Wrong Date????

I checked the data for this article and it said 2nd of April and not 1st...surely a mistake!!!

Taking the piss or what????

"MagicFlip I/O"?

Rejoice...

"and how much drinking and brown acid they have done"

Don't know about the brown acid but according to recent studies the old notion of alcohol killing brain cells seems to be a myth...

http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/10-brain-myths9.htm

Probably not

Having just invested in a momentus XT hybrid drive such as the ones that this marvell controller may "stop dead in their tracks" according to the author, I think I can say that it probably will not. I put the seagate drive in my 2 year old Core 2 Duo laptop and the difference in performance is considerable.

As a result the Momentus Hybrid drive has the laptop market all on its own which is something that the Marvell controller cannot serve because most notebooks have a single slot for a drive and even if they had two, their connectors are in such a way that adding the Marvell controller will not be possible.

On the desktop space things are a bit different but again the simplicity of having a single drive rather than a controller, an SSD and an HDD will probably appeal to most users.

The last reason is probably cost. A 500Gb Momentus XT hybrid drive retails for around 120 to 150 dollars. To get the Marvell working you are looking at around 60 to 70 dollars for the drive, 20 to 30 dollars for an equivalent SSD plus the cost of the Marvell controller itself so it looks like they will cost more or less the same and have the same performance.

Judging by the all the above and the head start that the Seagate drive has, I think the Momentus is probably going to be the more prevalent of the two.

This article is useless without pictures

This article is useless without pictures

Pictures

This article is worthless without pictures!!

About time

I welcome our new transdimensional overlords...they cannot possibly do a worse job than what we have now anyway and they are fresh!

Taking the piss

This is taken directly from the blog of Sarah Hunter, UK Policy Manager for Google:

"We fiercely protect the privacy of our users across the world and do not believe that fear of illegal activity somewhere on the Internet is enough to justify intrusion of activity everywhere on the Internet."

She is talking about the clause 17 if the proposed Digital Economy Bill and states the following:

"While we remain unsure of how this Clause 17 is intended to be implemented, we fear it could require the Government to start gathering more information about users Internet habits, even when no illegal practices have taken place."

You would think that they are from two different companies?!

Correction for Adam Salisbury

"There are vendors who specialise in fault tolerant hardware on which to run your hypervisors but these are expensive to buy and even more expensive to code software for, an arguably cheaper option would be to invest in a blade frame for perhaps the greatest resilience and even cheaper option than that is fault tolerant software".

That statement is unfortunately false with regards to the "expensive to code software for" part. There are FT systems that can run VMWare ESX and then you can run on top of ESX other OS's and any application that can run on those OS's without any extra coding, let alone "expensive" coding. Both NEC and Stratus have such xeon based FT systems and though pricewise they are more expensive than standard Xeon servers, they do offer complete hardware redundancy and uninterrupted operation even if they experience a failure on any component (cpu/memory/chipset/video card/netword card etc) without the need for any extra or special configuration, or coding, or software because the fault tolerance is built into the hardware.

Keep in mind that they don't offer cluster type continuous operations because in a cluster you have what is called failover time. For such FT systems there is no failover; it is true uninterrupted operation in the event of failure.

Get your facts straight please before posting erroneous articles which may mislead others!

Ridiculous

This is not making much sense to me. I was under the impression that in most countries in the world, if someone driving behind you and has an accident it is their fault. If you slam on the brakes and they hit you it is their fault. If you slam on the breaks and they loose control of their vehicle, again it is their fault; the reasoning behind this is that it is the responsibility of the driver behind you to make sure that they leave enough room between their car and your car to be able to react in case of an emergency.

Or not

According to El Reg...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/21/gao_predicts_gps_failure/

If the predicted GPS failure of 2010 materialises then the tracking will not materialise and that will be one investment down the drain...

A DVD Drive?

A DVD drive on a blada? Either Cisco has lost the plot or your reporter needs to run a system diagnostic. Chassis have drives and the not all of them. Most of the time you go for remote media because nobody wants to stand in front of a blade chassis in a datacentre swapping disks. Besides the DVD drive would take up extremely valuable real estate in the blade server for no real benefit unless Cisco has not been able to work up a remote media solution in which case I would not even go close to those boxes no matter how much RAM they can pack in.

Clueless

I think this is another case where a clueless researcher tried to match a hypothesis to a phenomenon and failed miserably by focusing just on that hypothesis.

The phenomenon here is increased drinking amongst university girls...the hypothesis of the researcher is that they do it to impress boys. The hypothesis is clueless and should have been a question.

Why is there increased drinking amongst girls? A bunch of well placed questions later would have driven them to make the link between the fact that guys get girls drunk because when drunk they behave more like paris hilton and all which that entails (you can each use your imagination from here on).

Unlikely

It is a nice idea but I doubt it would pass EM emmision restrictions to be commercialy used

You are all WRONG

Everybody knows that the world will end in 2012! It has been foretold and prophesized making this article and all subsequent comments mute and irrelevant.

Unlawful?

I had no idea that wounding someone in the chest could be unlawful and therefore presumably lawful as well! I wonder what contsitutes lawful wounding of someone on the chest...