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The End of the 3.5-inch Floppy Continues
JoshuaInNippon writes "In a brief press release buried within Sony Japan's website, the company announced that it would be ending sales of the classic 3.5-inch diskette in the country in March 2011. Sony introduced the size to the world in 1981, and it saw its heyday in the 1990s. Sony has been one of the last major manufacturers to continue shipments of the disk type it helped develop, but had ended most worldwide sales in March of this year. The company's production of the 3.5-inch floppy ceased in 2009. Sony noted demand, or lack thereof, as the reason. The company's withdrawal is one of the final acts in the slow death of the floppy era."
I know how they feel. There's also a lack of demand for my 3.5 inch floppy...
I recently found a cache of old disks, and I'm wondering what would be an environmentally friendly way to dispose of the little space wasters???
Skeet.
The last time I used a floppy disk, it was to strip out the flexible platter inside to use as a UV filter for the solar eclipse
That was in 1999
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beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his mind he dreams himself your master
Armaments, chapter two, verses nine through twenty-one:
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Sony can't fit a decent rootkit on a floppy...
Sony: Oh yes we can... oh wait. No we can't. That is right. So rootkits on our floppies at all. No sirree. Wouldn't fit see. Yeah.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Yes, but the beginning of the end, the beginning of the end of the end, the beginning of the end of the end of the end, etc. form a converging series. The point of convergence is the ultimate end point, where all ends ultimately end.
More interesting are intervals like the beginning of the end of the beginning, or the end of the end of the beginning of the end of the beginning of the beginning of the end. Their extremal points (i.e. the set of limits of those series) form a Cantor set in time, unless you have a case where the end of each beginning is already the beginning of the end. In that case the limits are dense in time, i.e. during the whole interval between ultimate beginning and ultimate end you are continuously experiencing both beginnings and ends.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Bought my last disk at least a decade ago....
With all the free AOL disks I got, I don't think I EVER bought a floppy disk...
Bought? Were you working in the purchasing department of AOL?
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
I still remember as a 15 year old *ahem* downloading from alternate sources a copy of windows 95, then copying it to 25+ floppies and installing it. Painstaking, brutal fear of some error. It worked though.. Then when I buy a computer in 2003, and of course have no floppy drive in it (Configured on purpose that way) imagine my suprise when the only way to reinstall XP onto my sata drive is via FUCKING FLOPPY.
Ok, so what do you do with them after you you skeet on them?
The data is considered too sensitive for the network so everybody has a file folder with a hardcopy of the report and a floppy in a envelope inside made up for them.
A rare example where disgruntled employees don't bring guns to announce they quit. They bring magnets.