearly as cool in the fight scenes.
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The scary thing is that someone will figure out how to fit that particle accelerator into a hard disk enclosure before we figure out how to make the battery on my laptop last a full workday without a recharge.