Flash longevity, was Re: Kerrville, TX warehouse pics

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> ? One could.? But the problem here is that the consumers are too clueless to know what they NEED, and in the Wal*Mart Nation, "cheaper is better", even when it isn't, and the industry is all too willing to oblige. ? This is not a good thing overall. C: Yes and no. While my overall feelings are mostly inline w/yours, sometimes market forces serve to bring prices down. Maybe that's a bad thing at times, because it breeds contempt for the tools we use. Rather then having to spend 3000$ for a capable machine, you spend 300$, and if it craps the bed or gets stolen, just replace it. You never even have the opportunity nor the desire to know the machine. ?Computers bore me these days. I don't know what it is. Much of it is geared towards stupid games and whatnot. ? Sure, but photos of Baby are what inevitably gets lost when people do stupid things and use shit equipment. C: Well that's the fault of their own. You can't trust ANY media w/irreplaceable data. People don't back up, won't back up. They're just lazy and stupid. Many more people are using computers these days (for a variety of tasks, some legitimate, many not so), and didn't take the time to learn, or just weren't taught the essentials of data manipulation, or just don't care. You can't necessarily blame the manufacturers for the directions they take. They have to remain fluid, engineers have to maintain their significance, etc. ? And then they go out and buy the same shit equipment the next time. C: Not if they get burned enough. Or are told repeatedly they need to back up crucial data. ??? I'm all for reliability, when it counts. But gone are the days of the dollar floppy disk that last years and years and years. Astounding devices they were. But times change :( ? ? ? ? ? ? ? -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA