How many times you were feeling this frustration of purchasing a flash drive or any other small and portable, but yet pricey device, just to discover that double-sized one is out ???

Take those flash drives. I've seen almost all of them. Starting with just 4 MB, then 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256*, 512, 1G*, 2G, 4G* and now 8G (asterisks mark those I've actually owned ).

And if you think that technological growth or Moore's law has anything to do with this -- you are SO wrong !!! Have you ever looked inside??? Well, crack yours open, indulge your curiosity ! It does not worth a s***t any more anyway! And you will see, that even the large ones (like 1 or 2 Gs) are in fact half-empty inside. Which means it was SO easy to make 4 and even 8 GB flash drives a few years ago!!!

Some people call this "conspiracy", but I incline more towards terms like "fraud" or at least "sabotage". Think about it -- who would ever purchase that many useless devices if they put up the whole variety on the market? Nobody! Everyone would get just that one they really need. And this way evil conglomerate of hardware+software manufacturers wouldn't be able to rip you off as bad! Damn you, corporate marketing departments, you are abusing the power scientists trusted you with!

And look what we have now: people have those devices that they had to purchase in pairs etc to fit their (often unreasonably inflated) data. And they are going to trash those at best and suffer from physical and emotional discomfort of dealing with a bunch of crap at worst.

Lots of resources are being wasted on the way. Including, but not limited to plastic, electronic chips, diesel and jet fuel to transport all this useless stuff in ridiculously enormous size package all over the world.

Well, what can I say -- keep stocking up piles of garbage and grumbling over the global warming!