Simon Joliveau Breney

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Only in newer keyboards are the letters printed on top of the keys, or charred from their surface by a laser. In older ones – those from the early 1960s laboratory computers, or the 1980s microcomputers – the way every key was constructed was by first molding the letter from plastic of one color, and then grabbing a different plastic and molding

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On insérait dans la machine des cartes imprimées sur transparents, et le gyroscope "suivait" les déplacements de la voiture en synchronisant sa position sur la carte, avec une précision assez impressionnante : la déviation était de +/- 3,5% de la distance parcourue, donc environ 35 mètres par kilomètre. Et la beauté d'un système analogique, c'est qu'au pire, il suffisait de replacer la carte au bon endroit pour recalibrer la navigation.

I used to love open worlds for, in a nutshell, being virtual environments vast enough to get thoroughly lost in with no guarantee of what I'd find. They were enveloping mysteries, tantalising horizons. Nowadays, however, I regard open worlds as chores, because they are designed so insistently, even desperately, around recurring activities and