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Daily Digest Archive for November 6, 2004
Q: For GEM-SET Technology Mentors initially posted
10/22/04 FROM STUDENT MEMBER JESS N. IN NJ
My phone was recently run over by a car. I took it to a Verizon
store to get a new one and get numbers downloaded into the new
one from
the damaged one, but only 4 numbers were transferred over. I
don't understand how
only some numbers can get transferred over, but not all of them,
I just feel like it is one of those things that should be all
or
nothing. Can you explain this to me? |
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November 6, 2004
A: FROM MENTOR JOAN LUSK IN
RI
Memory isn't all in the same exact place - each digit in a
phone
number is stored in its own set of bits, in their own tiny
physical
locations. If memory gets crumpled up in a car accident, some
may be
unchanged and still have the connections it needs for you
to access
it - and some may have lost connections or be totally smashed.
I
don't know how common it is for destruction to be partial
versus 100%
or 0% - but it would be an expensive experiment to do! I bet
the
cell phone manufacturers have done some relevant testing,
though, and
arguments about the relative merits of different kinds of
memory
might include consideration of how easy it is to recover data
after
an accident.
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