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OhGizmo!: Private: Sony’s 32GB Micro Vault Flash Drive With ‘Cilck To Open’ Ballpoint Pen Technology

  • mcman · 2 months ago
    My secretary bought me one of these a couple of weeks ago. It was a day that will live in the annals of history. By that I mean that I was unimpressed and threw it in my desk drawer. Now, if it had a pen built in.....I'd probably throw it away because after all, Bic pens typically last about 10 seconds before they don't want to write anymore.
  • RobLikesBrunch · 2 months ago
    Tripling their capacity? There is no way that rudimentary compression software can triple the capacity of the drives--perhaps some files can be compressed that much, but there is no way that you could take, say a 700MB avi file and get it down to 230MBs....and most files follow a similar suite.
  • blairf_felgenheimer · 2 months ago
    You might be surprized to find that every functional file your system runs is uncompressed to run them faster. Every EXE, COM, DLL, SYS, INF, DRV, and most others. Theres only a handful of files that dont respond to compression like AVI, MP3, ZIP, etc. because they have already been heavily compressed as they are made.

    Uncompression is resource intensive as you can tell in task manager when you are running WinRar or MediaPlayer. If most Windows files were compressed it would take the better part of an hour to boot it to the desktop.