Not as much as going from coax to RJ45, or from PATA to SATA, or from PC/AT to PS/2 to USB or Bluetooth, or from D-SUB to DVI to HDMI or Display port, or from the old serial and parallel ports to USB or Bluetooth (I mainly skipped SCSI), and I sort of miss having to turn the connector 360° around for it to fit…
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Kubrick gave them fucking iPads. In 1968.
Blade Runner was very much a product of its time (though Syd Mead’s visuals were outstanding).
There was something floating in the late seventies / early eighties zeitgeist that would become the cyberpunk genre, and it sort of condensed in several spots simultaneously.
William Gibson had just published Burning Chrome, and was finishing writing Neuromancer (which would be published in '84 and be considered a foundation of the genre).
Ridley Scott and Syd Mead independently adapted a (very different from the film) book by Philip K. Dick into a film that looked and felt like it was set in Gibson’s Sprawl.
In Japan, Kasuhiro Otomo had just begun publishing Akira.
Frank Miller was probably in the process of writing and conceptualising Rōnin, which DC would start publishing in '83.
Bruce Bethke had come up with the term cyberpunk in 1980, but that short story wouldn’t be published until '83.
Over the next few years many other authors would create other works clearly set in the same genre, though at this point they probably had some influence from Gibson and Blade Runner and each other.
Mike Pondsmith was drinking it all up and coming up with a role playing game with that title, to be published in '88.
And, all over the eighties and nineties, the genre exploded, and was everywhere.
One letter for one sound is a lot less complicated ðan two letters representing two sounds.
Most languages that use alphabets have digraphs representing different sounds than their composing letters. It’s trivial to understand that ‘th’ represents a different sound than ‘t’ or ‘h’.
Most sane languages, on the other hand, don’t use the same letter or digraph to represent half a dozen different sounds (and when they do they use diacritic marks to distinguish them… which English only uses, without explanation, in borrowed words like fiancé or façade, which might actually be more confusing to native speakers than to ESL ones), or half a dozen letters and digraphs to represent the same sound.
you clearly didn’t check my profile
I’ve got enough of a headache from deciphering your posts, thank you
asshats
Pot, kettle…
They can be written now though
Yeah…? Then tell me why in fuck’s name (or should it be facks?) ‘oo’ can represent six different sounds (food, book, door, blood, cooperation, brooch), for instance, and how to tell them apart, or why the letters ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘o’, ‘aa’, and ‘ea’ are used to represent the same exact sound in the words father, sergeant, body, bazaar, and heart…
Let me assure you that this nonsense is many orders of magnitude more confusing to people learning English as a second language than the ‘th’ shit!
If you’re going to use ancient letters use pre-vowel shift vowels too, you half assed coward.
You know what a turtle is? Same thing.
My boss just had me change two coworkers’ passwords so they wouldn’t be able to log back in.
I keep washing and washing, but the blood won’t come off.
Tankie: far right lunatic who delusionally believes they’re a communist (or trollingly roleplays as what they believe one to be), despite defending authoritarian oligarchic states like Russia or China.
For instance, the Lemmy devs (and lemmy.ml admins).
No. There’s just repost bots left. There’s no point in going back, I’ve already seen all the posts several times over the years.
Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Tiffany Aching.
About half the cast of Fullmetal Alchemist (Olivier Mira Armstrong, Izumi Curtis, Riza Hawkeye, Winry and Pinako Rockbell, Lan Fan, Mai Chang, Chris Mustang… and I’m sure I’m missing some).
Oh, and friggin’ Chell, of course. Makes you almost feel sorry for GLaDOS.
Reddit is running on a potato.
Lemmy is running on several distributed potatoes, with a much smaller user load per tuber (and many orders of magnitude less bots).
Sinatra got the mob to murder JFK because of his relationship with Marilyn Monroe.
The returns are more seething [Anger].
I’m a perpetual motion machine powered by my own wrath.
This fact, obviously, also makes me angry, like everything else.
What do you feel [Anger] about?
EVERY. DAMN. FUCKING. THING.
I’ve been in a constant ever exponentially increasing state of absolute incandescent rage for at least a decade, and I have no plans to stop.
Why?
«Gestures broadly at everything»
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
— Douglas Adams
Yeah. Fucking birds should’ve gone extinct 65 million years ago with the rest of the fucking dinosaurs. Fuck’em. It’s the age of mammals now!
Whole, except for the tips.
Torrents bring neither and are higher quality and more user friendly.
No, it’s not. Before the Internet you could only watch what was on, when it was on.
Now you can torrent anything you want to watch, whenever you want to watch it, and in much higher quality than TV used to be. And, again, without ads, which TV has always been riddled with.
That’s infinitely better, on multiple metrics.