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Re: Fun new ways to waste money and resources

Adam — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:50:12 -0000

I am assuming yes. I got one from Lexus a while back that was able to be rewritten. Unfortunately it is only a 16 MB one.

Re: Fun new ways to waste money and resources

Ben Schiendelman — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:13:12 -0000

Are we assuming these can be rewritten?

Re: Fun new ways to waste money and resources

Adam — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:06:32 -0000

I was wondering how you go about getting these thumb drives from all these companies and which companies actually offer them. Kind of like a cheat sheet so I can request info from these companies to get the thumb drives. Thank you for your help.

Re: Fun new ways to waste money and resources

Piers Fawkes — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:04:35 -0000

As a personal storage device, nothing beats 'em - esp when you find yourself in some basement with no wireless and you need to swap some info from laptop to laptop (or quit your job and pinch all the contact info) - but I agree with TreeHug, sending press info via USB sticks seems a complete waste of cash, resources.

Re: Fun new ways to waste money and resources

Charles Hoard — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:10:39 -0000

I am waiting for AOL to start using these instead of a CD. I'd rather pick up a couple of these with my next 'puter mag!

Re: Fun new ways to waste money and resources

tankcat — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:00:55 -0000

There's always that old stand-by White-out to conceal signs of the sell-out.

Re: Fun new ways to waste money and resources

gabor — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:54:58 -0000

re: branding

who cares about branding, logos on the case? if it works after the erase process, it's fine. or apply a small sticker with Your logo or name...

Re: Fun new ways to waste money and resources

William — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:43:45 -0000

These -- being pocket sized -- are also convenient. My problem is the branding. Solution I discovered is branding comes off with a little sandpaper.

Re: Fun new ways to waste money and resources

Chris — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:16:26 -0000

I agree, they are much better than CDs

How many useless CDs do you now have?

Where can you recycle them?

This is much better

Re: Fun new ways to waste money and resources

Becky — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:49:28 -0000

CDs are not reusable, though, and the USB drives are.

Re: Fun new ways to waste money and resources

Tom — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:58:30 -0000

But unlike a CD, these drives can be erased and re-used (similar to a floppy). The burned CD-ROM would wind up in the landfill.

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