entire Gutenberg ebook collection on a flash drive
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It may be closer than we think. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8CIRUE02.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc In short, Samsung has developed a new flash memory chip that holds a lot more data. From the article: "By putting together 16 of the new NAND chips it's possible to create a 32-gigabyte product that can store 8,000 MP3 audio files or 20 DVD movies." Perhaps in the future, we'll be sending out flash memory cards instead of DVDs. :) Time will tell. Sincerely Aaron Cannon - -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 Comment: Key available from all major key servers. iD8DBQFDJcfiI7J99hVZuJcRAsJgAJ9WzQcCnlGSrfv49LnG3BdYxLvuswCg+EjJ mjuzuDYw7LBIJPUsEdBfYTY= =NWfT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Aaron Cannon wrote:
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It may be closer than we think. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8CIRUE02.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc
In short, Samsung has developed a new flash memory chip that holds a lot more data. From the article: "By putting together 16 of the new NAND chips it's possible to create a 32-gigabyte product that can store 8,000 MP3 audio files or 20 DVD movies."
Perhaps in the future, we'll be sending out flash memory cards instead of DVDs. :) Time will tell.
Sincerely Aaron Cannon
- -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.)
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Aaron Cannon wrote:
In short, Samsung has developed a new flash memory chip that holds a lot more data. From the article: "By putting together 16 of the new NAND chips it's possible to create a 32-gigabyte product that can store 8,000 MP3 audio files or 20 DVD movies."
Old news, 2 GB flash chips have been around for quite a while ... and Wikipedia is already distributing on flash cards. If you take one zipped txt file from all PG books that have txt files, the lot of it will go onto two 2 GB flash cards. By the time the first 4 GB flash cards come out, (and by the time I'll have thrown out all copyrighted books and all the books that I feel only a cruel and impish fate has wrenched away from the deserved oblivion,) I'll certainly build a `Pocket-PG'. This has been on my list for a long time. I wonder if M$ will sue over "Pocket-PG" :-) -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
Marcello Perathoner wrote:
By the time the first 4 GB flash cards come out,
I lied. 4 GB Compact Flash cards are already out. So if you own a handheld that can read those, you are set. And, if you throw out all Human Genome files, (no need to carry your genes around twice) the PG collection boils down to 2,493,924,672 bytes (zipped txt files only). If you allow for plucker files to be 20 % larger than pure zipped files, you have ~ 2,8 GB of data. Still plenty of room for games ... -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 02:10 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote:
Old news, 2 GB flash chips have been around for quite a while ... and Wikipedia is already distributing on flash cards.
I know that there are flash cards with 2GB capacities, but I was under the impression that the individual flash memory chips were not yet up to 2GB each. I think that was the news behind the article. Basically they were talking about what would happen if you put 16 of them together. That's cool that wikipedia is doing that. I didn't know.
If you take one zipped txt file from all PG books that have txt files, the lot of it will go onto two 2 GB flash cards.
By the time the first 4 GB flash cards come out, (and by the time I'll have thrown out all copyrighted books and all the books that I feel only a cruel and impish fate has wrenched away from the deserved oblivion,) I'll certainly build a `Pocket-PG'. This has been on my list for a long time.
I wonder if M$ will sue over "Pocket-PG" :-)
Probably, but I look forward to it all the same. :) Sincerely Aaron Cannon
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