C'mon, the Memina Pocket Rocket, using faster SLC memory, can beat these write times and keeps up pretty well in read speeds too. I bought several for our office and they're great performers, noticeable difference compared to other drives we've had, and the price is almost exactly the same as any other flash drive.
http://www20.tomshardware.com/storage/20050322/ind ex.html
I'm not saying I don't agree to some extent, but when you say 'fix our country first', just when would you consider this 'done'? We CAN help our country and help others at the same time. But to put on a hold on help 'til our country is juuuuust right would be a hold to eternity. Child's Play is targeted to help sick children. Unfortunately, there will Always be sick children.
It's one big world and we're all in it. A little help to a neighbor in need (and we DON'T give that much help if you look at the figures) IS the right thing to do.
Umm, HUH? 'All that requires is getting in the open'?!? Maybe in your highschool gym class, but then, the same could be said about football, soccer, and hockey. You're obviously not familiar enough with Ultimate to qualify that comment, but you went ahead and said it even after your great start in the first two sentences.
Ultimate involves just as much strategy as any other field sport - whether you play man-to-man or slap on a zone, what type of stack, if any, you run, how you're calling your lines, and how you're using your speeds and height advantages/disadvantages to work for you. It is most definitely not just getting in the open.
Man, I've been talking about something like this for years, telling my friends the potential of something like this.
Think of the possibilities -
1. Yeah, you can have Elvis sing you some GWAR.
2. Have James Earl Jones read you bedtime stories from any ebook.
or
2a. Have ol' James reprise his role 50 year from now in a Star Wars remake.
3. Save HUGE amounts of storage space - a midi file vs a wav or mp3 file...10k midi, 5,000k mp3, 50,000k wav.
4. And, save bandwidth - you could download full albums or audio commentary in split seconds instead of minutes or hours.
5. Real-time voice translation. Talk into a mic, use voice recognition software to convert to text, straight to this output in a different voice - ever wanted to sound like Les Claypool? How about Marlon Brando? Easy with this...and in real-time.
5a. Potential for VoIP here?
If we can 'map' each person's voice, not necessarily through samples but through descriptive equations (I believe eventually it will be done - a 3d characteristic model of the larynx and anything pertaining to voice that makes us distinct), we could attach that as a header to a text file, or if you want feeling, a voice-midi file with more descriptive info. It's make for some crazy pranks, but could also be hugely benificial.
I've been itchin with this idea for a while, hope I see it come to light.
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C'mon, the Memina Pocket Rocket, using faster SLC memory, can beat these write times and keeps up pretty well in read speeds too. I bought several for our office and they're great performers, noticeable difference compared to other drives we've had, and the price is almost exactly the same as any other flash drive. http://www20.tomshardware.com/storage/20050322/ind ex.html
I'm not saying I don't agree to some extent, but when you say 'fix our country first', just when would you consider this 'done'? We CAN help our country and help others at the same time. But to put on a hold on help 'til our country is juuuuust right would be a hold to eternity. Child's Play is targeted to help sick children. Unfortunately, there will Always be sick children.
It's one big world and we're all in it. A little help to a neighbor in need (and we DON'T give that much help if you look at the figures) IS the right thing to do.
Umm, HUH? 'All that requires is getting in the open'?!? Maybe in your highschool gym class, but then, the same could be said about football, soccer, and hockey. You're obviously not familiar enough with Ultimate to qualify that comment, but you went ahead and said it even after your great start in the first two sentences.
Ultimate involves just as much strategy as any other field sport - whether you play man-to-man or slap on a zone, what type of stack, if any, you run, how you're calling your lines, and how you're using your speeds and height advantages/disadvantages to work for you. It is most definitely not just getting in the open.
Man, I've been talking about something like this for years, telling my friends the potential of something like this.
Think of the possibilities -
1. Yeah, you can have Elvis sing you some GWAR.
2. Have James Earl Jones read you bedtime stories from any ebook.
or
2a. Have ol' James reprise his role 50 year from now in a Star Wars remake.
3. Save HUGE amounts of storage space - a midi file vs a wav or mp3 file...10k midi, 5,000k mp3, 50,000k wav.
4. And, save bandwidth - you could download full albums or audio commentary in split seconds instead of minutes or hours.
5. Real-time voice translation. Talk into a mic, use voice recognition software to convert to text, straight to this output in a different voice - ever wanted to sound like Les Claypool? How about Marlon Brando? Easy with this...and in real-time.
5a. Potential for VoIP here?
If we can 'map' each person's voice, not necessarily through samples but through descriptive equations (I believe eventually it will be done - a 3d characteristic model of the larynx and anything pertaining to voice that makes us distinct), we could attach that as a header to a text file, or if you want feeling, a voice-midi file with more descriptive info. It's make for some crazy pranks, but could also be hugely benificial.
I've been itchin with this idea for a while, hope I see it come to light.