We're mostly on the same page but I think you and others are missing a crucial point I'm trying to make..."if you could OTHERWISE get paid for it". Yeah, free publicity is GREAT!!! But, we're talking about Viacom. They have plenty of publicity and a big following already. If my small, minor, mostly unnoticed content was getting play I'd be happy as shit. Viacom is huge already. They are a business and expect their content to bring in revenue. They have to protect their content. If they don't then their revenue declines and so do they. The stockholders are ones they are trying to protect...and, some of us might even own some of their stock.
Viacom is huge. So was Royal Crown (RC) cola, but they didn't *really* make it to the 80s cola wars. While they had a huge market share at one point in history, they decided rather than spending money promoting their product they AFAIK saved their money and put it into their product. They lost their marketshare and were bought out.
I'm empathetic as to protecting the shareholder's interests. But as big as viacom is, their income depends on viewership. Viewership depends on awareness, and to promote awareness, they do employ advertising. The nice thing about free advertising is the fact that it's "free", otherwise you'd have to pay for it. Even if most of the commercials for the dailyshow are done on viacom owned stations, that's airtime which could have been sold to someone else.
You are right, it boils down to what's in the best interest of the shareholders. The real question is does the increased viewership of the youtube blip-verts of the dailyshow increase the value of the show enough, or is there more money to be made by either charging for it or showing it with your own adverts.
Would you want your content out there for free if you could otherwise get paid for it?
That depends... if I happened to release a music video then by all means I'd want that sucker on youtube. If I happened to have an interest in a television program or a movie and someone wants to take a 3min blip-vert and post it on youtube, I'd be pleased as punch. The only reason I saw the new Pink Panther movie was because I saw the "english lesson" on youtube.
The big theme in this thread is "free advertising". It's rather way VCRs were tolerated and in many cases encouraged in the 1980s. It was a cheap way for a person to buld up a video library, and usually there was an into from the approperate station, such as HBO or Showtime. How many people got cable just so they could watch what their friends taped, or better still tape things beyond antenna quality.
I'm not saying Viacom isn't within their rights. I am saying in all likelyhood the increased viewship from youtube blip-verts results in higher commercial value of AV products.
Suing someone for their livelyhood when you have no legal ground to do so is just plain stupid. Anyone who needed to work and was being tried to prevent that would surely challenge the plaintiff. Who wouldn't challenge that? What was The Planet thinking? Actually, don't answer that.
It happens often enough. An old obscure band I referended before called Dumptruck was with Big Time records, an indy label. After their contract expired they decided to move up in the world to another label, Big Time sued them for breach of (non existant) contract for the sum of 5 million. Not like they bothered to show up in court or anything, but also it's not like anyone would pick them up given the pending 5 million dollar law suit, something that took years to resolve.
Managers are alot like children, they do things out of spite.
Very intresting research but why do we need to find out why the seaside smells like the seaside? I'm all for curiousity and discovering stuff, but this sounds really useless.
Well... attracting birds is one step closer to repelling them. For the most part man can coexist with birds except for airports where they are a hazzard. If nothing else, one can find a place where it's safe to attract birds.
Rampant piracy has been the norm for quite a long time in Eastern Europe & Asia.
Rampant piracy has been the norm in the US and elsewhere.
For example, my first PC didn't come with MS Dos, actually it didn't come with a hard drive at all. I happened to have an old MFM 15meg full height. I didn't know or understand the fact that the OS was something you had to buy. After all, in the 8bit days, DOS was something which pretty much came with the computer. In the case of Atari, the 1050 drive came with Atari DOS 3, which was 100% incompatable with everything else, so one just got a copy of Atari dos 2.0 or Atari dos 2.5 from a friend, or one was lucky enough to get 2.5 as part of their software package. Near as I'm aware, it was just something you copied, not something sold specificly by Atari except the manual which you could buy for $10.00. It wasn't until MS-dos V5.x I was even aware that it was a seperate product, with an uppgrade cost that was pretty reasonable. This ignorance was pretty normal for the time period, esp among Mac users who had the benifit of buying a system where the OS was free, and the latest version was free up until system 7.x.
Windows, average everyday people were at least aware windows was a product you could buy, but anyone who shelled out for MS-dos wasn't hip to the idea of shelling out extra for windows. Those who didn't shell out for dos typicaly didn't shell out for windows.
But regardless, piracy was part of the reason Microsoft became the standard. Other companies had to make their own OS, which did add to the cost of their machines. PCs without dos could be had for under $600 sans monitor.
Maybe I'm just not "with it", but the idea of reading more than a few paragraphs on a PDA makes me want to shoot myself in the head. Not to mention all the other disadvantages of a PDA when compared to a book.
Books are nice. You can flip pages, you can put a bookmarker in them, and they require no boot up time.
However, a tablet PC is really the next best thing. The aspect is perfect for full page documentation, they are self lit, and you can store a ton of books on a the HD.
The best of both words would be making your own hard copy, but making your own books is tedius to say the least, not to speak of the fact that home printing isn't all that cost effective, nor time effective. Probally good enough for a Project Gutenberg... where home print quality in a binder would likely be better than Penguin Press.
No we won't...the same reason we don't have a mainframe layer or black and white TV layer and the same reason we don't have a sword layer...people aren't going to buy new stuff to run software that does the same stuff...if you are going to buy a new computer and it comes with vista great, but people are really overestimating the market demand as far as the average PC user and even most 'advanced' (I use that term loosly) users.
I'm sure somewhere there is a black and white layer, probally started sometime in the 80s when it became totally unfashonable to have a working TV ontop of a non-working one. Forunatly said B&W layer probally had tubes without the usual kilos of lead. It wasn't until the pong era that x-rays really became an issue.
There certainly is a gun layer somewhere, not that guns are obsolete, but the military tended not to be big on given their more excelent automatic hardware to civilians, so they would rather dump than melt down.
The monitor layer is what the greens seem to be offended by. CRTs are nasty ass things to dump.
People aren't going to buy new stuff to run software that does the same stuff? Well, not counting the people who i've spoken to who were so impressed with vista they plan to buy a new pc just to run it, but thanks to DRM, and hand shaking displays and video cards, if you want to do HD you gotta upgrade.
Your teacher is incompetent and should be fired. If this is a college, you 100% need to withdraw *now* and find a better college. If this is a high school, you should consider your other educational options, such as taking classes at the local technical college for high school and college credit. One thing you might consider is to tell parents about this. Most parents by now should know that floppies are completely obsolete and will complain to the administrators about it. The complaints of parents is the only thing administrators care about (unless you're at a public high school; they only care about Federal dollars), so getting them on your side will help in the battle against this woman who insists on wasting your time and everyone else's.
I hate to say it, but this is actually somewhat normal. Teachers tend to require things done a certain way, and have every right to grade students on how they comply for those standards. An english class might require you to turn in your assignments in courier 10cpi, I have had some who specificly said pica 10cpi. She didn't understand the concept of a proportional font. An MBA teach might require a specific system of folders. Given the amount of data students produce it's not unreasonable for them to expect them to do it in a uniform way.
Heck... Powerpoint was requried in many Washington schools for highschool seniors to do their final project, without which you couldn't graduate.
As a rule of thumb, the only time you can trully complain is if you have to invest money in the hardware, but we are talking about floppy discs. I'm willing to bet that the school in question had a computer lab with both CD-rom and floppy drives. Worst case, you put the files onto CD, and copy them to floppy at school.
You can say the floppy drive is out moted until you are blue in the face, but this doesn't change the fact that it's one of the oldest stable standards which odds are students have at home.
1. email it if it's reasonably small -or- 2. burn it to CD / copy it to a flash drive if it's not I say these are the only two options because let's face it - how many end-users even know what an FTP site is, let alone where one is or how to use it?
It's been a while since I e-mailed something to someone that didn't permit attachments in the meg range. I have had problems with g-mail and programs. But so long as they are on a IM system, transfer is not a problem.
For end users who don't know what an ftp is, send them a url ftp://mysite.com.
People who actually needed one went with the much easier plug-a-USB-cable-in solution. At the time, an LS-120 that could read and write regular floppies was only a few dollars more than the early USB floppy drives, so people without big network pipes wound up with something that was useful for system backup, too.
The rest of us got cheezy SCSI-II USB bridges to plug in our SyQuest and tape drives.
Thanks for the refresher. I do remember that USB floppies were actually cheaper in mac blue in later years. This was more of a complaint, the fact that you have this system that sold for $1000+, from a company who for the most part advertised their shit was ready to go out of the box, which in all fairness it typicaly was, until the first imacs when they were not shipped with floppy drives nor ls-120. Given the pricetag, I would have expected a CD-R drive.
Yes, it's good the fact that you could get cheezy scsi-II usb bridges, and an external floppy drive. Not sure if there was a old mac keyboard to usb bridge. But in my mind I pictured a desk, with a classic blue imac, a system desiged to be as cable free as possible, cluttered with all these dongles and external devices, because the foofoo heads didn't give you recordable media.
Even in Windows Vista, you still need a floppy disk to back up your logon credentials so that you can recover encrypted files if the OS fails. There is still no way to back this up to a disk file so that you can burn it to CD-R then delete it.
You don't can't use "diskcopy" or some other form of disk imaging software?
I was thinking during the recent story about the new amiga OS the fact that such software wasn't common place on the PC, and diskcopy wasn't typicaly used on the PC. In fact, the only reason to use it is to make boot media.
My Computer Science class is requiring that I submit program assignments on a floppy disk. She's not flexible about it, in fact she's very strict about even how to attach the disk to the paper (binder clip), using the proper cover sheet, and so on, or get a huge fat automatic zero.
I understand adhering to requirements. But floppy disks?
I guess the real lesson I'm learning so far is that some people will force you to use stupid old methods or standards or media because they said so and for no other good reason. Might as well tell me to submit it on five-and-a-quarter, it would the same inconvenience at this point.
Assuming this was a teacher of CIS odds are to prevent the spread of viruses... they have a simple dos machine booted from write protected floppy. And as this is a CIS teacher, she probally didn't know how to mount the CD-rom in dos.
Apple strives to design systems that move people towards new paradigms of work, rather than holding on to legacies.
Apple rather than employing "standards" expects the end user to change their entire system based on what they envision, when in reality they envision saving a few bucks.
Others pointed out that mac did have USB, and you could get a cheap external floppy drive, or ls-120 drive. This new paradigm of work was to clutter your desk with cables, 'cause the damn box didn't have any sort of recordable media drive.
The beige box builders held on to their floppies much longer because they couldn't lift their heads up and see that they were eatng grass.
Floppies were still THE STANDARD of 1998. CD-r drives had hit the market, IIRC 4x was about the max... I think the HP 8100i was released tward the end of 1998. But regardless at the time, floppy was still used to exchange files you created, anything larger than zip or ls-120 tended to be used. But as we are talking 1998... not everyone had zip/ls-120 drives. Most had CD-rom drives, but burnt discs were not reliable as there was no telling whether it would be read by your older drive. But "Everyone had a floppy drive", well, unless it was a blue imac.
cd roms and dvd roms cant be trusted to do that - their reader heads are too fragile and can go out of balance with the slightest impact if you are not careful. it is a hard day at work to find out that your recovery disk you have used 1 year ago is not read anymore by your dvd just when you need to safe boot your pc, or some other cds found around the office which were created by the same recorder.
floppy drives on the other hand are just too brutally effective - they are highly unsophisticatedly mechanical that, you can trust it to always work as it is tough to break, and it reads any floppy disk created by any floppy drive.
I'm part of the crowd that would somewhat agree that floppies are still somewhat useful. I've had issues installing Debian using CD/DVD rom drives. While I did for a time go floppy and network install, these problems were resolved by just getting a new burner. Future installs will likely be done via network booting as boards are shipped with network onboard, and no boot prom is required.
I believe that part of the reason that floppy drives are so reliable for crash recovery is the simple fact that they are not used for anything. It's rather why I felt safe buying used Teacs from the local 2nd hand pc recycle place, most are unused. If they were used, then i'm sure you'd experence the sorts of problems I have experenced such as magnatized heads and floppy drives, including teac, do eventually fail if used. Not to speak of dust issues as floppy drives tended to act as a front vent for fresh air.
In 1998 when Apple released the original bondi blue iMac without a floppy drive, the floppy disc was ALREADY so absurdly useless that no computer user needed them. So, I proffer that this story is late by about a decade.
I felt the blue iMac was useless in 1998 because it had no means to store your data. IIRC the sucker didn't even come with a CD-R drive. This was also during the years of @home again IIRC where broadband was not available to everyone.
IIRC you could rig up a floppy drive, so long as you were willing to solder 20 pins next to the sound chip.
I recently found an old 3.5" floppy with some useless, but nostalgic data on it. So, I dug through my box of spare 'parts' and found an old drive. As I went to install the drive in my desktop machine to pull the data off the floppy I realized an important fact: that box has no floppy controller.
In that sense, the floppy has already been gone for some of us for awhile now.
I don't own a system without a floppy controler onboard, this inlcudes my asus a8n-sli board. It's not enabled, I ditched the floppy drive in favor of another HD. I have a desktop case with limited space.
Perhaps you can share what system you have that doesn't have this onboard.
Unique? That's Virtual Memory. Sure, the fact that it's easy (may be) a good thing (though how many people are going to keep an empty flash drive around for this? Easier to get the kid down the street to install more ram for you and be done with it if you cant do it yourself. However, unique? I can put a swap file on flash drive and itd do the same thing...
Tell me this... can you change your virtual memory settings without a reboot under xp and below? I've not played with my settings but i'm willing to wager that xp requires a reboot. I'm sure XP wouldn't play nice with the idea you deciding you wanted to remove the flash drive.
Not that I think it's a good idea or anything. Flash drives do have a limited life span, but hey for $20 or so you can get a 1 gig unit, sometimes 2 gig units. For a small investment you can dedicate flash virtual disc virtral memory storage. It's something joe user can do to make something work that otherwise didnt work.
At least in Germany (or in the rest of the world for that matter), the sales tax is part of the price of the item. When you travel in the US you never know how much it is until you pay. And if you ask beforehand how much the local tax is, they give you nasty looks like you were insulting their dear mothers. It's a completely braindead system.
It's rather interesting. Bars in Canada add sales tax, where every bar I've been to in the US, tax is included. Fuel tax is included with the price. It would be nice if the price advertised included tax.
On the plus side, I live in washington which has no state income tax, but a sales tax that floats between 8% and 9% depending on the city, and food has no sales tax. Generally thinking 10% for most states is a good rule of thumb.
But odds are... your average worker doesn't know what the sales tax is.
and said make a ghost image like everybody else....
I'm not sure if it's ghost or another norton product, but there is one where norton thought it was a good idea to change the partition ID to refelect the fact that it employed some form of nortons crap. That sounds logical, and well and good, except for the fact that after blowing a motherboard, it was not possible to mount the drive in windows, it wouldn't see it. You "could" mount it under linux easily enough, it was a perfectly valid NTFS partition. Partition magic wouldn't touch it which is now owned by Symantec, paragon wouldn't touch it, nothing would. And it's not like i'd tweek with the paramaters until such time as I got the drive backed up.
Symantec has some good utilities, but unforunatly many of them are bug ridden pieces of filth, and none of the utilities they buy the rights to and sell seem to be aware of each other, which is the apex of stupid when you have one product using it's own unique partition ID number and nothing else in the Nortons sphere that deals with the drive on this level understands this idiot approach.
Paragon backup seems to do the trick, without alot of bullshit. I wouldn't touch nortons ghost.
Word of mouth. I don't watch broadcast television at all (I do watch tv on DVD and BSG through iTunes), and yet, I've been able to find movies that interest me. Usually there is some slashdot posting, then I google, then I watch if it sounds interesting.
Number one... good for you. I think it's just spiffy those who go out of their way to adopt a new lifestyle. I personaly happen to enjoy downloading things my self rather than being forced to go with the network's schedual.
However, advertising is still one of the main means of making people aware a movie is out. This includes movie trailers on TV, film, and DVD/Tape, as well as other media. After advertising, making the public aware, then comes the mega useful word of mouth. I'm still willing to wager that your source for word of mouth advertising is in part TV commercials.
Ever hear of movies? They're kinda cool. You pay $7.50 or so, and get to watch a story uninterrupted by commercials. Quite often, movies cost double digit millions to make, and some even triple digit millions. I would guess it would be possible to profitably sell copies of TV episodes for $2 each because they cost a mere fraction of the cost of movies. Anyway, you should check them out -- you'd then see there was a model other than advertising which is apparently profitable.
Every semester, you pack all your stuff into the car to go to school. You carry your stuff up the stairs to the fourth floor. You place your computer on a small desk, perhaps 60x110 cm or a bit more than 2x3 feet. All your stuff must fit in a small room that you share with somebody you probably hate. Five months later, you carry your stuff down the stairs to your car again.
Not every student lives in a dormitory; in fact, over here in North Germany I'd say that the minority does (when excluding state-sponsored apartments). Those I know that do live in a dorm live there all the time, so there's no need to move the stuff once it's set up.
And the parent presumes that the student in question keeps their monitor, and has a car. Technicaly if you didn't have a car, this would support the argument pro LCD. I would agree LCDs are smaller, and take up desktop realestate but....
1) CRTs can be had second hand. They are in fact really cheap second hand. 2) CRTs can be sold or given away. They are so cheap in thrift shops, it's not worth the expence to ship. 3) Odds are a sub $20 2nd hand monitor will outpeform an LCD in responce time, color, clarity at all viewing angles.
You could observe this behavier on campus in the 1980s and 1990s, where students would buy a cheepo TV and just leave it by the dumpster or in the freecycle box, where typicaly another student would pick it up.
But... I would sugest it's not so much LCDs which are popular among students presently, but laptops. Who would buy an under powered pico-motherboard based machine when they could get a laptop which already has a pico class motherboard and beyond 3000ghz for under $600. If you don't have the space, you get a laptop.
Righto, if I buy my own iphone at $400-$500, I get a service discount of $100 to $200, I presume for the first year, or first two years.
Ok, what if I screw the iphone and just buy my own. Can I get the $100-$200 kick back, as in premium service for $23 to $30 a month? If not, why not?
Not that I mind getting a new phone every YEAR, batteries do cost tens of dollars. But if they offer this deal for the iphone, the way I see it, they should offer the same deal if you bring your own phone.
Probably because DVI is an overkill for the mobo's application.
People are likely to run the box headless as a personal server anyway. When they need to hook up a monitor, they tend to find any monitor they can easily find, without disrupting their main desktop. This monitor is most possibly a old VGA, sitting quietly in the garage.
On this I must disagree with. A headless server might go as small as microATX, something "this" small plus drives would = shoe box sized. Unless you really want 2.5 inch drives to save space, but might as well go laptop in that event. laptop has the benfit of not demanding the user go to the garage to configure the bios.
I think the target market is home media center, where fans are annoying, and smaller than a breadbox is prefered. Or, part of a car computer, GPS and mp3. Either way, DVI-I port is more ideal.
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We're mostly on the same page but I think you and others are missing a crucial point I'm trying to make..."if you could OTHERWISE get paid for it". Yeah, free publicity is GREAT!!! But, we're talking about Viacom. They have plenty of publicity and a big following already. If my small, minor, mostly unnoticed content was getting play I'd be happy as shit. Viacom is huge already. They are a business and expect their content to bring in revenue. They have to protect their content. If they don't then their revenue declines and so do they. The stockholders are ones they are trying to protect...and, some of us might even own some of their stock.
Viacom is huge. So was Royal Crown (RC) cola, but they didn't *really* make it to the 80s cola wars. While they had a huge market share at one point in history, they decided rather than spending money promoting their product they AFAIK saved their money and put it into their product. They lost their marketshare and were bought out.
I'm empathetic as to protecting the shareholder's interests. But as big as viacom is, their income depends on viewership. Viewership depends on awareness, and to promote awareness, they do employ advertising. The nice thing about free advertising is the fact that it's "free", otherwise you'd have to pay for it. Even if most of the commercials for the dailyshow are done on viacom owned stations, that's airtime which could have been sold to someone else.
You are right, it boils down to what's in the best interest of the shareholders. The real question is does the increased viewership of the youtube blip-verts of the dailyshow increase the value of the show enough, or is there more money to be made by either charging for it or showing it with your own adverts.
Would you want your content out there for free if you could otherwise get paid for it?
That depends... if I happened to release a music video then by all means I'd want that sucker on youtube. If I happened to have an interest in a television program or a movie and someone wants to take a 3min blip-vert and post it on youtube, I'd be pleased as punch. The only reason I saw the new Pink Panther movie was because I saw the "english lesson" on youtube.
The big theme in this thread is "free advertising". It's rather way VCRs were tolerated and in many cases encouraged in the 1980s. It was a cheap way for a person to buld up a video library, and usually there was an into from the approperate station, such as HBO or Showtime. How many people got cable just so they could watch what their friends taped, or better still tape things beyond antenna quality.
I'm not saying Viacom isn't within their rights. I am saying in all likelyhood the increased viewship from youtube blip-verts results in higher commercial value of AV products.
Suing someone for their livelyhood when you have no legal ground to do so is just plain stupid. Anyone who needed to work and was being tried to prevent that would surely challenge the plaintiff. Who wouldn't challenge that? What was The Planet thinking? Actually, don't answer that.
It happens often enough. An old obscure band I referended before called Dumptruck was with Big Time records, an indy label. After their contract expired they decided to move up in the world to another label, Big Time sued them for breach of (non existant) contract for the sum of 5 million. Not like they bothered to show up in court or anything, but also it's not like anyone would pick them up given the pending 5 million dollar law suit, something that took years to resolve.
Managers are alot like children, they do things out of spite.
Very intresting research but why do we need to find out why the seaside smells like the seaside? I'm all for curiousity and discovering stuff, but this sounds really useless.
Well... attracting birds is one step closer to repelling them. For the most part man can coexist with birds except for airports where they are a hazzard. If nothing else, one can find a place where it's safe to attract birds.
Rampant piracy has been the norm for quite a long time in Eastern Europe & Asia.
Rampant piracy has been the norm in the US and elsewhere.
For example, my first PC didn't come with MS Dos, actually it didn't come with a hard drive at all. I happened to have an old MFM 15meg full height. I didn't know or understand the fact that the OS was something you had to buy. After all, in the 8bit days, DOS was something which pretty much came with the computer. In the case of Atari, the 1050 drive came with Atari DOS 3, which was 100% incompatable with everything else, so one just got a copy of Atari dos 2.0 or Atari dos 2.5 from a friend, or one was lucky enough to get 2.5 as part of their software package. Near as I'm aware, it was just something you copied, not something sold specificly by Atari except the manual which you could buy for $10.00. It wasn't until MS-dos V5.x I was even aware that it was a seperate product, with an uppgrade cost that was pretty reasonable. This ignorance was pretty normal for the time period, esp among Mac users who had the benifit of buying a system where the OS was free, and the latest version was free up until system 7.x.
Windows, average everyday people were at least aware windows was a product you could buy, but anyone who shelled out for MS-dos wasn't hip to the idea of shelling out extra for windows. Those who didn't shell out for dos typicaly didn't shell out for windows.
But regardless, piracy was part of the reason Microsoft became the standard. Other companies had to make their own OS, which did add to the cost of their machines. PCs without dos could be had for under $600 sans monitor.
Maybe I'm just not "with it", but the idea of reading more than a few paragraphs on a PDA makes me want to shoot myself in the head. Not to mention all the other disadvantages of a PDA when compared to a book.
Books are nice. You can flip pages, you can put a bookmarker in them, and they require no boot up time.
However, a tablet PC is really the next best thing. The aspect is perfect for full page documentation, they are self lit, and you can store a ton of books on a the HD.
The best of both words would be making your own hard copy, but making your own books is tedius to say the least, not to speak of the fact that home printing isn't all that cost effective, nor time effective. Probally good enough for a Project Gutenberg... where home print quality in a binder would likely be better than Penguin Press.
No we won't...the same reason we don't have a mainframe layer or black and white TV layer and the same reason we don't have a sword layer...people aren't going to buy new stuff to run software that does the same stuff...if you are going to buy a new computer and it comes with vista great, but people are really overestimating the market demand as far as the average PC user and even most 'advanced' (I use that term loosly) users.
I'm sure somewhere there is a black and white layer, probally started sometime in the 80s when it became totally unfashonable to have a working TV ontop of a non-working one. Forunatly said B&W layer probally had tubes without the usual kilos of lead. It wasn't until the pong era that x-rays really became an issue.
There certainly is a gun layer somewhere, not that guns are obsolete, but the military tended not to be big on given their more excelent automatic hardware to civilians, so they would rather dump than melt down.
The monitor layer is what the greens seem to be offended by. CRTs are nasty ass things to dump.
People aren't going to buy new stuff to run software that does the same stuff? Well, not counting the people who i've spoken to who were so impressed with vista they plan to buy a new pc just to run it, but thanks to DRM, and hand shaking displays and video cards, if you want to do HD you gotta upgrade.
Your teacher is incompetent and should be fired. If this is a college, you 100% need to withdraw *now* and find a better college. If this is a high school, you should consider your other educational options, such as taking classes at the local technical college for high school and college credit. One thing you might consider is to tell parents about this. Most parents by now should know that floppies are completely obsolete and will complain to the administrators about it. The complaints of parents is the only thing administrators care about (unless you're at a public high school; they only care about Federal dollars), so getting them on your side will help in the battle against this woman who insists on wasting your time and everyone else's.
I hate to say it, but this is actually somewhat normal. Teachers tend to require things done a certain way, and have every right to grade students on how they comply for those standards. An english class might require you to turn in your assignments in courier 10cpi, I have had some who specificly said pica 10cpi. She didn't understand the concept of a proportional font. An MBA teach might require a specific system of folders. Given the amount of data students produce it's not unreasonable for them to expect them to do it in a uniform way.
Heck... Powerpoint was requried in many Washington schools for highschool seniors to do their final project, without which you couldn't graduate.
As a rule of thumb, the only time you can trully complain is if you have to invest money in the hardware, but we are talking about floppy discs. I'm willing to bet that the school in question had a computer lab with both CD-rom and floppy drives. Worst case, you put the files onto CD, and copy them to floppy at school.
You can say the floppy drive is out moted until you are blue in the face, but this doesn't change the fact that it's one of the oldest stable standards which odds are students have at home.
1. email it if it's reasonably small -or-
2. burn it to CD / copy it to a flash drive if it's not I say these are the only two options because let's face it - how many end-users even know what an FTP site is, let alone where one is or how to use it?
It's been a while since I e-mailed something to someone that didn't permit attachments in the meg range. I have had problems with g-mail and programs. But so long as they are on a IM system, transfer is not a problem.
For end users who don't know what an ftp is, send them a url
ftp://mysite.com.
People who actually needed one went with the much easier plug-a-USB-cable-in solution. At the time, an LS-120 that could read and write regular floppies was only a few dollars more than the early USB floppy drives, so people without big network pipes wound up with something that was useful for system backup, too.
The rest of us got cheezy SCSI-II USB bridges to plug in our SyQuest and tape drives.
Thanks for the refresher. I do remember that USB floppies were actually cheaper in mac blue in later years. This was more of a complaint, the fact that you have this system that sold for $1000+, from a company who for the most part advertised their shit was ready to go out of the box, which in all fairness it typicaly was, until the first imacs when they were not shipped with floppy drives nor ls-120. Given the pricetag, I would have expected a CD-R drive.
Yes, it's good the fact that you could get cheezy scsi-II usb bridges, and an external floppy drive. Not sure if there was a old mac keyboard to usb bridge. But in my mind I pictured a desk, with a classic blue imac, a system desiged to be as cable free as possible, cluttered with all these dongles and external devices, because the foofoo heads didn't give you recordable media.
Even in Windows Vista, you still need a floppy disk to back up your logon credentials so that you can recover encrypted files if the OS fails. There is still no way to back this up to a disk file so that you can burn it to CD-R then delete it.
You don't can't use "diskcopy" or some other form of disk imaging software?
I was thinking during the recent story about the new amiga OS the fact that such software wasn't common place on the PC, and diskcopy wasn't typicaly used on the PC. In fact, the only reason to use it is to make boot media.
My Computer Science class is requiring that I submit program assignments on a floppy disk. She's not flexible about it, in fact she's very strict about even how to attach the disk to the paper (binder clip), using the proper cover sheet, and so on, or get a huge fat automatic zero.
I understand adhering to requirements. But floppy disks?
I guess the real lesson I'm learning so far is that some people will force you to use stupid old methods or standards or media because they said so and for no other good reason. Might as well tell me to submit it on five-and-a-quarter, it would the same inconvenience at this point.
Assuming this was a teacher of CIS odds are to prevent the spread of viruses... they have a simple dos machine booted from write protected floppy. And as this is a CIS teacher, she probally didn't know how to mount the CD-rom in dos.
Apple strives to design systems that move people towards new paradigms of work, rather than holding on to legacies.
Apple rather than employing "standards" expects the end user to change their entire system based on what they envision, when in reality they envision saving a few bucks.
Others pointed out that mac did have USB, and you could get a cheap external floppy drive, or ls-120 drive. This new paradigm of work was to clutter your desk with cables, 'cause the damn box didn't have any sort of recordable media drive.
The beige box builders held on to their floppies much longer because they couldn't lift their heads up and see that they were eatng grass.
Floppies were still THE STANDARD of 1998. CD-r drives had hit the market, IIRC 4x was about the max... I think the HP 8100i was released tward the end of 1998. But regardless at the time, floppy was still used to exchange files you created, anything larger than zip or ls-120 tended to be used. But as we are talking 1998... not everyone had zip/ls-120 drives. Most had CD-rom drives, but burnt discs were not reliable as there was no telling whether it would be read by your older drive. But "Everyone had a floppy drive", well, unless it was a blue imac.
cd roms and dvd roms cant be trusted to do that - their reader heads are too fragile and can go out of balance with the slightest impact if you are not careful. it is a hard day at work to find out that your recovery disk you have used 1 year ago is not read anymore by your dvd just when you need to safe boot your pc, or some other cds found around the office which were created by the same recorder.
floppy drives on the other hand are just too brutally effective - they are highly unsophisticatedly mechanical that, you can trust it to always work as it is tough to break, and it reads any floppy disk created by any floppy drive.
I'm part of the crowd that would somewhat agree that floppies are still somewhat useful. I've had issues installing Debian using CD/DVD rom drives. While I did for a time go floppy and network install, these problems were resolved by just getting a new burner. Future installs will likely be done via network booting as boards are shipped with network onboard, and no boot prom is required.
I believe that part of the reason that floppy drives are so reliable for crash recovery is the simple fact that they are not used for anything. It's rather why I felt safe buying used Teacs from the local 2nd hand pc recycle place, most are unused. If they were used, then i'm sure you'd experence the sorts of problems I have experenced such as magnatized heads and floppy drives, including teac, do eventually fail if used. Not to speak of dust issues as floppy drives tended to act as a front vent for fresh air.
Yes, Vista does not require install from Floppy. It will support CD/DVD and USB now.
Ok, so do I invest in 2.5 gigs of memory, or do I use an unused teac and floppy.
In 1998 when Apple released the original bondi blue iMac without a floppy drive, the floppy disc was ALREADY so absurdly useless that no computer user needed them. So, I proffer that this story is late by about a decade.
I felt the blue iMac was useless in 1998 because it had no means to store your data. IIRC the sucker didn't even come with a CD-R drive. This was also during the years of @home again IIRC where broadband was not available to everyone.
IIRC you could rig up a floppy drive, so long as you were willing to solder 20 pins next to the sound chip.
I recently found an old 3.5" floppy with some useless, but nostalgic data on it. So, I dug through my box of spare 'parts' and found an old drive. As I went to install the drive in my desktop machine to pull the data off the floppy I realized an important fact: that box has no floppy controller.
In that sense, the floppy has already been gone for some of us for awhile now.
I don't own a system without a floppy controler onboard, this inlcudes my asus a8n-sli board. It's not enabled, I ditched the floppy drive in favor of another HD. I have a desktop case with limited space.
Perhaps you can share what system you have that doesn't have this onboard.
Unique? That's Virtual Memory. Sure, the fact that it's easy (may be) a good thing (though how many people are going to keep an empty flash drive around for this? Easier to get the kid down the street to install more ram for you and be done with it if you cant do it yourself. However, unique? I can put a swap file on flash drive and itd do the same thing...
Tell me this... can you change your virtual memory settings without a reboot under xp and below? I've not played with my settings but i'm willing to wager that xp requires a reboot. I'm sure XP wouldn't play nice with the idea you deciding you wanted to remove the flash drive.
Not that I think it's a good idea or anything. Flash drives do have a limited life span, but hey for $20 or so you can get a 1 gig unit, sometimes 2 gig units. For a small investment you can dedicate flash virtual disc virtral memory storage. It's something joe user can do to make something work that otherwise didnt work.
At least in Germany (or in the rest of the world for that matter), the sales tax is part of the price of the item.
When you travel in the US you never know how much it is until you pay. And if you ask beforehand how much the local tax is, they give you nasty looks like you were insulting their dear mothers.
It's a completely braindead system.
It's rather interesting. Bars in Canada add sales tax, where every bar I've been to in the US, tax is included. Fuel tax is included with the price. It would be nice if the price advertised included tax.
On the plus side, I live in washington which has no state income tax, but a sales tax that floats between 8% and 9% depending on the city, and food has no sales tax. Generally thinking 10% for most states is a good rule of thumb.
But odds are... your average worker doesn't know what the sales tax is.
http://www.taxadmin.org/FTA/rate/sales.html
and said make a ghost image like everybody else....
I'm not sure if it's ghost or another norton product, but there is one where norton thought it was a good idea to change the partition ID to refelect the fact that it employed some form of nortons crap. That sounds logical, and well and good, except for the fact that after blowing a motherboard, it was not possible to mount the drive in windows, it wouldn't see it. You "could" mount it under linux easily enough, it was a perfectly valid NTFS partition. Partition magic wouldn't touch it which is now owned by Symantec, paragon wouldn't touch it, nothing would. And it's not like i'd tweek with the paramaters until such time as I got the drive backed up.
Symantec has some good utilities, but unforunatly many of them are bug ridden pieces of filth, and none of the utilities they buy the rights to and sell seem to be aware of each other, which is the apex of stupid when you have one product using it's own unique partition ID number and nothing else in the Nortons sphere that deals with the drive on this level understands this idiot approach.
Paragon backup seems to do the trick, without alot of bullshit. I wouldn't touch nortons ghost.
Word of mouth. I don't watch broadcast television at all (I do watch tv on DVD and BSG through iTunes), and yet, I've been able to find movies that interest me. Usually there is some slashdot posting, then I google, then I watch if it sounds interesting.
Number one... good for you. I think it's just spiffy those who go out of their way to adopt a new lifestyle. I personaly happen to enjoy downloading things my self rather than being forced to go with the network's schedual.
However, advertising is still one of the main means of making people aware a movie is out. This includes movie trailers on TV, film, and DVD/Tape, as well as other media. After advertising, making the public aware, then comes the mega useful word of mouth. I'm still willing to wager that your source for word of mouth advertising is in part TV commercials.
Ever hear of movies? They're kinda cool. You pay $7.50 or so, and get to watch a story uninterrupted by commercials. Quite often, movies cost double digit millions to make, and some even triple digit millions. I would guess it would be possible to profitably sell copies of TV episodes for $2 each because they cost a mere fraction of the cost of movies. Anyway, you should check them out -- you'd then see there was a model other than advertising which is apparently profitable.
But then where would you advertise your movie?
And the parent presumes that the student in question keeps their monitor, and has a car. Technicaly if you didn't have a car, this would support the argument pro LCD. I would agree LCDs are smaller, and take up desktop realestate but....
1) CRTs can be had second hand. They are in fact really cheap second hand.
2) CRTs can be sold or given away. They are so cheap in thrift shops, it's not worth the expence to ship.
3) Odds are a sub $20 2nd hand monitor will outpeform an LCD in responce time, color, clarity at all viewing angles.
You could observe this behavier on campus in the 1980s and 1990s, where students would buy a cheepo TV and just leave it by the dumpster or in the freecycle box, where typicaly another student would pick it up.
But... I would sugest it's not so much LCDs which are popular among students presently, but laptops. Who would buy an under powered pico-motherboard based machine when they could get a laptop which already has a pico class motherboard and beyond 3000ghz for under $600. If you don't have the space, you get a laptop.
Righto, if I buy my own iphone at $400-$500, I get a service discount of $100 to $200, I presume for the first year, or first two years.
Ok, what if I screw the iphone and just buy my own. Can I get the $100-$200 kick back, as in premium service for $23 to $30 a month? If not, why not?
Not that I mind getting a new phone every YEAR, batteries do cost tens of dollars. But if they offer this deal for the iphone, the way I see it, they should offer the same deal if you bring your own phone.
Probably because DVI is an overkill for the mobo's application.
People are likely to run the box headless as a personal server anyway. When they need to hook up a monitor, they tend to find any monitor they can easily find, without disrupting their main desktop. This monitor is most possibly a old VGA, sitting quietly in the garage.
On this I must disagree with. A headless server might go as small as microATX, something "this" small plus drives would = shoe box sized. Unless you really want 2.5 inch drives to save space, but might as well go laptop in that event. laptop has the benfit of not demanding the user go to the garage to configure the bios.
I think the target market is home media center, where fans are annoying, and smaller than a breadbox is prefered. Or, part of a car computer, GPS and mp3. Either way, DVI-I port is more ideal.