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A Memory Card Torture Test

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the kicking-the-tires dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Would you buy a Ferrari and put regular gas into it? I don't think so. So why are most of us buying expensive digital cameras and using cheap memory cards? If you want to find out how much better a high speed memory card is, check out this group test of high capacity compact flash and SD cards."

2 of 309 comments (clear)

  1. Regular gas in a Ferrari? by Richard+W.M.+Jones · · Score: 5, Funny
    You can't put regular gas in a Ferrari?

    What's the difference between regular gas and this special stuff? Does that mean when you buy a Ferrari you spend half you life looking for Ferrari-approved filling stations?

    (These are serious questions ...)

    Rich.

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    libguestfs - tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images
  2. 19 Pages? by gfxguy · · Score: 5, Funny
    19 Pages? Ay Caramba!

    Hint: skip to page 18 for the conclusions.

    You don't get any more professional than padding your 3 page article to 19 pages with lines like this (from the conclusion):

    You could say we tested a number of things.


    Yeah, you could say that. One of those things was my patience.
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    Stupid sexy Flanders.