My middle school computer teacher once said that unwanted email was called "flame". I had never heard that term before or since used in the context of email.
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RAM is memory inside the computer, ROM is memory on the disk (5.25" floppy)
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The Russians/Soviets have guard towers on every block who monitor which rooms citizens are in at any given moment. Absolutely no true freedom of movement, unlike those of us in the free world. At the time, I figured people could trick the guards by just not turning on lights in the room when they moved about. As the years went on, two questions came to mind: isn't that prohibitively expensive? and why???
Even North Korea never went that far.
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Drafting on computers won't be long term.
Shakespeare's plays were never printed in his lifetime, they were compiled from people who saw the plays live, went home, and wrote down what they remembered.
I wouldn't think there would've been enough literate people in those times to do that.
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If you study hard in school you can do anything.
If this were true, I'd know more languages than I do now.
Well, you can, you just won't be paid anything for it.
"You'll enjoy ice skating, it's easy!" - the teacher who took our class to an ice rink... 😂
The moment I'm over the ice I become the human equivalent of a scruffed cat and people started pushing me around like I was a hockey puck and I was smiling pretending I was having fun but inside I was like
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My 6th grade science teacher interrupted me while reading aloud after I correctly pronounced "tsunami". He goes "What's that?....tuh-soo-mee?". I said Yeah, he spends 10 seconds digesting it, and I continue reading aloud.
The next kid to read after me pronounced it tuh-soo-mee.
I only pronounced つなみ like that with a t when I was young and first came across the word but then I learned the correct pronunciation
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first day of a new school year "what are you doing in this class, didn't we made you fail last year?"
I had bad grades but mathematically good enough to pass just barely. She was the Computer Science teacher and I proved her wrong more than once in front of the class. So yeah, she had a grudge.
"Made you" fail last year? Quite the wording...
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Not a Teacher, but my Boss. He advised me to clock in and out based on the system time, not GPS.
"The computer time is more accurate".
See you next year.
Edit: Oh, you mean actually wrong.