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markie
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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 Posted - 09/08/2005 : 08:10:25 [Permalink]
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Mm.
I don't think it's happened already (though it just might), but large IT companies are working on it for sure (Hewlett-Packard, for instance). I had some articles about how HP was progressing on that, but I'll have to hunt them again. I wouldn't say twenty, but I think it'll take awhile. |
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woolytoad
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Posted - 09/08/2005 : 08:34:05 [Permalink]
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| Definitely too good to be true. |
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Ricky
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
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Posted - 09/08/2005 : 16:44:39 [Permalink]
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The very instant someone is trying to peddle Quantum-something, it's time to raise the skeptical warning-flag.
Except Quantum storage media of course. I haven't had Quantum harddrives myself, but mom and dad had two of them in their old HP 486sx33, and a friend had one too. They aren't as reliable as Seagate drives, but better than IBM's Deskstar series. |
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Dude
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Posted - 09/08/2005 : 23:09:26 [Permalink]
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quote:
Except Quantum storage media of course. I haven't had Quantum harddrives myself, but mom and dad had two of them in their old HP 486sx33, and a friend had one too. They aren't as reliable as Seagate drives, but better than IBM's Deskstar series.
Actually, the very high storage capacity of our current harddrives are a result of exploiting some quantum mechanical properties.
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Dr. Mabuse
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Sweden
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Posted - 09/09/2005 : 04:23:03 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dude
Actually, the very high storage capacity of our current harddrives are a result of exploiting some quantum mechanical properties.
That fact have escaped me, as I've not paid much attention to it (just used some very foul language every now and again as HDD failures made me loose GB of data). Could you offer examples? |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 09/09/2005 : 06:25:19 [Permalink]
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| Here's something that may or not be related. I've read some on this in various popular science mags over the last few years, so I know that people are at least thinking about such things... |
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Dude
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Posted - 09/09/2005 : 18:52:51 [Permalink]
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quote:
Could you offer examples?
Sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintronics
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 09/10/2005 : 15:02:37 [Permalink]
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This is very cool!
I didn't know about that... Thanks Dude!
(And here I thought I was a computer wiz) |
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Dude
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Posted - 09/10/2005 : 20:24:40 [Permalink]
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This is very cool!
Yeah. I want them to hurry up and make a 1TB ipod!
Once TB level storage becomes commonplace.... you could, literally, hook up a small video cam to your person and videotape your every waking moment... if you felt like it.
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Dude
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Posted - 09/30/2005 : 21:24:27 [Permalink]
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Hey Dr Mab,
Was just reading the latest edition of Science, thought you might find this interesting:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/309/5744/2173
Can only link to the abstract... but the paper suggests that a computer that exploits quantum principles such as these may indeed be possible.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
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"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
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