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New Hard Drive Technology Boosts Windows 7, Slows XP
Mar 11th
Hard drive manufacturers are set to improve the speed, capacity, and power consumption of their drives by 2011. While this technology will benefit users of Windows 7 and other modern operating systems, Windows XP users may actually be facing a performance hit by using the new drives.
This technology improvement, called Advanced Format Architecture (at least by Western Digital), is mandated by an agreement of the International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association, which says that by 2011 all hard drive makers must sell drives using 4 kilobyte sectors instead of 512 byte sectors, the current default.
Let’s break that overly technical explanation into something simpler: Most hard drives on the market now, from the lowly 80GB drives to the hulking 2 TB Read more ...
Vertical Prison Concept Hides Prisoners Up In the Sky [Design]
Mar 8th
Alcatraz was designed to be impossible to escape from by being out on an island in San Francisco Bay. And this
vertical prison concept has the same idea: if you want to escape, it’s a long Read more ...
The Loch Ness Monster Isn’t In Scotland, She’s Lighting Up My Living Room [Design]
Mar 5th
Alright, so maybe Nessie isn’t lighting up my living room just yet, but you can bet that if this concept lamp design ever gets produced, she will. The big question though: Shall I put her on a wall or ceiling?
Nessie the Lamp was designed by Read more ...
Insane Asylum Inspires Lovecraft and Batman Then Becomes A Residential Community [Image Cache]
Mar 3rd
This is Danvers State Insane Asylum, the inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft’s
Arkham Sanitarium “which in turn was the inspiration for Arkham Read more ...
Rocket House, Or What We Get When We Privatize the Space Program [Space]
Feb 23rd
“It’s like, you know man, you know. People like us were meant for something important, something different than this whole fucked up society. Oh, that? That’s the rocket facade left over from our last house party.” [
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