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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

a hard copy

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00He shuffles through the footage to find any evidence of who shot her. He finds something interesting and prints out a hard copy of what he found.02br
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On the other hand, 01i 01u 00"soft copy", 02u 02i 00is essentially unprinted copy of something. This copy can be viewed through the software applications (Word, Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat Viewer), but you can't hold it in your hands, like the in the case of "hard copies", exported on media. (paper, CD)02br 02br 00regards0-

— JCDenton

  • On the other hand, 01i 01u 00"soft copy", 02u 02i 00is essentially unprinted copy of something.
  • This copy can be viewed through the software applications (Word, Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat Viewer), but you can't hold it in your hands, like the in the case of "hard copies", exported on media.
  • (paper, CD)02br 02br 00regards0-
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00In IT world 01i01u00"Hard copy"02u02i00 means 01b00permanent02b00 copy of something like photos, word documents on media, proper for personal use...(paper for example)...On the other hand, 01i01u00"soft copy", 02u02i00is essentially unprinted copy of something. T
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0Hi guys,02br
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00In my experience, a 'hard copy' always means something printed on paper. I wouldn't call a CD a hard copy.02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0Hi Clive,02br
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00People sometimes puts copies burned on CD's into the group of hard copies, 01u00because it's an permanent copy designated for personal use02u00. I read it at several discussion phorums and sometimes I heard it from my pen friends from US. Of course, an own copy 01i00(photos, documents)02i00 burned on the CD i
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0I don't think I know anybody who would regard a copy on CD as hardcopy. (Well, unless the material is printed physically with ink on the surface of the CD! But I have never seen such a thing.) I guess none of your pen friends in the US works in IT.02br
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00You need a software, although maybe as simple as a notepad, to read the files in a CD, and by definition, this is
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0Thank you all for offering your useful information.0-
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01cite10Pter12cite10I don't think I know anybody who would regard a copy on CD as hardcopy. (Well, unless the material is printed physically with ink on the surface of the CD! But I have never seen such a thing.) I guess none of your pen friends in the US works in IT.12br
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0Hi JC,02br
00Sorry for the misunderstanding. I didn't mean to argue about anything or the definition of what is permanent. I just want to take this opportunity to remind everyone who is reading this thread the risk of using CD/DVD for archiving, though this is somewhat off-topic. Losing memorable photos or videos on CD/DVD is a real danger that many people do not recognise. One
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0Hi Pter,02br
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00No problem, ok...:-) And you're right. Archiving of the important data on DVD/CD can be little risky. Anyway two weeks ago I was with my gf on the wedding of my friend. And I lost all photos from this event because of the crash of my hard drive...:-(...Bad for me that I didn't burn that photos on CD...:-))). Anyway, 01u00do you know a good soft
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0Hi JC,02br
00My friend accidentally formatted a harddisk of 120G with all the photos on it. I downloaded the evaluation version of ZAR, which limits the recovery to only four directories. You can't use the evaluation version to recover everything by retrieving every four directories each time because the scanning takes half a day. My friend brought the full version and got more t
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0Hi Pter,02br
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00Ok, thank you very much for tip...!!!! I'll try it.02br
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00- "01i00My friend accidentally formatted a harddisk....02i00" ....That's lovely sentence...:-))).."01i00accidentally formatted ...02i00"..:-)02br
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00- "01i00I duplicate everything important on
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