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USB Thumb Drives as ... Fashion Statement?
The Fun Guy writes "The New York Times has discovered USB thumb drives: "In some cases, flash drives have suddenly become so commonplace that, as with cellphones, their owners are adding fashion touches [DNA must be on file to read] to lend them a personal identity." Apparently, the most important thing about thumb drives is not that they are cheap, fast, durable, easy to use or hold a lot of data, but that wearing one around your neck identifies you as one of the techno-congniscenti, especially if you personalize it with stickers."
I'm talking about disk capacity of course.
Awesome!
Anyone know where I can find some really small VTEC stickers?
Stickers as a ticket to elitism. Who knew?
Moo
Yes, once I'm done with school and college geek becomes chic. Its like some bad dream. The stuff I used to get beatup for now gets you the hot cheerleader. This is some really evil irony.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
I don't remember people thinking I was too cool when I was walking around with a floppy around my neck. I guess the secret is the stickers.
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Im still kicking it old school with a grey 32 meg drive on my keychain
- I got my free iPod and a free Nintendo DS....why not
Why not wear a 4Meg thumb drive as a RETRO fashion statement? Perhaps there will even be a market for a 4K drive in the future. Of course, to be properly retro, the 4K drive might have to be as big as your arm....
One for each crowd I hang out with:
1) Thumbdrive with an Apple logo
2) Thumbdrive with a Type R logo
You are voting for Mike Tyson instead?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Set up a VNC server and put a client on a USB thumb drive, configured to display full screen. Then just plug your USB drive into your friends computer, double click and watch their faces as they see their windows machine instantly converted to a linux one...
No, it makes you look like a dick. The same way that you look when you walk around with your mobile-phone cord permanently wedged in your ear, whether you are on the phone or not.
Personally, I hate having anything hanging around my neck. My office just issued new ID swipe tags which they supplied with a rediculously short neck cord. (I find it really uncomfortable to have a plastic card banging against my nipples all day. Its really distracting.)
Those little retracting belt thingies are the best, even though they tend to die in the hands of a bored 3 year old.
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well then, in the unlikely case that a member of the opposite sex asks you if that is a thumbdrive, just take an air of mystery and state vaguely: "No, that's my encryption security key".
I wear a ST-506 on a 3/4", chrome-plated chain around my neck! **BLING* *BLING**!!!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I'm not cool enough to have a thumb drive. I think I might have a broken USB dongle somewhere though. Would that make me cool? Or would I be better off wearing a parallel port dongle around my neck instead?
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Oh shit, I just disturbed myself by knowing that.
I've found that mine needs drivers for Win9x, so I need to keep them right there in the root of the drive.
Karma: Can only be portioned out by the Cosmos.
I have a "blueberry" cellphone that can browse the web on my belt. On the other side, I've got a RIM pager. Also on the belt is a Nite-Ize pouch with a Leatherman Wave and a mini-Maglite. On my wrist is a watch that not only tells time, it's got a compass an altimeter built in. My class ring says "Georgia Institute of Technology." I've got a SecurID token, a military surplus can opener, and the platter separator from an ST-225 hard disk on my keyring-- which itself was vendor swag from HP. ...and you're trying to tell me I need a USB flash widget so people can tell I'm a geek?
I think it marks you as part of the "choke me with the digital garrote around my neck until I give you the electronic device containing all my stuff, and here have my iPod too" crowd. Think I'll have to pass on this one.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I, of course, did not use my iPod out of the house until 50 Cent was brave enough to wear his in a video.
I was getting tired of wearing my bling bling CD necklace ...
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
does a mispelling of "cognoscente" mean that you're also a member of the techno-illiterati?:)
yeeaaaaaah boy!
Kicking it up with the cassette tape drive.
Go 16k!
Go 16k!
I'd have thought the correct answer would be "No, I am just happy to see you".
"I'm the Gatekeeper. Are you the (Encryption) Keymaster?"
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
I have gone some days wearing my thumbdrive on a lanyard around my neck at a college campus with a large population of women, and some days without. The number of women who have approached me to ask me out on a date in either case has remained a constant 0.
On the other hand, while wearing one, I had a woman come up to me and ask for help with her artificial intelligence homework.
--You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
For the EE, wearing a static wristband...
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Wearing one around your neck identifies you as one of the techno-congniscenti.
Riiight. This fad is for those who think they're 'in the know' because they picked up some skillz by watched their admin right click my computer and click properties. The crowd that is just dangerous enough to delete their registry. And now they're cool because they keep their super leet document around their necks saying "Look at me, I'm important, I've got 'my documents' around my neck!". Nothing annoys me more than these people. Its like that ITT Tech commercial with the 40 year old PT Cruiser driving soccer mom got a degree as an "IT Professional" by "inventing a database" in Access and is expecting to make $80,000 a year!
Someone please meta-moderate the Slashdot RSS feed so I only see intelligent stories.
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
shockproof (encapsulated in superball material
it doubles as a bouncy ball?! I'm on it.
What is slashdot?
It actually puts you into a very disturbing segment of people in between ravers and geeks. Unfortunately, both groups will shun you unless you also add a soother and a strand of low-voltage LEDs to appease them.
Cheers
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Ha! I mock your attempt at trying to look like one of the techno-cognoscenti by wearing a thumb drive around your neck. I wear an EMC Symmetrix around my neck so I can store several terabytes of data. Admittedly this has made certain things (eating, going to the bathroom, leaving the data center) difficult but when my friends come over they're all impressed at how 133t I am!
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
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yes, the will be fixed with the Cherry 2005 model.
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Here is an article from C|Net about people who are doing that very thing. The novelty factor of using a cell phone from 1985 is almost as long as the battery life would be for one of those phones. After that, you are just stuck with 10lbs of digital obscurity and some brain tumors to boot.
"Hey, where did you get that flash-memory chip on a USB plug?"
"Oh, over at Newegg.com. They have a great flash-memory chip on a USB plug selection. I got this flash-memory chip on a USB plug because it has 512 MB or memory and was only $40. Pretty sweet, huh?"
Thanks, but no thanks. I think I'll stick with "flash drive".
Getting fashion advice from /., now that's out of style...
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1GB means it'll be a LONG time before you run out.
.. ;)
hah hah! you haven't been around the computer industry long, have you sonny boy
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You *could* tell her it's your USB dongle and ask if she has an available port.