Salt is good for you(r computer)!
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:41 pm
What are these things? They are, in fact, designer salt and pepper shakers. They remind me of an obscure book I read once, about how the original Star Trek show was made.
The producers of Star Trek decided they needed some futuristic-looking but not too expensive medical equipment for Dr McCoy. They settled for designer salt shakers!
Seriously, salt may not be all that good for you, but apparently it is good for your computer! Sweden's most prestigious daily, Dagens Nyheter, reports today that some salt on - or in? - your hard drive could increase its capacity six times!
The method is called "bit patterning", and has to do with sorting the memory bits more efficiently. According to Dagens Nyheter, salt helps your computer discern memory bits that it could not previously make out from the background noise, so to speak.
Oh me oh my, salt is good for you! Or at least for your computer! Wonder what color a computer would rather have its salt? Mine would want it blue, I'm sure. But there is no blue salt in that cookbook, judging from its cover. I feel discriminated against, let alone my computer! Ah well, I may have to buy some blue dye for my salt crystals. But maybe that salty cookbook could help me cook up a particularly delicious salty treat for my computer once I've dyed my natrium chloride blue?
There, now... open wide... one sky-blue grain for Ann, one sky-blue grain for you...
Ann
May I sprinkle some salt on your chest, Spock? It will do you good!
Seriously, salt may not be all that good for you, but apparently it is good for your computer! Sweden's most prestigious daily, Dagens Nyheter, reports today that some salt on - or in? - your hard drive could increase its capacity six times!
The method is called "bit patterning", and has to do with sorting the memory bits more efficiently. According to Dagens Nyheter, salt helps your computer discern memory bits that it could not previously make out from the background noise, so to speak.
Oh me oh my, salt is good for you! Or at least for your computer! Wonder what color a computer would rather have its salt? Mine would want it blue, I'm sure. But there is no blue salt in that cookbook, judging from its cover. I feel discriminated against, let alone my computer! Ah well, I may have to buy some blue dye for my salt crystals. But maybe that salty cookbook could help me cook up a particularly delicious salty treat for my computer once I've dyed my natrium chloride blue?
There, now... open wide... one sky-blue grain for Ann, one sky-blue grain for you...
Ann