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There are great chess software for free that you can install on a phone.
http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/content.html#EChess- P800

800TB to store 1M docs means 800MB:doc. It seems cheaper, for storage, transmission and searching, to store most of these docs, which were typed on a machine like a typewriter or wordprocessor, as events and a context. Each doc's colophon in the database would include the font and layout parameters of the process that created the doc, like "1973 IBM Selectric", "TABS: 5, 10, 15", etc, and then a sequence of "UI" events, like keys struck and marks applied. The server could regenerate the docs through simulation, or a separate archival process could reduce all that to PostScript or some other vector format. Then the original docs themselves could be stored in an low-pressure argon-filled crypt, for infrequent exhumation, in the event that some privileged Washingtonian dodges assignment in Iraq and later runs for president.

Which interpreter do you mean, the CLI, the X, or the Palm interpreter?

>CLI.

Frotz is a great CLI interpreter with lots of ports to other OSes. A very good place to start, keeps it simple, and brings back all the nostalgia of white-on-black text.

>OOPS, X.

If you're dedicated to X, try Zoom. It handles later versions of Z with graphics and sound as well.

>OOPS, PALM.

For those on the go, Frobnitz is a Z-Code machine for Palm Pilots, but I've found it has some weird display kinks. One really nice feature, though, is that you can extended-click a word on the screen and get a pop-up menu of common commands like Take, Examine, and so on, all pre-selected with the word in mind. It takes longer to explain than to learn how to use.

"Linux wil run on most, if not all desktop computers currently running Windows."

In fact, Linux runs on about 23 additional architectures that Microsoft can't even remotely support with their most-flexible embedded target.

• Diverse PDA / embedded / microcontroller / router devices:
  • Advanced RISC Machines, Ltd. ARM family (StrongARM SA-1110, XScale, ARM6, ARM7, ARM2, ARM250, ARM3i, ARM610, ARM710, ARM720T, and ARM920T)
  • Analog Devices, Inc.'s Blackfin DSP
  • Axis Communications ETRAX series ("CRIS" = Code Reduced Instruction Set RISC architecture)
  • Elan SC520 and SC300
  • Fujitsu FR-V
  • Hitachi H8 series
  • Intel i960
  • Intel IA32-compatibles (Cyrix MediaGX, STMicroelectronics STPC, ZF Micro ZFx86)
  • Matsushita AM3x
  • MIPS-compatibles (Toshiba TMPRxxxx / TXnnnn, NEC VR series, Realtek 8181)
  • Motorola 680x0-based machines (Motorola VMEbus boards, ISICAD Prisma machines, and Motorola Dragonball & ColdFire CPUs, and Cisco 2500/3000/4000 series routers)
  • Motorola embedded PowerPC (including MPC / PowerQUICC I, II, III families)
  • NEC V850E
  • Renesas Technology (formerly Hitachi) SH3/SH4 (SuperH: link1 link2)
  • Samsung CalmRISC
  • Texas Instruments's DM64x and C54x DSP families
• Intel 8086 / 80286 .
• Intel IA32 family: i386, i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Xeon, and Pentium IV processors, as well as IA32 clones from AMD, Cyrix, VIA, IDT, Winchip, NexGen, Transmeta, VIA C3 Ezra "CentaurHauls", and others.
• Intel/HP IA64: Trillian/Itanium/Itanium2
• AMD x86-64 Hammer family (including AMD Opteron)
• Motorola 68020-68040 series (with MMU): m68k Mac, Amiga, Atari ST/TT/Medusa/Falcon, HP/Apollo Domain, HP9000/300, sun3, and Sinclair Q40.
• Motorola/IBM PowerPC family: Most PowerMac (including G3/G4/G5) / CHRP / PReP / POP, Amiga PowerUP System, and IBM PPC64 (AS/400, RS/6000).
• MIPS

Quite a while back, I wrote a piece called The Talking Penguin", which I think might do what you ask. It starts ...

There is nothing inherently visual about computing. Digital processors read their instructions from files or streams of binary text. They report back to the outside world in the same telegraphic language, translated into character sets and painted onto a matrix of glowing (or light absorbing) pixels. The video graphics array, who needs it? Talking Tux needs the phonetic intonation string, then these missives could as easily be spoken.

...

Most developers expect to read the results of their efforts off of a screen; and the core of the system expects to issue streams of text that are displayed and not spoken. That is, the kernel is written to interface with hardware that writes, not hardware that speaks.

Interfaces on the kernel need to be handled with care. Linus Thorvald's paper in Linux World is worth reading in this context. The objection to extra interfaces on the kernel is that they are "fixed in stone". Once defined, interfaces must be preserved through all future releases of the kernel - or the new release will break existing code based on the old interface definition.

A talking kernel (strictly, a speech interface on the kernel) gives a system that can talk as it boots. This is much more useable and useful for non visual use than a system that only finds its voice once it has been successfully started and has then loaded the appropriate speech application software. Practically, this means the kernel must interface with some canonical or idealised generic speech device, the simpler the better. This means deciding how phonetic intonation strings should be written ...

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Newbie!

You're speaking of this as if it were a long time ago. Yet you are also saying that you were trying to get service from an Apple retail store, which have only been around for a few years now and which don't do any in house service. The very first Apple retail location has only been around since May of 2001.

It's an interesting story, but I just have to question the veracity of it. As far as I can recall, Apple hasn't made their own external floppy drives since they made them for the Apple II and early Macintoshes, if that's what you are referring to then it would be way out of warranty. That and the "beige boxes" that you refer to had internal floppies, the internals were discontinued back in 1999, just a bit after all the colorful machines started being produced.

Last I heard, at least the executive staff was still made up of Scientologists. Are they still? Having once worked for an organization that got taken over by them, I can say it didn't do much for the quality of the company...

On the other hand, perhaps you're wrong about why you called Earthlink support. Maybe the only reason you think you're having a problem is because of flashbacks caused by the spirits of dead space-aliens stuck to your body...

At that resolution, I could make a sketch of Bush look like a black and white photo of Bush. How on earth at a resolution like that can yon claim "so closely matches"? The only thing that it shows is that the spacing and general shape of the fonts is the same. In short, they're both Times New Roman. In fact, several things clearly *don't* match even in that resolution, as the Word version has lighter serifs and the spacing of letters is more consistant.

Do you know where Microsoft's Times New Roman came from? It was copied from typewriter fonts, licensed from Monotype. They were locked in a fierce battle with both Adobe and Apple, and Times was the standard; all sides worked to get it pixel-by-pixel correct, because it was how their fonts were judged.

History of the development of MS Times new Roman.

There is not enough difference to be able to see it in a blurry copy, I think.

You might find this interesting. Or not, if you're determined to believe the memos are forgeries.

During the decades of transatlantic "sharing" of the Times designs, and the transfer of the faces from metal to photo to digital, various differences developed between the versions marketed by Linotype and Monotype. Especially these became evident when Adobe released the PostScript version, for various reasons having to do with how Adobe produced the original PostScript implementations of Times. The width metrics were different, as well as various proportions and details.

In the late 1980's, Monotype redrew its Times New Roman to make it fit exactly the proportions and metrics of the Adobe-Linotype version of Times Roman. Monotype claimed that its new version was better than the Adobe-Linotype version, because of smoother curves, better detailing, and generally greater sensitivity to the original designs done for The Times and Monotype by Victor Lardent, who worked under the direction of Stanley Morison. During the same period, Adobe upgraded its version of Times, using digital masters from Linotype, which of course claimed that it had a superior version, so there was a kind of competition to see who had the most refined, sensitive, original, genuine, bona-fide, artistically and typographically correct version. Many, perhaps most, users didn't notice and didn't care about these subtle distinctions, many of which were invisible at 10 pt at 300 dpi (which is an em of 42 pixels, a stem of three pixels, a serif of 1 pixel, and so on).

Bush is a deserter. Kerry is a war hero. If you can't deal with that, maybe you should look at your basic assumptions.

The International Date Format, ISO 8601 is NOT being used. What's being used is the UNIX date, which wraps around in 2038 or so. They went from a semi-good YYYYMMDDNN to a less robust 7-digit number (seconds since 1970) that wraps around in 2038.

It's about time the switch was made -- here's why ISO 6601 is the way to go.

However I think one of the key points to move Open Source gaming further ahead lies in the tools, the engine and the data freely available, once we have reached a point where there is 'enough' of it available, we might see free games poping up. It won't be the hollywood blockbaster games, but it will be little short-stories and stuff which can be done by two or three persons. Some years ago you needed to basically start with a blank sheet of paper and no tools when you wanted to start a game, today we have at least a bunch of tools (Gimp, Blender, Wings3d, ...) available for creating content, in the sound area there is still much missing, but we are moving slowly forwards. We also have a bunch of libraries and engines, which while not being up to Doom3 standards, still might be enough for a homebrewn game, that said, with every game that uses them, they will of course also mature a bit more. On the content side however we are still at a very low level, however in large part that might be due to the lack of proper license and to the lack of tools in the past, thing might hopefully change a bit in the future.

Why I think it might work in the long run? Imagine in another five years we might have a repository full of 3d models, textures and sound. Now somebody comes along and wants to create a game, all he has todo is to select a collection of models and textures that will fit his story, point&click them together in some 3d editor and just add his dialogs lines to them. Some ready-to-use 3d engine will do the rest. Sure it won't look commercial quality, especially not like commercial-quality will look in five games. But a game created by such building blocks wouldn't look like it would look today, full of one-color box placeholders, but instead it would be full of well done 3d models. Sure there is still balancing and fixing needed, but those building blocks could reduce the entry level for game creation by quite a bit. It might not work for all games, but it might be still provide a good amount of entertainment. It won't replace commercial game development for sure, but it will be a good addition.

At it stands now however we have still a huge lack of manpower, not just artists, but also programmers who are able to work on a game, since even on the code side of a game, there is some kind of art involved that an average application programmer might not be able to provide. This lack of people is most likly caused by the lack of games on Linux, since those interested in game development are naturally also interested in games.

So if you are an artist or programmer who wants to move Linux gaming forward, stop complaining and do something, join projects which interested you be it games or the content-creation tools, which are at least equally important. If you don't know a project that would be worth joining, join us at the Game of the Month on Happy Penguin where we pick a game every once in a while and try to polish it, thus joining forces and focusing it on a single project for a short period of time. Don't expect to end up with a Doom3, but your contribution can make a difference and might provide the gamers with another good game.

(Yet Another Why-Open-Source-Games-Will-Never-Succeed Article)
Every once in a while we get this Prophets Of The Obvious' kind of articles, to tell us what we already know. And i mean, five years ago this was probably true, but now, with games like Counter Strike, Age of Empires series, Blizzard's *craft series and many others having such a long (for games) lifespan, it is quite obvious that MULTIPLAYER games behave just differently than your average adventure game, in the way that the "replayability factor" is much higher, thus keeping the players' interest in new releases, patches, etc., always up. And guess what, this guy from the article up there just *ignores* this fact. Which, i think, is exactly the point to have in account when talking about OS gaming.

At first I was thinking that the DOS ancestor CP/M was the reason for the '/' option character. But this article clears the matter up. It seems M$ used the '/' in some of its early programming tools.

The bussiness side of SEALAND is the Royal Bank(which is a front for a swiss bank) and data haven called "HavenCO" . Some photos of the principlality of SEALAND. More photos I wonder where they keep the actual data servers and if data resident outside of a country is protected by the countries laws???

Staying with the made-from-folded-paper-but-not-oragami tangent, here are plans for a working paper trebuchet.

I made one myself, it works pretty well.

But in 2005 a new liquefied-natural-gas terminal opens on the estuary and will be home to 5% of the UK's gas supply. If the bombs aren't completely "safe", there are lots of lives at stake. Sheerness, 11/2 miles away, has a population of 11,000; the entire coastal area has a population of 120,000. Politicians are worried. "They insist the Montgomery isn't a danger to the public," says Sir Teddy Taylor, MP for Rochford and Southend East. "But these things are never 'dangerous'... until they go wrong. It's time for a proper review. "

The last image on this page http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/Tour_01/Medplus2 .html
shows what can be seen above water in context, including the proximity to the shipping channel.
A closer image can be found here http://www.gnometech.freeserve.co.uk/html/montgome ry.html
The top image says 'present' but lines etc. are still in place so I think it was taken some time ago http://www.ronangel.demon.co.uk/
A map showing the location http://www.submerged.co.uk/monty%205%20big.jpg
How the wreck lies http://www.submerged.co.uk/monty%204%20big.jpg

The BBC TV film "Threads" (made in 1983) had a go at describing it. The film was made at the height of public 'nuclear paranoia', and apparently makes "The Day After" look like a soap opera by comparison (I've not seen "The Day After" so I can't really comment on it).

"Threads" is the most depressing film I've ever seen. When I originally saw it (aged 12) I had to turn off the TV right after the nuclear attack happened and couldn't sleep for weeks because it made me realise what nuclear war was about - I hadn't even barely understood until then. I recently got it in DivX form off a friend and watched it all the way through. It is not a film that comes under the heading "entertainment".

There is a good synopsis here: http://www.ibp-intl.demon.co.uk/nuke/threads.html

The leaflets the UK Government were publishing at the time (when we all thought nuclear war was basically inevitable - it was when not if - and we had no control over it; it was largely an American or Russian decision whether the world should be scorched): http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/

If you google around a bit, there are some quite good descriptions of the UK's (long-dismantled) emergency warning systems - it was multiplexed on the same phone lines as the Speaking Clock and could basically start and stop the sirens centrally. The UKWMO (also now defunct, described in the 'Protect and Survive' URL above) controlled the 'all clear' etc. signals.

The BBC TV film "Threads" (made in 1983) had a go at describing it. The film was made at the height of public 'nuclear paranoia', and apparently makes "The Day After" look like a soap opera by comparison (I've not seen "The Day After" so I can't really comment on it).

"Threads" is the most depressing film I've ever seen. When I originally saw it (aged 12) I had to turn off the TV right after the nuclear attack happened and couldn't sleep for weeks because it made me realise what nuclear war was about - I hadn't even barely understood until then. I recently got it in DivX form off a friend and watched it all the way through. It is not a film that comes under the heading "entertainment".

There is a good synopsis here: http://www.ibp-intl.demon.co.uk/nuke/threads.html

The leaflets the UK Government were publishing at the time (when we all thought nuclear war was basically inevitable - it was when not if - and we had no control over it; it was largely an American or Russian decision whether the world should be scorched): http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/

If you google around a bit, there are some quite good descriptions of the UK's (long-dismantled) emergency warning systems - it was multiplexed on the same phone lines as the Speaking Clock and could basically start and stop the sirens centrally. The UKWMO (also now defunct, described in the 'Protect and Survive' URL above) controlled the 'all clear' etc. signals.

3?

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Yet another word-based typing device? My sector of the target gadget-geek market, the ones who buy things just for the sake of it, don't type many words.

We type commandline, perl, XML, stuff like that.

My letter frequency counts for the stuff I need to do (i.e. not Slashdot) are way out of line with the letter frequency counts of "Standard English Text". Plus I use a whole load of punctuation, and some that just doesn't exist in that text.

I've used an AgendA microwriter http://www.bellaire.demon.co.uk/cykey.htm and CyKey for many years now, on and off. Great for text. Sucks for coding.

Mind you, it might be a good device for bloggers. They're not in my market segment :-)

...the rendering bug I've had with Firefox since... well... forever! Only on Slashdot - for the disbelievers I've slapped a couple of screenshots up here. These are with the latest STABLE release, not a nightly bugfest, BTW...

There are some things the client can do to improve compression and caching. First, install wwwoffle, a caching http server which has an 'offline' mode so you can browse cached pages when not connected. If like me you really hate waiting for previously-viewed pages to download a second time, tweak the config file so it always uses cached copies when available. Then the Back button and viewing familiar sites will be lightning fast, but you'll need to hit Reload to get the latest version.

I've also found it useful to run a proxy server on a remote host with a fast connection and then tunnel the http proxy port (usually 3128 or 8080) over ssh. Then there is just a single ssh connection between your machine and the proxy, with everything over that being compressed and no overhead of setting up new TCP connections, DNS lookups and so on. This is really fast, but I have found that the ssh tunnelling tended to freeze and the connection needed to be killed and restarted. (That was a few years ago, the bug may now be fixed.) You could try RabbIT as the upstream proxy, compressing images and such before sending them down.

You can certainly combine all three - local wwwoffle, talking over a compressed ssh tunnel to RabbIT at a faster host...

1. An early and very beneficial agreement with IBM to use its version of DOS and pay it per liscense which greatly helped in establishing the company.

There is one detail to this people really should know. Microsoft (ofcourse) didn`t make dos (now cloned). They bought it from a hobyist. It was a clone from the then dominant CP/M OS (now open). It was cloned by a hobyist in his spare time not unlike other populair operating systems ;-) Soon after microsoft started selling dos bundled with the ibm pc (and clones) cp/m market share started dropping.

Science is a competitive field

The person that publishes first wins

Perhaps Watson and Crick's citation list was rather lite

I don't understand what the big deal is . . . this is science . . . Scientists at the top of their field are egotistical and competitive just like the people in most other careers.

Just because someone else sat in the lab and ran the experiments doesn't mean that conclusions drawn by others based on the same dataset should be credited to the original person that ran the experiments. I think that credit should be given to Watson and Crick for putting together lots of other pieces of knowledge and drawing a conclusion that fits all the data from all the sources in question. That's not stealing, that's not cheating . . . that's just good science.

Take a look at this link for some of what the parent is talking about:

http://www.ba-education.demon.co.uk/for/science/dn a.html

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The strange thing about Brandt's withdrawal is that methadone is typically associated with treatment of heroin addiction. I don't think there are any performance-enhancing effects to methadone, and it's certainly a rare occurrence to hear of someone in professional athletics testing positive for it!

Methadone was used just like morphine for war victims who had severe injuries, or that were close to death. Methadone effectively numbed the pain of severe wounds, and for that reason spread quickly.

I suppose my point here is that 'olympiad mathematics' is potentially a sport, in much the same sense that chess is; this doesn't mean that research mathematics is a sport at all.

Telescopes can see the landing site, for example.

Now I'm no expert on the capabilities of telescopes, but it is my understanding that there does not exist a telescope powerful enough to actually do this. In fact, one of the sites you linked to has an article explaining this very fact.

As luck would have it, the same site also has a comment on the yet to be launched SELENE Project. This Japanese probe, which is to be launched in late 2005, should be able to map the surface of the moon in enough detail to see the landing sites. As one who was born more than a decade after the moon landings and had a keen interest in space during my childhood, I eagerly look forward to seeing these images. :)

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Telescopes can see the landing site, for example.

Now I'm no expert on the capabilities of telescopes, but it is my understanding that there does not exist a telescope powerful enough to actually do this. In fact, one of the sites you linked to has an article explaining this very fact.

As luck would have it, the same site also has a comment on the yet to be launched SELENE Project. This Japanese probe, which is to be launched in late 2005, should be able to map the surface of the moon in enough detail to see the landing sites. As one who was born more than a decade after the moon landings and had a keen interest in space during my childhood, I eagerly look forward to seeing these images. :)

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I got 200 miles at 5000 ft. There are big problems with the link budget at those distances however.

That's because the moon landing hoax theory has about as much support as the flat earth theory nowadays. Telescopes can see the landing site, for example. See Unca Cecil's column and this site for more. And of course Buzz has the best nutcase response.

You're right. He did make a stink and demanded the cameras be removed (see this page for lots of details).

...i nearly always install on new systems:
CoreWar: simulation game where a number of warriors try to crash each other while they are running in a virtual computer.
Battle for Wesnoth: fantasy turn-based strategy game.
BZFlag: multiplayer 3D tank battle game.
Crimson Fields: tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
Crossfire: cooperative multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game.
Enigma: inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock'n'Roll on the Amiga.
FlightGear: Flight simulator.
FreeDroid: clone of the classic game "Paradroid" on Commodore 64.
Frozen Bubble: puzzle-bobble clone.
Globulation 2: Real-Time Strategy.
LinCity: city/country simulation game.
LBreakout 2: breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid.
NetHack - Falcon's Eye: mouse-driven interface for NetHack that enhances the visuals, audio and accessibility of the game, yet retains all the original gameplay and game features.
netPanzer: online multiplayer tactical warfare game designed for FAST ACTION combat.
Pathological: enriched clone of the game "Logical" by Rainbow Arts.
Project StarFighter: xy-axis star fighting game.
SuperTux: classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game.
XKobo: astpaced multiway scrolling shoot-em-up.
XRick: clone of Rick Dangerous.
XScorch: Scorched Earth clone.

Have fun!

The list of interesting things you can do cheaply with a webcam, some 35mm lenses and filters, and optionally some programming is quite long and includes:
- extreme telephoto photography
- near-infrared photography
- low-light and night-time photography
- time-lapse photography
- possibly near-UV photography (haven't tried this myself)

There are some examples at LundyCam.

It's possible to achieve interesting things just by removing a webcam's built-in lens/filter assembly, and replacing them with lenses and filters from 35mm camera. See Lundycam for examples. You can build an extreme telephoto camera in this way for very little money.

You can also change the webcam's behaviour (improving low-light performance, for example) in software by using something like the Java Media Framework.

no:
2004-07-17 Sat - GPS Receiver Almanac Rollover, 256 weeks after GPS 1024-week rollover.
2004-12-31 Fri - 2004/366 - cf. 1996-366.
2005-??-?? ??? - "Some *really* old versions of UNIX (e.g. 16-bit BSD) die in 2005.".
2005-11-29 Tue - 04:53:20 UTC : 212 Gs from JD 0.0.
2006-03-29 Wed - Solar Eclipse, Brazil - Africa - Turkey - Asia.
2006-12-31 Sun - HP3000, End Of Life.
2007-01-01 Mon - Lithuania joins the Euro?
2007-01-01 Mon - "USA FAA computers fail, 32 years from 1975". TZ? 2006?
2007-08-09 Thu - CMJD 54321.
2008-01-19 Sat - 30 years before 2038-01-19 - mortgage look-ahead?
2008-03-23 Sun - Easter Sunday is unusually early this year (previously this day in 1913 & next in 2160; earliest, March 22, 1818 & 2285).
2009-01-01 Sun - NOAA: Termination of satellite processing of distress signals from 121.5/243 MHz emergency beacons. Use 406 MHz.
2009-02-13 Fri - 23:31:30 GMT is UNIX time_t 1234567890.
2009-09-09 Wed - 090909 is another possible valid nonsense or marker date; as with, of course, other 0x0x0x & 1x1x1x dates, or anything with YY small.
2???-??-?? ??? - Introduction of the Euro in the UK ???
2010-01-01 Fri - Y2.01K. There will be some who have coded only for Years 200#.
2010-01-01 Fri - Sorting YYMMDD decade-reversed covers 1990-2009 only.
2010-01-01 Fri - Reported ANSI C library overflow. Very dubious. RSVP if you can explain it.
2010-12-25 Sat - CMJD 55555.
2011-09-14 Wed - @01:46:39 UTC less leap seconds, GPS 999999999 seconds.
2011-11-11 Fri - Seen as a "marker" date - cf. 1999-09-09. Contains 11/11/11 11:11:11.


taken from: Critical and Significant Dates

Personally there's only two reasons I ever run IE. The first is that there are a few sites that I have to use that will only work with IE. I've been trying to pressure the owners to get rid of the IE only functions but thus far no luck. The second is that the authentication for the web proxy at work (Novell Border Manager) will only let you authenticate using IE (it uses client side VB script for something, I'm not sure what). I've complained and hopefully we'll be getting a different proxy soon (it's also very flaky and keeps falling over). The work around I've got set up for it is on my own web site theres a page that refreshes it self ever 4 minutes 49 seconds. I point IE at that and authenticate then fire up Mozilla for my web browsing. IE just sits in the background keeping the authenticated link alive.

The sad fact, according to the stats a page on my site, is that something like 80-90% of hits are from IE. Obviously that's going to vary from site to site (I noticed that the stats for another page show IE at only about 65%) but until other browsers start to take a serious bite out of that margin site owners aren't goign to bother to change.

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Is it logically inconsistent of me to claim that there is no invisible pink unicorn? On what authority would I make such a negative assertion?

I don't like cell-phone games because they suck! 3D games are fine and all, but I could spend HOURS playing Galaga, Commander Keen, and other great 2D games with "cartoon" graphics.

If only they were available for phones, that is.

You're on your own with Commander Keen though. There was a movement in the forums to assault id HQ and set the code free like so many cosmetic lab puppies, but they pussied out on that. So you've either got to do it on your own ninja-style (then get arrested, imprisoned, etc.), re-write it for a mobile phone (then get sued), or just forget about Keen. Just let him go man - he'd be there for you if it was meant to be.