The camera probably presents itself as a mass storage device in english just another hard drive. With older operating systems like XP it often wouldn't have a driver built in hense the need for a disk to give it a driver program so it could talk to it,(XP is about 13/14 years old now).
More modern operatating systems support more hardware by default and most things that can plugin tend to identify themselves as a simple device (even though they are quite complex) and use established protocols (standard methods of communicating) to enable the two devices to talk to each other.
So when you plugin the camera it becomes a harddrive to the laptop probably E: or F: on windows which you can open select photo files to move to the internal harddrive or open straight into a program for editing or displaying or ... the photo's. it is as simple as that. Hope that helps.
With Computers a lot has to be accepted as 'Magic' it just works. Nobody knows every detail of everything which goes on, and nobody has to.
I've more than 30 years experience with computers and I don't know everything. I do know how to find out most everything. If I need the information it is almost always written somewhere and google can find it.
Software is usually written with design patterns, so for example practically every program written (with a gui) has a file menu on the top left of the window. with edit and view next to that and help is always the last menu item. Thats why the kids are so quick.
Imagine a world where cars for example are all different, well they are but there are always three pedals (ok for a manual) clutch brake and accelerator usually there is a wheel to steer with.
Computer software is pretty similar in that most of a program will in general be the same as in any other program. There are a few programs which will use a snazzy new interface but the basic functions are usually still there just not so familiar.
With touchscreens there are a few new methods and some older methods don't work so well. Its hard to place a finger exactly on a small button so they need to be bigger, gestures are used so your finger might drag up and down in a list. There is a bit of learning with these new methods but once you are used to them it becomes easy again.
Blackest (I wrote backrest not thinking) I keep my son well away from my laptop, it takes me a day to find everything if he has been on it, my grandson is not too bad it only takes me half a day to get back. He was in computing in the RAF then worked for the MOD where they had to invent computers then program them for specific jobs some to do with rocketry. If you could see his computer wall, and that is what it is, made up from old bits and pieces mixed with the latest stuff, it was him who offhandedly said the Acer would do what I wanted? Cinnamon added to Honey is a good cure all. Chrome has me puzzled so I stick to what I know and learnt at Computer school where I mastered the Apple and loved it, do not think they are worth so much more than a normal computer is all. As to my Granddaughters and their up to date icky phones, they are talking to me and their thumbs going twenty to the dozen, I said future generations will be born with two long thumbs and no fingers. One was watching me on the laptop and commented, Granddad you use all your fingers to type? "err" yes what other way is there? Oh well they are the future and welcome to it as far as I am concerned.
My good laptop is on the blink at the moment, because one of the dogs tried to drink my coffee and I snatched it away, splashing coffee on the mouse pad. The cursor works until the computer warms up and then leaps about everywhere, finally freezing. I've given it three or four weeks to dry out, but it looks as though it will have to go for repair. Fortunately, I have the grotty older one or I'd be having withdrawal symptoms from the GW forum and from repeats on iplayer.
Nearly gave the dog flying lessons but managed to restrain myself!
G/G, I plugged a hand held mouse in to my laptop when I had problems with the built in mouse and it worked a treat apart from having somewhere solid to move it on, a table mat came in handy. My problem turned out to be crumbs, a good clean cured it.
I have a remote mouse which I could install - but can I find the b - flipping thing? It would be handy for both laptops, since the old one also has a dodgy mousepad. Think I'll have to buy a new one.
My 1st husband was a bully and it only took a real beating to realise what he was. No-one will ever treat me that way again. Have been married to the present husband for 25 years so i cant be that bad.
Hi Maud. Amazing the domestic violence that exists! I'm glad you did not play the victim and continue to let him abuse you, and that you were able to build a new and happier life. The violence remains part of you, it has its permanent effect on you, but maybe it can become compassion and empathy.
Mind you, my husband says he is the victim of domestic violence - I thumped him on the left shoulder during the first year of our marriage 3 times. (That was 46 years ago). I was the clash of one completely messy individual (me) with one obsessively neat one (him). Over the years, I learnt from him and he learnt from me and now, if anything, he's messier than me and I'm the one tidying up. More normal, somehow.
I don't mean to minimise domestic violence - it is serious and permanently damaging, and I'm speaking from childhood experience. Often, people who have experienced it in childhood repeat the pattern and marry an abuser, so I'm very blessed to have married a gentleman, I believe.
I should add that domestic violence undermines one's self-esteem and your 'I can't be that bad' has echoes of that. We all need to remember that it was not our fault!
I was told that i was ugly and if he hadnt married me no-one else would, i was pushed but never hit and put up with it for 2 years. It all ended the day after out 2nd anniversary when he hit and kicked me. I then decoded i couldnt do this anymore. I am now married to a kind and caring man who copes with my daft ways and my various trips into hospital and i know he loves me.
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The camera probably presents itself as a mass storage device in english just another hard drive. With older operating systems like XP it often wouldn't have a driver built in hense the need for a disk to give it a driver program so it could talk to it,(XP is about 13/14 years old now).
More modern operatating systems support more hardware by default and most things that can plugin tend to identify themselves as a simple device (even though they are quite complex) and use established protocols (standard methods of communicating) to enable the two devices to talk to each other.
So when you plugin the camera it becomes a harddrive to the laptop probably E: or F: on windows which you can open select photo files to move to the internal harddrive or open straight into a program for editing or displaying or ... the photo's. it is as simple as that. Hope that helps.
With Computers a lot has to be accepted as 'Magic' it just works. Nobody knows every detail of everything which goes on, and nobody has to.
I've more than 30 years experience with computers and I don't know everything. I do know how to find out most everything. If I need the information it is almost always written somewhere and google can find it.
Software is usually written with design patterns, so for example practically every program written (with a gui) has a file menu on the top left of the window. with edit and view next to that and help is always the last menu item. Thats why the kids are so quick.
Imagine a world where cars for example are all different, well they are but there are always three pedals (ok for a manual) clutch brake and accelerator usually there is a wheel to steer with.
Computer software is pretty similar in that most of a program will in general be the same as in any other program. There are a few programs which will use a snazzy new interface but the basic functions are usually still there just not so familiar.
With touchscreens there are a few new methods and some older methods don't work so well. Its hard to place a finger exactly on a small button so they need to be bigger, gestures are used so your finger might drag up and down in a list. There is a bit of learning with these new methods but once you are used to them it becomes easy again.
Blackest (I wrote backrest not thinking) I keep my son well away from my laptop, it takes me a day to find everything if he has been on it, my grandson is not too bad it only takes me half a day to get back.
He was in computing in the RAF then worked for the MOD where they had to invent computers then program them for specific jobs some to do with rocketry. If you could see his computer wall, and that is what it is, made up from old bits and pieces mixed with the latest stuff, it was him who offhandedly said the Acer would do what I wanted?
Cinnamon added to Honey is a good cure all. Chrome has me puzzled so I stick to what I know and learnt at Computer school where I mastered the Apple and loved it, do not think they are worth so much more than a normal computer is all.
As to my Granddaughters and their up to date icky phones, they are talking to me and their thumbs going twenty to the dozen, I said future generations will be born with two long thumbs and no fingers. One was watching me on the laptop and commented, Granddad you use all your fingers to type? "err" yes what other way is there? Oh well they are the future and welcome to it as far as I am concerned.
Frank.
Thank sblackest I'll get oldest wean to look at that for me later!!
I always have a laugh at youngest one as she's a typical teenager with her phone-she does do a lot of reading on it though so it's not all bad!
I think they'll have the long
thumbs and just a sort of fused,cup shaped 'hand' to hold the phone..
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My good laptop is on the blink at the moment, because one of the dogs tried to drink my coffee and I snatched it away, splashing coffee on the mouse pad. The cursor works until the computer warms up and then leaps about everywhere, finally freezing. I've given it three or four weeks to dry out, but it looks as though it will have to go for repair. Fortunately, I have the grotty older one or I'd be having withdrawal symptoms from the GW forum and from repeats on iplayer.
Nearly gave the dog flying lessons but managed to restrain myself!
G/G, I plugged a hand held mouse in to my laptop when I had problems with the built in mouse and it worked a treat apart from having somewhere solid to move it on, a table mat came in handy. My problem turned out to be crumbs, a good clean cured it.
Frank.
I have a remote mouse which I could install - but can I find the b - flipping thing? It would be handy for both laptops, since the old one also has a dodgy mousepad. Think I'll have to buy a new one.
My 1st husband was a bully and it only took a real beating to realise what he was. No-one will ever treat me that way again. Have been married to the present husband for 25 years so i cant be that bad.
Hi Maud. Amazing the domestic violence that exists! I'm glad you did not play the victim and continue to let him abuse you, and that you were able to build a new and happier life. The violence remains part of you, it has its permanent effect on you, but maybe it can become compassion and empathy.
Mind you, my husband says he is the victim of domestic violence - I thumped him on the left shoulder during the first year of our marriage 3 times. (That was 46 years ago). I was the clash of one completely messy individual (me) with one obsessively neat one (him). Over the years, I learnt from him and he learnt from me and now, if anything, he's messier than me and I'm the one tidying up. More normal, somehow.
I don't mean to minimise domestic violence - it is serious and permanently damaging, and I'm speaking from childhood experience. Often, people who have experienced it in childhood repeat the pattern and marry an abuser, so I'm very blessed to have married a gentleman, I believe.
I should add that domestic violence undermines one's self-esteem and your 'I can't be that bad' has echoes of that. We all need to remember that it was not our fault!
I was told that i was ugly and if he hadnt married me no-one else would, i was pushed but never hit and put up with it for 2 years. It all ended the day after out 2nd anniversary when he hit and kicked me. I then decoded i couldnt do this anymore. I am now married to a kind and caring man who copes with my daft ways and my various trips into hospital and i know he loves me.