Every Microsoft program I've ever used has been a bloated resource hog that constantly crashed.
I had the Arcade Pak for Win3.1. Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, Missile Command, and most importantly, Tempest. They ran in 4MB of core, didn't seem particularly bloated, and didn't crash that I can remember. (:
i found it pleasant to know that Bill wasn't always evil. (maybe he was just hiding it, who cares?)
*chuckle* I'm not saying Altair BASIC wasn't a significant feat -- it was -- but Litt glosses over a couple things: it was written with stolen computer time (the "larger computer" vaguely mentioned was a Harvard PDP-10) and conceived with an outrageous lie about its delivery status, ironies which delight me to this day. See: http://exo.com/~wts/mits0014.HTM
There are no moral, or ethical standards being taught or used today in homes, education, business, or government.
There are people who want to reintroduce moral standards into public life. Unfortunately, they seem to think the really important moral standards are the ones governing who you have sex with, or how. Nothing to do with killing people. Tsk.
There is no way to block it all. Some of the worst sites are "health" sites such as NYs university of columbia where they tell you how to clean blood and gore from your s&m devices (plus a whole lot more).
I'm sorry -- explain again please, in small words, what's wrong with health information? See, I happen to be a big fan of it.
(For the other poster: the site in question is Go Ask Alice -- you may be joking but I'm not.)
if there was *ever* a killer app for the Gravis UltraSound, Doom was it... that E1M1's music was outstanding on a GUS MAX),
Doom and Star Control 2 vied very closely for that title. Every few weeks, the theme music for the Ur-Quan (Kzer-Za) floats into my head, and it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Agreed about the writing -- most corporate "writing" is drab and soulless, but this piece show off some skill, which means that (a) the writer had it, and (b) management let them use it. Refreshing.
There is an undercurrent of FUD -- what if they go under and turn your divx box into a paperweight, etc. -- but mostly based on valid concerns, which sets me to wondering about the idea of "Good FUD". FUD is almost exclusively a pejorative term, yet here it's clearly being used in the service of Good. An odd feeling!
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Every Microsoft program I've ever used has been a bloated resource hog that constantly crashed.
I had the Arcade Pak for Win3.1. Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, Missile Command, and most importantly, Tempest. They ran in 4MB of core, didn't seem particularly bloated, and didn't crash that I can remember. (:
I think the word you're looking for is "sink".
*chuckle* I'm not saying Altair BASIC wasn't a significant feat -- it was -- but Litt glosses over a couple things: it was written with stolen computer time (the "larger computer" vaguely mentioned was a Harvard PDP-10) and conceived with an outrageous lie about its delivery status, ironies which delight me to this day. See: http://exo.com/~wts/mits0014.HTM
There are no moral, or ethical standards being taught or used today in homes, education, business, or government.
There are people who want to reintroduce moral standards into public life. Unfortunately, they seem to think the really important moral standards are the ones governing who you have sex with, or how. Nothing to do with killing people. Tsk.
There is no way to block it all. Some of the worst sites are "health" sites such as NYs university of columbia where they tell you how to clean blood and gore from your s&m devices (plus a whole lot more).
I'm sorry -- explain again please, in small words, what's wrong with health information? See, I happen to be a big fan of it.
(For the other poster: the site in question is Go Ask Alice -- you may be joking but I'm not.)
I think the argument is that, as environments go, "Australia" is unnecessarily broad.
Experienced Master of Orion players know what must be done.
Doom and Star Control 2 vied very closely for that title. Every few weeks, the theme music for the Ur-Quan (Kzer-Za) floats into my head, and it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Agreed about the writing -- most corporate "writing" is drab and soulless, but this piece show off some skill, which means that (a) the writer had it, and (b) management let them use it. Refreshing.
There is an undercurrent of FUD -- what if they go under and turn your divx box into a paperweight, etc. -- but mostly based on valid concerns, which sets me to wondering about the idea of "Good FUD". FUD is almost exclusively a pejorative term, yet here it's clearly being used in the service of Good. An odd feeling!