Serious question on thumb drives (was Re: Maybe a deal on flash drives)
Tim
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Tue Sep 18 03:32:51 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 05:20 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Flash Memory goes into USB Flash Drives and also into the tiny sim
> stick I have in my Cell Phone. It may also be in other devices so
> Flash Memory is the generic stuff to a lot of things.
That may be, but we call a car a car, not an engine. To refer to a
device, such as a USB thumbdribe, one should use the name for what it
is, not just refer to it by some of its parts. Flash memory is not
really sufficient enough.
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