Pete Zaitcev ( zaitcev) wrote,
Pete Zaitcev
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These are not Memory Sticks you are looking for

I wish users learned not to call USB keys "memory sticks". This is especially annoying over the telephone, because I cannot tell if there were any capital letters in Memory and Stick. A Memory Stick is something entirely different (a proprietary storage interface pushed by Sony).

This is not as annoying as "kibibyte", certainly, but nonetheless... Would it kill people to stop doing that?

I think the worst abuser is the German company DNT, which makes an MP3 player called "Stick" (and a very crappy player it is, too: it cannot work with usb-storage because it supplies empty CSW packets, though ub works, barely).
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