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July 17, 2008 at 12:35 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged density 200, hard drive, Hitachi and Fujitsu, Samsung, storage, Toshiba
200 GB per disk: Toshiba leads 2.5” hard drive storage density
Irvine (CA) – Toshiba has upgraded its 2.5” hard drive series with a new 400 GB model. The total capacity is 20% less than what Toshiba’s rivals are currently offering, but Toshiba has the edge in terms of storage density: While the 500 GB 2.5” drives use three 167 GB disks, Toshiba achieves 400 GB with just two 200 GB disks. These are impressive numbers if we are considering the fact that 200 GB per disk was widely used in 3.5” drives just last year.
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July 9, 2008 at 11:29 am
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged iraq, Mahmoud al-Mashhadanni, Maliki, Najaf, Nouri, October, US
In what appeared to be a bold move, Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared Monday for the first time that his government may consider a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal of forces. “Today, we are looking at the necessity of terminating the foreign presence on Iraqi lands and restoring full sovereignty,” Maliki said during a meeting with several Arab ambassadors in the United Arab Emirates. “The current trend is to reach an agreement on a memorandum of understanding either of the departure of the forces or a memorandum of understanding to put a timetable on their withdrawal.” The announcement raised eyebrows among security planners and analysts around the world. Was it posturing? Or was Maliki diverging from his American ally? Or both?
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July 6, 2008 at 1:52 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged american, car, machine, Motors, Recover
Two months short of the company’s 100th anniversary, General Motors Corp. executives remain defiantly upbeat in the face of a weak economy, terrible sales and Wall Street speculation that the giant automaker could ultimately wind up in bankruptcy court if the slump continues.
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July 6, 2008 at 1:44 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged earth, Mopping Up the CO2 Deluge
The earth will little note nor long remember what we do to it–at least over the course of its own grand time scale rather than our brief, urgent one.
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