Makes me want to play Metagaming's "Rivets" from 1980:
Excerpt:
HERE COME THE ROBOTS....OOPS! BOPPERS were mass produced robotic war machines. When the final war ended they were all that was left. Everyone was dead; but, the BOPPERS kept on fighting. Afterall, with the intelligence of can openers what could you expect. RIVETS is a two player tactical level science fiction game of robotic warfare in the 22nd century. Players select their robot armies, set their programs, and send them out to destroy the enemy computer complex. RIVETS is fast playing and easy to learn with a humorous style. Games are quick even if the robots are a bit dumb.
Boppers came in 5 different types, Rocket Boppers, Jack Boppers, Dive Boppers, Big Boppers, and Tiny (pronounced Teeny) Boppers. There was a later scenario where they all fought an Ogre Mark IV.
Do what counties used to do when short on funds, sell real estate!
Russia sold Alaska, Napoloeon sold Louisiana, remember the Gadsen purchase?
Aren't there some islands Russia are willing to buy for some southern Naval Bases? China would do it too, just to rub our noses in it. And they have cash!
The fact that no one uses is is the fault of HP and the petty marketing effort they put into.
AND the competetion.
Fortunately now there is the Charon emulator from Stromasys. (But only for those who have an original hardware license.) Otherwise you get a hobby license.
Public Radio has dedicated some stations to Big Band Era calling it The 1920's Radio Network. (It also contains Big Band era.)
I think it is the only place you'll hear Satchmo and Ella on the airwaves anymore. I never realized Satchmo sang Swanee until I heard it with mine own ears.
First time I heard Rosie the Riveter Song too. Sorry to hear the poster model died the other week.
And if it matters to the question at hand, I'm in my late fifties. (Note how good my grammar and spelling are.)
The contract developer writes the app that drives the doomsday device. He hands it over to his government, which in turn uses the app and destroys the world.
So, on judgement day who gets thrown into hell first? The developer or the head of state that pushed the "Accept" button on the app?
(Which was no doubt, followed by the "Are you sure?" button.)
I guess that's why they call it the "kill chain" these days. From forward observer back to Pentagon down to shooter they are all ubiquitously linked.
I recall being told there was apparently "some" major river that flowed Southward from North, East California that isn't there anymore. I remember a professor showing us his aerial photo slides taken from a small plane following the extinct riverbed in his attempts to prove it.
Of course this wan the days before major releases of unclas Satellite Imagery. Who knows where his theory went.
Sometime back in my Geomorphology class back in the early 1980's I either read of the professor said there was a theory the Snake River wound its way down the backside of the Sierra Mountains and down to Baja and joined up with the Colorado River. The change came after one of those massive Northwestern volcanic eruptions. So it doesn't seem so far fetched.
So by that reckoning, any pipe doesn't have to be built the whole way. Just over that portion where it got shunted to the Columbia River back to its old course.
At late middle age, my memory could be faulty also. Or the theory may have been disproven by now.
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That's why I've returned to board or tabletop gaming for nearly all my gaming. They are not dependent on software of any kind.
The one exception the Empire game I run. And the O/S runs still runs code written in 1973.
Makes me want to play Metagaming's "Rivets" from 1980:
Excerpt:
HERE COME THE ROBOTS....OOPS! BOPPERS were mass produced robotic war machines. When the final war ended they were all that was left. Everyone was dead; but, the BOPPERS kept on fighting. Afterall, with the intelligence of can openers what could you expect. RIVETS is a two player tactical level science fiction game of robotic warfare in the 22nd century. Players select their robot armies, set their programs, and send them out to destroy the enemy computer complex. RIVETS is fast playing and easy to learn with a humorous style. Games are quick even if the robots are a bit dumb.
Boppers came in 5 different types, Rocket Boppers, Jack Boppers, Dive Boppers, Big Boppers, and Tiny (pronounced Teeny) Boppers. There was a later scenario where they all fought an Ogre Mark IV.
It isn't like they're going to use it again.
Why didn't they keep it under glass the since then?
Jitterbug germane.
Except that MPE/iX didn't come out until the late 1990s, before that it was MPE/XL, in 1981 it would have been MPE/IV or MPE/III.
My job still using HP3000. MPE/iX 7.5, still runs many programs compiled in 1972. Not all, some fell by the wayside of due to hardware calls.
(Yes my signature site is down, it's the network not the machine.)
Preachers have done it for a couple thousand years. It is called a pulpit.
Do what counties used to do when short on funds, sell real estate!
Russia sold Alaska, Napoloeon sold Louisiana, remember the Gadsen purchase?
Aren't there some islands Russia are willing to buy for some southern Naval Bases? China would do it too, just to rub our noses in it. And they have cash!
No that would have been "Yassou, suckers!"
An early invasion by one of Fred Saberhagen's robots?
So they're saying prior non-commercial Jet-Packs were industrial strength?
Typo noted.
Robert A Heinlein germane.
What will happen during a hyperloope worker's strike or revolt?
MPE still runs code compiled in 1972.
The fact that no one uses is is the fault of HP and the petty marketing effort they put into.
AND the competetion.
Fortunately now there is the Charon emulator from Stromasys. (But only for those who have an original hardware license.) Otherwise you get a hobby license.
Another great HP marketing (and legal) move.
So if Slimjet is Chromelike, will it follow suit?
Surprised no one referred to this movie.
I too vote for Wordstar.
Public Radio has dedicated some stations to Big Band Era calling it The 1920's Radio Network. (It also contains Big Band era.)
I think it is the only place you'll hear Satchmo and Ella on the airwaves anymore. I never realized Satchmo sang Swanee until I heard it with mine own ears.
First time I heard Rosie the Riveter Song too. Sorry to hear the poster model died the other week.
And if it matters to the question at hand, I'm in my late fifties. (Note how good my grammar and spelling are.)
The contract developer writes the app that drives the doomsday device. He hands it over to his government, which in turn uses the app and destroys the world.
So, on judgement day who gets thrown into hell first? The developer or the head of state that pushed the "Accept" button on the app?
(Which was no doubt, followed by the "Are you sure?" button.)
I guess that's why they call it the "kill chain" these days. From forward observer back to Pentagon down to shooter they are all ubiquitously linked.
Now Pixel art knows how it felt when it pushed ASCII art by the wayside. Welcome to the rest of us in internet hell.
If scripture has any bearing, time and chance happeneth to them all!
Fast food industry?
Apparently someone built a better moustrap.
That's what the Martians said before they dried up their seas!
(Sent for humor purposes only. I have no concept of the physics involved.)
Then perhaps I misheard.
I recall being told there was apparently "some" major river that flowed Southward from North, East California that isn't there anymore. I remember a professor showing us his aerial photo slides taken from a small plane following the extinct riverbed in his attempts to prove it.
Of course this wan the days before major releases of unclas Satellite Imagery. Who knows where his theory went.
Sometime back in my Geomorphology class back in the early 1980's I either read of the professor said there was a theory the Snake River wound its way down the backside of the Sierra Mountains and down to Baja and joined up with the Colorado River. The change came after one of those massive Northwestern volcanic eruptions. So it doesn't seem so far fetched.
So by that reckoning, any pipe doesn't have to be built the whole way. Just over that portion where it got shunted to the Columbia River back to its old course.
At late middle age, my memory could be faulty also. Or the theory may have been disproven by now.