Schwa.

I'm gonna start dl'ing the entire archive.

Terabyte Thumb Drives Made Possible by Nanotech Memory By Alexis Madrigal Email 10.26.07 | 4:00 PM Michael Kozicki, director of Arizona State's Center for Applied Nanoionics, has developed a new type of computer memory that he claims is cheaper and more energy-efficient than current technology. Photo: Michael Kozicki Researchers have developed a low-cost, low-power computer memory that could put terabyte-sized thumb drives in consumers' pockets within a few years. Thanks to a new technique for manipulating charged copper particles at the molecular scale, researchers at Arizona State University say their memory is, bit-for-bit, one-tenth the cost of -- and 1,000 times as energy-efficient as -- flash memory, the predominant memory technology in iPhones and other mobile devices. "A thumb drive using our memory could store a terabyte of information," says Michael Kozicki, director of ASU's Center for Applied Nanoionics, which developed the technology. "All the current limitations in portable electronic storage could go away. You could record video of every event in your life and store it." The new memory technology -- programmable metallization cell (PMC) -- comes as current storage technologies are starting to reach their physical limits. At the tiny scale envisioned for new devices, flash memory becomes unstable. The physical limits of flash are already being approached, and could be reached in the near future, which could slow product development for portable device makers like Apple and Sandisk. PMC memory stores information in a fundamentally different way from flash. Instead of storing bits as an electronic charge, the technology creates nanowires from copper atoms the size of a virus to record binary ones and zeros. In research published in October's IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Kozicki and his collaborators from the Jülich Research Center in Germany describe how the PMC builds an on-demand copper bridge between two electrodes. When the technology writes a binary 1, it creates a nanowire bridge between two electrodes. When no wire is present, that state is stored as a 0. The key enabling technology for the memory is nano-ionics, a field that focuses on moving and transforming positively charged atoms. In PMC memory, the charged atoms, or ions, are harnessed by applying a negative charge, which transforms them into copper atoms lined up to form nanowires. Kozicki says the process is like condensing a crystal from a solution, except that the process is almost infinitely reversible. If the PMC is fed a positive charge, the copper atoms return to their previous free-floating state, and the nanowires disassemble. Kozicki says the technology can be built from materials commonly used in the memory industry, which should help keep manufacturing costs down. The memory industry has already taken an interest. Three companies, Micron Technology, Qimonda and Adesto (a stealth-mode startup) have licensed the technology from Arizona State's business spin-off, Axon Technologies. Kozicki says the first product containing the memory, a simple chip, is slated to come out in 18 months. Market-research firm iSuppli projects the flash-memory market growing from $20 billion in 2006 to $32 billion in 2011. Mark DeVoss, a senior analyst in flash memory at iSuppli, says a lot of companies are gunning for a share of that $12 billion in growth, but it's hard to handicap the likely winners. "There's a lot of elegant technologies," DeVoss says. "But you have to be able to scale it down and deliver a low cost-per-bit." Kozicki's licensees believe the technology will deliver the outsize improvements that could drive the memory mainstream. "No other technology can deliver the orders-of-magnitude improvement in power, performance and cost that this memory can," says Narbeh Derhacobian, CEO of Adesto, who previously worked at AMD's flash-memory division. Adesto has received $6 million from Arch Venture Partners and additional funding from Harris & Harris, a venture firm specializing in nanotechnology.

We can make that happen!

mmmm, celebrations

Goodnight John-Boy.

Can't believe you're already 48 dude! Cheers

Happy Birthday A-ron!

First i'd take your bokonon and put some bokonon on it and then we'd bokonon the bokonon all bokonon. bokonon.

well, he did fix what was wrong but didn't delve any further to see that there was a leak at the catalytic converter (sp?) as well. The steering stuff was done well.

My couch? j/k, Happy Birthday Krista!

that dude that fixed my muffler and control rod/bushings on King that time after Umphrey's was pretty fair.

i MYspaced them last night and am liking what i hear. a little on the country side of their sound, but i'm leaning toward that alt-country-grass-rock genre more and more these days. They play the Starlight on December 22nd here in Waterloo.

OZMODIAR!

Have a good one Sloth!

Anyone see/hear them live?

thanks kev!

From the Langerado site: The listing of bands performing by day will be released on Monday, December 3rd.

10 years to change our ways, warns UN report • UN attacks UK blueprint to tackle climate change * Mark Tran * Guardian Unlimited * Tuesday November 27 2007 The world has less than a decade to change course to avoid irreversible ecological catastrophe, the UN warned today. The stark warning from the UN's Human Development report came just ahead of next month's climate summit in Bali, Indonesia, to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto protocol. In a repeat of previous warnings from scientific panels, the 400-page report said that simply ignoring climate change would lead to unprecedented reversal in human development in our lifetime, and acute risks for our children and their grandchildren. The report, commissioned by the UN Development Programme, said climate change would hit the least-developed countries the hardest. "The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even though they have contributed least to the problem," the report says. "Looking to the future, no country - however wealthy or powerful - will be immune to the impact of global warming." The panel says the greatest financial responsibility lies with the US and the other well-developed countries most responsible for the rising levels of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, mainly from the use of coal, oil and other fossil fuels. As the world's richest countries bear the greatest responsibility, the UN Development Programme called on them to bear the largest burden in cutting emissions and in providing financial aid to the poor. Developed countries, the UN said, should cut emissions by at least 30% by 2020 and by 80% by 2050. Developing nations should cut emissions by 20% by the year 2050. The UN said the world must spend 1.6% of global economic output each year until 2030 to stabilise carbon levels and to limit a rise in global temperature to 2C to avoid the catastrophic impact of climate change. Without the money, the panel said, a warmer world "could stall and then reverse human development" in the countries where 2.6 billion people live on $2 (96p) a day or less. The consequences include women and young girls having to walk further to collect water in the Horn of Africa, people erecting bamboo flood shelters on stilts in the Ganges delta, and others planting mangroves to protect themselves against storm surges in the Mekong delta. "The world lacks neither the financial resources nor the technological capabilities to act," the UN report said. "What is missing is a sense of urgency, human solidarity and collective interest."

sorry, don't see it.

> Participation Wednesdays

never heard them. i'll myspace'm tonight and letcha know.

Couchiching. Right next to Sofascratching.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZING!

A canoe should come in real handy from December to April