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Comment D: The Language (Score 2, Interesting) 759

by ion on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @02:07PM (#22785650) Attached to: What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next?

I know it still has some issues, but I'm hoping the D takes off. There are a lot of really interesting ideas in that language if you read the spec and write a few sample apps. Even if the language itself doesn't take off its worth a look to see the kinds of things people are thinking about including in next-gen languages.

Comment Re:But VMWare fears Parallels (Score 3, Insightful) 231

by ChipX86 on Thursday June 08, 2006 @09:16PM (#15499287) Attached to: VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch

I should clarify my opinion on this (and it's just my opinion). The virtualization marketspace is large and there are many areas to grow into. Parallels is targetting certain users and use cases. VMware is targetting certain users and use cases. Xen is targetting some. QEMU. Virtual Server. They all have users and are being used for different things. I think Parallels is playing things smart by getting into the Mac market early and targetting the users there with a low priced product, and that may secure a position for them there. But it's not at a point where I feel VMware has to fear it. Keep the company in mind, yes. But "VMware fears Parallels in a big way" is a bold statement to make :)

(My opinion is my own, and not necessarily that of VMware.)

A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive? 431

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 16, 2006 @11:40PM from the peta-unavailable-for-comment dept.

Angry_Admin writes "Rather than spend millions of dollars for an array of hard drives when you can have all that storage on just one drive? A story at P2P.net US inventor Michael Thomas, owner of Colossal Storage, says he's the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics which will in turn ultimately result in the creation of 3.5-inch discs with a million times the capacity of any hard drive - 1.2 petabytes of storage, to be exact. According to the article, In the past, data storage has only been able to orient the direction a field of electrons as they move around a molecule, Thomas said. "But now there's a way to rotate or spin the individual electrons that make up, or surround, the molecule," he says. He expects a finished product to be on the market in about four to five years, adding the cost would probably be in the range of $750 each."

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