Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer
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Re: Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer
#2I remember listening to OK Computer some years ago and I must have been studying or something or other and the track "Fitter Happier" came on. Those familiar know how it goes, the Stephen Hawking voice droning on about all these ideals worth pursuing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HimvFbossU8). I sat back half listening that evening and this funny response came out in my head, where I responded to the monotone nagging computer's message with "OKaay Computer!". It was interesting because it came out spontaneously in the same sense as "OKaay Mom" in the fashion of perhaps a teenager on some sitcom trying to put an end to his nagging mom's berating him with a bunch of unwelcome or tedious advice. Then I immediately realized the overlap with the album title and thought, "hmmmmmm, is it a commentary on some dystopianish future where the computers nag us humans to get on with some urgent optimum they're trying to press us all into conformity with?"
Re: Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer
#3Pretty sad they're calling this an "app". If it's dated to 1996, clearly it's a "program"!
Re: Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer
#4Pretty sad they're calling this an "app". If it's dated to 1996, clearly it's a "program"!
Everything is an "app" now. For me it sounds cheaper, somehow trivializing the work of many.
Re: Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer
#5Pretty sad they're calling this an "app". If it's dated to 1996, clearly it's a "program"!
MIME was using "application" in media type names in 1996. I think macOS may have started it because they needed to distinguish them from desk accessories.
Re: Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer
#6I remember listening to OK Computer some years ago and I must have been studying or something or other and the track "Fitter Happier" came on. Those familiar know how it goes, the Stephen Hawking voice droning on about all these ideals worth pursuing ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HimvFbossU8 ). I sat back half listening that evening and this funny response came out in my head, where I responded to the monotone na…
I believe that voice was a built-in Apple text reader.
Re: Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer
#7Pretty sad they're calling this an "app". If it's dated to 1996, clearly it's a "program"!
NeXTSTEP was around in the early 90s and used the file extension .app
Re: Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer
#8I remember listening to OK Computer some years ago and I must have been studying or something or other and the track "Fitter Happier" came on. Those familiar know how it goes, the Stephen Hawking voice droning on about all these ideals worth pursuing ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HimvFbossU8 ). I sat back half listening that evening and this funny response came out in my head, where I responded to the monotone na…
As I remember this was done on an Apple computer.
In the command line you could do this with they 'say' command.
The parameter -v is used for the voice. And I think "Fitter Happier" is 'Fred'.
say -v Fred "fitter.happier.more productive"
Re: Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer
#9Pretty sad they're calling this an "app". If it's dated to 1996, clearly it's a "program"!
MIME was using "application" in media type names in 1996. I think macOS may have started it because they needed to distinguish them from desk accessories.
That was in a different world, this is the home computer sphere, its a program.
Re: Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer
#10Very cool - brings back memories of loading programs from a cassette tape on an old TRS-80 back in high school, and watching those "" stars blink in the top corner. I believe the cassette players we used used to also play the signal as audio at the same time it was uploading to the PC.
Then, after a few minutes:
"Hammurabi, I beg to report..."