TEST DRIVE #6

[fairyfoes]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Considering apping to EACHDRAIDH? Why not give the setting a test run here! OPTIONAL SCENARIOS 01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD. The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you with mirthful revelry and hearty food. After you have been briefed on your purpose here, you will find an endless feast and a night filled with entertainment to placate your concerns. Mingle with new arrivals, sneak down the castle halls and make sure your eyes are always on your glass; fairies and imps have no bias when it comes to tricks! 02. THE STATION. Looking for a little slice of home? The Station gives you all that and more. Take advantage of the wifi, have a cup of fairy-brewed coffee (the one they didn't spit in) or sit back and relax on the patio. You can even move your things into one of the available rooms! 03. WILDCARD. Your own scenario! Explore the Drabwurld or simply take advantage of your Locket!

Comments

[stickseller]

(You never know when you're going to stumble upon something you need or want to take apart. As the boy scouts say always prepared, not that he had ever been one of those, but he still took the phrase to heart and tried to live by it.)

Obviously, but I'm guessing yours is still quite powerful? (The rate he was going through what he had spied stumbled upon him working on was, to his eye, quite quick. But this too seemed to have the possibility of that, likely more from what the other was saying.

He nodded along to the words, though he kept his eyes on the machine he was working on, quickly adding each removed piece to his notebook, jotting along notes, keywords of what Harold was saying to the margin.) Are there still ones that take up entire floors of buildings? That's what mine currently does, but compared to what I saw yours doing, mine is as slow as molasses on the coldest day of winter. (Where one might thing he would be annoyed, he mostly sounds vaguely amused by it.

Carefully he unscrewed the hard drive from it, picking it out and examining it.) So a...laptop would be kind of like, a notebook, but the desktop is the heavy duty typewriter you keep at your home desk. (Vaguely. It's the closest he's got at the moment and mostly distracted.)

Is it something everyone has access to, or does it require special permits?

[birdonym]

[He smiles at the question, just a slight quirk of the lips.] Compared to the computers of the time when I first learned to work with them, certainly. But it is not particularly powerful, relative to what is available. [It isn't what he needs his laptop for, after all. Pure processing power can be handled by other machines. (And no need to mention to Howard just how much he has augmented his own laptop despite the difficulties.)]

There are some, although not the ones used for personal work. Any that work through large amounts of information, for example, will take up a great deal of space. [Not naming any supercomputer AI names there. You know who you are, kids.] If we extend your quite apt analogy, those supercomputers would be whole typing pools, and at least one major library attached to it.

There is no permit required, but as you might imagine, the only prohibitive element may be the cost. They're increasingly affordable, but always on a scale.