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A Life of Comfort and Ease (Under Appreciated Modern Conveniances)
Akima:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 24 Jul 2013, 23:15 ---I have no working machine that can read floppies anymore.
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USB floppy drives are cheap.
Masterpiece:
It's also worth noting that digital storage media are hugely unreliable. A simple magnet will render your hard drive dysfunctional. Flash disks are only able to perform about 100.000 Read/Write operations, have read disturb errors and generally wear down really quickly. CDs are fairly safe, but are cumbersome, need to move in order to be read (every moving part will wear down after a while) and can get scratched very quickly. Tape recorders are even more cumbersome...
In short, digital storage is not reliable long-term.
lepetitfromage:
Compared to the size of the box you'd need for all the photos on the CD, it's not all that cumbersome....
But to be honest, as much as I love me some technology, print is still superior for me. I look at them more often because they can be hung on my walls- and I have to carefully consider which photos I want to display in my home, so I always choose the "best". They are more fun to manipulate into other art forms (don't get me wrong, I love Photoshop just as much as the next guy- if not more- but there is just something so much more satisfying about getting your hands dirty/paint splattered/covered in glue). And for whatever reason, I just prefer things that I can feel. I'm the same way about certain books and albums- I love the convenience of digital media but if I really love something, I need the physical copy.
LTK:
I'm pretty amazed that I have two medium-sized boxes standing in my room that are defying the forces of entropy, allowing me to keep the food inside for weeks, months or longer, until I finally decide to eat it. Without those, I'd likely lose anything that's been dead for longer than a day to insects, bacteria, fungi, or other scavengers.
Loki:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 25 Jul 2013, 04:02 ---A simple magnet will render your hard drive dysfunctional.
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This has not been true for a long time. [1] [2] [3]
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