The way Indian text books are written, it's not a big surprise that we find so many noobs even among engineering students. My institute's book had a section on backups. The part titled "Types of backup media" didn't even make a mention of DVDs under optical media, only CDs. And that book was published in 2011, when Blu-ray had already entered the market.
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A friend of mine was complaining that he wasn't able to download large apps on his 2G connection. I told him to use his 3G connection (which he uses with a dongle on his lappy) by creating a hotspot using Virtual Router on windows. In response to this his first question was, "won't it damage my laptop's wi-fi?"
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And coming back to smartphones, a friend asked me if I had seen Reliance's offer for the new iPhone
Me: Without even looking I can tell you that the offer is useless
Him: Why
Me: Because Nexus 5 is about to be launched which is a much better phone for 20k less
Him: But... It's iPhone
Me: So?
Him: It's better
Me: better how? Have you used an iPhone?
Him: No
Me: Then?
Him: still, just the name is enough
Me: Enough for what? Learn to use the Android phone you already have. You spent 22k on it and haven't derived the benefits worth 2k even. Don't go wasting money on names. (he had taken more than a minute to turn on wi-fi once after having used the phone for almost 8 months)
Him: Come on man, I wasn't arguing.
Me: But I am, coz you are being silly, "name is enough..."
I actually made him shut up that day
P.S.: For those of you who don't know about Reliance's offer, you can read about it here - *www.firstpost.com/business/is-reliances-rs-2599-and-rs-2999-iphone-5-offers-worth-it-1206719.html