Reality Check by Dave Whamond for November 15, 2019

What about the 8" and 5¼" disks?

(The Ralph comment) You’re still the pound sign.

With the speed of technology, I guess our heyday wasn’t too long ago

More than on way….pathetic

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Who can number the times that they called it an “octothorpe?”

not sure if they are talking about Apple fanboys or millenials. Apple convinced quite a few that ‘you don’t need it because it either looks bulky or it rises production prices’ is cool, so be insensate is fine as long as you think you are cool. A cd drive was too bulky for a computer that stands over a table most of the time, ports to connect external drives was also too uncool, make phones with no way to expand memory is cool yet to add more memory it doubles the price. That means that if you are on a trip and your memory runs full you can not take more photos, unless you dump the ones you already have in the cloud. Ah, you are overseas and you don’t have a data plan there so you cannot upload? though luck, is not as if there where other phones where you could just swap a memory card for a new one. Also, for whoever has a computer to work and not just to show off, people still use hard media backups; if that was not the case, every ‘work’ model would not come with a cd/dvd drive, and the workflow and the security of the company would not depend on if they have paid for the cloud services and have a connection available

rim shot…

Is this a CD Romcom?

Ralph prefers some good ole virgin vinyl.

#; that’s sharp.

Hey you, get off of my cloud! Don’t hang around, cause two’s a crowd.

Thanks to Corporate America, there’s a fix for my floppy.

“OK, we have this great new thing we call ’the cloud”; how it works is, you store all your data on our server, then, if you want to access your stuff you have to pay us – every month. Forever."

And people swallowed this idiocy! Orwell was wrong; Big Brother ain’t the government.

The 3.5 inch floppy disks are already so out of date that even cartoonists fail to picture them correctly: They had only ONE slanted corner (to ensure correct slotting-in) not all 4 of them.