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- inactive, on 10/28/2007, -0/+46You're absolutely right! We as a society should 100% focus on curing cancer and absolutely nothing else. It's time we get our priorities straight.
Now, where to store all this DNA sequencing information.... Ahh *****! - geminitojanus, on 10/28/2007, -4/+43Long overdue. Congrats Fert for finally getting the Nobel.
- abddoc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40Wow. My prof was speaking about this in our early morning 8:00am class today. His words, "You think you've had a bad day coming to class today? I woke up at 6.00am with a call saying that one of my biggest rivals won the Nobel Prize for Physics. There is no *$&%^$ way my design is ever getting approved now. Never!" Apparently, for the last 10 years my prof and Fert were battling each other in making spin-electron diodes (a completely unrelated subject to the hard drive technology), and with Fert winning the Nobel prize, even if both designs are usable, Fert's will be chosen just because. Also, Fert will now be the editor for a jebusgazillion science periodicals, thus my prof's design, if ever perfected, would be refused. There is a lot of politics behind the Nobel Prizes. Congrats to Fert though!
- XivGNP, on 10/28/2007, -2/+36Nobel Prize in PHYSICS, not medicine. Seriously, people.
- dotlizard, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22and i'll bet that the folks working on curing cancer benefit greatly from advances in storage technology, as does every who must work with large amounts of data.
- Brian48216, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12that's why there's a Nobel Prize for MEDICINE dumbass.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13and Peter Grunberg too, awesome work
related: 1GB, then and now - http://sd4.sd-lj.si/diggit/20yago.jpg - 68024, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Why am I getting dugg down?
...Oh. - vince916, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9and your professors name is?
- fireballfreddy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Yeah baby. Get perpendicular! (Hard drive style, that is...)
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_h ... - atbnet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Why is it sad? You can't understand how everything works, so that means we shouldn't use it. As long as you don't explain something as being 'magic' then I don't think it really matters.
- zdiggler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Every thing you see here and every thing you saw on the web are stored in a hard drive some where. Hard Drive storage been something that people just overlook.
- subcomandante, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5(Score:5, Insightful)
- djdole, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Since when are they giving THE TECHNOLOGY that is based upon the physics, the Nobel prize?
Could the submitter have written a more inaccurate title? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8My 1 TB HD thanks you. :)
- theblacknight, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3... You're stupid. GMR is important to way more things than just every hard drive made in the last 10 years. GMR opened up the entire field of spintronics and the underlying physics relating conducting electron spins to non-conducting electron spins and nuclear spins. If MRAM ever gets off the ground, it could replace more than just hard drives and flash.
- etnu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Do you understand how every function of your body works? No? Then isn't it sad that you're alive?
- hardharry, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I did not realize how much work went into Hard drives. They really are advanced technology.
- Giga, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4"Steve Ballmer awards Steve Jobs the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics."
I believe I just wrote a more inaccurate title. - djdole, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Obviously deltabourne won't be winning any Nobel prizes in reading anytime soon....if not ever. o_O
- sanman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3How long before warp drive technology?
- Pake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I find it pretty stupid that the science portion requires time, while the prize in peace is fairly short. They should all be subject to time, considering how many scandels someone like Kofi Annan has been apart of.
- theblacknight, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3They had to see how big the field of spintronics that they started would get. The technology that spun off of the basic research is just a plus into someone's pocketbook. And like I said in another reply, GMR is important to way more things than just every hard drive made in the last 10 years. GMR opened up the entire field of spintronics and the underlying physics relating conducting electron spins to non-conducting electron spins and nuclear spins. If MRAM ever gets off the ground, it could replace more than just hard drives and flash.
- jackyyll, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3... You're stupid. If we didn't have hard drives as big as they are today, or at all, you wouldn't have made that comment, and i wouldn't have to call you stupid...
- iofthestorm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2In fact, microSDs exist in 2GB sizes for regular ones and SDHC ones go up to 8 I think.
- rune420, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I agree that it's weird to think someone can spend a large portion of their life staring into a TV screen without having a clue as to how it works (which is pretty simple actually), but some people just don't have an interest to understand their surroundings like that. I wouldn't call it sad though.
- ziffel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2This honestly might be the stupidest post I've ever seen on Digg, and that's saying something.
- fantasticFlan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2The Nobel prizes are like that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#Recogniti ...
- Phantom784, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Or as "God did it"
- Giga, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0They had to see how far the technology would go before they could decide whether it was worthy...
...that, or they are just slow at processing nominations. - solid12345, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0God bless these guys, without them we'd have to pay for our music, movies, and porn!
- laksoy81, on 02/15/2008, -0/+0Thank's to this guys (Hard drive tech is growing up...)
http://www.eyturkgencligi.org - Andrew33, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0FAIL
- ryseup, on 02/27/2009, -0/+0this is kinda of funny actually
http://www.missacaiberry.com/ - bootle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Long overdue? I think this is just a good indication that physics isn't having much luck recently.
- msjo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Thank god Al Gore didn't win the nobel prize for inventing the Internet.
- agashka, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2So, Hard Drives win prizes just as it's about to become obsolete?
- fantasticFlan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1One problem at a time! I vote for solving crime after cancer.
- Imalek, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1actually, take the SD card he is holding, and divide it by 4... (micro SD/trans Flash Card)...
now compare them...
EVEN more amazing huh? - Pake, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I was just thinking that when I read the description. About freaking time.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Being able to store lots of porn is meaningless without a monitor.
Give an award to the guy that invented SVGA.
Unless you like printing your porn. - wwnexc, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1Thank You.
- prleet, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0the saddest thing is that most of you have no clue how electricity and magnetism works, and yet most of you use technology based on it....your life revolves on it... "YbBaCu"
- HanSolo69, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2I don't feel that allowing people to have a 120GB iPod is Nobel Prize worthy.
Now, gimme a 12GB microSD card and we can talk. - 68024, on 10/10/2007, -10/+3Who ferted?
...Oh. - guest2117, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2totally wicked
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