I played Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System back in the late 80s. It was, and still is one of the best RPGs ever. I played during the summer of '88 for 14 days straight, 20 hours a day.
That's right, only 4 hours a day for food, sleep and toilet breaks.
I finished the damn game, killing Lassic and Darkfalz and I hadn't even reached full levels on Myau, Odin and Noah when I did it.
I still play the game once in a while using a SMS emulator. The music, graphics and story line bring me back to that summer everytime I play it...
That was an actual porn flick! The impression of Cpt. Kirk is so funny, I fastforwarded the sex scenes just to hear the dialogues! Oh, and there's that thing where Sperm's ears become "engorged" whenever he is aroused.
For an extensive list of Star Trek inspired porn, check out Adult Comics
If all criminals chew gum, then all people who chew gum are criminals!
Or better yet: If a banana is yellow and a wall is yellow, then a banana is a wall and a wall is a banana.
Another example is to ask people to remove their shoes at the airport... it's a good thing the "shoe-bomber" didn't carry the C4 is in underwear or worse, inside his rectum... Can you imagine full cavity searches at airports?
And yet they omit to mention that somethimes it gets cold in Canada in the winter?
That's only because we use the metric system and measure temperatures in degrees celsius (or centigrades). You think 25 is cold? That's what we get in the summer!
Combine this with encrypted redbook tracks and wma media players, and viola...
BTW, it's voila, not viola. Viola in french means "has raped". But then again, it's still relevant... customers are getting raped by the Micro$oft monopoly left and right, PCs, gaming consoles, now CD/DVDs...
After graduating from Computer Science at Vanier College (Montreal, QC, Canada), I had a job offer from Microware in Des Moines, Iowa and I accepted it.
I shipped my stuff via UPS ground. The total shipment was 20 boxes (lots of computer books!). After one week, I had received 18 of those boxes. Two other were missing. Guess where my Linux box was? Yep, in one of those two boxes.
Using UPS tracking on the Web, I found out the box ended up in Tennessee. How could a shipment from Montreal to Des Moines end up in Tennesse? I bitched and complained to UPS, and the two remaining boxes were finally delivered. I got no pictures of the damage (hey, this was 1996 and digital cameras weren't cheap back then) but let me tell you that the controller card (ide, serial, floppy, parellel, this was a ISA 486 after all, not any onboard fancy stuff), both hard drives, and the floppy were fubared. The motherboard was also disconnected from the tower.
I called UPS USA, they told me to call UPS Canada. I called them up, they said call UPS USA. After getting bounced around a few times, I mentionned to UPS USA that I would be talking to lawyer about all this.
Bingo! They dispatched a representative to my workplace, brought the box to a local computer store for damage assesment, and two days later, they dropped by again with the box with all the defective parts replaced!
SOLUTION:
As one canuck to another, my best advice is to say the word LAWYER. The US being what is is (litigation-happy), you will obtain service in no time!
After some prodding, I received a message back that was something like "This is common practice in the industry."
I'm still ashamed that I didn't ask the obvious question: "By whom?".
Microsoft has admitted to doing this a few years ago.
Hi Patrick, I've been a supporter of Slackware for many moons and I always buy the official Slackware by Walnut Creek CDROM (I got 4.0 and 7.0) to support your distribution. Having sayed that, my question is:
I do I resist the temptation to cross to the dark side of Linux distributions? I own a DEC Alpha workstation and a Sun Sparcstation and I am stuck running Windows NT on the Alpha and Solaris on the Sun (no way I'll install Red Hat!!!) Is there a plan to port Slackware to these architectures?
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I played Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System back in the late 80s. It was, and still is one of the best RPGs ever. I played during the summer of '88 for 14 days straight, 20 hours a day.
That's right, only 4 hours a day for food, sleep and toilet breaks.
I finished the damn game, killing Lassic and Darkfalz and I hadn't even reached full levels on Myau, Odin and Noah when I did it.
I still play the game once in a while using a SMS emulator. The music, graphics and story line bring me back to that summer everytime I play it...
Sex Trek III: The Search for Sperm
That was an actual porn flick!
The impression of Cpt. Kirk is so funny, I fastforwarded the sex scenes just to hear the dialogues!
Oh, and there's that thing where Sperm's ears become "engorged" whenever he is aroused.
For an extensive list of Star Trek inspired porn, check out Adult Comics
If all criminals chew gum, then all people who chew gum are criminals!
Or better yet: If a banana is yellow and a wall is yellow, then a banana is a wall and a wall is a banana.
Another example is to ask people to remove their shoes at the airport... it's a good thing the "shoe-bomber" didn't carry the C4 is in underwear or worse, inside his rectum... Can you imagine full cavity searches at airports?
And yet they omit to mention that somethimes it gets cold in Canada in the winter?
That's only because we use the metric system and measure temperatures in degrees celsius (or centigrades). You think 25 is cold? That's what we get in the summer!
Combine this with encrypted redbook tracks and wma media players, and viola...
BTW, it's voila, not viola. Viola in french means "has raped". But then again, it's still relevant... customers are getting raped by the Micro$oft monopoly left and right, PCs, gaming consoles, now CD/DVDs...
Porky's was a canadian film, not american.
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GTA3. Australian for censorship.
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It's all about marketing...
This sounds to me like a simple case of media overload! I mean, how much information do we really need at once? And where's the application for this?
As the devil once said: "Users don't need multi-tasking on the desktop"
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Luc G. Frchette
You forgot the accent aigu!
Shouldn't that be Luc G. Fréchette instead?
After graduating from Computer Science at Vanier College (Montreal, QC, Canada), I had a job offer from Microware in Des Moines, Iowa and I accepted it.
I shipped my stuff via UPS ground. The total shipment was 20 boxes (lots of computer books!). After one week, I had received 18 of those boxes. Two other were missing. Guess where my Linux box was? Yep, in one of those two boxes.
Using UPS tracking on the Web, I found out the box ended up in Tennessee. How could a shipment from Montreal to Des Moines end up in Tennesse? I bitched and complained to UPS, and the two remaining boxes were finally delivered. I got no pictures of the damage (hey, this was 1996 and digital cameras weren't cheap back then) but let me tell you that the controller card (ide, serial, floppy, parellel, this was a ISA 486 after all, not any onboard fancy stuff), both hard drives, and the floppy were fubared. The motherboard was also disconnected from the tower.
I called UPS USA, they told me to call UPS Canada. I called them up, they said call UPS USA. After getting bounced around a few times, I mentionned to UPS USA that I would be talking to lawyer about all this.
Bingo! They dispatched a representative to my workplace, brought the box to a local computer store for damage assesment, and two days later, they dropped by again with the box with all the defective parts replaced!
SOLUTION:
As one canuck to another, my best advice is to say the word LAWYER. The US being what is is (litigation-happy), you will obtain service in no time!
Maybe it's my addiction to fexofenadine HCl (Allegra), but I swear that's what I saw!
Darn, I really thought I could start a side business from my cubicle...
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they should read this essay on Milgram's studies of authority. It's frightening.
It's a shocking article.
Sorry, couldn't resist...
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Sorry, forgot to include the link
Eric S. Raymond: Remember Astroturfing? Now, Microsoft wraps itself in the flag
Funny thing is, that article is on Linux Today...
After some prodding, I received a message back that was something like "This is common practice in the industry." I'm still ashamed that I didn't ask the obvious question: "By whom?".
Microsoft has admitted to doing this a few years ago.
What if someone posted the specs rot13-coded? Would that be considered copyright infrigement?
Hi Patrick,
I've been a supporter of Slackware for many moons and I always buy the official Slackware by Walnut Creek CDROM (I got 4.0 and 7.0) to support your distribution. Having sayed that, my question is:
I do I resist the temptation to cross to the dark side of Linux distributions? I own a DEC Alpha workstation and a Sun Sparcstation and I am stuck running Windows NT on the Alpha and Solaris on the Sun (no way I'll install Red Hat!!!)
Is there a plan to port Slackware to these architectures?