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Don't Miss This Week's Live Chat

Max Maxfield

As always, this week's live online chat -- which will be held on Thursday, Jan. 10 -- promises to be a rip-roaring, fun-filled, roller-coaster thrill ride of thrust-and-parry ideas. (Only thrill seekers need apply.)

Well, I don't know about you, but things are racing along here in the Pleasure Dome (my office). In fact, there is so much interesting stuff going on that it's making my head spin. But enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think about me? (ROFLOL)

One of the things I've really grown to love is our weekly online conversations. In our last chat, we had a really good time discussing a veritable cornucopia of tempting topics. What? You missed that chat? Well, don't worry -- turn that frown upside down into a smile, because you can see our archived version of those discussions by clicking here.

As for this week's chat, the great thing about All Programmable Planet is that everyone has so much input and such interesting ideas that someone will set a conversational ball rolling, and everyone else will race around adding different thoughts and perspectives. I know that I, for one, want to talk about... but no, you'll just have to join us and see.

Interesting/thought-provoking image of the week. (Can you guess what this is? Find the answer in the comments below.)
Interesting/thought-provoking image of the week.
(Can you guess what this is? Find the answer in the comments below.)

The chat -- which is similar to using an IM (instant messaging) system but actually employs your web browser -- will commence at noon my time (Central USA Time), which is 1:00 p.m. ET, 10:00 a.m. PT, and 6:00 p.m. UTC/GMT. You'll have to work out your local time from these clues, or you can use this Time Zone Converter.

Assuming you are already a member of All Programmable Planet, all you have to do is to click here at the appropriate time to join the fun and make your opinions known. (If you aren't already a member of All Programmable Planet, now would be a perfect time to register.)

C U there. B there, or B square.

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shakeeb
shakeeb
1/10/2013 10:29:46 AM
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Re: What's this picture?
I will make sure that I take a look at the collection. Meanwhile let me search for a Swiss Army Knife USB drive, I too have the curiosity of trying it out.

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Martin Rowe
Martin Rowe
1/10/2013 9:52:26 AM
User Rank Guru
Re: What's this picture?
shakeeb, I don't have a Swiss Army knife with a USB drive. You can buy me one if yu like. I did get several knives early in my editor career but as soon as business turned down in 2001, companies stopped giving them away at the holidays (same for bottles of wine).

I'm thinking of photographing my collection of USB and making a slide show on my site, TheConnectingEdge, check it out. Remember, all that programmability won't work unless the bits reach their destination. Or, as we like to say "Without connectivity, the cloud evaporates."

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shakeeb
shakeeb
1/10/2013 9:45:28 AM
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Re: What's this picture?
That's really impressive Martin, I would love to see a picture if you have any.

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Martin Rowe
Martin Rowe
1/10/2013 9:30:59 AM
User Rank Guru
Re: What's this picture?
shakeeb, have you seen the flash drives built into Swiss Army knives?

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shakeeb
shakeeb
1/10/2013 5:52:05 AM
User Rank Beginner
Re: What's this picture?
Kingston launches world's first 1TB USB 3 Pen Drive, impressive but really expensive. Kingston is expecting a read speed of around 240MB/sec and 160MB/sec when writing. That would make a Kingston external USB drive around the same speed as older SSDs.

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shakeeb
shakeeb
1/10/2013 5:45:58 AM
User Rank Beginner
Re: What's this picture?
Martin- Sometime back flash drives only had one shape and size, not it comes in various shapes, at times you can even recognize them. I've got one that looks like a credit card...

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shakeeb
shakeeb
1/10/2013 5:43:23 AM
User Rank Beginner
Re: What's this picture?
Higher capacities with lower price is great, but what about the durability. I think now a days users need to be very careful when buying them. Most have very less transfer speed and durability.

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Jacek Hanke
Jacek Hanke
1/10/2013 1:58:04 AM
User Rank Blogger
Re: What's this picture?
Most of vendors offer lifetime warranty for their usb sticks but data retention is something like... 5 years. It's all up to the quality of the chip (the pendrives which we got or bought 10 years ago seem the best, cause most of them was based od Single Level Cell; 5 years ago most of them was based on MLC=Multi Level Cell 2bits per cell; now if you're lucky you'll get 3bits per cell). So when nowadyas you'll buy stick which is a mixture of 3bits per cell with 2X nm process, would it be better than your old 1bit per cell with 4X nm? :) Most of endusers want to have higher capacities with lower price and they'll get it... but don't ask about the data retention, cell degradation and other important features

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Myplanet
Myplanet
1/10/2013 12:31:37 AM
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Re: What's this picture?
"@Jezmo: ...don't tell anyone but...
Max-My lips are sealed"

@Max, reading this dialogue made my lips opens for loud laughing.

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Martin Rowe
Martin Rowe
1/9/2013 10:00:44 PM
User Rank Guru
Re: What's this picture?
I have a collection of  USB flash drives. One of the fringe benefits of being an editor was the free storage I collected from press releases. It started with floppies but then it went to CD-ROM then finally to flash drives when the prices came down.

My first one was 16Mbyte. I actually still use it in a desktop PC. It stays permanently in the back panel and I use it for quick backup storage of important files. The largest I ever received as 4 GBytes. I have one that's a wrist strap, another that looks like a Fluke Scopemeter, and one with seven LEDS that flash in different pattern depending on if it's idle or active.

Another one has a laser pointer.

Never paid for a flash drive in my life. :-)

 

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