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I'll see your 1986 NES Ghostbusters, and raise you a 1984 Sinclair ZX Spectrum Ghostbusters!
They managed to get an actual voice capture of "Ghostbusters !" in there (must've taken 1/3rd of the tape) and then there's the music, one (long) note at a time which is... well... I guess after a few games you can make out the theme.
The only Sinclair I played with was the ZX81. Apparently the Spectrum could only play *some* notes, for a fixed duration, and they had to make do with that to recreate a score. All the early 8 bit machines had such weird limitations in various areas for different reasons (usually with assorted exotic hardware hacks). Anyone who has looked at colour display on an Apple II will know what I mean.
At least back then, even those who made crappy games had to be creative to make them;)
Sounds to me like this is the resurfacing of both the franchise and the gaming company. Since when has anything of note come out of Sierra?
Which in itself may be a problem. What percentage of today's gamers actually remember or even know Sierra and/or Ghostbusters ?
I think I played my first Sierra titles on Apple II... I don't have the faintest memory what they were though. I still remember playing the space janitor series (can't remember the title) which I really enjoyed.
At the time they had a number of very creative titles. Which makes me think that wacky adventure games are a genre that seems to have disappeared lately.
I will say that although I have not had the joy of opening Office 2000 files with OO.o 3.0, I do recall there being some serious issues between powerpoint slides. Some weird rendering going on in OO.o for what reason I do not know.
Basically I think the OOo presentation module is not as full featured as PowerPoint so some stuff gets lost in the process.
I've switched a few small offices to OOo (and to Linux in the process) and the problems off the top of my head were :
- some incompatibilities with complex spreadsheets with lots of macros (apparently getting better now) - regarding spreadsheets, some grumbling regarding the generated graphics (not as spiffy in OOo) - some problems with documents with lots of cross-references (gotten better as well apparently) - potential problems with Access applications (I'm currently looking into this as there seems to be ways to migrate these) - the expected user problems where people cannot use their usual recipes due to minor interface differences (about 10% to 20% of users)
I haven't yet encountered people using the new MS OOXML format though. So far people tended not to upgrade stuff that works. I suppose it helped quite a bit.
You should build a few test cases prior to switching, with a careful study of the work patterns, of the document flux... Test the most complex documents you can find with OOo or the OOo variants that are available and see how they work in your settings.
All in all, all of my transitions went well, the users were happy with their new Linux desktops that were more responsive than the Windows counterparts and they had few new skills to learn. The new office suite integrated well because the office needs were typically fairly simple. If you switch I hope you'll have the same experience.
I have to concur that it's a pretty amazing positive review. Even though it seems to be for some kind of "special edition" (as suggested by the cited follow up).
Do you really think no MS fanboy would have harassed her?
Hmm. My experience is that the MS fanboys are far less passionate about their choice than either the Linux or Mac fanboys.
Most likely because they never made a choice, Windows merely being the "default". Whereas people who have made a choice tend to take things more personally (mostly for the wrong reasons and at the wrong times, granted, but that's people for you). And unfortunately, it's mostly the less savvy that are the most vocal. A lot of the Ubuntu users that I know have run lots of distributions through the years and merely use that one because it has a convenient desktop. I run Kubuntu mostly because it works out of the box and I no longer find it amusing (or have time) to fiddle with my workstation for the heck of it. The most common mindset I see in that group is "let people run whatever they want as long as they won't bother me with it".
My best guess is she went to openoffice.com, and clicked the link to download OpenOffice there.
So you're saying that people will actually, when they end up on a site that has "Member's" (sic) displayed on its front page for all to see, those people will actually click on links ?
Are you sure? I'm no expert, but the magnetosphere extends about 70,000 km, or 10-12 Earth radii at its "thinnest"
Well, technically, since it's an effect of the earth's magnetic field the magnetosphere has no real limit. [/pedant]
Of course it does get pretty useless as soon as you leave the planet's vicinity. This is also true of other forces (try "man 7 physycs" if you didn't get it), gravity being the most obvious.
No wait, it's the Apple guy, so no more (crap, what did he throw again ?) I'm pretty sure it was plates. Or something flat. iPods ? MacBooks ? Statements ? Pies ? Damn I can't place it.
Anyway it probably won't be missed. Wait. I remember now. He didn't throw it at people. He threw it at that huge screen. No not at the screen. At something flat. Journalists ? Mac buyers ? It'll come back eventually.
Anyway we really need this guy back. The chairs are like *really* piling up. No, not the chairs. The flat things. Anyway we've got lots of them around here. Get him back. He's the only one who can get the journalists to get the damn things off of us. Won't somebody think of *argh cough cough*
BURN THE... the.. ah, um, what, um... Well puppies, yes... Ah, well, yes, ok, yes, sure if they're, yes, they *are* kind of nekkid... And young wemmin as long as they're nekkid, and willing, and, um, ah, like... indoors, and uh, good christians... and uh, stuff... exceptions could be, uh, made I guess...
Um; sorry, I think I need a shower now. Could you hold my torch brother ?
Well, sugar, if you US people are going to let yourselves being let by the nose thus, we'll just have to have other fooking world leaders. Like, poop !
Then grind the beans and wala, the "perfect cup of coffee" in just a hair over 4 years.
Ok so what's this "wala" thing. Is this some kind of spice that I haven't yet heard about ?
At some point I did grind my beans without any "wala" whatsoever and they were just fine.
Now I get them pre-ground and I laugh in the face of people who grind them themselves. Especially if they do so with an electric grinder. Ideally it should be done with a stone mortar but people are just too lazy nowadays.
Go to the coffee aisle at the grocery store. Notice that there are various brands of bricks of imported espresso grounds?
Oh, sure. But, um. wait.
Would that be in Grece ? In the Netherlands ? In Italy maybe ? Or possibly in one of the many bits of the Caribbean that are formally part of Europe ? Or the Pacific ? Or the Indian Ocean ?
Or was it about Poland ? Or France ? Or Greenland (also politically a part of Europe)... Oh no, you must have meant the Gulf (you know that that's where coffee comes from right ?), or maybe Africa ?
Oh, right.
"Imported". Did you mean "from out of the US" ?
Well, welcome to the world.
There's lots of us chickens out of your basement you know. You'll get used to it. Eventually. Maybe.
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I use Vim all day, almost every day.
All work and no play makes chromatic a dull boy
All work and no play makes chromatic a dull boy
All work and no play makes chromatic a dull boy
All work and no play makes chromatic a dull boy
All work and no play makes chromatic a dull boy
All work and no play makes chromatic a dull boy
*drools*
There's already a full 'nix for ARM complete with working packaging and so on, in the form of OpenBSD, just in case anyone has forgotten it.
I'm just back from Netcraft. Nobody wants zombies in their Unix. So go away, shoo !
I'll see your 1986 NES Ghostbusters, and raise you a 1984 Sinclair ZX Spectrum Ghostbusters!
They managed to get an actual voice capture of "Ghostbusters !" in there (must've taken 1/3rd of the tape) and then there's the music, one (long) note at a time which is... well... I guess after a few games you can make out the theme.
The only Sinclair I played with was the ZX81. Apparently the Spectrum could only play *some* notes, for a fixed duration, and they had to make do with that to recreate a score. All the early 8 bit machines had such weird limitations in various areas for different reasons (usually with assorted exotic hardware hacks). Anyone who has looked at colour display on an Apple II will know what I mean.
At least back then, even those who made crappy games had to be creative to make them ;)
Sounds to me like this is the resurfacing of both the franchise and the gaming company. Since when has anything of note come out of Sierra?
Which in itself may be a problem. What percentage of today's gamers actually remember or even know Sierra and/or Ghostbusters ?
I think I played my first Sierra titles on Apple II... I don't have the faintest memory what they were though.
I still remember playing the space janitor series (can't remember the title) which I really enjoyed.
At the time they had a number of very creative titles. Which makes me think that wacky adventure games are a genre that seems to have disappeared lately.
I will say that although I have not had the joy of opening Office 2000 files with OO.o 3.0, I do recall there being some serious issues between powerpoint slides. Some weird rendering going on in OO.o for what reason I do not know.
Basically I think the OOo presentation module is not as full featured as PowerPoint so some stuff gets lost in the process.
I've switched a few small offices to OOo (and to Linux in the process) and the problems off the top of my head were :
- some incompatibilities with complex spreadsheets with lots of macros (apparently getting better now)
- regarding spreadsheets, some grumbling regarding the generated graphics (not as spiffy in OOo)
- some problems with documents with lots of cross-references (gotten better as well apparently)
- potential problems with Access applications (I'm currently looking into this as there seems to be ways to migrate these)
- the expected user problems where people cannot use their usual recipes due to minor interface differences (about 10% to 20% of users)
I haven't yet encountered people using the new MS OOXML format though. So far people tended not to upgrade stuff that works. I suppose it helped quite a bit.
You should build a few test cases prior to switching, with a careful study of the work patterns, of the document flux... Test the most complex documents you can find with OOo or the OOo variants that are available and see how they work in your settings.
All in all, all of my transitions went well, the users were happy with their new Linux desktops that were more responsive than the Windows counterparts and they had few new skills to learn. The new office suite integrated well because the office needs were typically fairly simple. If you switch I hope you'll have the same experience.
Is there a piece of software that will tell the whiners to STFU?
No you have to deal with it in hardware. The required device is a LART and can be found in any decent equipment store pandering to sysadmins.
If you mistrust Google, shouldn't you keep all your money under the mattress or buried in the garden?
You fool ! Google knows where the mattress is via Google Maps and the garden is plainly visible on Google Earth !
That would be great :
Infect your system from removable drive ?
[yes] [no] [file not found]
I wonder what most users would pick though.
Duh, AOL is the Internet, the Web browser is for Google !
The only important part is that it doesn't generate a phone bill and it downloads porn at lightening fast speeds. All else i trivial.
But browsers aren't very convenient to connect to Usenet...
The late lamented BYTE Magazine, for example, had a very strict separation between advertising and editorial departments.
And oddly enough, most of the rags that worked that way are now long gone...
I have to concur that it's a pretty amazing positive review. Even though it seems to be for some kind of "special edition" (as suggested by the cited follow up).
Wonderful find.
Or an old micro-wave oven that you run with the shielding off.
Should do the trick nicely.
You have to wear gloves and googles though. Remember that power tools are dangerous.
Do you really think no MS fanboy would have harassed her?
Hmm. My experience is that the MS fanboys are far less passionate about their choice than either the Linux or Mac fanboys.
Most likely because they never made a choice, Windows merely being the "default".
Whereas people who have made a choice tend to take things more personally (mostly for the wrong reasons and at the wrong times, granted, but that's people for you). And unfortunately, it's mostly the less savvy that are the most vocal.
A lot of the Ubuntu users that I know have run lots of distributions through the years and merely use that one because it has a convenient desktop. I run Kubuntu mostly because it works out of the box and I no longer find it amusing (or have time) to fiddle with my workstation for the heck of it. The most common mindset I see in that group is "let people run whatever they want as long as they won't bother me with it".
For example, with OSX, Linux etc. you can install (e.g.) Opera without having to use the bundled browser at all.
I believe you can do it in Windows as well. Or did they remove the FTP client ?
My best guess is she went to openoffice.com, and clicked the link to download OpenOffice there.
So you're saying that people will actually, when they end up on a site that has "Member's" (sic) displayed on its front page for all to see, those people will actually click on links ?
I am disappointed.
The test was done on machines with differing configurations, so therefore is not valid. But interesting nonetheless.
Yeah, I wasn't even the same *operating system* !
I mean, apple and oranges !
Are you sure? I'm no expert, but the magnetosphere extends about 70,000 km, or 10-12 Earth radii at its "thinnest"
Well, technically, since it's an effect of the earth's magnetic field the magnetosphere has no real limit. [/pedant]
Of course it does get pretty useless as soon as you leave the planet's vicinity. This is also true of other forces (try "man 7 physycs" if you didn't get it), gravity being the most obvious.
Imagine a visionary like Steve Jobs
Aaaaaah !
My eyes !
The googles ! They do nothing !
Woohoo ! No more chair throwing !
No wait, it's the Apple guy, so no more (crap, what did he throw again ?) I'm pretty sure it was plates. Or something flat. iPods ? MacBooks ? Statements ? Pies ?
Damn I can't place it.
Anyway it probably won't be missed. Wait. I remember now. He didn't throw it at people. He threw it at that huge screen. No not at the screen. At something flat. Journalists ? Mac buyers ? It'll come back eventually.
Anyway we really need this guy back. The chairs are like *really* piling up. No, not the chairs. The flat things. Anyway we've got lots of them around here. Get him back. He's the only one who can get the journalists to get the damn things off of us. Won't somebody think of *argh cough cough*
I checked the calendar and today is definitely not April 1st, so somewhere this story must ultimately lead back to an Onion.
(this really should have some kind of *tada* or *chord* to it, but really... however you take it...)
It's *always* the 1rst of april somewhere in South California.
(yes, well I can't warp my mind around middle endian dates, my bad, sorry)
BURN THE ... the..
ah, um, what, um... Well puppies, yes...
Ah, well, yes, ok, yes, sure if they're, yes, they *are* kind of nekkid...
And young wemmin as long as they're nekkid, and willing, and, um, ah, like...
indoors, and uh, good christians... and uh, stuff...
exceptions could be, uh, made I guess...
Um; sorry, I think I need a shower now. Could you hold my torch brother ?
*rushes out*
Well, sugar, if you US people are going to let yourselves being let by the nose thus, we'll just have to have other fooking world leaders. Like, poop !
Then grind the beans and wala, the "perfect cup of coffee" in just a hair over 4 years.
Ok so what's this "wala" thing. Is this some kind of spice that I haven't yet heard about ?
At some point I did grind my beans without any "wala" whatsoever and they were just fine.
Now I get them pre-ground and I laugh in the face of people who grind them themselves. Especially if they do so with an electric grinder. Ideally it should be done with a stone mortar but people are just too lazy nowadays.
Go to the coffee aisle at the grocery store. Notice that there are various brands of bricks of imported espresso grounds?
Oh, sure. But, um. wait.
Would that be in Grece ? In the Netherlands ? In Italy maybe ? Or possibly in one of the many bits of the Caribbean that are formally part of Europe ? Or the Pacific ? Or the Indian Ocean ?
Or was it about Poland ? Or France ? Or Greenland (also politically a part of Europe)... Oh no, you must have meant the Gulf (you know that that's where coffee comes from right ?), or maybe Africa ?
Oh, right.
"Imported". Did you mean "from out of the US" ?
Well, welcome to the world.
There's lots of us chickens out of your basement you know. You'll get used to it. Eventually. Maybe.