Why do we still have Floppys!?

slimjimmy · Post by **slimjimmy** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:45 pm

Strange enough, my aunt has a digital camera that uses floppys or memory sticks. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006 ... 2394">This is it.</a>

Takes about 10 or 20 pics, I think, and you can actually make a 10-second video on it.

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:56 pm

slimjimmy wrote:Strange enough, my aunt has a digital camera that uses floppys or memory sticks. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006 ... 2394">This is it.</a>

Takes about 10 or 20 pics, I think, and you can actually make a 10-second video on it.

That's quite ingenoius actually if I had any money I might even consider buying something like that.

And ganonbanned you are truely a sick, sick human being.

legoboy · Post by **legoboy** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:57 pm

Actually it is because windows isn't completely done with it's 8 bit DOS core. Not even the newest 64 bit version of Windows XP. The floppy drive is still there for when something goes really wrong and you can't even boot the computer off of a flash drive or a CD (or DVD now for that matter).

After all, Windows is a:
64 bit tweak of a
32 bit extension to a
16 bit user interface for an
8 bit operating system based on a
4 bit architecture from a
2 bit company that can't stand
1 bit of competition.

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:00 pm

Sir Games-A-Lot wrote: That's quite ingenoius actually if I had any money I might even consider buying something like that.

And ganonbanned you are truely a sick, sick human being.

what makes that so sick? oh, now its a crime to look at pr0n

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:01 pm

Sir Games-A-Lot wrote:And ganonbanned you are truely a sick, sick human being.

That he is, that he is.

I used floppies to transfer stuff to my old computers, until I killed all my old computers.

sgtpepper · Post by **sgtpepper** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:31 pm

Macs haven't had floppies since the late 90's when Steve Jobs returned and saved the company! For a few years after that PC users claimed that it was actually a good reason not to switch...

yuppicide · Post by **yuppicide** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:35 pm

You know what it is?! He's in the UK. I went to Alienware's US website and didn't see any stink floppy drive. I don't know of any manufacturers off hand that have floppies. I don't see any use for them what so ever.

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:55 pm

ganonbanned wrote:
Sir Games-A-Lot wrote: That's quite ingenoius actually if I had any money I might even consider buying something like that.

And ganonbanned you are truely a sick, sick human being.
what makes that so sick? oh, now its a crime to look at pr0n

No it ain't, but neither is engorging yourself on cheesecake until you yak and I think even you would agree that is pretty sick. And it is equally as inconsiderate to announce it in public.

Post by **Triton** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:24 pm

but cheesecake! cheesecake is delicous!

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:27 pm

Triton wrote:but cheesecake! cheesecake is delicous!

*shoves mouth full with cheesecake*

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:11 pm

ganonbanned wrote:
Sir Games-A-Lot wrote: That's quite ingenoius actually if I had any money I might even consider buying something like that.

And ganonbanned you are truely a sick, sick human being.
what makes that so sick? oh, now its a crime to look at pr0n

Actually, if yo uare under t eage of 18, it is a felony.

Post by **Skyone** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:15 pm

Sword_Gun wrote:Yea, like right now, I cannot afford a compact flash card or SD card, or a Thumb drive, so I use floppies for exchanging stuff.

Wait, you can't afford a 3 dollar 64MB SD card, but you can afford floppies?

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:18 pm

Since when did they do 56mb DS cards.... Isn't it 64MB? Seeing as I own one.

Post by **Skyone** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:19 pm

sam fisher wrote:Since when did they do 56mb DS cards.... Isn't it 64MB? Seeing as I own one.

^^^

Haha, I'm too tired to think.

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:21 pm

Just how I was yesterday.