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Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM
neutron_p writes "A former Soviet Union military development finds its use in modern technology and still remains fascinating." The development comes in the form of a flexible microwire, 10 micrometers thick and 10cm long, with a metal body and a glass coating, which the linked article says "can store 10 Gigabytes of information. It is possible thanks to their magnetic properties. Anyway, it's not that easy. Researchers say that the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information."
yay, eat me.
properly?
I thought slashdot was run by open source fags, why does it look better in M$ Internet Exploder.
(+5 funny for combination of M$ and Internet exploder ROFLOLOLOOLOLOLO!!!1!)
I want a crateload to give to my boss. thanks!
In Soviet Russia, information reads you!
If Heinlein knew anything about math, he'd know this would never work. There is something called "impossible numbers" which are numbers that simply do not and cannot exist. Take for example the number 0.43223400240983312345432. It doesn't exist. It can't. It's impossible to generate by any means. And if that was the number you needed to express yoiur data, you couldn't. Which is why this would never work.
It's a quiet war being waged. If I see someone who needs my help in any way these days, I'm asking them who they voted for. If they say Bush, or if they refuse to tell me who they voted for, they're not getting my help. Period. I'm through with being a compassionate "liberal". I've had it with the morons who cut their nose to spite their face by voting for the worst candidate over someone who would have at least been mediocre and not favored the rich. If people don't know what is good for them and what is not, then they aren't getting any help from me ever again. Not that I thought Kerry was really good presidential material, but at least he wasn't going to restructure the US into a country where those of us who make meager earnings are going to suffer. Bush is making this a country where you ned to have at least a six figure salary to just get by since you're going to eventually have to pay for everything out of pocket. I hate the man. I hate the direction this country has taken and I hate every single person who voted for Bush.
Channeling The Ghost of T4D
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
I heard this guy can store several hundred gigabytes in his body on compressed layered DVDs. The greatest difficulty is in the reading of the information.