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Talking to Blige, one gets the sense, to paraphrase Langston Hughes, that she's "known rivers"; there are some deep currents of pain running through her, but where they're flowing from is hard to say. Her older sister LaTonya, Mary's backup singer and closest confidante, says that in private the singer "laughs all the time" and spends her nights watching Bette Davis videos. But riding in her limo recently, Blige is, at first, a little wary of questioning. She comes alive, though, when we make a stop at the showroom of French designer Thierry Mugler. She loves shopping...
...will fail within a few years of life if used often enough. Floppies also hold only a megabyte or so of data, so you can forget storing your multimedia assignment on one--although Zip or EZFlyer drives can be a good solution if you have large files for casual backup...
...remember that if you're not careful, backing up on floppies won't help you in case of theft. A criminal will steal the computer and everything near it--including those backup floppies you thoughtfully made. Goodbye, data...
...read-only devices (DVD-ROM). However, manufacturers are already working on a rewritable version of the disk (DVD-RAM) that will allow you to store and erase data from the disk just as with current floppy and hard disks. As a result, CDs would become a more attractive data backup option and there would be consolidation of multi-disk packages, such as electronic encyclopedias and phone directories...
Although hubs have failed in the past, Osterberg said installing a backup system is very expensive and not a feasible option to avoid similar problems in the future...