I came across this seemingly typical Engadget story today, announcing yet another 1 Terabyte external hard drive solution that utilizes dual hard drives, when I realized it was time to speak out out against these inane devices. These external hard drive setups have been marketed for the last couple years as a foolproof storage solution, but I would recommend them as the last place you'd want to store your precious digital wares.
The Trouble With RAID 0
The key to their troubling nature lies in their "ingenious" method for increasing disk capacity: Literally sandwiching hard drives together. External solutions such as these ...
This article over at The Inquirer (as always, in their delightfully Yankee-indecipherable prose) makes the case that Toshiba's recent announcement to include HD-DVD drives in their laptops spells trouble for Blu-ray. As I've written recently, the HD-DVD platform is in a spot of trouble, and this obviously seems to be Toshiba's answer to Sony's Blu-ray/PS3 integration. The Inq seems to think this could turn the tide in the format war for HD-DVD, but sadly I'm not as convinced.
While I'd love to see HD-DVD bring an end to this idiotic format war (I vastly prefer their special features integration, as well ...
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How Google Gears Could Foreshadow Death for Microsoft: I've recently rediscovered Slate after spending most of my time over at Salon these past few months, and it's articles like this that make me kick myself for ignoring Slate for so long. Here, Slate's Harry McCracken argues that Google Gears introduces functionality that will be ...
There's no question that many of the younger generation (I refuse to say "Generation Y", sorry) currently have extraordinarily relaxed views about content ownership. This was the generation raised on Napster, Kazaa, and the birth and evolution of everything peer-to-peer. They are used to getting what they want, when they want it, and for very little cost and effort. Selfish? Perhaps. But is it so unreasonable to expect in our wired world that content be made easily available and at lower cost than physical media?
The International Herald Tribune has a great article up regarding a recent survey that puts media ...
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