Some programs may appear to "hang", though they will eventually execute properly in most cases since the "hang" is due to the slowing of the system. When a program is executed with the Whale memory resident, the virus will infect the program. Infected programs increase in length, the actual change in length is usually 9,216 bytes.
"In one Saturnian year there are seven of these definitely established
periods, and each of them has its own name.
"As there still remained, by the time-calculation of the planet Mars, almost
half a 'fooss' before the next 'khreh-khree-khra' or, by the time-calculation of
your favorites, about a month and a half, we decided to organize our ordinary
being-existence in the meantime in a more or less suitable manner."
"They have named the totality and the separate parts of this substance, sacred for them also, differently at different periods, and at the present time they name the result of the blending and reciprocal destruction of two parts of this omnipresent substance 'electricity. '
"A license for extrapolation beyond any of the circumstances and events of the _Utopia_ [which] is granted by the humanists' own practice in the epistles and commendatory verses -- e.g. Giles's creation of the Utopian language and samples of verse in the Utopian language."[65] Packaged with its own RFC's (Requests for Comments), as gathered by its editor Erasmus, _Utopia_ constitutes a system open to new applications. For example, the parerga accompanying subsequent editions changed, as interpretive "how-to-read-the-text" commentaries were replaced by new ones. This rewriting of _Utopia_'s software evidenced such
"decentralized innovation" Erasmus even replaced More's own letter explaining the text with one written by Bude. Wootton speculates Erasmus preferred Bude's explication because "Bude's reference to Pythagoras makes clear that he had traced _Utopia_ to its source in Erasmus's discussion of the Pythagorean adages on friendship," particularly the adage "Between friends is all common.