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10 to one they weren't, look how oddly this article is phrased. I'd guess there was a rule government offices had to accept floppy discs, have the equipment to read them, but the clients weren't actually submitting that way anymore.
Like, the first paragraph explains.
Not "the government had to accept them", but "businesses were required to submit them".
It's not a hypothetical problem, there was even news a few years ago about how businesses were complaining they had to send in a dozen+ disks at a time because of file formats.
The laws were written at the dawn of the digital age, in the 70s and 80s, stipulating specific storage media, and just never got updated because the government didn't view it as a problem.
Yeah so I read the whole article and it's all phrased like it wants to convince you of that.
You're welcome to do your own research, then. Or just make a call based off your read of their vibes, doesn't matter to me.
Upvoted because proper'ish use of 10 and one. :)
Is there another way to express it except : ?
10 to 1. Many style guides require numbers lower than 10 to be spelt out. Many people think that what style guides say is "correct"
Oh. Yeah I've never read a style guide.
I will never accept spelt nor smelt, unless we're talking about grains and ore refining, respectively.
That's fine. Spelled vs spelt is different regionally in the UK. I was taught "spelled", I say it as spelled, but more often than not I type it spelt because it's easier on a glass keyboard
Hahaha I can respect that. I do have a pretty big chip on my shoulder when it comes to language, semantics, syntax, whatever, but I will always let it slide if the counter argument is based around instrumental favorability.