I would, too, unless the TV was clear across the room and the fine tuning dial was screwed up and/or the rabbit ear antenna was being particularly flaky. Also if the TV was already on the only channel that came in clear without a lot of snow. Then it might not be worth the hassle. Sometimes it's just not worth going all the way to the hardware store for a can of tuner bath.
I just yesterday watched a DVD of the 1948 movie 'Scott of the Antarctic' and your link to 'two guys' now makes me very very sad for some reason. Will the Park Service soon make the South Pole wheelchair accessible?
If people were forced to right more straight in-line code, in Assembler, there would be less bugs in software (because far less software would get written)
Back then it was 'cool' and edgy to know what that was. It validated nerds of a certain period during their coming of age.
That is part of the problem with Gibson. He traffics in phrases and terminology that catch a nerd's attention, or did back in the day. It validated some nerds during their coming of age and they revere him for that.
Really, though, it's more like he hung out in a store that sold PC clones in the early 90's, or somebody gave him an issue of Computer Shopper to use as reference material.
I think I read an ugly rumor recently that they are about to make a 'show' of some kind (tv or movie) out of Snow Crash.
They will probably ruin it. Most of the time when actors are allowed* to get involved that happens.
(*did you ever notice that more than 90% of what appears on tv and in movies involves those theatre-arts type people who were so annoying in High School?)
Gibson is a hipster like you, too. He publicly proclaims that he writes on a manual typewriter. I would bet that it doesn't even use a 'cartridge' style ribbon.
Lots of us have many, many paper books. We don't consider it noteworthy, though.
I would rather even read 'The Big U'. Because even when he was green and just starting out, Stephenson could write a good nerd-genre book that is more fun to read than anything by Gibson.
Yes, I have a paperback of ' The Big U' from before Stephenson allowed it to be reprinted. It has always been a fun read.
Plenty of other people elaborated fairly well in replies to his comment. So it remains a valid comment. Almost a 'the emperor is naked' kind of comment, really.
There are hundreds of obscure garage bands with substancial wiki articles that eclipse their actual music.
I am starting to think Gibson may be a coming-of-age fan phenomenon. I was already an adult when hisvwork started being hyped. I was already more familiar than he was with all the tech he name-dropped. I suspect a LOT of us nerds on Slashdot who are old enough would agree.
Gibson famously uses only a manual typewriter. He was a hipster before it was cool to be a hipster. Shrug.
They start out smart and ambitious, but they hive together and don't listen enough to outsiders. Which leads to rapid deterioration. Then after awhile, the most 'successful' of them are promoted to the Sales Department.
I don't live in Shenzhen to get the kind of electronic parts and stuff that I order online. The Radio Shack closed, and didn't have much in the first place. Brick and mortar are out for me.
No worry, though. I got a bag full of that sort of tools from the Goodwill about six months ago. They were all used, and some appeared to have sticky residue on them.
I dumped the whole bag of tools in a jar of fairly concentrated bleach to soak for awhile before rinsing and taking the stuff out.
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Also relevant is who the text message was drafted to be sent to.
At least on my phone, you can't 'draft' a text message without starting out with the message being directed at a specific number.
Why is this detail missing from the summary?
I would, too, unless the TV was clear across the room and the fine tuning dial was screwed up and/or the rabbit ear antenna was being particularly flaky. Also if the TV was already on the only channel that came in clear without a lot of snow. Then it might not be worth the hassle. Sometimes it's just not worth going all the way to the hardware store for a can of tuner bath.
Ah, 80s nostalgia.
When the bomb issues you a ticket, does it explode, too?
I just yesterday watched a DVD of the 1948 movie 'Scott of the Antarctic' and your link to 'two guys' now makes me very very sad for some reason.
Will the Park Service soon make the South Pole wheelchair accessible?
You are just being an effete intellectual. Go put on your plain cloth coat and sit down!
If people were forced to right more straight in-line code, in Assembler, there would be less bugs in software (because far less software would get written)
I bet if we dropped some sensors in the water, we would learn that the water is slightly above the freezing point.
Measurements. That would make it science.
it doesn't require any new understandings of the universe.
That would require it to be science.
And as Malibu Stacy once said: "Science is hard!"
Shocking as it may seem, Creimer appears to have become the new Natalie Portman.
He ruined a lot of good nerd things, by popularizing it for the pinks.
You're wrong. Fender makes the Stratocaster.
Did you buy some really, really bad counterfeit merchandise on eBay? Next time go direct to the source and shop on BangGood.
Some poetry ages very, very badly.
We look at things like the flying cars articles in 1950s Popular Science magazine for amusement value. Nobody is really impressed by them today.
Back then it was 'cool' and edgy to know what that was. It validated nerds of a certain period during their coming of age.
That is part of the problem with Gibson. He traffics in phrases and terminology that catch a nerd's attention, or did back in the day. It validated some nerds during their coming of age and they revere him for that.
Really, though, it's more like he hung out in a store that sold PC clones in the early 90's, or somebody gave him an issue of Computer Shopper to use as reference material.
I think I read an ugly rumor recently that they are about to make a 'show' of some kind (tv or movie) out of Snow Crash.
They will probably ruin it. Most of the time when actors are allowed* to get involved that happens.
(*did you ever notice that more than 90% of what appears on tv and in movies involves those theatre-arts type people who were so annoying in High School?)
Gibson is a hipster like you, too. He publicly proclaims that he writes on a manual typewriter. I would bet that it doesn't even use a 'cartridge' style ribbon.
Lots of us have many, many paper books. We don't consider it noteworthy, though.
This is a rare instance where I agree with Perens.
Are you worried that hero worshippers will become confused and not be able to pick which 'side' (Perens or Gibson) to choose?
I would rather even read 'The Big U'. Because even when he was green and just starting out, Stephenson could write a good nerd-genre book that is more fun to read than anything by Gibson.
Yes, I have a paperback of ' The Big U' from before Stephenson allowed it to be reprinted. It has always been a fun read.
Many of us were already pretty sick of the term 'cyberspace' by the time Gibson popularized it.
He has a rep with parts of the nerd community of being somebody who traffics in terminology to build a rep.
The hipster deal, really.
Plenty of other people elaborated fairly well in replies to his comment. So it remains a valid comment. Almost a 'the emperor is naked' kind of comment, really.
Validation-by-wikipedia-article-size doesn't work.
There are hundreds of obscure garage bands with substancial wiki articles that eclipse their actual music.
I am starting to think Gibson may be a coming-of-age fan phenomenon. I was already an adult when hisvwork started being hyped. I was already more familiar than he was with all the tech he name-dropped. I suspect a LOT of us nerds on Slashdot who are old enough would agree.
Gibson famously uses only a manual typewriter. He was a hipster before it was cool to be a hipster. Shrug.
Yes, fair enough. Those sound like the early use cases for the technology.
The problem is, that just replaces a whole segment of professional driving jobs.
Under your scenario, BSD just up and disappeared. But that wasn't the history that happened. The Jolitzes, among others, kept moving along.
They start out smart and ambitious, but they hive together and don't listen enough to outsiders. Which leads to rapid deterioration. Then after awhile, the most 'successful' of them are promoted to the Sales Department.
I don't live in Shenzhen to get the kind of electronic parts and stuff that I order online. The Radio Shack closed, and didn't have much in the first place. Brick and mortar are out for me.
The link says it's not eligible for Prime.
No worry, though. I got a bag full of that sort of tools from the Goodwill about six months ago. They were all used, and some appeared to have sticky residue on them.
I dumped the whole bag of tools in a jar of fairly concentrated bleach to soak for awhile before rinsing and taking the stuff out.