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    Re: memory sticks
    « Reply #30 on: March 13, 2008, 01:08:00 PM »
    That thumb drives are wrongly named by poeple who call them memory sticks.
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    Re: memory sticks
    « Reply #31 on: March 13, 2008, 01:12:08 PM »
    But they have memory in them, and they look like sticks.
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    Re: memory sticks
    « Reply #32 on: March 13, 2008, 02:20:29 PM »
    Call them what you like...but memory sticks is not incorrect.
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    Re: memory sticks
    « Reply #33 on: March 13, 2008, 02:54:34 PM »
    It's really not incorrect -- it's all in how you want to think about memory, I guess, and memory can be permanent (like on hard drives, and USB devices, etc) or it can be temporary (like in RAM, or my brain).

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    Re: memory sticks
    « Reply #34 on: March 13, 2008, 02:58:17 PM »
    Quote from: Aegis on March 13, 2008, 02:54:34 PM
    memory can be permanent [...] or it can be temporary

    Non-volatile & volatile are the technical terms

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    Re: memory sticks
    « Reply #35 on: March 13, 2008, 02:59:10 PM »
    Yeah, I knew that...once upon a time...   ::)   ;)
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