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Most of the time I just use the Internet to transfer files...all the computers I come into contact with have Internet access, although I assume this wouldn't always be the case for everyone.
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Frank, floppies may not be practical and efficient, but if the computer where I'm going to transfer the files doesn't have a writing CD drive or Zip Drive capacities, it doesn't matter if I have one, right? Not everyone goes to a private school which can afford these things.
And also, Frank, seeing as many of us find floppies to be decently reliable, may we ask where you get your horrible ones?
"But the most convenient part is that EVERY computer, old or new, has a floppy drive (except you-know-what). We do have a ZIP drive at home now, but it's useless to me (my brother uses it) because there are no ZIP drives in my school's computer lab."
Aha! Ziyal beat me to that point. Oh well.
I do use the Internet to transfer files often enough, too, but we're not supposed to do that.
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Why aren't you supposed to use the Internet to transfer files? It's the most convenient method.
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Because not everyone has their own personal computer at school and FTP and free e-mail are no-nos. Not that they enforce it, but we're not supposed to do it...
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Saiyanman Benjita
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Well I personally care for neither. Growing up (the first 10 -13 years of my life) I had a pathetic Commodore 64 and had to learn BASIC to get the damn thing to work. Then I had to learn DOS when my dad got a state of the art machine (Good old XT) When Windows came out, I was completely lost in the User friendly world. I actually failed computer classes, because I did everything the hard way. Now I got hired in with the state and am working on a Mac and it's even worse. My advice, if you're a real newbie, get a Mac, if you know a little, get Windows. If you know anything about computers, get something challenging. User-Friendly, give me a break.
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Saiyanman Benjita
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Hey, I'm just saying that computers are so easy now, nobody gets the chance to learn from them."Out of the box and on the Internet in five minutes."It's like diapers. Do you know that Pampers makes diapers for four year olds???My parents made me learn to potty train by the time I was two and now it's acceptable for children to wear diapers right up till they go to school??? My fiancee's mother has been on the computer every waking moment (8 hours at work, whatever time she's not sleeping at home.) for the last five years. She spends more time on the computer than I do. Yet she knows not a damn thing about it besides "e-mail, chat, and Works (Microsoft works)". That's the pathetic I'm talking about. She doesn't know half of what she could use her computer for, nor will she ever take the extra time to find out. Her desktop is full of shortcut files and sound waves that take up 650 MB of her hard drive (Any and every wave she picks up.) It's a sad state when more than 95% of our computer users don't know a damn thing about them.
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While I personally relish my own small claim to geekdom, I think that it, as a concept, would destroy the computer industry if allowed to run rampant. I use a car and a stereo everyday. I do not give a single nanogram's worth of care into how to build a car, or a stereo. And if someone were to come up to me and say that I was unworthy of driving to work while listening to Super Bon Bon, I would politely have to crack their skull open.
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Saiyanman Benjita
...in 2012. This time, why not the worst?
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But you know some simple things about your car and stereo, don't you? Simple troubleshooting like windshield washer fluid, filling the gas tank, checking oil, tire pressure. You don't have to be a genius to take care of your car. I certainly don't know the most about computers, but I know how to take care of them. My fiancee's mother (I'm reserving the right to knock the mother-in-law early) doesn't know the slightest thing about her computer. She leaves it on all night and while she's at work because "it takes too long to turn on", she leaves her cigarette in her mouth and when it ashes on her keyboard, she'll brush the keys off, she has no idea why her computer runs slow (Her RAM and Cache are filling up quite nicely and she can't seem to clean them.) This is becoming an increasing problem. I just like to see people take better care of their computers by learning at least something basic about them (This goes for your car, too. It's a lot cheaper to check things yourself, and you might catch problems before they happen and you spend a fortune on towing and mechanics.), instead of just hooking up a phone line, a power cord, turning it on, and BOOM! you're online without a care in the world.
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Actually, I wouldn't expect your mother-in-law to know how to check the tyre pressure on her car either. Not to be sexist, but women know bog-all about everything.
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