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Vonocourt

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Re-reading Hitchhiker's Guide, thought this was funny.

"A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wave bands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive -- you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program."

Goes from dials and buttons, to touch screen, then finally motion sensing. With the description seemingly being pretty appropriate, barring the statement of lack of muscular expenditure.

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"A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wave bands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive -- you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program."

Goes from dials and buttons, to touchscreen, then finally motion sensing. With the description seemingly being pretty appropriate, barring the statement of lack of muscular expenditure.

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This is way better than youtube spam. Novel spam is novel. I can dig it.

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@Claude said:

This is way better than youtube spam. Novel spam is novel. I can dig it.

Yeah, debated whether I should've linked it to the forum. Oh well, flag me if necessary people.

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@Vonocourt said:

@Claude said:

This is way better than youtube spam. Novel spam is novel. I can dig it.

Yeah, debated whether I should've linked it to the forum. Oh well, flag me if necessary people.

No, no, everyone should read that novel. What are you? Crazy. I ain't flaggin'.

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Not crazy, just extremely meek.

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I agree that Hitchhiker's Guide should be read. It's still relevant pop culture but I think this should have been on off topic forum. Being on Kinect is tenuous at best.

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It's like it's describing the Fruit Ninja Kinect menu navigation :D
 
fantastic!