board room filled with parasites

“Ssssss, the humanssss are coming for our jobssssss!”

And then pixelatedboat hears a conductorless orchestra for the first time…

grimaces and puts their hands on their hips

“…Not my fucking tempo.”

Santa’s Workshop is Mainland China.

This is why I love the movie Elf. It shows elves making brand-name toys and learning how to build current-gen graphics processors for electronics that get requested.

cups side of face in my hand

Say it ain’t so!

Calling the stage units prototypes is being nice. The reality was that at that point the iPhone had barely gotten to a proof of concept stage. Months before this event, the developers were still using a giant desktop tower to simulate the phone’s hardware.

That the photos of the phone were real and not concept art, that the stage units weren’t just unusable rubber dummies was a magic trick itself.

When the developers revealed years later that the iPhone presentation (just the presentation, not even the actual launch) was a make or break moment for the company, they absolutely were not kidding.

And then they went from “should not even be working” test units to fully functional production units in six months!

Whatever your opinion of Jobs or Apple, credit where credit is due.

One of the best lines from Armageddon:

“Sir, the override. It’s been overridden.”

“If this is your first night at Mozilla.social… you have to fight.”

No, at that age, if you told me I had 42 chicken nuggets all to myself that I could eat whenever I wanted, I would call that a good Christmas present.

And the oversized Reese’s coffee mug he rode in on.

How does Santa deliver presents to the entire world in one night?

Adderall.

“Siri, what’s the weather today?”

Siri: “BAD!”

That’s not what Grandfathered means. Basically, original subscribers are being forced onto a new contract.

It’s the Aqua interface, so that’s actually Mac OS X.

Macs had access to the internet long before that, but you were on the right track that OS 9 was the first one to be marketed as “internet-ready.” Saying “I’m not ready” in this case is the same as a “Setup networking later.” options in current OSes.

Correct.

Depressed tardi-pepper.

POV: You wake up in a liminal space with signs everywhere. After a while you realize many signs can only be seen by looking at them in a mirror.

…What was that noise?

“I am skeleton jelly…”

Just like how if you put a shattered CD in an apparatus, you can still use a laser reader to recover any data on the undamaged sections.

Though, because data is recorded in a circular pattern at high speeds, you won’t get much. Or what you get will have lots of corruption. I wonder what pattern of storage these plates use? If it’s similar to SSDs, then large files can be nested in a very small area of space - increasing the chances of recovery.

Well, not really.

So AIM was built on an existing chat protocol called OSCAR. The same protocol used in other services. So people eventually figured out how to make chat clients that could log into many different IM services on one app.

This was not sanctioned by AOL, but they allowed it at first. Then they decided you HAVE to use the official AIM client to talk to people on AIM. The third-party developers ignored AOL, so they entered into a tug-a-war match for a while.

Because AOL was using known software to make AIM work, there was only so much they could do to keep their client working while also blocking everyone else. Eventually it became too much of a hassle, so AOL relented and third-party clients kept working until the service was shutdown.