This is reminding me of the computer games in the book Virus that kill you in real life when you die in the game.
For some reason I kind of like being able to read the "game over" screen, but maybe I'm just a sissy.
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The same holds true for more than just file systems. Take the GUI for example. These days it's slick, with nice 3D buttons, and shaded icons mouse cursors, what have you. All of this is to mimic the way things would be if they were "real" - that is, real buttons made out of plastic or whatever. Things fade in and out of view as menus pop up, and roll when scrolled.
None of this is crucial to the way that computers works. It's all asthetic - intended to make us think that we're actually doing something more than pushing a bunch of zeros and ones around in a big calculator.
It's all psychological, so that those of us who spend >5 hours sitting in front of the box feel like we're actually interacting with something more than a wafer of silicon.
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Its first full-fledged demonstration of the system will come in late May or early June, at the Wallops Island test flight center.
Wallhack @ Wallops?
This is reminding me of the computer games in the book Virus that kill you in real life when you die in the game. For some reason I kind of like being able to read the "game over" screen, but maybe I'm just a sissy.
The same holds true for more than just file systems. Take the GUI for example. These days it's slick, with nice 3D buttons, and shaded icons mouse cursors, what have you. All of this is to mimic the way things would be if they were "real" - that is, real buttons made out of plastic or whatever. Things fade in and out of view as menus pop up, and roll when scrolled.
None of this is crucial to the way that computers works. It's all asthetic - intended to make us think that we're actually doing something more than pushing a bunch of zeros and ones around in a big calculator.
It's all psychological, so that those of us who spend >5 hours sitting in front of the box feel like we're actually interacting with something more than a wafer of silicon.