"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique."
Neal StephensonThe GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richardโs unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along.
Neal StephensonCrappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.
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