A better 'that was then, this is now' comparison might have been to show Wolfenstein 3D and Return to Castle Wolfenstein... Enormous difference ten years makes!
(Even better, show the original Wolfenstein game, 2D with stick figures. Wasn't that kind of a 'Berserk' ripoff? Coward. Fight like a robot.)
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Actually, while the 'rights' are not perhaps yours, they are the very real rights of the people who create content to be suitably rewarded for their work.
If I write a book, and get it published, I have a right to be financially rewarded for my creative work.
You do NOT have a right to take my work and plaster it all over the fucking internet.
And that's what they're trying to stop. If stopping that means you can't make copies whenever you want, then that's just too bad...
People making copies of my work denies me of my right to be compensated for my time. This is also the right of all the people who work for the publisher, the printers, and the bookshops to be paid for their time, and without people buying books these people will all be out of a job.
You know, every time I hear someone parrot "Information wants to be free" I translate it as "I want everything handed to me on a plate and I shouldn't have to pay for it".
The future of IDS is that he will stand down as leader of the Conservative Party after they lose the next election, at which point he'll get a big fat job with some big firm in The City and disappear into obscurity.
What?
Intrusion Detection Systems? You mean this isn't about Iain Duncan Smith?
Before Linux started picking up, people thought the only thing that could run on PCs was Windows and DOS
Bollocks. Don't you remember GEM? Ran under DR-DOS (in itself superior to MS-DOS) and if it hadn't been for Apple hobbling Digital Research it would have been a real contender...
The aforementioned Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Really shows how things have changed in the last ten years.
Hmmmmmm.... Leather-clad Dominatrix Nazi Babes.... Can I freeze frame that bit...
Ahem. For the flight sim fan, Microsoft Flight Sim 2002 is a major improvement over the 2000 model. Better and more importantly faster graphics, autogen scenery, other planes, and ATC.
Free-scrolling virtual cockpit with working dials means you can take a good lookout as you'd do in a real plane. The program that shows Microsoft can do some things right!
Also on a flight sim vein, IL2 Sturmovik is a delightfully different combat flight sim. Unlike most WWII combat flight sims, IL2 concentrates on the air war over Russia, and the Russian IL2 ground attack fighter. Looks pretty good so far..
Lyons must have had remarkably forward thinking management to go to all that trouble. Design and build their own 'computor' and basically invent business computing from the ground up.
Some achievement for a bakery and chain of tea shops!
Note. This was written before Decimalisation came along in 1971. before then, instead of the current system of 100 pence to the pound, we had Pounds Shillings and Pence commonly known as LSD (from the latin, Libra, Solidi, Denarii).
There were 12 pence to every shilling, and 20 shillings to the pound.
So you want to finish the job of destroying global tourism that scaredy-cat yanks are already starting, eh?
Personally I'd rather we made bigger concordes!
There was a POKE for a particular model of Commodore PET which would kill the monitor.
Can't remember what it was, but I'm sure someone out there will...!
Spot on. Brunner has something very much like the internet in this book. OK, so the tech isn't right - they punch in numbers on the telephone to do stuff, but otherwise, it's as close to the internet as anything else that predates it, and closer than most.
I suggest people stop whelping on about Gibson, and read Brunner's The Shockwave Rider instead.
There was a game for the Tangerine Microtan 65 (British 6502 system from 1980, started as a single board, expanded by adding cards) which generated sound effects like this, just tune your radio to 750Khz (the clock speed) and listen...
Of course most people by then had hacked the main board to boost CPU speed to 1.5Mhz!
Kids today with their surround sound and subwoofers, they don't know they're born...
Had you bothered to read the bloody article, you would have seen that the Millennium Bridge they are talking about is the one in Gateshead over the Tyne.
The bridge you mentioned is the one over the Thames, which has been closed now for ages because on its opening day it started swaying from side to side as people walked over it. It's a pile of crap like most of Blair's other Millennium Projects (Don't get me started on the Dome!!!).
The Gateshead bridge mentioned in the Time article which you so obviously didn't bother to read is a marvellously designed piece of work.
You can read more about the Gateshead bridge here.
Adams was so rushed on the Radio series, and also had some Dr. Who stuff to write, that some episodes were actually written by John Lloyd.
This is why the Hagguennons don't exist in any other version of Guide...
Which is a damn shame, as I liked that bit!
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Can I put you in the category of "Nutter" then?
It's ALL harmless made up stuff. It's a lot more harmless made up stuff than some of the made up stuff in the world. Wicca or whatever you choose to call it is no more or less made up stuff than any other religion. Admittedly it was made up largely by wannabe poets in the early 20th century, but it's still all made up.
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The Boll Weevil Monument and Cranberry World, no doubt...
Well maybe they could use it when they accidentally drop bombs on their own people or their allies...
A better 'that was then, this is now' comparison might have been to show Wolfenstein 3D and Return to Castle Wolfenstein... Enormous difference ten years makes!
(Even better, show the original Wolfenstein game, 2D with stick figures. Wasn't that kind of a 'Berserk' ripoff? Coward. Fight like a robot.)
Actually, while the 'rights' are not perhaps yours, they are the very real rights of the people who create content to be suitably rewarded for their work.
If I write a book, and get it published, I have a right to be financially rewarded for my creative work.
You do NOT have a right to take my work and plaster it all over the fucking internet.
And that's what they're trying to stop. If stopping that means you can't make copies whenever you want, then that's just too bad...
People making copies of my work denies me of my right to be compensated for my time. This is also the right of all the people who work for the publisher, the printers, and the bookshops to be paid for their time, and without people buying books these people will all be out of a job.
You know, every time I hear someone parrot "Information wants to be free" I translate it as "I want everything handed to me on a plate and I shouldn't have to pay for it".
The future of IDS is that he will stand down as leader of the Conservative Party after they lose the next election, at which point he'll get a big fat job with some big firm in The City and disappear into obscurity.
What?
Intrusion Detection Systems? You mean this isn't about Iain Duncan Smith?
Before Linux started picking up, people thought the only thing that could run on PCs was Windows and DOS
Bollocks. Don't you remember GEM? Ran under DR-DOS (in itself superior to MS-DOS) and if it hadn't been for Apple hobbling Digital Research it would have been a real contender...
The aforementioned Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Really shows how things have changed in the last ten years.
Hmmmmmm.... Leather-clad Dominatrix Nazi Babes.... Can I freeze frame that bit...
Ahem. For the flight sim fan, Microsoft Flight Sim 2002 is a major improvement over the 2000 model. Better and more importantly faster graphics, autogen scenery, other planes, and ATC.
Free-scrolling virtual cockpit with working dials means you can take a good lookout as you'd do in a real plane. The program that shows Microsoft can do some things right!
Also on a flight sim vein, IL2 Sturmovik is a delightfully different combat flight sim. Unlike most WWII combat flight sims, IL2 concentrates on the air war over Russia, and the Russian IL2 ground attack fighter. Looks pretty good so far..
Lyons must have had remarkably forward thinking management to go to all that trouble. Design and build their own 'computor' and basically invent business computing from the ground up.
Some achievement for a bakery and chain of tea shops!
The idiosyncrasies of British currency...
Note. This was written before Decimalisation came along in 1971. before then, instead of the current system of 100 pence to the pound, we had Pounds Shillings and Pence commonly known as LSD (from the latin, Libra, Solidi, Denarii).
There were 12 pence to every shilling, and 20 shillings to the pound.
So you want to finish the job of destroying global tourism that scaredy-cat yanks are already starting, eh?
Personally I'd rather we made bigger concordes!
There was a POKE for a particular model of Commodore PET which would kill the monitor.
Can't remember what it was, but I'm sure someone out there will...!
Amusing stuff, really, but he did coin the term Robot, if I recall correctly
You recall incorrectly. I refer you to previous posts in this thread regarding Karol Capek, author of Rossum's Universal Robots.
Three Quarks for Muster Mark!
But what would a cult founded by Ron Howard actually be like?
What about the fact that Erich Von Daniken is a complete wanker who made all that shit up to impress the terminally gullible?
It's bollocks, it all is.
Spot on. Brunner has something very much like the internet in this book. OK, so the tech isn't right - they punch in numbers on the telephone to do stuff, but otherwise, it's as close to the internet as anything else that predates it, and closer than most.
I suggest people stop whelping on about Gibson, and read Brunner's The Shockwave Rider instead.
There was a game for the Tangerine Microtan 65 (British 6502 system from 1980, started as a single board, expanded by adding cards) which generated sound effects like this, just tune your radio to 750Khz (the clock speed) and listen...
Of course most people by then had hacked the main board to boost CPU speed to 1.5Mhz!
Kids today with their surround sound and subwoofers, they don't know they're born...
A LIFE!
And what do you get a wookie for Christmas when he already has a comb?
You are SO wrong!
Had you bothered to read the bloody article, you would have seen that the Millennium Bridge they are talking about is the one in Gateshead over the Tyne.
The bridge you mentioned is the one over the Thames, which has been closed now for ages because on its opening day it started swaying from side to side as people walked over it. It's a pile of crap like most of Blair's other Millennium Projects (Don't get me started on the Dome!!!).
The Gateshead bridge mentioned in the Time article which you so obviously didn't bother to read is a marvellously designed piece of work.
You can read more about the Gateshead bridge here.
Adams was so rushed on the Radio series, and also had some Dr. Who stuff to write, that some episodes were actually written by John Lloyd.
This is why the Hagguennons don't exist in any other version of Guide...
Which is a damn shame, as I liked that bit!
Ha ha ha
Cruel, but fair.
No. They only pretend to be because they think it sounds cooler..
Can I put you in the category of "Nutter" then?
It's ALL harmless made up stuff. It's a lot more harmless made up stuff than some of the made up stuff in the world. Wicca or whatever you choose to call it is no more or less made up stuff than any other religion. Admittedly it was made up largely by wannabe poets in the early 20th century, but it's still all made up.
God, I had both those books. They're probably still in a cupboard in my old room at my Dad's house.
Oh, the joys of text pinball...
er....
or not!
I must have spent hours typing most of those programs into my 7Kb RAM 750Khz 6502 Microtan 65, 20 years ago...!
Doh!
Well, it was from memory.. Not listened to the radio series for years...