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From: Jim Yanik on 3 May 2010 15:00 "Tim Williams" <tmoranwms(a)charter.net> wrote in news:hrn15p$l29$1(a)news.eternal-september.org: > "Jim Yanik" <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote in message > news:Xns9D6D764C8DDBDjyaniklocalnetcom(a)216.168.3.44... >> memory cards are closest to what you propose. >> all you need is to have a card reader or USB converter. >> I suppose they could be made big enough you would not lose them >> inadvertently. > > Form factor is right, but the cheapest at Newegg is $4.89 (1GB > MicroSD). They're the size of postage stamps, it's time for the price > to follow! > > ...Which has kind of a double meaning... either the memory comes down, > or actual postage stamps continue to rise. :-( > > Tim > last year,I tried to find a low cost 256MB SD card for my Polaroid digital camera,and couldn't. It turned out a $10 1GB card would work despite the warning in the camera op manual. I guess the demand for such low-cap devices has evaporated. (I also bought a 128MB USB stick,a closeout,at Target for $6.) I wonder if some Chinese company has lower prices on 1 GB cards? I'm sure they are low cost in volume...maybe you could do a volume buy; it's not like they would spoil over time. aren't those microSD cards used as SIMcards for cellphones? -- Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com
From: Spehro Pefhany on 3 May 2010 15:13 On Mon, 03 May 2010 14:00:26 -0500, Jim Yanik <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote: >"Tim Williams" <tmoranwms(a)charter.net> wrote in >news:hrn15p$l29$1(a)news.eternal-september.org: > >> "Jim Yanik" <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote in message >> news:Xns9D6D764C8DDBDjyaniklocalnetcom(a)216.168.3.44... >>> memory cards are closest to what you propose. >>> all you need is to have a card reader or USB converter. >>> I suppose they could be made big enough you would not lose them >>> inadvertently. >> >> Form factor is right, but the cheapest at Newegg is $4.89 (1GB >> MicroSD). They're the size of postage stamps, it's time for the price >> to follow! >> >> ...Which has kind of a double meaning... either the memory comes down, >> or actual postage stamps continue to rise. :-( >> >> Tim >> > >last year,I tried to find a low cost 256MB SD card for my Polaroid digital >camera,and couldn't. It turned out a $10 1GB card would work despite the >warning in the camera op manual. Had the opposite experience with my Tek scope. It wouldn't work at all with a small 2G CF card (in fact, I had to low-level format the card to recover from the attempt- kept showing 512M capacity afterward). The scope works okay with 32M-256M cards. > >I guess the demand for such low-cap devices has evaporated. >(I also bought a 128MB USB stick,a closeout,at Target for $6.) > >I wonder if some Chinese company has lower prices on 1 GB cards? >I'm sure they are low cost in volume...maybe you could do a volume buy; >it's not like they would spoil over time. They will probably be just as unreliable years from now as the day you buy them. Seriously, does anyone really have time for non-name-brand guaranteed memory? You want to trust vacation photos or other irreplacable data to a cheap off-brand card? For handing out data at seminars with the mfr logo on them, maybe, provided the failure/DOA rate is less than a couple tenths of a percent.
From: Paul Keinanen on 3 May 2010 15:42 On Sun, 02 May 2010 22:34:51 -0700, WarmUnderbelly <WarmUnderbellyOfAmerica(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: > > Massive datagrams are the future. VOD is the future. Get used to it. > > Yes, it is wasteful, but so is knowing that there is a program (or >could be)that local node servers could run to store VODs and replay them >from a more local hop count on subsequent requests. Don't expect brains >like that any time soon though. Near Video on demand would be more practical. Assuming a 90 minute program and a replay starting every minute, there would be 90 active streams at any time. Assuming 2 Mbit/s for the MPEG-4 SD stream, this would require 180 Mbit/s. For nearly a decade ago, a single transatlantic DWDM fibre could carry 80 wavelengths with at least 10 Gbit/s each, thus 800 Gbit/s total or 400,000 MPEG-4 SD streams or nearly 4500 NVOD streams starting every minute for 90 minute streams.
From: Tim Williams on 3 May 2010 18:35 "Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:hrnf2b$ihp$1(a)news.albasani.net... > Also have some early 32 MB memory cards for a DMP100 mp3 player.... > Probably never to be used again, although that player still works fine. I have a 128MB CF laying around somewhere. Came with my camera. Good thing the camera supports 1GB cards. It's still CF though... Tim -- Deep Friar: a very philosophical monk. Website: http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms
From: Archimedes' Lever on 5 May 2010 01:23
On Tue, 04 May 2010 14:00:36 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: >The only benefit with USB3 flash would be if the flash was seriously >fast it could then replace a HDD and SATA > A decent speed stick could completely replace one's "RAMdisk" or Virtual memory or what the current nom de plume is. Then applications would have to get completely revamped to use up available RAM better as well as the new virtual areas, and what form of use (what code goes where) could be developed to optimize it. We could just bypass PCI altogether and hang USB 3 sticks all around the CPU. Hell, we could even get rid of conventional RAM. |