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Well, I'm always right, didn't you know that?

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LOL - I am now that much the wiser, good sir!! Pleased to meet you!!

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Please to meet you. However, I am a good ma'am. Doesn't anyone around this place know who Morgaine is?

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My short-term memory is NFG (stress, booze or just old age), so I can't hold it all in my head anymore. I envy you your cerebral retention!!

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I do have a fairly good memory, but not that good. I only remember the ones I use frequently. I've written them all down.

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- but Lazarus was a character from the Christian New Testament who - if I recall correctly (it WAS 2,000 years ago!! ) was brought back from the dead by Jesus.

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That's exactly who he was, so see, your memory is better than you thought. :)

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Originally Posted by morgaine300

Please to meet you. However, I am a good ma'am. Doesn't anyone around this place know who Morgaine is?
LOL - I am but a fragile Newbie, ma'am, and I beg your forgiveness - the old 'pocket divining rod' just doesn't work so well on the internet as it does on the street !!! I am now even more pleased to have met you !!!:)
I do have a fairly good memory, but not that good. I only remember the ones I use frequently. I've written them all down.
I guess hard copy is still best for certain things - and login details is one of them.
That's exactly who he was, so see, your memory is better than you thought. :)
LOL - That's good to know, Morgaine. You've given my dubious faculties one helluva boost - thank you !!!

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Please to meet you. However, I am a good ma'am. Doesn't anyone around this place know who Morgaine is?
LOL - I am but a fragile Newbie, ma'am, and I beg your forgiveness - the old 'pocket divining rod' just doesn't work so well on the internet as it does on the street!! I am now even more pleased to have met you!!

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As for the street we need to trade places. Given that you just look like a big ape, it seems that you belong on the streets of New York. And me having existed in the days of the old religion of Britain, should be over on your streets.

Morgaine is a variation on the infamous Morgan le Fey.

Uh -Oh!! We is veering off-topic here. I just Googled Morgan Le Fey!! Meet me on the corner of 5th & West 34th. It's a while since I been that high, but the Empire State has never let me down!!

If U want to do Chrysler or Woolworth, though - that's fine by me!!

I stood atop the WTC in 1979, and I cried when she and her twin went down. I cried again this last week, when we re-lived that awful time. It may be corny, but I have ALWAYS loved NY. I was born a townie, in West London, but I love the green hills outside of town.

But our roots will always be our roots, won't they ? The moment we sever them, we die. You can always change direction - but you can NEVER change where you came from.

Yes, I know we went quite off topic.

I don't live in New York. By exchanging places, I meant countries. It's been 30 years since I've been in New York and that was only long enough for a mad rush from one airport to another. Personally, I hate the place.

Although with my powers, I could probably see you from here. :-) (Don't worry - I'm not the evil Morgan you probably read about. That's only rumor.)

OMG - Does that mean you could see me when I was.. :rolleyes:

... and also when I did.. :o

OMG - is MY face red?? :eek: :D

SWERVING VIOLENTLY back onto topic here..!.

Regarding Mitch's query about Memory Sticks & Flash Drives. Our UK terminology may differ from the US, but a memory stick here is a small device which (usually) plugs directly into the USB connector, and is seen by the computer as an external drive of some sort. It is simply a piece of electronic memory, which can be written to and read - just like a re-writeable CD or DVD (... or floppy disk if you're as old as me!! )

Another type of data storage we use is the memory Card, which is the little tiny card that we use in mobile phones & digital cameras. Again, this is simply an electronic memory device, but it requires a 'card reader' if it is being used outside of the device it was originally used in. There are several different formats of these cards - but a favourite here seems to be the 'SD' format. The 'card reader' is simply an adaptor which (usually) plugs into a USB connector, and enables our computer to see this card as an external drive, as it does the memory stick.

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Not much different. What you call memory sticks are also called that here, but more commonly referred to as flash drives or thumb drives.

Memory cards are called memory cards.

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I've not had the same problem with memory cards as with flash drives.

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Mitchsc here again...

So now I'm confused. SG, you say above that you've had more problems with flash drives than memory cards. Aren't they the same thing in 2 different packages? Or is the memory itself a different technology?

Thanks...

Theoretically they are the same. Both are considered solid state memory. But for some reason I've seen problems with Flash drives that I haven't seen with memory cards. Maybe it's the USB interface.

That makes sense.

Interesting (regarding my original camcorder question), they call them camcorders with "flash memory". But if "Flash" refers to the USB interface, then their use of the term "flash memory" vs HD or tape is technically incorrect??

Now I'm off track. My actual original question had to do with using "solid state" (what they call flash) memory in camcorders vs tape or HD. Assuming no connector for the memory chips, do you think that is a reliable alternative?

I've heard that solid state memory is only good for about 1000 saves, but I'd love to get away from those pesky moving parts.