140 karma · joined June 20, 2019
I laughed when I read the following quote from Andy Gavin's blog, now I'm crying after seeing yours.
"Kelly asked how many of these CD hits Andy thought a gamer that finished Crash would have. Andy did some thinking and off the top of his head said “Roughly 120,000.” Kelly became very silent for a moment and then quietly mumbled “the PlayStation CD drive is ‘rated’ for 70,000.”
>The fix was to turn the machine on its side or even upside down to get the CD closer to the laser.
Was this the precedent for marketing the PS2 vertically?
Solved by reading Atlas Shrugged in the interim.
That day has long passed.
"Just as capital, as value valorizing itself, views with indifference the particular physical guise in which labour appears in the labour process, whether as a steam-engine, dung heap or silk, so too the worker looks upon the particular content of his labour with equal indifference. His work belongs to capital, it is only the use-value of the commodity that he has sold, and he has only sold it to acquire money and, with the money, the means of subsistence."
But probably the best way to defeat the existential threat of gray goo.