शून्यताAnd once you've centered your attention on that Multiplan Life game, lo, "spreadsheet" has receded to the status of metaphor. You next realize that in buying Multiplan software, you acquired a way to think about manipulating symbols in space, never mind what its designers thought it was "for". (h k) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989
The OED contains close to 540 megabytes of text and tagging information. (e g) #Byte #ByteMagazine #OxfordEnglishDictionary #Anno1989
When we were younger, “That's what the computer says” was a darned near unanswerable argument. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989
The Gadget War
In "The Mote in God's Eye" (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Pocket Books, 1974; now in the thirty-sixth printing, he said preening), the characters all carry pocket computers that have a great deal of on-board capability and also link by radio to the rest of the world.
These gadgets keep track of schedules, record conversations, and generally do the kind of management that makes life simpler. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989
It is not an easy task to make the #80286 perform multitasking or mode switching. [..] Jerry Pournelle describes the process this way: "You have to clunk it over the head and knock it out When it's waking up -- but before it realize it's been reset -- you shout: 'Stop! Stop! Don't reset! It's all a terrible dream.'" (f h) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989
I do more traveling than I like – for all the mess, #ChaosManor is a pretty comfortable place – but there is one advantage. No one has yet found a way to telephone me on a train or in flight.
Alas, I suppose it's just a question of time: Mr. #Heinlein's 'Between Planets' has teenagers carrying personal telephones on backpacking expeditions, and #GeoffGoodfellow has been carrying a personal telephone to the Hackers' Conference deep in the Peninsula Hills for severals years; someday, I just know I'll get saddled with one. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989
Am grünen Wesen würden wir alle verwesen! (p k) #Anno1989 #Bundestag
Die [Ost-]#CDU hatte keine Führungskraft, die sich öffentlich profilierte. Später staunte die Öffentlichkeit, wie viele #Reformkräfte sich dort geschickt getarnt hatten. (i s k) #Anno1989