Ever since the May Flash-Crash, investors have been cautious about the stock market in general.
Others say that, despite the May 6 flash crash, the markets are largely functioning well.
It seems clear that solid-state storage will have a growing role in personal computer architectures, although users needing more storage may find flash memory a bit expensive.
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The new data may become another flash point in the debate over the cause of rising temperatures.
Confidence took another beating in the May 2010 "flash crash, " when the Dow briefly plunged nearly 1, 000 points.
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The May 2010 "flash crash" erased 1, 000 points from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in a matter of minutes.
This year, regulators have focused on the role high-frequency traders played in the May 6 "flash crash, " when some of the fast-moving firms stepped away from the market during the height of the turmoil.
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Flash memory with higher endurance will increase their performance and may also allow higher flash memory storage capacities by reducing one of the draw-backs in finer lithography flash memory chips endurance declines with narrower lithography flash cells.
If you keep getting told to install Flash or your video player is not playing, you may need to uninstall Adobe Flash properly before reinstalling it again.
While the iPod mini stunted the growth of the flash market in 2004, that market may yet spring back as average flash player capacities increase.
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By reducing flash cell wear it may be possible to make TLC (three level cell flash) more useful and to reduce the intensive wear leveling common in SSDs today.
The May 6, 2010 flash crash spiked at 2.6 million messages per second, setting a new record.
The most famous was May's"flash crash, " during which the stock market lost 600 points in a matter of minutes.
The new data may be the latest flash point in the debate over the reason behind Earth's rising temperatures.
The most intractable flash point may stem from a quiet trend that has not yet made headlines: Chinese companies and government-sponsored investment vehicles are increasingly purchasing U.S. assets.
For companies and brands looking to attract a large number of new customers, Groupon and similar flash sales may seem like a tremendous value, but how a company converts those deal-seeking customers into brand loyal customers is critical.
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The flash crash in May has prompted a manhunt for a bad actor or actors at work.
If you have checked that your computer's sound settings are correct, there may be a problem with Flash.
After the flash crash last May, regulators implemented safeguards in the stock market by putting circuit breakers on individual stocks.
During the flash crash in May 2010, for example, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about 1, 000 points before quickly rebounding.
What's positively charming about SmartDisk's solutions is that they look and act just like the old-fashioned objects that flash memory cards may someday replace.
"The dispute between India and Pakistan may be the next big flash point in world affairs, but Americans want this country to stay out of it, " Holland added.
Because the chips can be manufactured using conventional fabs and aren't subject to the same manufacturing constraints as traditional flash, they may also end up being far cheaper per gigabyte.
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The exact cause of the Flash Crash of May 6, 2010 will most likely never be known, but most believe the use of high frequency trading as being a central culprit (no matter what the SEC might say).
The flash of the collision may be visible from some parts of the United States, Koschney says.
That may account for why the first flash polls showed Bush a winner.
It turns out that several mini flash crashes occurred before May 6.
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Thus while all-SSD laptop computers are increasing in popularity, it appears that approaches that combine flash memory with HDDs may play an even bigger role, at least in the near term.
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