Once you factor in the total cost of ownership for a disk-based SAN eg: heat/cooling/maintenance/etc... Flash is actually pretty cheap.

Sounds like they are just using different wavelength (wavelength = color) lasers to push multiple signals down the same strand...

This is an old idea and is already in use all over the world.

  -- Dave

I saw that site a few weeks ago when folks were going gaga over PS's "new" feature (GIMP Resynth has been around for a few years now)...

I'm sure Adobe has seen it, I'm sure Adobe took the time to try and make theirs better.

The question is the Adobe implementation worth the cost of PS, or is the GIMP plugin "Good enough"

That really comes down to the consumer though. I think it is "Good enough" for my needs...I can easily touch-up anything it does that I disagree with.

  -- Dave

And if you read Hack A Day, you could have read about it 5 days ago...

http://hackaday.com/2010/04/15/mindstorm-plays-tetris-for-you/

-- Dave

I have Verizon and pay $4/month for 400 txt messages...

That's $0.01/message.

And anyone in the US can get that.

  -- Dave

WANem is a FANTASTIC product.

I use it heavily at work for generating latency into our net applications to see how they might behave across really shitty links.

It's great injecting out of sequence and randomly ordered packets at the click of a button =)

  -- Dave

Quantum would be an atomically short distance...

IE: a "Quantum leap" is just an electron jumping to another valence level in an atom... it's not a very large distance =)

I think you are forgetting that Michael Jackson owns the rights to all of the Beatles songs (in a joint partnership with Sony).

He bought the company that held the rights for $47 million in 1985.

  -- Dave

F'ing Metallicops, go!

Well, according to this Live Blog from someone who was at the event, and blogging during it, Gates did release some of the mosquitos...

-- Dave

http://www.fusionio.com/Products.aspx

They have a test sheet there...

Their #s quoted are for 1KB and 512KB, but they show 140K IOPS random read @ 1KB...

We tested an array of 5 of the 320GB cards and tested with MS's SQLIO app and pulled some fantastic #s...

This is still just RAM pretending to be a hard drive, SATA in this case...

Let me know when they produce a NAND based flash memory card that plugs directly into the PCI bus for ridiculous IOPS...

Oh, wait... they've already done that... it's called FusionIO...

FusionIO is the only real SSD solution right now if you need to push > 80k IOPS.

These aren't the cheapest things out there, but if you run large databases and need to get your database to actually be per formant... an array of these is the way to go.

A bunch of ram pig-tailed off of SATA is just horrifically slow in comparison...

-- Dave

Not even the Wayback Machine can save them...

"We're sorry, access to http://www.journalspace.com/ has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt."

-- Dave