On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:25:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I guess they are great and I'm an idiot, nuff said...
No. I don't think so. There are lots of things (in techy stuff particularly) that are true at some point. Later on that thing becomes no longer true but the meme hangs around and most of us at some time get caught by one of these outdated "facts". I've seen Theo shoot down "improvements" suggested by people who thought that code would be better written as it would have been to be efficient back in the days when I did 4040 and 8080 assembler. His explanation was an enlightenment because I had not kept up with modern code generation technology and how CPUs help out. Until the last few years I too had thought that flash memory was easily "worn out." Of course it isn't as good as it appears, at least at the cell level. It is partly made to look better because not only has the technology improved but there are stacks of "spare" cells on board tto "replace" worn out ones. Read up on "wear levelling" for better info. Ya just gotta keep on learning. No rest for us wicked older guys! Rod/ A consultant is someone who's called in when someone has painted himself into a corner. He's expected to levitate his client out of that corner. -The Sayings of Chairman Morrow. 1984.
