The sticher program is still a pain in the ass to use, and does take up a lot of time to assemble. he's right - it's not the best use of vacation time.

Using the TPB Top100 to determine if New Artists are able to break out through file sharing is fundamentally flawed.

The Top100 represents what people want, now, not what people will want. Top properly use these statistics you would need to do the following:

Identify all artists being traded illegally on TPB. Track them. See if they eventually become Top100 artists (esentially satisfying the hypothesis "piracy marketing" works). Then compare this with emerging artists using only "traditional" means of promotion. Even then you are only using one source, TPB, and not all artists that allow their music to be traded illegally to see if they then become successful.

There is a actually a group called "Anonymous" (p.45). Slashdot is NOT mentioned contrary to the summary.

"remove any or all Content from any Service"

What is the definition they use for "Service" because that is what they will be filtering from. I have a hard time thinking that your internet connection and the content from all web sites consititutes a Service.

This idea was featured in Spook Country by William Gibson.

So you are saying that you letters are really big? Clap for 800x600.

I'll chat with you in 6 months after my laptop has traveled another 20,000 miles and I'll let you know how my Intel M-25 has fared.

"Anyway, the make believe part is your thinking that by failing a write then your data is still readable which in fact majority of cases its dead Jim"

Are you sure about this - based on your previous flow:
"4) Chip reports back to controller erase success or fail"
is when the OS is notified by the drive that the write failed. Presumably, the drive or the OS might try another part of the bank, sector or what have you. At no point are you earsing non-free sectors.

It is fundamentally the write operation that causes the bits to fail, not the read. So the rest of the contents of the disk are fine - make an image and transfer to a new drive. Easy.

Yes.

The real key here is this: when an SSD drive can no longer execute a write - the disk you will let you know. Reads do not cause appreciable wear so you will end up with a read only disk when the drive has reached the end of it's life. This is vastly superior to the drive just dying becuase it's had enough of this cruel world.

I'd be interested to see some statistics on electrical failure of these drives though... but it seems that isn't as much of an issue.

Low double millsecond displays are ok?

Any idea if the Gigabit Audio bug is still in Windows 7. To test - play an audio track, then transfer a large file over the network via GbE. You should get the full transfer rate. In Vista it would limit the transfer rate to something closer to 100 Mbs. We were told this was to ensure proper audio playback.

Please stop posting articles from info world. The have ads after every page of the article and obtrusive on page overlays.

Thanks.