Actual “floppy” disks (8” and later 5.25”) were flexible and needed a slightly more rigid sleeve to make them easy to handle. The 3.5” ones needed the sleeve to protect the medium (the actual disk).
In any case, Portuguese checking in. We also said "diskette", though some people might spell it "disquete" (ew)
"Chinaman" is considered racist now, but I suspect "Frenchman" is still good.
Man the good ol days. I remember when the movie Hackers came out we all loved it for its bullshit, the way it made the scene 'cool' and not just for us dweebs. But but we also hated it as hacking could definitely be some of the most boring time until something happens.
The floppy conversations always make me think of Johnny Lee Miller throwing a floppy in the trash yelling 'they're trashing our rights!' or Angelina Jolie pretending to pee in the men's bathroom to get the one hidden there.
It even made floppys seem cool somehow.
When in reality even installing Eye of The Beholder was 20+ disks and several hours. And God help you if you lost/damaged/rewrote one!
I had to look it up; I can't believe I have never heard of this movie, I should have been interested back then. Wargames (1983) was the film that my computer friends and I associated with our activities, and I was disappointed for years after that nothing came close to it, maybe Sneakers (1992), and 3 Days of the Condor (1975), though that is more of a spy intrigue genre, but it included a fascinating introduction to phreaking. More recently, I enjoyed Blackhat (2015) and Mr. Robot also scratched that itch. I'm going to look for Hackers (1985). Thanks for mentioning.
Condor and Blackhat are actually new to me so watching that first!
Mr Roboto was good to me, I love BD Wong so hard- I don't know if anyone out there has seen Focus (Will Smith movie) but he is Fantastic and steals the movie though he's only in it for 10 minutes.
I'm in my early 20s, and know what a 3.5" floppy looks like, but I know others who don't.
Also, of those of us who do there's probably a 50% chance that we'd say "3D printed save icon" as a joke!
There are some games that for past some radar like the "Buddy" series - it seems innocuous but it's all about dismemberment of the buddy character. It's "funny" in the way "Happy Tree Friends" is funny. Less so to the plastic developing psyche of a toddler.
Cartoons and games like Super Mario are episodic. There is finality to completing the episode/level. Most modern games are explicitly designed to be addictive, so they eschew levels and opt for open-world or continuous play formats.
For passive content, they have a similar response (though not quite as pronounced) to turning off the TV in the middle of a movie. I don't blame them, though. It's really shitty to have to stop a movie in the middle. But continuous-play games have no middle or end, so there is no chance for a graceful exit.
So the Nintendo 2DS was an experiment to test the aformentioned theory of episodic content. It worked. I can let the kids play the games for an hour and at the end of the hour there isn't any wailing or gnashing of teeth.
We're not super-strict about screen time, but we're also not lassaiz-faire about it. We try to model appropriate consumption habits: 1-hour max on a "school night" (and almost never on consequitive nights), frequently a movie on Friday nights, sometimes Saturday morning cartoon binge if we don't already have plans for the day.
We let our kids watch TV to let them enjoy the programs they are watching. I'm not going to deny them a pleasure that I also enjoy. I'm also relatively strict on myself concerning media consumption. We're are just not using TV to park them so we can work.
One can use rough cut lumber for building but it throws off everything a half inch at a time, so your final wall may not fit or be attached.
Perhaps this was during my early college days and I could only afford the cheap ones.
Someone managed to insert a 5.25" floppy in the gap between the covers for the (empty) 5.25" bays just over the 3.5" drive slot.
It makes some strange impression to me to talk of floppies in the past and to think that many people never actually saw one (let alone use it).
A:las poor floppy, I knew you well. [0]