Actually, the dramatic trend to shorter holding periods began 50 years ago, long before flash-trading entered the vocabulary.
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The Archos G9 Android-based tablet computers contain Momentus Thin (7 mm thick) hard disk drives from Seagate Technology rather than flash memory for long term storage.
This time it was six long hours before a second flash corrected the first with the news that it was engine trouble and not a midair explosion that had forced Lindbergh to make an emergency landing on treacherous terrain in the mountains of western Pennsylvania.
How do you tell who has long-term digital eminence from the flash-in-the-pans?
In November Adobe announced that it was finally abandoning development of Flash for mobile browsers, and refocusing on HTML5 for delivering interactive features and video -- the death rattle of a long struggle in which Apple resisted letting Flash run on its iOS mobile operating system.
It was a flash point during the year-long miners' strike in 1984 in what became the "Battle of Orgreave".
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They would have a flash of insight and realize that our long-term rate of economic growth is infinitely more important than either taxes or spending.
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Adobe tried another route not long ago, offering developers the ability to compile their Flash work into native iPhone applications.
Most Americans are more concerned about the games on their iPhone, the NFL labor strike, and assorted other bread and circuses, than the very real prospect that our 235-year-long narrative of increasing dominance could be suddenly over in a flash should we default or come close to defaulting on our debt.
So is the success of clean energy a flash in the pan, or does green-tech have a long-term future?
Flash forward to just the other day when I reconnected with a long lost sorority sister at a networking event for her firm.
Was this a program in the midst of long-term gridiron revival because of a genius coach, or just a flash-in-the-cam season largely created by the exploits of Mr. Newton?
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Ami Dar: There was a flash of intuition, in the mid-eighties, and then a long gestation period until the site was launched in 1996.
Although Masuoka's group was the first to sell flash memory (in a product used in cars), it was not long before Intel completely dominated the market.
The issue is an Adobe software called Flash, which does many things, most notably letting Web surfers view streaming video inside a browser window. (As opposed to downloading the file and then playing it with something like Windows Media Player.) For a long time, this was the easiest way for Web sites to deliver video, and Flash has been almost universally adopted.
Perhaps we sound ungrateful, but this sort of acceleration for Flash -- the internet's most popular multimedia delivery method -- is long overdue, and we're not overly impressed with the idea of waiting until mid-2010 for it to happen.
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