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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[I only wonder what language the data will be stored as ...  <br><br><br><br>*too doomm tsssss*]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Makavre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 6:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[The english language won't change much over a thousand years. It will be hard to understand, but not impossible to comprehend .. it'll be like reading the writings of Chaucer. A bit weird but not totally alien. <br><br>Hmm, then again people have problems understanding the Us Constitution and that's only what .. 230 years old?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[JS]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[WHOOSH, the sound of a joke flying over JS's head. ;)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CaptSaltyJack]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[So how realistic is 2% humidity or less? Will the machinery that keeps the humidity that low last for a thousand years?<br>...or, that's a lot of silica gel.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[granny down east]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 6:55PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[seal it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[justanotherperson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[that's what she said.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Anderson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[They are going to seal them into glass, even the memorys cantacts and read them inductively. That leaves the readers contacts exposed which might become problematic. Sealing them into glass is pretty good protection, but with 1000 year lifespan even glass might leak a bit.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Newone]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Enclosures]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ristic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 11:11PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[How many times did I read 'apace' as 'space'? Too many to confirm my supposed literacy. Back on task, it seems that other technologies are more realistic in their suitability to be stored. 1000 years plus with that degree of accuracy in humidity would probably mean it was in a lab...under observation, which kind of takes the point out of long term storage.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is first time I hear of a long term archive done with active electronic components. More tricky than the even more hardcore archive project:<br><br><a href="http://blog.longnow.org/2008/08/20/very-long-term-backup/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.longnow.org/2008/08/20/very-long-term-backup/</a><br><br>predicted lifespan 2000 to 10 000 years. You need just a microscope to read it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Newone]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Mmmmmm..... waffles....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Superstition]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[thanks, now I'm hungry.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[russlar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:39PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[realistically, if we're around in 1000 years you can bet any important data will be backed up and moved to new medium. anything over ~200 years is usless apart from time capsules, space probes/satellites]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Smokex365]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[I've probably learned more with this program in the last few weeks than.... months.... of former classes.<br><br>...anybody?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Levi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Are you joking about that horribly cheap Language Learning software?  It looks so much like it came from the 80s. I think it should have remained there. The visual-basics style interface is not nearly as nice as the colorful commercials make it seem :). It really should be called learn Windows 3.1 GUI to English to _language of choice_.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 9:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wes, what version of Rosetta Stone are you using? I have the latest in several languages and the GUI is great, very polished and modern, as well as quite clean. Nothing like Windows 3.1 or whatever you are referring to.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[paul34]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 24th 2009 12:14AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, since we're on the topic of things that have the same name as this article, but are completely unrelated; here are my takes on the Rosetta Stone language learning software.<br><br>I honestly don't think it's really worth as much as it costs. The quality of the sound clips aren't very consistent (some, such as polish, being pretty bad). It also fails to teach you any grammar whatsoever, so you don't really understand what's being said - only the general idea. The vocabulary it also gives you is also somewhat narrow and doesn't go very far with anything useful beyond the very basics.<br><br>I guess it's a neat toy to play around with as an addition to actual learning from a class, but it definitely cannot be a substitute for a class as they make it out to be.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dillon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 24th 2009 12:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Who cares? None of the stuff we "archive" now will last for even a couple of hundred years. The only known methods for storing information long term are stone tablets and large structures. Anything that requires special technologies for decoding and use in the future is doomed to fail.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed T]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[King TUT]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[apple nerd without a cause]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 7:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[And would we be able to read this in a thousand years? We have enough trouble reading data from computers that was 20 years ago...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AltairAntares]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 8:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Cool. 1000 years from now people will see the peak of our time... TWO GIRLS ONE CUP!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[dsteve303]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 8:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[A common misconception is that humidity is an absolute percentage, as if air were simply a pitcher that could be X% full -- this is incorrect since humidity is relative to temperature. 2% RH at 300K is much different from 2% RH at 1000K or 200K. So simply saying "so long as humidity is kept at 2% or less" is a bit ambiguous.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amun]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 8:43PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[It seems that everybody claim their medium to last x number of years. Problem is, nobody can really proof it until the time is up.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pika2000]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 9:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[so, when did they find the time to test it...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[acme]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 10:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Neither my battery or myself will last that long. <a href="http://www.eattrn.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eattrn.com/</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[eattrn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 10:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[What does your personal site have to do with this?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[paul34]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 24th 2009 12:15AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ooh this could be a good mechanism to store the contents of brains for re animation/archival purposes someday.<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Excelsium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 11:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[I wonder if our evolved cousins will enjoy our present-day porn. I mean, if our body changes would we still be attracted to our current physical appearance? ...Assuming we're still on Earth for the next billion year.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[gmastrx2689]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 24th 2009 12:01AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[You've seen Roman porn, right? <br><br><br>Admit it... you'd hit it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[paul34]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 24th 2009 12:15AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[um...  there's a slight difference between a thousand years and a billion years.  Humans as a species aren't even close to a billion years old.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AMiSH PiRATE]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 24th 2009 5:08AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Stop it!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sirocco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 24th 2009 12:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hmm, the "Original" Rosetta Stone is about 2200 years old already and still works, although you can't get it to work in slot load dvd drives.  Sometimes it's funny to me that our high-tech stuff doesn't last quite as long as the primitive chiseled rock...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nichow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 24th 2009 1:01AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Data lifespan is provided by proliferation.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kebab in Korea]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 24th 2009 1:28AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Rosetta Stone memory could last a thousand years]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/digital-rosetta-stone-memory-could-last-a-thousand-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ok, so we have a device that can store information for a thousand years.......what would you put on it ? <br>Make sure it is useful for the Logans Run millennium and in a language that might still be around. Oh and maybe you might want to laser carve into a quartz crystal the instructions on how to build a player for it. One thing....which will get read first, your data or the record on the Voyagers...... ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Garth Bock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 24th 2009 9:33AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
