I have serious doubts that this 'open letter' will draw a response of any kind from our pals at Microsoft. If it takes more than 15 seconds to get to the point, it's going to get scanned in Redmond. I have heard repeatedly of management and strategic meetings (particularly those run by contracts, vendors or other "outsiders") wherein people will simply stand up and walk out if they aren't implicated in the first two minutes. The travails of a boy terrorized by a sibling won't keep a busy exec from his IM session with the Portuguese yacht firm that's fitting out his troller. Live and learn, eh? Too bad though, it's really a rather compelling tale of deceit and greed. I wasn't expecting the part at the end about the snake.
My C64 boots off a Betamax tape drive that's powered by the potato battery I planted in 6th grade. I overclocked it or something to run Oregon Trail V, which totally rules all over Zork. AND it has a display mode that is capable of presenting over 30 colors. I guess that means your apples SUCK! Nyeah.
Okay, the guy says it took him THIRTEEN MINUTES to take 196 images, a feat in itself! Now, consider that our pal Max had to align each image so that the left hand of each frame aligned perfectly with the right hand of the previous frame and the top of the image with bottom of the one above... 196 times in 13 minutes. I say this Max guy must be a robot of some sort to be able to steadily increment and shoot at consistent intervals like that.
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I have serious doubts that this 'open letter' will draw a response of any kind from our pals at Microsoft. If it takes more than 15 seconds to get to the point, it's going to get scanned in Redmond. I have heard repeatedly of management and strategic meetings (particularly those run by contracts, vendors or other "outsiders") wherein people will simply stand up and walk out if they aren't implicated in the first two minutes. The travails of a boy terrorized by a sibling won't keep a busy exec from his IM session with the Portuguese yacht firm that's fitting out his troller. Live and learn, eh? Too bad though, it's really a rather compelling tale of deceit and greed. I wasn't expecting the part at the end about the snake.
My C64 boots off a Betamax tape drive that's powered by the potato battery I planted in 6th grade. I overclocked it or something to run Oregon Trail V, which totally rules all over Zork. AND it has a display mode that is capable of presenting over 30 colors. I guess that means your apples SUCK! Nyeah.
NYEAH!
Okay, the guy says it took him THIRTEEN MINUTES to take 196 images, a feat in itself! Now, consider that our pal Max had to align each image so that the left hand of each frame aligned perfectly with the right hand of the previous frame and the top of the image with bottom of the one above... 196 times in 13 minutes.
I say this Max guy must be a robot of some sort to be able to steadily increment and shoot at consistent intervals like that.