Re: Like your USB flash drive?

John Doe wrote:
Blinky the Shark <no.spam box.invalid> wrote:

John Doe wrote:
Blinky the Shark <no.spam box.invalid> wrote:

Clint wrote:

I own both USB flash drives, as well as multiple DVD and CD
burners. IMHO, they're not comparable. Flash drives are like
super-dooper floppy drives (read-write, smaller capacities), and
CD/DVD burners are more for archival/longer term storage. The
reason for this is the cost per megabyte of long term storage.
Once your flash drive is full, you either have to remove stuff off
of it (if you want to store more), or buy another drive (at what,
$40 or $50/GB?). With a DVD burner, when you need more storage,
you buy another disk at what, $0.50 for 4GB.

<reading whole thread>

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I do have a datapoint. I ran
across a *64-gig* USB flash drive today. I had no idea anybody was
making them that large. It was almost $3,000 US. Yow!

Why don't you post a link?

I don't know how to post a link to a piece of paper. :)

Posting a link to a mirage would be very difficult too.

And usually I do enjoy a challenge. But it's been hot and humid and
I've been cranky. :)

That said, it was Tiger Direct's paper catalog.

Whatever it is, you can't find it on Tiger Direct's web site or any
place else on the Internet? Do you remember what it was called or the
manufacturer name?

I didn't look. I provided one source (the URL isn't hard to figure out)
for anyone interested enough to do a search or two.

Brand name is Kanguru. I don't know that hame from anywhere else, but
Tiger has a whole page of their stuff. Their stock number for it is
I46-2060. Their price is $2,799.99 US. "Kanguru Flash Max Drive"

Some manufacturer could have combined lots of flash memory and added a
USB connector. Anything is possible.

At my favorite retailer, I find six or seven brands of thumb drives.
I've kept with Lexar and Corsair. The other of the three they stock in
the largest quantities (even more than Sandisk, I'd say) is "PNY" (or it
may be "PCY"). I've not seen that brand elsewhere, and know nothing
about it. Has it a reputation? If so, is it good or bad?

A few days ago, I picked up a 1 GB USB flash Drive for $20 at the
local megastore. At the other large store, many of their flash
drives are on sale, and prices of others have dropped 20% in the
last week. Not that I would buy at a local store (with that $20
exception), but just for reference.

-- Blinky RLU
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Except for handling a flood of original spam/troll posts, the only
filter you need is ignore subthread (ignore thread branch). It's
the most powerful filter, unfortunately some newsreaders don't do
it.

I don't filter the whole thread. I filter Google Groupers. So
thread and thread branch filters are irrelevant.

So if your Google Grouper starts a thread, you have a thread without
an original poster?

The GG's posts do not appear.

Ignoring a subthread (or a whole thread if it be) started by the
author you want to filter eliminates the problem. Otherwise you will
be doing the typical clumsy filtering. Your threads will contain
phantom posters and will be difficult to follow.

I'll still interact with the *non* Google Groupers. I just won't waste
any time on the Google Groupers. If I wanted to kill the thread (or the
thread branch), I would.

That's what trips up clumsy kill file users. After the initial

I wouldn't know about clumsy kill file users. I'm very precise with
mine. Including not killing a whole thread with an atrillery round when
I can just pick off the Google Grouper with one slug from my sniper
rifle.

infatuation with PLONK, they stumble over all of the replies to the
person they don't want to read. Oh well. The ability to ignore a
thread branch solves that problem.

Yep -- there are incompetent users of any tool.


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