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Orgy of consumerism disappoints
THE ECONOMY weighed on this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, turning what in better times had been an extravaganza of unbridled consumerism into a mere shade of its former exuberance.
Both attendee and exhibitor counts are down this year from last. Early press reports were that only 130,000 had registered to attend the show this year, compared with 141,000 who thronged the Las Vegas Convention Center in 2008. The number of exhibitors dropped by about 10 per cent.
Reuters reports that CES is less than packed this year, with a few "vast empty spaces" on the show floor and salespeople standing around next to computer displays trying to attract people in the drifting crowd.
Exhibitors seem to have changed their emphasis this year, too. Whereas in prior years they were showing large home theatre screens, tricked-out computers and big expensive home entertainment systems, this year's focus has been on 'green' technology, small form-factor netbook and laptop computers and smaller communications and entertainment gadgets.
The Consumer Electronics Association that sponsors CES estimates that consumer spending on electronics will fall 0.6 per cent in 2009. We think they're putting a brave face on things, by about an order of magnitude or more, although of course we're not happy to say that. µ
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Its about RAID5 enclosure for SSD & Important to Microsoft ReseaPatriot Memory has something interesting coming down the pipeline, so we've learned today at CES in Vegas. The company demonstrated a SSD RAID enclosure that takes two 2.5 inch SSD drives, marries it with a onboard RAID controller, and packs everything into a module that you can install in a standard 3.5 inch drive bay.
The cool thing about the new drive however, isn't that it takes two drives, but that it only uses one SATA connector. Using the onboard RAID processor, the enclosure sets up a RAID configuration--which can be changed by the user--and logically reports it to the main system as a single drive. This not only gives you the option of using different RAID levels, but also frees up a SATA connector that would otherwise be used for more enclousures which then go to RAID5 Heaven if anyone figure out how fast Extreme really is Capable of. Each SSD is supposed to be faster than HDD @ 40,000 vRpm,(sANDISK BOOTH) So SSD Really Will Conquer UpWard Past Physicial HDD Limits, Personally i'm hoping for trillion Pin Cpppupugpu, although I've sketched is mere million,so far,well, actually 100,000 desktop Piner, Mil for My Workstation Model, with software Matrix to fit O/S design needs to SSD Skeleton, Mix N' Match Everything PP & UU. TM Ultee'. STeWie drashek HeeHaw HayWard....PUPU Rumours Of Armed IBM workers Protesting Desktop Layoffs Want More than DVD, They want Machines Home Consumer can fix.Look for that angle at show. HAK 47 mobos' or dfi units with dozens of sata ports, anything MAN, Just MAke It NEW!!!
The U.S. economy is in deep trouble and sinking fast and it is pulling down other economies worldwide. The proposed $850 Billion dollar U.S. economic stimulus package is all wrong and will be throwing good money after bad!
People in the U.S.A. should be e-mailing their elected officials in Washington telling them:
1. Create permanent U.S. jobs with the stimulus package, not short term welfare jobs that tax payers pay for
2. Place high import tariff's on Asian crap imports, to stimulate production of quality goods in America - like we use to do 30 years ago
3. Provide loans and tax incentives, not free money, to businesses contingent on creating new jobs
4. Reduce Congressional salaries to $1/yr. until the national debt is zero - without raising or creating new taxes
5. Properly implement these measures to create permanent U.S. jobs within 90 days or be voted out of office in 2010
If you want to save your job and the economy, start e-mailing NOW !
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