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Superman's memory crystals may become reality in computers (rewritable crystals?)
Telegraph ^
| 08/14/11
| Richard Gray
Posted on 08/20/2011 8:48:14 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: UCANSEE2
Doesn’t the crystal tic off at 33 1/2 mhz? No wonder my computer clock can’t stay in sync in real time.
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posted on
08/20/2011 11:42:38 PM PDT
by
Razzz42
To: Grizzled Bear
Several hundred years later, Mongols came along and destroyed all library collections in Baghdad as well as killing most of its residents. Karma at work?
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posted on
08/21/2011 12:27:48 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Pyramids have stood for thousands of years, but knowledge and information had no equivalent so far Actually the oldest baked clay tablets predate the pyramids
Progress: going from am information storage system that lasts 5000 years to one that can be corrupted by a fridge magnet.
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posted on
08/21/2011 12:48:16 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(New gets old. Steampunk is always cool)
To: TigerLikesRooster; ShadowAce
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posted on
08/21/2011 2:04:41 AM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: TigerLikesRooster
Shucks, I knew I should have filed my patent sooner.
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That's my home computer set up. The server is the one on the right. Data transfer is achieved through the special reserve data transmission fluid. Very high transfer rates can be achieved in the direct fluid to neuron receptor networks, the only draw back being at the receiving end, occasionally resulting in fluid memory dumps to the porcelain memory buffer. That's a software problem.
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posted on
08/21/2011 4:32:39 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Babylon 5 Computer Storage Crystals.
To: eddie willers
I would recommend Will Durant’s “Caeser and Christ” as interesting and readable history.
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posted on
08/21/2011 12:17:33 PM PDT
by
tal hajus
("Thank you sir. May I have another?" GOP)
To: Grizzled Bear; AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; ...
Thanks Grizzled Bear. It's amusing, I grew up listening to music and whatnot off 78s left over from my parents' youth, remember when "Stereo" on the dustjackets of LPs was a big deal, and the record players (which were mostly mono) had four speeds on 'em (16 2/3, 33 1/3, 45, 78); and the quad format wars (I never fired a shot in that); 8 track vs cassette; laserdisks vs that capacitance disk format; CDs; DVD vs that DVD with expiration date system pushed very hard by Circuit City (easy rental, if you liked it, you could pay the balance so it could run forever, otherwise it would expire; flopped like a fish out of water); HD-DVD vs BluRay...
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08/21/2011 4:26:57 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Grizzled Bear
...and can last for thousands of years without losing information.
How did they confirm this? ;-P
Perhaps Helen Thomas or Madelin AllDull gave a personal report from personal observations.
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posted on
08/21/2011 5:29:29 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: Covenantor
Now now.
OBLITERATING MEMORY
and
PRESERVING [NOT as in pickling]
memory are
two VERY DIFFERENT operations.
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posted on
08/21/2011 5:39:18 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: TigerLikesRooster
A hardened storage medium is necessary. I don't own one that will be guaranteed to last for more than a few decades, paper.
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posted on
08/22/2011 4:35:26 PM PDT
by
allmost
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