Of course, from a legal prospective, unless the MLB and Yankees can come up with hard evidence of his usage of the drugs, the MLBPA will offer significant protection to Rodriguez.

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While it's hard to imagine that being totally commonplace usage, this does at least make for an easy way to get your tunes throughout the house.

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Of course the total energy used by a hard disk drive depends upon the actual usage and power saving modes, and caching of data can reduce the energy used by a HDD in a computer system.

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According to Strategy Analytics' just-published study from the fall, it's Apple's iCloud and iTunes Match that are top dogs in the US at a combined 27 percent of usage -- a not entirely surprising lead when Apple has pushed hard on iCloud's media syncing since iOS 5, and has large swaths of market share in MP3 players and tablets, not just smartphones.

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The different contexts for data usage keep it in more frequent use, which is why Micron and Samsung Semiconductor are working hard in Flash Storage, or why EMC puts so much effort into analysis software built on top of storage.

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