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    Future of high capacity storage: HDD or SSD?

    I see announcements for 12TB HDD drives, and 60-96TB on the SSD side (Seagate, Toshiba in 3.5" form factor). Are we coming to a point where SSD drives' capacity is overtaking HDD's? How did SSD drives gain such a hugh capacity advance in so little time? Actually, half the explanation seems...
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    SATA Express 3.2 16 Gbps

    Thanks for the information, that's what it looked like to me, hence this post. Even if we won't see SATAe, I still think we'll see more of SATA, maybe with regular (not Express) versions 3.1 and 3.2. PCIe drives such as NVMe seem more aimed to the enterprise market and still years away, even if...
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    Looking for a solid 4TB drive to buy -- need 24 of them

    Why 8 x 4TB drives when you can get 3 x 10TB Hitachi drives? OK, these ones are filled with helium and speak funny, but Western Digital recently released improved datacenter drives, the low power RE+ 6TB drives that look very interesting and worth investigating.
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    SATA Express 3.2 16 Gbps

    Any news at all on this new class of drives, motherboards or chipsets? I couldn't find any announcement of upcoming or future devices on the web besides the unfinished Asus motherboard prototype from last year. 3.2 was ratified back in 2013, and from past experience, it takes about that long...
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    sata vs SAS?

    The Optimus SSDs are optimized for storage size, and can sustain "only" 1 to 3 full drive writes per day. The Lightning SSDs are smaller but twice faster, and can sustain 25 full drive writes per day. Still, it is amazing that they are able to pack 4 terabytes into a 2.5 inch form factor. That...
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    Huffington Post to Ban Internet Troll Comments

    It is amazing that a site that often posts on social and controversial issues would not protect the privacy of its users. They say they want to eliminate trolls, but that's what non-anonymous users will be faced with: Trolls that can search they address and all personal information from their...
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    ET3 is Building a 'Hyperloop' Transport System

    Well they tried the vacuum trains 170 years ago in Ireland and Britain, where the air pressure behind the train and the vacuum in front created the propulsion, but that wouldn't work in a system with capsules, and a pure vacuum would be too unsafe, so I guess there has to be air. A train system...
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    Google Increases Rewards for Bug Bounty Programs

    I love their program, I reported a bug on Google Reader in March, and they told me there will be a drastic fix for it on July 1st. ;)
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    500K Google Reader Users Convert to Feedly

    Truth be told, I did not convert to Feedly, but I added it to Reader, just as I have also been trying out Newsburn and TheOldReader on their own Firefox pinned tabs for a couple of days now. Which really makes me regret the day when Reader will disappear, because these really crappy feed readers...
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    Google To Retire Reader RSS Service

    Not "whatever random corporation", in this case a quasi monopoly in the field of RSS readers, because Google virtually killed the competition. A healthy web-based app market would avoid that problem. A good proprietary app working only on some versions of Windows can be abandoned just as well...
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    Google To Retire Reader RSS Service

    This will really be a sad day if they remove Reader in July. The alternative solutions just don't have the server and bandwidth power Google has to keep feeds updated frequently across browsers and platforms, not even mentioning that Reader works flawlessly and is a rock-solid piece of the web...
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    Ratpadz XT $25 w/Free Shipping

    It would be really good if it was flat, but like several users reported, mine was received slightly bended and there's no way to flatten it back. Plus the sticky pads at the bottom use a very poor quality glue or it's their curved design that's flawed, I don't know, but I lost 2 of the front...
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    Illegal Music Downloading Decreased Significantly In 2012

    Ah well, the crap is the 200+ albums I listened to and didn't make it in my To Buy list in the past 3 months. I take it you haven't even listened to these songs and albums I listed, or may not even have heard of several of these artists (I knew less than 50% of them too before I listened to...
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    Illegal Music Downloading Decreased Significantly In 2012

    Let's not kid ourselves, artists get absolutely nothing from Spotify or LastFM, something like $100 for one million listens, they get their money only indirectly, like when you discover them via Spotify and you buy the CD, merchandise, or go to a concert. There's still no satisfying way of...
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    Illegal Music Downloading Decreased Significantly In 2012

    That's total BS, there's 123 scene or other release albums that made my To Buy list alone in the past 3 months, 55 from 2013, out of 337 in total. And I don't even listen to heavy metal or hip-hop/rap: 2Cellos - In2ition - 2013 3 Doors Down - The Greatest Hits - 2012 77 Bombay Street - Oko...
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    Intel Will Lead Us to à la Carte Pay TV

    Probably won't change anything in my "consumption" of TV, as I don't watch it. Might be useful for some live events, like sports or elections, but I don't watch the former either, and the latter is better covered interactively and for free from the TV networks' web sites. I like the idea of...
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    Tesla Disputes NY Times Article With Data Logs

    The data logs and charts are actually the best proof that Broder did not lie. His only fault was not to charge fully at Milford when he already experienced on the first stage of his trip that the expected and actual range were wildly different in cold weather.
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    Tesla Disputes NY Times Article With Data Logs

    What failures and lies? Everything NYT's Broder reported is backed up by Tesla's logs. The only fail really is the first supercharge at Milford, which was not a full charge, and was followed by an overnight stop without plugging in the car, and was further followed by a charge up to 32 miles of...
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    Microsoft’s Data-Center Tab Tops $15B

    That's nothing, less than half the capitalization loss ($4 stock price decrease in the past year) since Microsoft started showing Windows 8.
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    Kaspersky Update Hoses Internet Access For XP Users

    There are many computers for which the upgrade is not an option because of physical constraints, it would mean throwing away a good working computer and buy a new one. Let them run the operating system they were designed for, they'll die soon enough.
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    Microsoft Surface Pro The Template For New PCs?

    Microsoft defines the new PC by putting the electronics of its TABLET behind the monitor, really? All iPad owners must feel cheated with what is now, I assume, the obsolete location of their electronics. The tablets will probably encourage laptop (not PC) manufacturers to also shift the...
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    Microsoft's 13 Worst Missteps Of All Time

    They missed the huge and fugly Smart Watch too.
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    Microsoft's 13 Worst Missteps Of All Time

    The good thing is that they learn from their mistakes. Not. They missed one in the #7 Branding section of email clients, before Outlook there was Microsoft Exchange, the client for Exchange Server. Which reminds me of the Bedlam DL 3 incident that I survived while at Microsoft Ireland. I...
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    Amazon Launching AutoRip CDs

    Won't be lossless though, but at least you'll have the CDs should you want a better quality later, and full control on how to give away or resell your CDs, compared to MP3s for which you barely have any right and the media expire with you.
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    Amazon Launching AutoRip CDs

    *stuck
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    Amazon Launching AutoRip CDs

    It did add about 450 CD albums, so the 250 songs are just for iTunes or other stuff you purchased outside of amazon.com, or amazon.com CDs that Cloud Player does not know yet. It seems to be stick there though, at about 15% of my Amazon CD music. So I have about 6,400 songs there, but I am not...
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    Amazon Launching AutoRip CDs

    It's not at all as it seems, I got my 21 Amazon MP3s listed in the Cloud Player, but it also says I have space for only 250 more songs, far from the 3,000+ CDs I bought from Amazon;com/.fr/.de/.co.uk. It seems that to get my albums, I would need to purchase Cloud Player Premium for $250 per...
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    Data Saved In Quartz Glass Could Last 300M Years

    Why develop new mineral media when we've already had proven technology such as black basalt in 2001: A Space Odyssey for 45 years at best, or 12 years at worst?
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    25% Of Americans Own A Tablet

    They counted the people who owned a tablet at the time of the survey, not the ones that bought one 2 years ago.
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    25% Of Americans Own A Tablet

    No it doesn't, dedicated e-readers are another 19%, tablets or e-readers combined are 33%. Tablets include iPad, Kindle Fire (a tablet, not an e-reader) and more, but the article does not list which devices precisely. But I guess it's every tablet that is not a dedicated e-reader. 25-33%...
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    Instagram Down 4M Users Since TOS Change?

    I preferred Dailybooth anyway, the grandfather of picture comments, before Instagram and tumblr. Too bad their managers sucked and they never made anything of the site, but it seems that even so, very few DB users moved to Instagram when DB shut down. It was a real success with gay teenagers...
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    OMG! GOING INSANE! Where can I find mouse pad material?!

    A laser mouse will run on pretty much every surface, maybe you are too restrictive in your search. You might find what you want in an auto shop, like these sprays or liquid cans they use to rubberize the metallic bottom of a pick-up truck bed. That looks just as rugged as a Ratpadz pad. There...
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    20TB Data Archival a year on the cheap .... help

    Tapes are still the best for cheap long term archival. Here's a cost estimate for 20 TB a year: LTO-5 First year: $2,200-3,000 ($2,000 for the tape drive, $1,200 if used, 2 copies of 14 tapes at $35 for 1.5 TB each) Next years: $1,000 for the tapes, set aside an extra $670 for a new tape...
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    Why Microsoft Redesigned Windows

    Trying to imagine how a tactile dildo i.e. joystick would work as a touch device for desktop users. You would be able to do several unique gestures that you can't do on a touch screen, One particularly comes to mind... American touch dildos will of course come without the foreskin and the...
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    Samsung 840 Pro SSD Review @ [H]

    Missing one model, or the word "also" in page 2. The 840 Pro was my reason for switching to SSDs: 21 nm, faster than most SSDs, relatively cheap for the top of the line, 256 GB capacity good enough for Windows and all apps I plan to use and small enough to be backed up as a system image, a...
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    Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Doorbell

    It should be cheap to build, a great Arduino or Raspberry Pro project to connect to the home network. The most expensive part would be the camera, although I think all the doorbell cam videos were green-screened.
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    Burger Making Robot Can Make 360 Per Hour

    Now all we need is a robot to eat all that junk food...
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    Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Doorbell

    I have something similar, I managed to get one of these TSA devices when they replaced them with the less intrusive ones at SEATAC airport, so now I can watch the UPS cute guy naked. I am ordering one CD from Amazon every day... I just had to tell him where to stand and that the big button on...
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    Everyone In US Under Virtual Surveillance

    The only thing new there is that since 9-11 they can now spy legally on Americans from America. Before that, they had to do it from Britain But that 2-billion datacenter does not bode well in these times of expected budget cuts. Although it would probably save some money since one of its...
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    Flash Memory Made Immortal by Fiery Heat

    So basically, the heat is baking the NAND into clay tablets that can still be rewritten a million times? I like that, if it can store the information unpowered for dozens of years (I don't care about read/write cycles for archiving usage.)
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