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There was a now-deleted comment about the CPU busy-waiting for the GPU, to which I had this reply:

Reviews/benchmarks of Flight Simulator by e.g. Gamers Nexus show that Flight Simulator is heavily CPU limited, running on a single CPU thread.

Oh man, I so miss slow times at work.

  * Flight simulator (on a Pentium Pro)
  * Reading Red Dwarf scripts
  * Posting on Slashdot

Nowadays it's all I can do to keep up.

Additional links:

1. The Story of Self-Repairing Control Systems.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88798main_srfcs.pdf

2. Flight Test Implementation of a Second Generation Intelligent Flight Control System.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/200502...

3. Flight Test Results from the NF-15B Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS) Project with Adaptation to a Simulated Stabilator Failure.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201000...

(Born in '73) Flight Simulator II for the Commodore 64 ingrained 'down is up' for me.

Hollywood is almost universally terrible at hacker movies, unfortunately, dating back to when they perverted Frankenstein. I haven't seen Swordfish, but what I've heard doesn't make me optimistic.

Real Genius and Ghostbusters are two pretty good hacker movies. I hear Buckaroo Banzai is in the same ballpark, but I haven't seen the whole thing. I also enjoyed Flight of the Navigator, but it's really more about magic than about hacking.

> The next year, John Steinbeck, who grew up in Salinas, spoke of them in his short story "Flight."

Ok, but "spoke of" in a short story in the same sense that I'd buy a good luck trinket with a stone that has "healing vibrations" on a vacation.

If Steinbeck thought anything more of the tale than a mere, "Heh, isn't that neat," he would have ruined the ending of Grapes of Wrath by having Dark Watchers show up and kick the plantation owners' asses.

It reminds me of that Norm MacDonald joke about the difference between a hypnotist "convincing" someone on stage that they're a chicken and a person actually being convinced they're a chicken.