Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Mon Aug 29 18:17:36 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> said:
> On 08/29/2011 09:26 AM, les wrote:
> > Enter solid state media.  The new flash products rely on physics for
> > storage.  The data is permanently installed into what you could consider
> > electrically isolated canisters.
> 
> Isn't magnetism part of physics any more?

Yeah, I was trying to figure out what kind of storage _doesn't_ rely on
physics.  Of course, if you consider any data "permanently" stored, you
aren't using physics.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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