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Researchers Achieve Amazing Memory Density
Mr. Fahrenheit writes in with a Wired story on research out of Arizona State, where researchers have "developed a low-cost, low-power computer memory that could put terabyte-sized thumb drives in consumers' pockets within a few years... The new memory technology — programmable metallization cell (PMC) — comes as current storage technologies are starting to reach their physical limits." PMC involves the on-demand creation of copper nano-wire bridges. It's said to promise memories that are 1/10 the cost and 1/1000 the power consumption of conventional Flash memory. Three memory manufacturers have licensed the technology and the first chips are expected on the market in 18 months.
Who on earth would ever need more than a terabyte?
The game.
Finally, they will have a viable means to distribute Duke Nuke'm Forever!
Write your own Choose Your Own Adventure. http://www.freegameengines.org/gamebook-engine/
ah, just in time for the Year of the Linux desktop, you mean. I look forward to using them in the Paperless Office we'll all have.
Buy two, they're small.
how to secure it
Best way is to build in a Bluetooth interface with encryption, then swallow the memory module. (small grappling hooks will secure it to the lining of your small intestine). That way if the bad guys want your private information, they'll have to (quite literally) go through you to get it.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
... aaaand with Duke Nukem Forever preinstalled! Yay!
It would be great if they made it look just like a floppy. I would pull up a command prompt and format it everyday, just so I look like a smarty computer guy to all my coworkers.
And what a great excuse, "Sorry sir, I will get that report to you as soon as this thing formats. Oh, look at the time. See you in the morning."
FAQs are evil.
It's a shame that all that extra productivity will be completely negated when everybody gets addicted to Duke Nukem Forever.
I kinda wonder how much apple would charge to change the battery on THAT.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
That was a metaphor, and theyre mostly made of latex now
Not to brag or anything, but my library of congress is bigger than your library of congress by at least a couple of Volkswagens and a baseball.
Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
Hey, stick to The Rules. No new, paradigm-changing technologies are allowed to be announced as arriving in less than 5 years.
For that matter, they can't be more than 5 years out either!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I use security through clutter. I keep everything in one map. Every file has a cryptic name which only I can decyper, well, most of the time at least, just not on monday mornings. The map contains 10 files that are secret and about 25,000 intresting files I can't do without, I do intent to one day actualy look at them, if I can decyper their filenames at that particular day.
For backup, well, I have the same files in my gmail account, on 2 online harddisk services, on the 3 other computers I own, some of the files are printed and archived in a neat pile in the corner of my room (sorted from oldest to newest) and I sure my uncle Steve has a few of those files as well. The rest I can redownload if I ever need them and remember ever having them in the first place.
As for the real mission critical files, I use Kazaa: I put them in a zipfile, add an intresting movie or mp3, then share it. Most of these files are backed up on 125,400 computers, all spread out across the globe. Now who can say that about his backup policy? (other than the RIAA and the MPAA) The files are secure too, since I rename them to "My views on the political situation of flower gardens" and remove the extension.