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Much like a chicken after the axe has fallen, the body is still temporarily alive but the brain is dead. Just give it a minute to catch up to reality.
The same could have easily been said of Apple in the 90s. I think we can all agree that chicken stitched a new and improved head back on.
I once typed in a program for three days to see it generate a three dimensional donut on my TV. It took the program hours to calculate and display that donut.
I remember that one: COMPUTE! ISSUE 48 / MAY 1984 / PAGE 58 http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue48/3d_plotting.php
Does talking to my girlfriend count as communicating in code?
What is this "girlfriend" thing you speak of?
Honestly, the quality is too good - You can see the wizard behind the curtain.
Yup, while watching Watchmen on Blu-ray, I couldn't help but notice Doctor Manhattan wasn't exactly...... Kosher. Way too much visual information.
Quake though was just a man who would grunt every so often
And yet, gay porn is a multi-billion dollar industry.
HDMI is hardly rare, you actually have to go out of your way to get a computer without it these days.
Actually, you can find them without HDMI quite easily at an Apple store.
10 INPUT "Who is poster?";A$ 20 IF A$="plover" PRINT $A;" is a jerk" else 30 30 PRINT A$;" is not a jerk"
There are literally millions of programmers that cut their teeth on little 16K machines with basic in ROM. It stopped nobody from going on to OO languages. Dykstra was wrong.
-- BMO
I've met countless people over the years who say they started programming in basic on 16k machines, and NEVER made it to OO languages. For some, they lost interest, but others simply weren't able to make the jump from spaghetti code to structured programming, much less OO.
... I don't like FRANK SINATRA or his CHILDREN.