Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 332
As far as I'm concerned, it's an urban legend.
Maybe an urban legend coming from Nintendo, to discourage hacking
As far as I'm concerned, it's an urban legend.
Maybe an urban legend coming from Nintendo, to discourage hacking
I never heard a Speak and Spell with a female voice
They can be forgiven. Just about every movie computer since the 1950s has had to make some sort of buzzing, whirring or clacking noises.
Some electronics can be relatively noisy. Back in 1996, I remember clearly the SGI Indigo2 Extreme for that; whenever you moved a big 3D model on screen, you could clearly hear the graphic board hissing and buzzing.
> Lightman's computer has the same speech synthesizer as NORAD's.
Back then everyone used the same TI chip for speech synthesizers, so that's not much of a stretch. Anyway the speech synthesizer is just a useful gadget to avoid getting the actors to read the screen aloud constantly.
Nano is a monstrosity, none of its keyboard commands obey to any standard, be it apple style, windows style, emacs style. I hate nano with passion. You can learn to do everything that nano can ever be used for in emacs or vi in about 10 minutes.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.