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RAM
For the record, a flash memory data storage device (aka USB flash drive, thumb drive, jump drive) does not use volatile RAM, but a kind of EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory). I agree with Faldo. A hard drive and a jump drive, while technically quite different devices for different purposes, are indistinguishable to the user, both being something you store data on. It little matters if there are imps in there reading and writing data on vellum MSS.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Fal sorry if I was not clear but my contention was that the wording of your reply seemed to suggest that if one accepts the term "drive" for the device then he might conceivably have accepted "hard drive" as equally applicable, which notion you now evidently reject
It's kind of like had arguing that a rugby football is a ball so therefore I must be arguing for the validity of calling it a baseball. It just ain't so.
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zm thank you for that rundown, for confirming that the flash device isn't volatile. Fal forgive me once more for misreading but I still maintain it shouldn't be called a "drive"
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re: overloading the term 'drive'
daleh, even the term 'overload' is overloaded.
as I've said elsewhere (and others have, too): context, context, context
-joe (underloaded) friday
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I still maintain it shouldn't be called a "drive" Fine. As long as you understand what people mean when they use the term that way and you make yourself clear when referring to the devices in question. And don't let me catch you using the word album to refer to a single CD or a single LP.
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"And don't let me catch you using the word album to refer to a single CD or a single LP."
Coincidentally one of my pet peeves as a former prescriptivist
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