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    Special Offers on IBM T43s?

    What kind of savings will the Stockholders' Purchase Program net you? I can't seem to find it on their website.
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    Chemical composition of typical hard drive magnets- ANSWERED

    jagec is right. Permanent magnets occur when when "atoms" of a magnetic element have dipoles that point in the same direction. Melting the metal down will most definitely rerandomize the miniature dipoles and kill the magnet.
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    Human brain vs Electronic storage

    Well, memory access is fairly easy to define. Even the shortest neural pathways take a few milliseconds, and functional neural responses for memory are often recorded within a few seconds (well, in my lab at least). So that at least can take a while longer. As for the storage capacity...