Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th May 2006 13:06 UTC, submitted by Hae-Yu
"Samsung Electronics and Microsoft will next month show off the ready-to-market version of a hybrid hard drive which can greatly reduce boot-up time of laptops and desktop PCs. The HHD is the convergence of a flash memory chip and a conventional platter-type magnetic disk drive. To save the time and energy spent spinning a metal disk drive it is designed to use static flash memory when starting a PC."
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2005-07-06
I don't particularly like to post off topic, but I've seen something like this a couple of times recently:
"1 Gig of RAM fits into 512 Megs if zipped."
Compression of that type is not deterministic wrt data size. If that RAM was holding mpeg4 video in it, it would barely compress at best, if it was empty, well, then it would compress to a few bytes.
Low level engineers cannot count on things like compression always hitting a target. It either has to definitely always work or... well, that's the option. You have to be a software person to get away with putting up a failure dialog on the screen.