John, hold on to your britches. We're talking apples and pomegranates here. Sure, when speed is of the essence, stick it all in RAM, my point exactly. But you go on to say "their backup system is 4 terabytes of optical storage." Sounds to me like one of those outmoded ROTATING DISKS (a BIG one at that). We were talking cameras, PDA's, cell phones, whatever, with semi-permanent to permanent STORAGE needs. If you're going to change the subject, at least do it in one fell swoop, not bit-by-bit (pun intended). I still refer to the specs on SanDisk's web pages which show the access and read/write speeds of their flash cards comparable to those of a hard disk, milliseconds, not nanoseconds, like system DRAM.
When did folks from Mary & Bill get so jumpy? Most of the ones I know are pretty laid-back.
BTW, I'll disagree with anybody, if only to learn from them by making them prove their point. After all, I'm a professor, that's what we do best. (What we do worst is lecture, everybody knows that.) I see a couple of people here agreeing with me on some things, and being shouted down by you as backward-looking.
And now for something REALLY controversial:
GO HOKIES! Drive the Huskers into the ground! (12/31, Orange Bowl)
Cameron |
