50 Interesting Facts (1 Viewer)

[Jimi C]

Yes, but only a little bit of water.

 

[Garrett Lundy]

53. Witches are made from wood (because they burn, float, and you can build bridges out of them).

 

[Clinton McClure]

54. Coconuts migrate.

 

[Jimi C]

55 - Your mother was a hampster and your father reeks of elderberrys

 

[Bryan X]

57. There is no 56th interesting fact.

 

[Bryan X]

58. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

59. Bryan is the only person who still remembers floppy disks well enough to notice that the shutter is backwards.

(BTW, why the hell is the "save" icon a floppy disc at all? Shouldn't it have changed to something else by now?)

Regards,

Joe

 

[RobertR]

It's just as well. Since hardware continues to evolve, you can never settle on something and be permanently "current".

 

[Clinton McClure]

60. Coffee tastes better if you stir it with your finger.

 

[Chris Lockwood]

I never knew the floppy had a part called a shutter. The icon is so small- how can you tell part of it is backwards?

 

[Bryan X]

Here's a picture of the Microsoft Icon:



Here's a real 3.5" floppy:



The metal piece is what I called the shutter (don't know if that's the "official" name for it). Notice the opening is reversed on the MS icon.

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

True enough, but it is aleady the case that most computers don't even come with a floppy drive unless you order one as an option, and we aren't far from the day that the majority of computer users will never have seen a floppy disc. So how are they supposed to "intuitively" understand a picture of one as the "save" icon? (The whole point of icons being that you aren't supposed to need to have them explained or labelled.)

Regards,

Joe

 

[RobertR]

That raises an interesting question. What would be a permanently, instantly recognizable "save" icon?

 

[Marianne]

61. My hovercraft is full of eels.

 

[Clinton McClure]

Ummm. A button which reads save?

 

[Clinton McClure]

62. Shutter is the correct term for that part of a floppy diskette.

 

[Marianne]

It hasn't been floppy since the 5.25 inch

 

[Garrett Lundy]

63. You CAN has cheezburgr!

 

[Greg_S_H]

There's no need to make this thread dirty!

 

[Marianne]

Of course, the 3.5 inch would be floppy if it wasn't in a hard case.