What goes in must come out! Shouldn't it?

**genese** · #11 (**permalink**) 19-12-2007, 04:27 PM

what were we talking about draughts? ... my daughters going to hate me for this but we used to call her fish because of her attention span she is now 17 and besotted with fish!
think how amazing it would be if you could select which memory got replaced!
i have a fair few years id happily drop

Dennyboy · #12 (**permalink**) 19-12-2007, 04:31 PM

I think alistair meant draughts as in no corks, nothing in between to stop the air getting out!

How about if you could just slot a 4gb memory card in to top up!

chakras · #13 (**permalink**) 19-12-2007, 06:03 PM

Interesting quote. Remembered a similar quote from Sherlock Holmes - Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Quote:

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"But the Solar System!" I protested.

"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."