The world is in reality monochrome, and "1 bit" monochrome at that. Color is simply how the mind interprets the wavelength/frequency the photons travel at which the eye (rods) picks up (chroma), while the various shades the mind produces is caused is the amount of photons hitting the eye (rods and cones) at a given time (luminecence).
The world is physicaly and completly colorless, and not even in greyscale (just some objects emit/reflect more photons than others). Yes, it is depressing, so try not to think too much about it, OK?
I grew up in the 80s (born mid 70s) and I think that may have been the last decade where building model planes, electronics kits, am radios, etc were still mainstream, though the signs of death (of the old ways) were defently there. Kit building and tinkering hasn't gone away though, it has merely changed. Now it's programming, game mods, building battle robots with Audrinos, and other such endeavors involving computers
(why spend time and money building a crystal radio when you can fire up a game level editor for little or no cost and create something far more exciting?)
So you probaly had a 486 class machine (Doom would run on a 386 albiet poorly), but you didn't have atleast a 14.4modem?
I had a 2400 baud modem around that time, but it was a hand-me-down that I had installed in a 286 with a Hercules monochrome graphics adapter/green screen(!), also a hand me down(!!) which I used to connect to a unix shell account with a text only web browser(!!!). A year or so later, I got a used 486 DX2/66 (1997) and was thorougly addicted to Doom ][ and all of the mods I could download over my 486's 14.4 modem (Eternal and Requiem, booh yeah!)
....is a millenial try to operate a spirit duplicator machine (a chemical copy machine). You know, the ones that went "KER-CHUNK KER-CHUNK" as they spit out those bad quality purple-ink test forms in school a few decades+ back?
....that I started using computers in the early-mid 1980s (i'm 39) where you were very lucky if your home computer had a floppy disk drive, and have been using consistantly scince as they evolved to what they are now. Most kids today don't even know what an audio cassette is, let alone that that is how many of us loaded up our games.
A bit OT, but back in the 50s, here in the States they had detector vans to gather data on what TV shows people were watching and when. The CRT televisions at the time (complete with vacuum tube circutry) threw out all kinds of RF noise, with a unique 'signature' for each channel that was being watched, and the vans had equipment and an antenna that picked up this noise. The crew inside would jot down what channel (and time) the people in the house they rolled by were watching.
....against all of the Orwellian tyranny that has been growing rapidly there for the past couple decades?
Or had the gov't locked everybody in full body restraints including rigid mitts (figurtavely, maybe starting literally?) so fighting back is now impossible?
Leave it to Philly to get its hands on something nice and turn it to shit
(Yes, I was born+raised in Philly, and the only thing it has going for it is it's historic land marks. I'm suprised it hasn't managed to destroy those too.)
Damn, I did not realise we were thay close to the year 2664! That is when people are so stupid, education consists of being locked in a cage and having to pull one of the two chains crossed over eachother which has the slice of carrot on it to get an A.
...because if they don't, they will become homeless and therefore be labeled drug addicts and mentally ill and worthless and they will get beaten up and burned by groups of teenagers, and stomped on and beaten up by police. And their former friends living in $6000/mo Bashiki designed Ikea hell apartments won't have anything to do with them.
Would you even want the phone anymore after the gov't took it in a back room ans did god-knows-what with it?
I would chuck it and get it replaced if for no other reason that the gov't put their filthy hands on it and looking at it would continue to remind me of how bad they violated me (or maybe thats a good reason to keep it?:S
Awww, you believe what is written on paper is what they follow in reality! How cute.
Reality: They can dogpile on you with 10 heavily body armored jail CERT team members, beat the shit out of you
spray OC gas in your face, strap you in restraints, beat the shit out of you some more while you are in those restraints, and toss you into cell with a rapist twice your size with a penis as thick as a tree branch who is eager to penetrate you in every orfice. If you survive all this shit, and maybe if you are lucky, you can sue the gov't and win damages worth about the cost of the nose cone and perhaps a fuel tank of a fighter jet, MAYBE.
It's great to have your devices encrypted incase they are seized, but what do you do when they seize your *body*? What would you do when you are given the choice of giving them the password, or spend the next 3 decades sucking Bubba's dick (this choice given after being strapped down in a Pro-straint chair, sprayed with OC/pepper spray, a spithood placed over your head to keep the gasses in, and maybe a few blows to the ribs with a heavy police baton and left that way for at least 10 hours)
They should have kept only 2 Sonic lines going: the classic Sonic (2 or 3d but not fucking with the formula that made it a hit on the Genesis) and the Sonic Adventure line. And please, DO NOT have Sonic play like a 'rail shooter' whether in 2d or 3d. No rail shooter game has ever made it big, and there is a reason for it (rail shooters are barely a step above FMV games, and except for Dragon's Lair, those have been regulated to the shitbin of history). You're welcome, Sega
They shoukd have kept only 2 Sonlic lines going: the classic Soni linec (2 or 3d but not fucking with the formula that made it a hit on the Genesis) l and the Sonic Adventure line. And please, DO NOT have Sonic play like a 'rail shooter' whether in 2d or 3d. No rail shooter game has ever made it big, and there is a reason for it (rail shooters are barely a step above FMV games, and except for Dragon's Lair, those have been regulated to the shitbin of history). You're welcome Sega
It's healthy to have an escape from the real world now and then because people would get burnt out over the shit in this world and go crazy
(This would be a good thing if it was only the bad guys getting their heads on a pike and their locked in chains but this is not always the case, infact far from it)
Here is an article about increasing page
bloat, especialy "mobile" pages:
https://www.soasta.com/blog/pa...
This was written in 2015 so I imagine things have gotten a bit worse in the past year.
...only it was in the form of text only ads? I wish ad companies would do text only with a "Click here to learn more about Brand X", but this probaly won't attract the dullards who need shiny, sometimes flashing/seizure inducing ads to get the 2 brain cells they have to rub together.:| (another reason ads on tv are typicaly 30 seconds long when you think they should not have to be longer than 5, maybe 10 seconds long to convey the same message.)
I do admit, this new thing sounds pretty impressive from a tech/programming standpoint
Isn't "autopilot" just a fancy version of cruise control, meaning there is an almost uncountable amout of situationans that a driver may encounter that this system would NOT be able to deal with? This reminds me of the Simpsons in a couple epiodes where a character though cruise control ment self driving and would crashbthe car shortly thereafter.
Because we all know a rich/'rich' person would never slip child porn onto a device of someone they don't like then call the FBI on them....
How about sop hating the poor and if you are not going to help people in neef, keep quiet and just load up on Game Of Thrones on your 80 inch smart TV and stop being such a hateful, miserable fuck?
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The world is in reality monochrome, and "1 bit" monochrome at that. Color is simply how the mind interprets the wavelength/frequency the photons travel at which the eye (rods) picks up (chroma), while the various shades the mind produces is caused is the amount of photons hitting the eye (rods and cones) at a given time (luminecence). The world is physicaly and completly colorless, and not even in greyscale (just some objects emit/reflect more photons than others). Yes, it is depressing, so try not to think too much about it, OK?
Not to mention the male/male pocky kisses
I grew up in the 80s (born mid 70s) and I think that may have been the last decade where building model planes, electronics kits, am radios, etc were still mainstream, though the signs of death (of the old ways) were defently there. Kit building and tinkering hasn't gone away though, it has merely changed. Now it's programming, game mods, building battle robots with Audrinos, and other such endeavors involving computers (why spend time and money building a crystal radio when you can fire up a game level editor for little or no cost and create something far more exciting?)
So you probaly had a 486 class machine (Doom would run on a 386 albiet poorly), but you didn't have atleast a 14.4modem? I had a 2400 baud modem around that time, but it was a hand-me-down that I had installed in a 286 with a Hercules monochrome graphics adapter/green screen(!), also a hand me down(!!) which I used to connect to a unix shell account with a text only web browser(!!!). A year or so later, I got a used 486 DX2/66 (1997) and was thorougly addicted to Doom ][ and all of the mods I could download over my 486's 14.4 modem (Eternal and Requiem, booh yeah!)
....is a millenial try to operate a spirit duplicator machine (a chemical copy machine). You know, the ones that went "KER-CHUNK KER-CHUNK" as they spit out those bad quality purple-ink test forms in school a few decades+ back?
....that I started using computers in the early-mid 1980s (i'm 39) where you were very lucky if your home computer had a floppy disk drive, and have been using consistantly scince as they evolved to what they are now. Most kids today don't even know what an audio cassette is, let alone that that is how many of us loaded up our games.
A bit OT, but back in the 50s, here in the States they had detector vans to gather data on what TV shows people were watching and when. The CRT televisions at the time (complete with vacuum tube circutry) threw out all kinds of RF noise, with a unique 'signature' for each channel that was being watched, and the vans had equipment and an antenna that picked up this noise. The crew inside would jot down what channel (and time) the people in the house they rolled by were watching.
....against all of the Orwellian tyranny that has been growing rapidly there for the past couple decades? Or had the gov't locked everybody in full body restraints including rigid mitts (figurtavely, maybe starting literally?) so fighting back is now impossible?
Leave it to Philly to get its hands on something nice and turn it to shit (Yes, I was born+raised in Philly, and the only thing it has going for it is it's historic land marks. I'm suprised it hasn't managed to destroy those too.)
Damn, I did not realise we were thay close to the year 2664! That is when people are so stupid, education consists of being locked in a cage and having to pull one of the two chains crossed over eachother which has the slice of carrot on it to get an A.
...because if they don't, they will become homeless and therefore be labeled drug addicts and mentally ill and worthless and they will get beaten up and burned by groups of teenagers, and stomped on and beaten up by police. And their former friends living in $6000/mo Bashiki designed Ikea hell apartments won't have anything to do with them.
....the execs of Glassdoor see this and hop onto the escape jet to an undisclosed tropical island
Would you even want the phone anymore after the gov't took it in a back room ans did god-knows-what with it? I would chuck it and get it replaced if for no other reason that the gov't put their filthy hands on it and looking at it would continue to remind me of how bad they violated me (or maybe thats a good reason to keep it? :S
Awww, you believe what is written on paper is what they follow in reality! How cute. Reality: They can dogpile on you with 10 heavily body armored jail CERT team members, beat the shit out of you spray OC gas in your face, strap you in restraints, beat the shit out of you some more while you are in those restraints, and toss you into cell with a rapist twice your size with a penis as thick as a tree branch who is eager to penetrate you in every orfice. If you survive all this shit, and maybe if you are lucky, you can sue the gov't and win damages worth about the cost of the nose cone and perhaps a fuel tank of a fighter jet, MAYBE.
It's great to have your devices encrypted incase they are seized, but what do you do when they seize your *body*? What would you do when you are given the choice of giving them the password, or spend the next 3 decades sucking Bubba's dick (this choice given after being strapped down in a Pro-straint chair, sprayed with OC/pepper spray, a spithood placed over your head to keep the gasses in, and maybe a few blows to the ribs with a heavy police baton and left that way for at least 10 hours)
They should have kept only 2 Sonic lines going: the classic Sonic (2 or 3d but not fucking with the formula that made it a hit on the Genesis) and the Sonic Adventure line. And please, DO NOT have Sonic play like a 'rail shooter' whether in 2d or 3d. No rail shooter game has ever made it big, and there is a reason for it (rail shooters are barely a step above FMV games, and except for Dragon's Lair, those have been regulated to the shitbin of history). You're welcome, Sega
They shoukd have kept only 2 Sonlic lines going: the classic Soni linec (2 or 3d but not fucking with the formula that made it a hit on the Genesis) l and the Sonic Adventure line. And please, DO NOT have Sonic play like a 'rail shooter' whether in 2d or 3d. No rail shooter game has ever made it big, and there is a reason for it (rail shooters are barely a step above FMV games, and except for Dragon's Lair, those have been regulated to the shitbin of history). You're welcome Sega
It's healthy to have an escape from the real world now and then because people would get burnt out over the shit in this world and go crazy (This would be a good thing if it was only the bad guys getting their heads on a pike and their locked in chains but this is not always the case, infact far from it)
Here is an article about increasing page bloat, especialy "mobile" pages: https://www.soasta.com/blog/pa... This was written in 2015 so I imagine things have gotten a bit worse in the past year.
...only it was in the form of text only ads? I wish ad companies would do text only with a "Click here to learn more about Brand X", but this probaly won't attract the dullards who need shiny, sometimes flashing/seizure inducing ads to get the 2 brain cells they have to rub together. :| (another reason ads on tv are typicaly 30 seconds long when you think they should not have to be longer than 5, maybe 10 seconds long to convey the same message.)
I do admit, this new thing sounds pretty impressive from a tech/programming standpoint
The super-rich overgrown brats should not ever be able to buy something like a beach, or a state park.
this is why I wish Slashdot still had an edit function. Still not the green screen era though
Hardly the green screen era for NEW software. Maybe the DOJ got their dinoware in 1997 but the sw is not from that year.
Isn't "autopilot" just a fancy version of cruise control, meaning there is an almost uncountable amout of situationans that a driver may encounter that this system would NOT be able to deal with? This reminds me of the Simpsons in a couple epiodes where a character though cruise control ment self driving and would crashbthe car shortly thereafter.
Because we all know a rich/'rich' person would never slip child porn onto a device of someone they don't like then call the FBI on them.... How about sop hating the poor and if you are not going to help people in neef, keep quiet and just load up on Game Of Thrones on your 80 inch smart TV and stop being such a hateful, miserable fuck?