“I always wanted to be porn star. I am going to work with all the positivity and clarity to be a porn star,” Shah Rukh said much to the amusement of the packed audience.

And where did this inspiration arise from? “I have always been a huge fan of Sylvester Stallone who was a porn star before becoming Hollywood superstar,” the actor said.

Shah Rukh, famous for his outrageously funny remarks did tickle the funny bone of the audience who was in for a laugh riot while listening to the actor.

And it was the icing on the cake when the actor said, “I will take my flag and put it up in America after becoming the biggest porn star of the world.”

The whole joke started when Chaudhuri, while reading excerpts from his book gave example of Stallone’s determination and his journey from a porn star to becoming one of the Hollywood’s icons.

He also referred how Akio Morita, founder of Sony, Japanese electronics giant, started the company with a dream to have his country’s flag flutter high on the soils of US. “You see that is what happens with students like me who take all the wrong things from best of the examples given to them,” Shah Rukh jested.

Once upon a time, memory storage card came only in one format: CompactFlash. Soon, a new champion, named SmartMedia, came to challenge the king of the hill. The challenger couldn’t dethrone the king. Vise-versa, the king couldn’t banish the challenger. So there were these two competing standards. Today, there are a bunch of challengers all wanting to be king. Therefore this article will introduce them all to you.

CompactFlash (CF)

CompactFlash is the de facto standard to flash memory Storage. It is used everywhere from digital cameras to MP3 players to embedded systems. There are two variants of Compact Flash: Type 1 & Type 2. CF Type 2 cards are a little bit thicker than CF type I Cards. Currently CF Type 2 cards house devices like Microdrive and WiFi network Card. CF cards are very robust and industrially proven to be reliable.

Memory Stick

Unlike the other memory card types, the Memory Stick is a proprietary standard invented by Sony. As always, Sony has to invert and push its own standards instead of joining the rest of the industry. Memory Stick uses a serial interface to transfer data between the host device and card. It turned out that Sony’s physical design is far more robust and reliable than SmartMedia design. Unfortunately, the original memory Stick design also has a 128 MB limitation.

PRO

Sony Memory Stick PRO is the new Standard to eliminate the 128 MB limitation. Currently, Memory Stick PRO is available up to 1 GB. Memory Stick PRO will not work in devices that only support the standard Memory Stick. But Memory Stick PRO devices are compatible with the original Memory Stick. Today, all 128MB, and under, cards are Memory Stick, while all larger cards are Memory Stick PRO.

Duo

Memory Stick Duo and Memory Stick Pro Duo are basically smaller versions of the Memory Stick and Memory Stick Pro. The Duo has pin-to-pin compatibility with its older and larger Memory Stick sibling. Therefore, some Duo cards are shipped with a Sony MSAC-M2 Memory Stick Duo Adapter so that you can use it with your Memory Stick devices. If you have photographic equipment that uses Memory Stick, I suggest you buy only Duo cards from now on to lengthen the longevity of your storage cards’ usability.

MagicGate

MagicGate is Sony’s name for digital rights management (DRM), a copy-protection technology. It encrypts the data stored on the card and enforces control over how the files on the card are copied. Few hardware devices take advantage of MagicGate today.

MultiMediaCard (MMC)

Another challenger was the MultiMediaCard. MMC is smaller but slightly thicker than the SmartMedia cards. Its interface pins are on its backside and lay similarly to Memory Stick. However, MMC were not popular with the masses. Perhaps it looks too much like SmartMedia card, or manufacturers had too much invested in CompactFlash and SmartMedia to switch over to MMC.

Reduced Size MultiMediaCard (RS-MMC)

RS-MMC is based on the same technology as regular MMC and provides the same performance. However, it is about half the size of a MMC. Through an extender adapter, RS-MMC could be used in MMC devices. The size reduction allows RS-MMC to fit in today’s small and thin mobile phones.

MMC Mobile

MMC Mobile flash memory has the exact same form-factor as the RS-MMC flash memory. It could be used in a MMC slot as well through the extender adapter. But MMC Mobile provides several new features compared to its sibling, such as ultra high-speed memory access and dual voltage operation.

Secure Digital Card (SD card)

Secure Digital card is basically the second generation MultiMediaCard. They are exactly the same as MMC physically, other than the extra locking switch on the SD Card. The locking switch prevents data from being read, written, and deleted from the storage card. A SD Card device can also read and write MMC. However, SD card has a digital rights management (DRM) capability that is not available in MMC. To this date, I have not seen the digital security feature being used.

mini

Recently a new smaller SD Card has emerged on the market. It is called the miniSD Card. The card is originally intended for use in mobile phones and miniature electronics, such as MP3 players. Because most miniSD Card packages include a SD Card adapter, you can use miniSD Card in your SD Card devices. In fact, I suggest that you buy miniSD card, rather than the larger SD card, for your SD Card devices from now on. By doing so, you are guaranteed that your storage card’s operational life is lengthened.

micro

The microSD Card is even smaller than the miniSD Card. The microSD Card is designed for use in cellular phones and small mobile devices. The microSD Card can accessed in a SD Card slot via an adapter.

SanDisk originally introduced the microSD Card as the TransFlash card in 2004. The TransFlash Card has just been approved by the IEEE and recently adapted by the SD Card Association. The final standard will be called the microSD by the end of 2005.

SmartMedia

SmartMedia card is the first challenger to the flash memory market. It was jointly invented by Olympus and Fuji. It became quite popular among manufacturers and consumers. It is smaller and thinner than the CF cards. It also has contact pins directly on the surface of the card. This design proved to be less reliable than the CF interface design when used over time. Bat the real reason that caused the demise to SmartMedia cards is its 128 MB limitation.

xD-Picture Card

xD-Picture Card is a contender invented and promoted by Olympus and Fuji. Once again Olympus and Fuji tried to gain market share by inventing and promoting their own format. Currently only Olympus and Fuji cameras support xD-Picture Card. Therefore, it hasn’t picked up much popularity among consumers and will probably not take off as a mainstream storage card form-factor.

]]> http://hydramet.com/2009/11/11/various-types-of-memory-card/feed/ 3 http://hydramet.com/2009/11/11/about-windows-7-and-features/ http://hydramet.com/2009/11/11/about-windows-7-and-features/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:14:15 +0000 aravinthan http://hydramet.com/?p=276 You inform and entertain us. You are inescapable, and your Start menu is full of items relevant to our productivity. You move us. Sort of. To be honest, we’re not sure what sort of state this fair planet of ours would be in without the ruggedly functional operating systems the folks at Redmond have handed to us over the years, and while Windows Vista might have proved that Microsoft wasn’t invincible, it did nothing to demonstrate that Windows as an idea — and for most, a necessity — was at all in jeopardy.

Windows 7 arrives on the scene three short years after Vista, shoring up its predecessor’s inadequacies and perhaps offering a little bit more to chew on. We’ve been playing with the OS ever since the beta, along through the release candidate, and now at last have the final, “release to manufacturing” (RTM) edition in our grubby paws. Does it live up to its understandable hype and the implicit expectations of a major Microsoft release? Let’s proceed on a magical journey to discover the truth for ourselves.

Install / boot times / shutdown

It’s the most base of operating system functions. Install, turn on, turn off. But first impressions matter, and Microsoft made sure to give Windows 7 a nice sheen when it came to these things. You can read through our full installation guide for an in-depth look at the pitfalls and triumphs of Windows 7 in this department, but in short: it’s fast and lightweight, but the real performance gains can be found on netbooks and with clean installs. Otherwise there’s really nothing to put Vista to shame — though the amazing breath of fresh air a clean install provides should really set cruftware-happy vendors to a bit of soul searching.

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