Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A few weeks ago, I went to drop off a zip disk at a publication. Guess what, they'd just changed over to new computers, with no zip drives. We finally found a drive buried in a corner in the production area. Another dead technology! Slobodan Dimitrov D Khong wrote: > > We all cannot win. 5.25" floppies have gone the way of the dinosaurs. 3.5" > floppies are beginning to gasp in desperation and will soon expire. So we > think that CD-ROMs and DVDs will survive. Heck, give it another few years > and it might be a different story. Bottom line is that the IT industry > needs to survive and whatever new stuffs that they dish out for the > consumers' benefit might actually be for it's own benefit. > > Digital photography is in vogue. Images are free...capture and trash as you > like. But how often do you actually spend the time to trash the rubbish > that you capture for free? So you save the good ones, you catalog them > nicely, you upgrade the storage system from time to time. See how often you > have actually forgotten to do all that. Then it becomes a chore and the > homework becomes a pain the the a**. Very soon, even you do not know where > that great shot was kept or there seems to be too many great shots to > remember. > > Just airing my thoughts......nothing serious. > > Dan K. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html