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CES 2008 Hall of Shame
Romana Reynolds writes "The CES 2008 Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Showcase honored the Atom Chip Corporation, which was exhibiting the same 100GB, 500GB, and 1TB 'quantum optical' memory chips back in 2006. We actually wandered by, but long gone are the 'SolarMemory' chips, and he didn't know anything about Duke Nuk'em Forever. A little easy digging shows that they'd been making the same extraordinary claims and exhibiting prototypes at CES during the past three years, long enough to make 'atom chip hoax' the fourth suggestion on typing 'atom chip' into Google. I'm amused that the 'preeminent' panel of judges failed their vetting and gatekeeping functions. But I fear that Atom Chip will gather investors based on their recognition at CES, and continue in the game for many years to come, while honors at CES become a Hall of Shame."
Aren't they going to use that in the Phantom console?
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Quantum optical? C'mon, is it just me or doesn't that just sound like they made that up after watching a Star Trek: The Next Generation marathon on Spike?
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I well expect to get that $10k I invested into atom chip back, with excellent interest.
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Yes, I know that my $10k investment is only worth $5 now, but that's just the cost of R&D, it'll come back!
It's not coming back, is it?
Sounds like Atom Chips does the Dew:
"The company has developed a series of new Quantum and Quantum-Optical devices for storing and processing information in a way that permits high-speed data accessibility, with a high degree of reliability, non-volatility, and extremely high-density in an extremely compact size."
Quick! Hire him as an editor!
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Argggg! That nearly made my eyes bleed.
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Atom chips go great with quarkamole.
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It's not file system aware.
When you run the file system on your pc computer, it opens the quantum disk and reads to the LCD on the side for automatic update! Thank you. [Buy Now]
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Wow. That is quite an eye-opener. My favorite page is "Greenwich Time Debunked," which states:
"Old Hold For New Construction."
Absolutely brilliant.
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PATENT PANDING, it's nto a typo. They are pandering for a patent.
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This page suggests that the memory devices they are creating have a small display to show the free space on the chip. Wouldn't this suggest that they are making these chips filesystem aware and able to read free space?
Nah, they just treat every memory cell storing a 1 as "used", and every cell storing a 0 as "free".
That calculation's much easier to do with the modest computing power of a USB stick than actual filesystem awareness would be.
Urgh, now that I've actually looked through them, I'd prefer a -1, Skankathon. I know there's a recession on, but damn it, you don't cut your Booth Babe budget, ever.
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