That is true, but it hardly makes a difference regarding new computers. The point is, there is not any job that you need to do with a new computer that you absolutly have to use a floppy for. You can burn bootable CD's, you can use CDRWs, you can use USB keys, network storage, email, etc...
There are still things that you could do with a new computer that would be easier or quicker with a POFD (Plain Old Floppy Drive), such as creating a quick boot disk for flashing the BIOS, or something like that. But anymore, with the Windows OSs anyway, creating boot disks are a PITA, and usually chocked so full of crap that you have to use another floppy to hold whatever programs or data files you need anyway.
I still use floppy drives. I used one last night. My wife uses them all the time to transfer files from school to home, however that may change since she now has a computer there with a USB port, and I got her a USB drive. I see the end in sight for Floppy Drives, but I think the last nail in the coffin will be standard bootable USB keys and being able to drag-and-drop files to CDRW's (integrated in the OS, there are 3rd party tools that can do this). All modern computers can already boot from CD(RW)s, so at that point the new technology will be just as easy to use as a floppy for regular non-technical users, and there will truly be no need for a floppy any more.
But of course you will still need them in legacy machines, that makes sense. The good thing is that they already have floppy drives in them, so you are all set.
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No, if you would bother to RTFA, you would see that he is has written a multi-threadded text editor for writing perl. One thread is the editor, the other thread runs the code constantly. He writes perl code to generate musical patters. He has a system set up so that he can have multiple programmers working at the same time and it will all be in sync, you can even change the temp and all programs will sync up.
I don't know about programming on stage, but the concept of synthesizing music in perl is quite interesting.
You can get Vonage's disconnect fee waived as well. When you sign up for Vonage, they send you a free Cisco Phone Adapter. Its free. as in beer. No rental fee. Until you cancel. When you leave them, they slap you with a $40 termination fee. To pay for the Adapter. But in their TOS:
1.8 Return of Device
The Device may be returned to Vonage within fourteen (14) days of the termination of Service to receive a credit for the $39.99 disconnect fee (refer to section 4.6 of this document regarding termination fees), provided: (i) you have retained, and return along with the Device, proof of purchase and original packaging; (ii) contents are undamaged and in original condition, reasonable wear and tear excluded; (iii) all parts, accessories, documentation and packaging materials are returned; and (iv) equipment is returned with a valid return authorization number obtained from Vonage's customer care department. You are responsible for the cost and risk of return shipping of equipment. If you receive cartons and/or Devices that are visibly damaged, you must note the damage on the carrier's freight bill or receipt and keep a copy. In such event, you must keep the original carton, all packing materials and parts intact in the same condition in which they were received from the carrier and contact Vonage's customer care department immediately. To obtain a return authorization number, you must contact billing@vonage.com or 1-VONAGE-HELP.
More to the point, Why is the box connected to the internet?
Hospitals have to be on the net for various reasons, but the IT staff should be know enough to isolate the key equipment machines. If these machines HAVE to be connect to a LAN, isolate that LAN from the rest of the network.
I mean come on, this is insane! It is not an impossible task to totally isolate key equipment from the internet, while still allowing necessary communications. If the system were designed correctly, then even if the little intern down the hall downloaded a virus on her work computer, it would be isolated in a non-critical network. The key equipment would be safe.
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I agree. Hit em where it hurts. And let them know why you are not buying thier products. Who are their subsidiaries?
Batman flies around on ropes or climbs buildings or runs around on rooftops or somthing when he's in the city. He doesn't DRIVE. That would be so... pedestrian.
hmm, For Batman to drive in the city would be pedestrian?
I doubt even Gates would be able to command use of government security for personal reasons.
I don't think homeland security intervention was at all justified.
It is justified if high ranking government officials show up. They are there to protect the government officials, Not Gates, or Gates' family, or Gates' property. Gates has his own security team who do that. Any time high ranking government officials go to anything like this, they bring their own security. And their security takes charge over whatever normal security personnel are at the site.
Another link to the trailer. Get it while it's hot, it probably wont last long. It was posted in the IMDB boards, along with the request: "Please don't give this out."
Based on your comments, I assume that you took the Grandparent's post out of context. Go back and read the post he was replying to, and you will see that he is not bashing science, or the cute little upright monkey. He is responding to a troll who was making fun of Christianity.
That is exactly what I thought. These machines in the movie had no CD burners, no floppy drives, secure network, etc, and USB ports on the damn keyboards? How stupid is that, I thought?
Then I went to a secure environment on business, and VOILA! USB ports on their keyboards! The machines did have floppies though. I don't understand the need for them, but apparantly the movie wasn't as far-fetched as we thought.
We design the system for flying cars. Once it is in place, and the technology is available, we can start to apply it to ground-based travel.
The cars need to be smart enough to pilot themselves and to find different ways to get to point B. The central grid would provide a form of civilian air traffic control, with standards on altitudes, directions, speeds, and zones. If the central grid went down or was compromised, the car should have plenty of sensors to keep out of trouble, not hitting any other vehicles, and continuing on to the destination using known standards, perhaps at a reduced speed because it is now only relying on itself as a sensing system and cannot utilize the grid.
Easy. Just jump off of the back of the thing, and you will be left standing still, while your hot-wheel flys off and hits the elk. Then you just walk over, shoot the elk, pick up the embryo, and hop back on. Or better yet, knock the next guy off his embryo and have one that hasn't been damaged yet.
IIRC, that simply stops it for the current session. It is still set to "Automatic", which means that the next time you log in it will be turned on. I could be wrong, though.
That is a good idea. I mean after all of the P2P fiasco is over with, i will bet they start suing people for illegally humming copyrighted tunes! Where is this laboritory? I need to make an appointment!
RPN is great. Plus, when someone needs to borrow your calculator, it is fun to watch them try to figure out how to use it, then give it back in frustration. Once you get used to it, though, it really is much more efficient.
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That is true, but it hardly makes a difference regarding new computers. The point is, there is not any job that you need to do with a new computer that you absolutly have to use a floppy for. You can burn bootable CD's, you can use CDRWs, you can use USB keys, network storage, email, etc...
There are still things that you could do with a new computer that would be easier or quicker with a POFD (Plain Old Floppy Drive), such as creating a quick boot disk for flashing the BIOS, or something like that. But anymore, with the Windows OSs anyway, creating boot disks are a PITA, and usually chocked so full of crap that you have to use another floppy to hold whatever programs or data files you need anyway.
I still use floppy drives. I used one last night. My wife uses them all the time to transfer files from school to home, however that may change since she now has a computer there with a USB port, and I got her a USB drive. I see the end in sight for Floppy Drives, but I think the last nail in the coffin will be standard bootable USB keys and being able to drag-and-drop files to CDRW's (integrated in the OS, there are 3rd party tools that can do this). All modern computers can already boot from CD(RW)s, so at that point the new technology will be just as easy to use as a floppy for regular non-technical users, and there will truly be no need for a floppy any more.
But of course you will still need them in legacy machines, that makes sense. The good thing is that they already have floppy drives in them, so you are all set.
No, if you would bother to RTFA, you would see that he is has written a multi-threadded text editor for writing perl. One thread is the editor, the other thread runs the code constantly. He writes perl code to generate musical patters. He has a system set up so that he can have multiple programmers working at the same time and it will all be in sync, you can even change the temp and all programs will sync up.
I don't know about programming on stage, but the concept of synthesizing music in perl is quite interesting.
You can get Vonage's disconnect fee waived as well. When you sign up for Vonage, they send you a free Cisco Phone Adapter. Its free. as in beer. No rental fee. Until you cancel. When you leave them, they slap you with a $40 termination fee. To pay for the Adapter. But in their TOS:
1.8 Return of Device The Device may be returned to Vonage within fourteen (14) days of the termination of Service to receive a credit for the $39.99 disconnect fee (refer to section 4.6 of this document regarding termination fees), provided: (i) you have retained, and return along with the Device, proof of purchase and original packaging; (ii) contents are undamaged and in original condition, reasonable wear and tear excluded; (iii) all parts, accessories, documentation and packaging materials are returned; and (iv) equipment is returned with a valid return authorization number obtained from Vonage's customer care department. You are responsible for the cost and risk of return shipping of equipment. If you receive cartons and/or Devices that are visibly damaged, you must note the damage on the carrier's freight bill or receipt and keep a copy. In such event, you must keep the original carton, all packing materials and parts intact in the same condition in which they were received from the carrier and contact Vonage's customer care department immediately. To obtain a return authorization number, you must contact billing@vonage.com or 1-VONAGE-HELP.
I agree. I think the answer is obvious to all of us. They should definately be running an OS that uses X-windows for the X-Ray machine. duh.
More to the point, Why is the box connected to the internet?
Hospitals have to be on the net for various reasons, but the IT staff should be know enough to isolate the key equipment machines. If these machines HAVE to be connect to a LAN, isolate that LAN from the rest of the network.
I mean come on, this is insane! It is not an impossible task to totally isolate key equipment from the internet, while still allowing necessary communications. If the system were designed correctly, then even if the little intern down the hall downloaded a virus on her work computer, it would be isolated in a non-critical network. The key equipment would be safe.
I agree. Hit em where it hurts. And let them know why you are not buying thier products. Who are their subsidiaries?
Batman flies around on ropes or climbs buildings or runs around on rooftops or somthing when he's in the city. He doesn't DRIVE. That would be so... pedestrian.
hmm, For Batman to drive in the city would be pedestrian?
thinking....
I doubt even Gates would be able to command use of government security for personal reasons.
I don't think homeland security intervention was at all justified.
It is justified if high ranking government officials show up. They are there to protect the government officials, Not Gates, or Gates' family, or Gates' property. Gates has his own security team who do that. Any time high ranking government officials go to anything like this, they bring their own security. And their security takes charge over whatever normal security personnel are at the site.
No FUD to see here, move along...
Another link to the trailer. Get it while it's hot, it probably wont last long. It was posted in the IMDB boards, along with the request: "Please don't give this out."
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Oh Well...
http://mtw.dramaciderecrods.net/HitchHikers_Guide
This vulgar use of profanity is outrageous! I am deeply offended.
Based on your comments, I assume that you took the Grandparent's post out of context. Go back and read the post he was replying to, and you will see that he is not bashing science, or the cute little upright monkey. He is responding to a troll who was making fun of Christianity.
That is exactly what I thought. These machines in the movie had no CD burners, no floppy drives, secure network, etc, and USB ports on the damn keyboards? How stupid is that, I thought?
Then I went to a secure environment on business, and VOILA! USB ports on their keyboards! The machines did have floppies though. I don't understand the need for them, but apparantly the movie wasn't as far-fetched as we thought.
We design the system for flying cars. Once it is in place, and the technology is available, we can start to apply it to ground-based travel.
The cars need to be smart enough to pilot themselves and to find different ways to get to point B. The central grid would provide a form of civilian air traffic control, with standards on altitudes, directions, speeds, and zones. If the central grid went down or was compromised, the car should have plenty of sensors to keep out of trouble, not hitting any other vehicles, and continuing on to the destination using known standards, perhaps at a reduced speed because it is now only relying on itself as a sensing system and cannot utilize the grid.
Fire* Thats a good name. Call it "FireStar". Won't have to change it as often.
The article claims that this is not competition for Bluetooth, IR, or Wi-Fi. Unlike what the summary claims.
Not yet, it hasn't been patched...
Probably an older version. Everyone doesn't pirate the newest version as soon as it comes out.
I do, but not everyone else does....
yeah.
Just to compare i tried to load it in IE. It started to load, then everything went blank. I think that IE fainted.
So what is wrong with Apathy?
It has its uses.
Easy. Just jump off of the back of the thing, and you will be left standing still, while your hot-wheel flys off and hits the elk. Then you just walk over, shoot the elk, pick up the embryo, and hop back on. Or better yet, knock the next guy off his embryo and have one that hasn't been damaged yet.
IIRC, that simply stops it for the current session. It is still set to "Automatic", which means that the next time you log in it will be turned on. I could be wrong, though.
yep, it is simply "net send (name or IP) blah blah blah."
Also, you can send messeges to Windows machines via Samba: "smbclient (IP) -M" -Enter advert for blocking these messages here - ^D
Very doubtful that the security would be that lax. I imagine that this was probably on the commish's home machine.
That is a good idea. I mean after all of the P2P fiasco is over with, i will bet they start suing people for illegally humming copyrighted tunes! Where is this laboritory? I need to make an appointment!
RPN is great. Plus, when someone needs to borrow your calculator, it is fun to watch them try to figure out how to use it, then give it back in frustration. Once you get used to it, though, it really is much more efficient.
I still love my HP48gx.