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- popzero, on 06/09/2009, -1/+93Awesome! Our far future descendants will surely cherish our cat videos and midget porn.
- cheesylobster, on 06/09/2009, -1/+68Evidently, one day the internets really will be "a series of tubes." Senator Ted Stevens was just way ahead of his time.
- SpoonMSU, on 06/09/2009, -0/+29So when can I expect to purchase one for 10x what it's worth at Best Buy?
- DarthMonkey, on 06/09/2009, -1/+27A billion years from now, diggers will re-re-re-post this article and laugh at how ancient and feeble this technology was.
- mjk340, on 06/09/2009, -1/+24I'm waiting for the Chinese to develop one at a tenth of the cost before I pick mine up.
- knifesideleft, on 06/09/2009, -1/+21Never, If we discover everything we will probably just get bored and simulate a universe and put ourselves in it with blank memories to rediscover everything again. Maybe we are all inside one right now! "Mysterious jingle"
- manicdvln, on 06/09/2009, -0/+18Buried as inaccurate, title says memory data will last for eternity and yet article states only a billion years.
- inactive, on 06/09/2009, -6/+22I remember when CD-R was supposed to store data for "eternity".
Then it turned into 200 years, then 100, then 20 years, and now some CDs and DVDs I burned 5 years ago don't work anymore.
Is technology bound to be an eternal disappointment? - radix2, on 06/09/2009, -0/+12As awesome as it may sound, we have to be able to read the format (both media and file). I've got tapes at work that probably still retain the backups on them from 15 years ago, but I just do not have the kit to read them. Sure some people may be able to, but more and more these things are being relegated to museums - mostly static rather than archival...
So while it is great that these guys may have developed a memory substrate that can last that long, your cat porn and midgetcanhazcheezburger images may be destined for an indecipherable future. Sad I know. :-/ - malcolmlo, on 06/09/2009, -0/+11Its not instantaneous enough.
- Chirp08, on 06/09/2009, -2/+12that's what she said
- shaka776, on 06/09/2009, -0/+10Eternity > a billion years. Ask any mathematician, Christian or linguist.
- tgc1, on 06/09/2009, -0/+9An Iron Particle? I can't wait until we start seeing articles about Data Rust. How long until we start seeing lubricants for our memory cards? Hahahaha.
In part i'm always hyped about technological innovations such as this one. But in all honesty, we're all too often disappointed when things like this finally get around to coming to market. - irkalla, on 06/09/2009, -0/+8Isn't the near-instantaneous transmission of information from just about anywhere in the world good enough for you?
- akaakc, on 06/09/2009, -0/+8AHAHAHAHA, so far this is the best one I've read from you, 123. You're crackin' me up. Of course, I'm reading all of these assuming that you're just being funny...I really hope I'm right.
- Claverhouse, on 06/09/2009, -0/+7*cries*
- Bigballa5412, on 06/09/2009, -0/+7Not exactly an eternity, but holy smokes, imagine leaving some of these with the records of our civilization someplace.
Would be alot safer than books! Lost alot of literature from the past civilizations due to fires and whatnot. - Culyt, on 06/09/2009, -2/+8SSD's rank heaps faster than 7200RPM ones, even the VelociRaptors (although for decent random write you need either a Intel or OCZ Vertex), there speeds will also scale massively (either in RAID or individual drive speeds as the technology improves). By the end of 2010 they will probably be on a decent price level with magnetic HDDs (not necessarily cheaper space wise but well worth it speed/price wise, its close to being worth it now depending on how you use your system, obviously they aren't useful for storing large amounts of data but thats not what they are for, you just need to store your used data like the OS and programs).
D-Wave are building commercial quantum processors, they have done 128bit ones and are now working towards 1024bit ones. These are not true quantum processors. It is also not surprising that in 9 years an entirely new computer architecture hasn't sprung into existence, it generally takes a minimum of 20 years. Quantum computers only really do factorization, but they do it well. Generally the square root of the time it takes a normal computer. No body ever claimed quantum processors where going to replace regular ones.
Basically none of the crap you claimed was ever actually claimed, you have taken a bunch of ***** hype completely out of context. Just because you seem to have problems understanding technology, doesn't mean its not progressing. - Hellahulla, on 06/09/2009, -0/+5Remember to leave some drives for the media, and software to read the files on the device, not to mention an operating system that the software and drivers work on oh an a computer so they can get the operating system to work.
Anyone discovering our electrified records may be more advanced than us. Remember we are more advanced than a lot of our past civilisations, but we can't understand or read everything they left. - rompom7, on 06/09/2009, -1/+6GordonFree, you must be young. I am only 22 years old and I can clearly see how much technology has directly impacted the lives of so many.
"Is technology bound to be an eternal disappointment?"
Is the glass half empty or half full? You must be a pessimist if you think technology is disappointing. It's not technology that is letting you down, it is your belief that you deserve faster/smaller technology.
I heard this story of an airliner testing internet access in airplanes. A flight attendant announced that they are performing a trial of the worlds first wifi access for commercial airliners. So a man opened his laptop and started surfing the net. Ten minutes into the flight and the wifi went down, a flight attendant apologized and told everyone that there was a minor problem with the wifi and thanked everyone who helped with the trail run. The man, upset, started to boo and complain. The technology had only been around for 10 minutes, it was pretty much unheard of before then, and this man felt as if he deserved it. If this doesn't say anything about human nature, I don't know what does. - akaakc, on 06/09/2009, -0/+5I really hope not...because then I'd feel bad. If he's serious...oh man, wtf...
- BDOUG, on 06/09/2009, -0/+5Wow, while it's true they over hype new tech way too much (hey, they've got to get venture cap somehow).... if you're consistently "disappointed" by technology you haven't been paying attention or you're just a spoiled ingrate. The technological progress over the last 50 years has been truly amazing.
My grandfather rode a horse everywhere, got his water from a well, and either raised or bartered for every scrap of food on the table.
You and I can go into a grocery store and be presented with thousands of choices the kings of Egypt could not have dreamed of. If you're "disappointed" by your current PC may I suggest you go back to a TRS-80 for a while or maybe just STFU?
As for calling others naive, multi-track audio software really isn't that hard to understand and use anymore...once again...thanks to technological progress. Yup, software is technology, too. - 123bucklemyshoe, on 06/09/2009, -0/+4Cleverhouse were you replying to me or someone else why are you crying basically
- nighthawk8713, on 06/09/2009, -3/+7Dr. Manhattan invented this to store his porn.
- Wesside, on 06/09/2009, -0/+4I think he's just an idiot.
- skztr, on 06/09/2009, -0/+4... No? Did you not watch the movie? It's pretty good.
- Heavypettingzoo, on 06/09/2009, -1/+5*your
- LANKumentary, on 06/09/2009, -1/+5@usermr1337 think before you type
- jonahan52, on 06/09/2009, -0/+4Did you happen to hear that from Louie C.K.?
- GiggleStick, on 06/09/2009, -0/+3So this is really just a very very small abacus then. Interesting. What happens if you shake it.
- inactive, on 06/09/2009, -1/+4True. But "eternity" in technology projections usually amounts to about 10 years.
- TheInformer, on 06/09/2009, -1/+4I need this technology for my next math exam.
I also want 7 of 9 to administer it to me. - Ch4rd, on 06/09/2009, -0/+3probably on a small scale like in the experiments, it can last a billion years, but when you add in cheap manufacturing processes and sub par materials, thats where the dissapointment comes in.
- negativerad, on 06/09/2009, -0/+32012 is when we get hover cars and jet packs
- Spamcan, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2I know, it sucks. Sometimes my teleporter breaks down and I have to WALK to the mailbox, total *****.
- robmausser, on 06/09/2009, -0/+2man, that is going to be one long testing period to ensure the chips last a billion years.
Expect to see the final version out around year 1,000,002,009 - rompom7, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2jonahan52 and skyer2000 are right. That's where I heard it, I couldn't track it down. Thanks!
- Qumahlin, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2Um, I really don't remember anyone ever saying CD's would last for ever...I remember the estimate at a CD properly archived was a couple hundred years, though as pointed out that varies based on the dyes and substrate used.
Perhaps your mind can't grasp the difference between "a lifetime" and "eternity" and a CD can easily last a lifetime if archived properly. - jonahan52, on 06/09/2009, -0/+2/joke Mayan calendar look it up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_doomsday_predict ...
- o76923, on 06/09/2009, -0/+2So nanotubes are magic, right?
- mstachiw, on 06/09/2009, -1/+3Damn-it all my data got lost in the cloud! No really a gentle breeze came by blowing away my nanotubes and now its up there somewhere... in the clouds.
- spoer, on 06/09/2009, -1/+3Of course, the technology to retrieve the data will have long since perished....
- Suricou, on 06/09/2009, -0/+2I'd just store lots of spare chips. Once they've taken a few apart and poked at them with an electron microscope, they should be able to figure out how to read the rest.
- krisrm, on 06/09/2009, -1/+3Yeah. Too bad they never made any sequels...
(xkcd, for those of you who missed it) - acegi, on 06/09/2009, -2/+4did xexx just come out of the closet?
- desiv, on 06/09/2009, -0/+2You're absolutely right. There's no way it'll last a billion years.
I'm willing to bet that we'll find out our storage will actually only last 1 million years..
Rip off!!!
I wonder if I will able to return it after that and get my money back? ;^) - antarctica7, on 06/09/2009, -1/+3Faith in an afterlife = ignorant, obscurantist superstition.
Evidence in 'thermodynamic stability in excess of one billion years' = rational science.
Thought I'd fix that little slip of yours for ya....
Your welcome - MrIcee, on 06/09/2009, -0/+2Too bad you were too stupid to read the article instead of looking at the pretty little picture.
The article explains that the iron particle can be moved with GREAT PRECISION to any part up and down that tube.
From the article: "... that in the presence of a low voltage electrical current can be shuttled back and forth inside a hollow carbon nanotube with remarkable precision."
The article also SPECIFICALLY MENTIONS that the 'bit' could have potentially 100 states.
From the article: "The shuttle's position inside the tube can be read out directly via a simple measurement of electrical resistance, allowing the shuttle to function as a nonvolatile memory element with potentially hundreds of binary memory states."
*****, the time it took you to type your ignorance would have been made up in the time it would have taken you to read the ***** article in the first place. What an idiot. - inactive, on 06/09/2009, -0/+2I've been saying for years they should use a crystalline iron nanoparticle shuttle enclosed within the hollow of a multiwalled carbon nanotube.
- Qumahlin, on 06/11/2009, -0/+1"Remember we are more advanced than a lot of our past civilisations, but we can't understand or read everything they left"
Yes, but we can understand A LOT of it. You also fail to realize that the #1 reason we can't figure out some ancient texts is because due to all of the advancement we destroyed tons of key information that would have helped us. Imagine if the Rosetta stone had been destroyed.
It's not an issue of not being able to figure it out, its an issue of not having enough information. Store the info and theoretically another advanced culture is going to be able to figure it out as everything we have encountered thus far is math / pattern based. -
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