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For old timers like myself, Tom Baker was our first Doctor. He’s the bar by which all others are judged by us.

Undecided? Is that a backhanded way to say non-binary?

At the time it was exceedingly rare that email was used for anything other than text because the bandwidth just wasn’t there. And especially to the masses. Hell, 10 base T, with it’s 10 megabits per second, wasn’t a thing till 1990 while people were still generally stuck at 9600 baud as the top end for their modems. The idea of having 10 base T speeds to the home wasn’t even a pipe dream at that point.

Even email wasn’t necessarily universal. You could be on one system, say CompuServe, but you couldn’t email anyone on Prodigy or the internet or FIDOnet or any of the other different places people had email. And some were dependent on what computer you had. A fax machine though? Anyone could buy one, plug it in, and et voila, be able to get faxes from anyone else with a fax or fax other people. You could include pictures, something that email did not do at the time. The idea that email would include anything but ASCII was still in its infancy.

And this doesn’t even touch on how hard it would be to know all this back in the day if you were not heavily into technology and read many of the monthly technology magazines. We’re spoiled by the internet today, and I say this as someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s and is totally spoiled by the internet. It is hard for my kids to conceive of a time where you couldn’t just hop on Google and look up everything there is to know about a topic and especially bleeding edge information about it. All that used to be the domain of the respective disciplines’s top people or people who bothered to read the latest papers coming out.

To people of Gibson’s time, myself included, the idea that fax would rule was not nearly as insane as the idea that people would be able to pull a nigh infinite amount of information from their computers. And doing something like watching a movie through your computer? That would have seemed far more futuristic than he was trying to convey. That was some straight up Star Trek stuff. And remember, he was trying to convey a world that wasn’t that far in the future.

I think the biggest problem with these lists is that it lacks the context of the times they were made in. Alien with it’s CRTs and big single unit terminal with attached chair to access the ship’s AI did not seem out of place at all. The minidisc player in Strange Days? It happened right as we were transitioning to DVDs - when previously discs could only hold albums. It didn’t seem far fetched that they’d increase data and decrease size continually. Indeed, these lists seem to require that you not have that context because the moment you do, you realize how silly they are. And when you consider these are movies, that have limited budgets to project the future, these lists really fall apart.

Hang the reborn upside down and get endless water because their lungs will never fill.

There absolutely should be no free speech is what he meant.

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Google thinks anything that isn’t Google is harmful(to their bottom line).

For the love of god. I know why they use fax, but it is so damn frustrating in the age of texting and email.

I just got on Adderall at 54, with all I heard I figured I’d have to hunt it down. Nope, my regular pharmacy had it. Scared what it’ll be like next month.

Won’t you please think of the shareholders!

Super Mario Bros also only sold about 2.5 million units in the first several month after release. Baldur’s Gate, for example, sold almost 6 million in 2 weeks. The NES sold 2.5 million units in its first year. The Switch sold 13 million. Even the worst selling modern console, the Xbox Series X sold 8 million in the first year. While individual game prices have not risen, the total number of sales has dramatically increased. So pardon me if I don’t think the cost of games not rising has been a problem for publishers and developers of AAA titles. Their real problem has been putting out good content that enough gamers want.

Got any, uh, links for a, uh, friend of mine?

beard stroking intensifies

If it’s safe why isn’t he volunteering?

Because it costs less. Treating animals like they do/did/want to requires less labor and less overhead costs so higher profits.

Once, in the middle of the day when it was bright and shiny, I pulled into a lot. I realized it wasn’t attached to the place I wanted to go, so decided to go through the lot and head out another entrance. Except the two lots weren’t connected. In fact the lot I was in was raised about a foot higher than the other lot. My tires stopped right on the very edge. Again, this was in the middle of the day with the sun shining. And it was obvious as fuck, as well.

You think you would notice, but the fact is your brain pulls crap like this on you all the time. Right now you can’t see the holes in your vision caused by your optic nerves. And it isn’t that your visual cortex is merely taking data from one eye to cover a deficiency in another. Close one eye and the hole is still not visible. The visual cortex and the systems it is connected to let you see what they want you to see. I am not asking how could he not notice, but rather, what was his brain doing to make him not realize. Because even in pitch black, with headlights it would still be visible that there is no bridge.

There is a section of road in my town that I’m guessing was suppose to have a bridge over the local river, but it never happened. The road leads right up to the river bank. In the 30 years I’ve lived here, there has always been a road block and warning. When a flood wiped out the warning and road block in 2015, they put a new one up. This is 100% the fault of whatever governmental entity is supposed to take care of stuff like that. Whether he was using Google Maps or a Rand-McNally road map is irrelevant because the first line of defense for having kept this from happening is on the local government.

Jesus. This is just a circus of incompetence. Doesn’t matter who is footing the bill. If you push the bill on the distributor/install service it means those streams will be less likely to embrace indie devs and especially new indie devs without a hit under their belt. So same chilling result.

I think so, but burlap chafes me so.