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By: Phil S

Phil S — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:05:28 +0000

It seems more likely that Jobs’ hormone imbalance refers to insulin production. Following on his surgery in 2004 it would not be atypical of his condition to necessitate the removal of his entire pancreas, leaving him severely diabetic. I wish him the best.

By: robert

robert — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:52:31 +0000

For those interested in what all the fuss is about;

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403

I doubt Bob’s Tin Foil Disk has much chance.

By: Bill in NC

Bill in NC — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:22:09 +0000

My mistake – Sandisk just announced a 240GB 2.5″ SSD for $499 MSRP.

Wonder what that will cost the end of the year.

By: robert

robert — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:10:16 +0000

You are correct, sir. Not only will SSD change the i* world, it will much more materially change general business computing, which has recently been on an xml bender. The SSD database machine will be the game changer; xml as datastore will instantly be passe’ (split infinitive and all). The implications for cloud are similar. Why store gigabytes of largely redundant xml files on a cloud you can’t really trust, when you can control a few megabytes in postgres on a machine you can trust? Those who understand what normal form databases look like will be in great demand (he said hopefully).

For those who don’t believe, I offer Linus Torvalds. A couple of years ago he said in an interview that file systems would be changed once rotating storage went away. That was when I first became aware of SSD as a viable option. At the time Texas Memory Systems was about the only vendor. AnandTech just did a review, and their base machine used an Intel SSD. Asking the simple question, “what is the most logical database implementation if there is no difference in latency based on location?” leads to the inevitable answer. The cost savings of such systems is so large, that even American Express (and the rest of financial services) will be forced to abandon all that 30 to 40 year old COBOL/VSAM legacy codebase they so dearly love.

Rotating storage is history.

By: Seymour

Seymour — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:57:27 +0000

I think Steve is a Vegan and if he has undergone any cancer therapy, my understating is he better learn eat some animal protein or its going to be a hard road for him indeed.

By: Kevin Kunreuther

Kevin Kunreuther — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:20:24 +0000

xkcd weighs in on Steve Jobs non appearance at MacWorld.

By: slimcat

slimcat — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:59:40 +0000

Hey Bob, I can’t imagine why my comment was flagged for moderation or why the comment script/java(?) added spaces between the words in ‘a good macworld laugh from the onion’. At this point, though, you may as well delete it along with this reply.

By: Bill in NC

Bill in NC — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:21:26 +0000

SSDs are rapidly dropping in price.

A 256GB 2.5″ SSD is a $900 upgrade for the new 17″ MacBook Pro.

Likely half that price by the end of the year.

And conventional 2.5″ drives are pretty cheap already – $100 retail for a 500GB drive.

Don’t see a place for a new, independent metal foil drive maker.