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/me is not a Mac user *
Macintoshes haven't had floppy drives for a long time .
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It's a lot easier to be heavy handed when you're the only supplier in town."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Do they have re-recordable CD's?
/me shows how non-tech savvy he isI make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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I don't understand this. How much do floppy drives cost? 5$? 15$?
The inconvenience of a user having to deal with a single problem this will cause is enough to make this move a bad idea.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
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For the record, I have a CD-RW drive, and yet I've used floppies a dozen times in the past month.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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Mainly for transferring Excel/Word documents from one machine to another. Floppies are admittedly useless for archiving purposes...12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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I must confess I absolutely detest floppy disks ever since I can remember...you can hardly fit anything on them, they invariably go wrong amd fill with errors...good riddance, I would certainly dance on their graveSpeaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
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Why oh why would you use a floppy? Not only are they slow and limited on storage, but they're larger than USB storage devices and are FAR more likely to corrupt/lose data.
Dino: Yes, CD-RWs have existed for many years now."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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Frogger: For transferring files between computers, there's a nice little thing called the internet.
Of course not all computers are on the internet, in which case a CD-RW or a USB storage device would be used."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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Asher: You got a 56k MS Word document that you need to take from the office to work at home so you can get it ready for the presentation tomorrow. You can't email it because your idiot IT guy just loves firewalls, and any outgoing email with attachments gets thrown out*. Who-hoo, Dell and Intel just f*cked ya. Hope you enjoyed it!
Now do you see why?
*Typically, offices like the above aren't too thrilled with the idea of giving employees CD-burners. And they sure as hell ain't going to give you nice, little, easy-to-steal USB periphrials (sp?), nor will they allow you to hook yours up.Last edited by JohnT; February 5, 2003, 17:04.
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a) It's faster to write to a floppy than it is to email myself
b) Floppy drives are in the front of my computer, USB ports are in the back
c) For shared-access computers, it is often difficult to get permission to install programs like the driver for a USB device (they do require a driver, right?)
d) If I lose a floppy I'm out .30$ If I lose a USB storage thingy I'm out 30$12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio Regum
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Originally posted by JohnT
Asher: You got a 56k MS Word document that you need to take from the office to work at home so you can get it ready for the presentation tomorrow. You can't email it because your idiot IT guy just loves firewalls, and any outgoing email with attachments gets thrown out*. Who-hoo, Dell and Intel just f*cked ya. Hope you enjoyed it!
Now do you see why?
I have a very hard time believing your work computers don't have a USB slot or a CD-ROM drive."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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