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Feed Engadget: InPhase to finally ship Tapestry 300r holographic storage solution in May (engadget.com)

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Talk about escaping the label of vaporware by this much. We've been hearing that holographic storage was right around the bend from InPhase for well over three years now, but it has finally managed to get its ducks in a row and should start shipping the unicorn-like Tapestry 300r next month. The firm had a demonstrative version on display at NAB Show earlier this month, and apparently real live working units will be making their way out to archival junkies in just weeks. Granted, it will demand a whopping $18,000 to get a shipping label made with your address on it, and each piece of 300GB media is $180 -- but hey, that's the price you pay these days to know that you'll decompose before your data degrades.

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iPhone Bill a Whopping 52 Pages Long 369

Posted by Zonk from the make-the-trees-stop-crying dept.
PoliTech writes "iPhone bills are surprisingly large - 'Xbox Large', according to Ars technica: 'AT&T's iPhone bills are quite impressive in their own right. We're starting to get bills for the iPhone here at Ars, and while many of us have had smartphones for some time, we've never seen a bill like this. One of our bills is a whopping 52 pages long, and my own bill is 34 pages long. They're printed on both sides, too. What gives? The AT&T bill itemizes your data usage whenever you surf the Internet via EDGE, even if you're signed up for the unlimited data plan. AT&T also goes into an incredible amount of detail to tell you; well, almost nothing. For instance, I know that on July 27 at 3:21 p.m. I had some data use that, under the To/From heading, AT&T has helpfully listed as Data Transfer. The Type of file? Data. My total charge? $0.00. This mind-numbing detail goes on for 52 double-sided pages (for 104 printed pages!) with absolutely no variance except the size of the files.' You would think that a data company would have a more efficient billing process."
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Couple Bonding Through PC Building 465

Posted by kdawson from the heads-and-hearts-together dept.
mikemuch writes "When his lovely girlfriend Glenda needed a new PC, Jason Cross, who spends much of the week assembling PCs with the latest gear to test for ExtremeTech, decided he would let her build it herself. She gave him her list of needs, he came up with a part list, and then watched as she did all the screwdriver wielding herself. Despite a DOA hard drive and some mis-connected wires, everyone was smiling when it was all finished. (Slide show here.)"

Comment If the GPLv3 real motive is so clear... (Score 1) 266

by Josiah_Bradley (#20119031) Attached to: Lawyer Thinks Microsoft Can Evade GPL 3
Why don't they just put into the license, plain and clear, a phrase like " The company Microsoft (or whatever it is in legalize) can not use or interact with software that is covered under this license unless it is by its customers using their OS.." etc. If everyone knows they wrote some parts of it to go against the actions of one company, why try and do it so vaguely. After reading the GPLv3 it is very clear some parts of it are politically motivated. I don't even agree with it on some points, but it's not my license, so they should just put in it what they want just like they already have. Right now everything I do I issue no copyright on and am happy if someone else wishes to use anything I may have thought up.

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