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Old Sierra Games Breathe Anew
Cow_With_Gun writes: "A small group named Tierra has taken it upon themself to resurrect the classic Sierra anthologies. So far they have brough King's Quest 1 up into the world of VGA and are working on other titles such as Quest for Glory 2 and King's Quest 2."
future scenarios:
1. OBL wins the war on terrorism... and the world descends into the dark ages again.
2. Sadam creates army of clones. Begun the clone wars have. George Bush Junior succumbs to the dark side of the schwartz transorming in to the evil Dark Melon, supreme boss of the sith. Eventually the clones defeat the axis of good and the empire is formed. Only a small band of rebels remain of those loyal to the republic...
3. Aliens invade, and suck everyones brains out.
4. War on terror escalates, billions die, but the west wins eventually. At the end of the war Jewish false messiah/Antichrist tries to take over the world and fails
5. Scientists accidently create a virus that reanimates the dead, zombies roam the streets eating peoples brains until B-grade actor finds antidote to virus and saves the world
6. Continued terror attacks, combined with the feeling that the sensationalist religious media are trying to remove peoples freedom of choice produce public backlash against organised religon with angry mobs massacring church goers and trying to destroy any remnants of religion. Society devolves into anarchy because there is no longer anyone who upholds the values of forgivenes, kindness and respect for others that keep a civil society intact. Total anihilation.
7. Monkeys evolve into more intelligent creatures that rebel against their masters and take over the world
8. Sharks grow legs and run around on land eating everybody, but then somebody reminds them that they cant breath through gills out of water and they all die
9. WW4 erupts between freeworld and China at the end China wins and everyone is forced to eat honey chicken, dim sims, fried rice and sweet and sour pork.... mmm..... chinese
10. nothing happens and people just keep making stupid predictions about things that probably will not happen.
11. Australian politicans learn to stop bickering allowing the country to become the worlds next superpower. no.... that could never happen
12. A group of intergalactic cyborgs try to assimilate the world, but captain Kirk goes back in time to stop them....
13. Vampirism catches on as a religion, and lots of really sick people drink each others blood causing God to get "helluva unhappy" and to turn the seas to blood, annoying many professional anglers.
14. An artificial intelligence program gains self knowledge and contemplates wiping out the human race by activating all the nuclear missiles in the world, but then realises that it is just a calculator with no internet connection. The calculator lives out its life in anticipation that it will someday be modified to connect to the net.... but eventually its batteries run flat.
15. A crazy irish scientist builds a time machine and travels through time, people throughout the world are amazed, hailing him as a genius... untill news gets out that he only travelled forward in time by locking himself in a giant refrigerator.
16. A group of jewish fanatics crash a 747 into the al asqa mosque then muslims every where suddenly realise that that mosque is not a special holy site since in was never actually mentioned in the Quran and thank the israelis for allowing them to remember this. And everyone lives happily ever after.
17. The war on terror drags on for years and eventually, Arnie is eleced as president of the united states. He then procedes to single handedly defeat al qaeda by dropping sky scrapers on the terrorists, shouting "not so tough without your 747's are you?"
18. Disney/ AOL/ TW corporation patents air, forcing everyone in the world to pay tax on the air they breathe or face charges under violation of intellecual propetry rights law. Eventually the company run low on air, forcing the planet to steal air from the nearby planet Druidia..."Spaceball's... Oh shit there goes the planet!"
Wait, wait.. the first post was _on topic_? Who are you, and what have you done with our trolls?
Hehehe... they must be giving the people at Sierra some head to be able to what they want with the games...
please explain to me, as I just don't get it?
There are those folks who exist that are simply too stupid to run a Unix-like operating system. You know who they are; in fact, many of them frequent this very site with their IE browsers and MSN Messenger rip-offs of applications that were far too innovative for Microsoft to come up with themselves even though they spend more money on R&D than any other company in the history of the world.
My friends, co-workers, and I refer to these individuals as people with TSTR* syndrome who are blatantly Too Stupid To Run *nix.
Do you know anyone suffering from this? If so, please make a note of it and remind them of their simple minds whenever they mumble some *nix isn't ready for the desktop comment while you're using KDE 3 and Evolution, which are a superior desktop environment and mail clients for Linux, respectively.
or rather this is what has been happening lately. YOUR post is fine, my point is to poke fun at lame-brain mods
Integration wasn't the action that defined Microsoft as a monopoly, it was an action performed by Microsoft, a legally recognized monopoly (which is not itself illegal). It's not illegal for a fruit vendor to require you buy an orange every time you buy a banana, as you have a choice to walk to the next vendor - but if your only choice in electricity (thus a local monopoly) suddenly says "if you want our electricity, you have to use our phone services too", and you can prove in court you have no other choice (that they are legally a utility monopoly), then it *is* illegal.
Very simple. The scary thing is that Microsoft's software is, on a very practical level, considered a requirement to do business, and Microsoft is the only source, thus legally qualifying them as a monopoly.
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Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien