Technically, they are "formatted" (software level) the same way -- same bits at the same locations. The difference is at the physical/hardware level.

This is true for hard disks, but not memory cards.

On a hard disk, a bit is stored by magnetizing a portion of a spinning disk a certain way. Depending on how accurately the read-write head is aligned, the magnetism of the bit previous stored in that spot might be detectable. Hence the need for multiple overwrites to complete destroy the previous contents.

With a memory, a bit is store by a diode being flipped one way or another. Once it's flipped, it retains no memory of how it was previously set. Overwriting is pointless. In fact, since memory cards have a limited number of write cycles before the bit get "stuck", overwriting just reduces their life. (cards can be read an unlimited number of times).



As LFingar said, a quick format changes few bits, hence more write cycles for the others. However, as soon as one bit on the card becomes fixed, NOTHING on the card can be trusted, and the card is useless. Formatting will always change the same bits (Deleting will change them also, plus others), so those bit will be the first to go, regardless of which method you use.

WOW

Wow.

Just one (really long) sentence, and virtually every single word in wrong. 'Though I guess I shouldn't be surprised --- You seem to have lots of practice being wrong.

>> here we have a bunch of libtard

So, you start off by calling US names, a mere 45 words before you COMPLAIN about being called names.

>> low-information

Arrg... So, do you actually understand the meaning of the term "low information" ??? It means "NOT having facts". It does NOT mean "HAVING facts which disagree with your FANTASIES". Going back to the original article you posted, Mr Limbaugh (the younger) made a number of claims that were factually wrong. I then posted a message correcting them. In the 70 or so messages that followed, NO ONE has cited a single supported fact to challenge anything I've said there. The closest anyone has come is pointing out that I didn't recognize a reference to a provincial issue from 6 years ago. Hence:
Curran => lots of facts ==> High information
Gitzo ==> lack of facts ==> low information

>> who don't like David Limbaugh, don't like his big brother

I have no problem specifically with either of them, beyond my general disdain for people who lie in popular forums to advance their own agenda.

>> don't like the national news magazine that this article first appeared in

Can't really say I dislike the magazine, since you never mention where the article came from.

>> because I posted on a forum for sensible "like-minded" people to enjoy

Very hard to imagine anyone like-minded to the article being "sensible". And if you post something to a public forum, the public gets to comment on it. If you don't want your low-information fantasies challenged with actual facts, I suggest you retreat to the insular world of some forum in the Right-wing echo chamber where conflicting views aren't allowed.

>> they are ALL going nuts, calling me nasty name, (like libs ALWAYS do, screaming and yelling

And the only person going nuts here (and by far the worst name-caller) is YOU. Typical conservative lack of self-awareness. Everything you complain about others doing, you yourself do ten times worse.

>> yet not a single one of them has EVER..... EVER...... EVER...... explained to ANYONE, why they ALWAYS "play the troll

First of all, I think you need to look up the meaning of "trolling". It does not mean "advancing the topic of discussion with facts even if those facts challenge the prejudices of the others in the discussion". It's actual meaning is closer to "ignoring the content of other messages in a discussion and just responding with ad hominem attacks," which again, you do far more than anyone else here.

>> always attempt to lie out of anything they don't agree with.....

We don't need to lie, because the fact are on our side. But I would be interested in why YOU always attempt to lie out of anything you don't agree with.....

So, we agree that you have complete contempt for your fellow man (i.e., you treat them like cattle).



That the only important phrase in the next paragraph. And it's the Great Conservative Myth: "There are PLENTY of jobs out there; it's just that THOSE PEOPLE refuse to work."

It is, of course, complete nonsense. But believing it helps you consider those people as sub-human, unworthy of your concern. (and it is, of course, the complete opposite of every teaching of Jesus Christ)

Really ????

I was unaware that the enforcement for equal pay for women only applied to women in unions. I was sure it applied to all women.

Similarly, I didn't realize that the high-speed, broadband Internet access given to K-12 schools was only for children of union workers.

And how could I have missed that the Housing rescue plan only assisted union workers who were losing their houses?

Or perhaps, it's just that you've been lied to by the corporate interests that don't want you to know that they are the ones screwing you over...

How exactly is that strengthening the community over the individual? Sound more like individual rights of community interests.



Yes, That in the definition of "living in a society"



First I apologize for the way I phrased that. I didn't mean you, specifically, but rather the generalized beliefs of conservatives.

But, do my point, how would YOU feel is someone told you that YOU couldn't get married because it offended THEIR religious views? Well, YOUR state voted to put that into your constitution.

That's complete nonsense. Can you give an actual EXAMPLE of that? It's typical Right-wing pundit BS. Remember "1984" -- "Black is white" "up is down" and now "the Individual is the community"



What have I said that you could possibly interrupt as wanting to take away the rights of the individual?

I only protest your mistaken belief that you have the right to deny others their rights.

And you wish to live in a monarch -- with you as lord, naturally, in a castle surrounded by a moot, filled with serfs doing you bidding.

That, however, is not America.

The "United States" is the community, you twit. Which is entirely my point. You say you love the country, but the idea of a country, a community, a society, is the people working together --- to do things collectively that they cannot do by themselves. Not individuals screw over each other to be king of the hill.

Capitalism ==> Monarchy
Socialism ==> Democracy

OkOkOk.... I'll just accept that your a soulless bastard who treats people like cattle, and we'll ignore my second request.

How 'bout the FIRST half? An example of how Paul (or Cruz or
whatever Right-winger your prefer), is doing something the strengthen the COMMUNITY over the individual..

Then point out one thing I said there that is incorrect.

Give us one example of a policy of Paul's designed to strengthen a community. One example of a policy the helps a company's workers over the company's owners.

You can't...

You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.

The people working the hard to destroy the US is the Right-Wing, who want to turn it over to the multi-national corporations.

At CPAC, by a THREE-to-one margin, they picked Rand Paul as their choice for the next president. Have you heard his politics? He, and the Tea Party call it "individual liberty", but it basically boils down to "Screw Everyone else". They are the most anti-community, anti-social, anti-Christian people around. They claim they are the ones who "love America" but than do everything they can to dismantle it. ("States Right" => "End of the United States").

And you, like mindless saps, do their bidding, because your brainwashed by the jolly fat man on the radio, who insists "those people" take "personal responsibility", but assures you that you can blame all your problem on some else.

Why should he be repentant for shooting someone in self-defense?



Fair Enough.



Whoa, nellie! Where did that come from?? You may be able to justify calling Abu Jamal a racist, but you haven't come anywhere close to proving Adegbile is. And that's where you entire argument falls apart...

Well, all I can say is that MY facts agree with the PROSECUTION'S witnesses: after both men were shot once, Faulkner fell to the ground (from being shot), and Abu Jamal continued shooting. In fact, if it was done "execution style," then that confirms the defense's theory that it was a contract hit done by two other people.


The police officer who reported that, only remembered him saying it two months later. The doctors testified he was unconscious and unable to speak at the time.

You INTENDED to put an extra "b" in the middle of his name??

To what end? Is adding an unnecessary "B" to a name some form of uniquely hoosier insult?

It looks rather pathetic to make such nonsense claims, rather than bring yourself to say "ooops... I made a typo...."

So, you're saying the Reid is basing his legislative agenda on an issue that has been dead for SIX YEARS! Perhaps you should brush up a bit on the current issues....