Yeah. I do enjoy watching some of the sports that I participate in myself (fencing and archery, mostly), but at least Tivo makes the advertising skippable but no less annoying.
I maintain a clean desktop, too. My trick since the windows 95 days is to put shortcuts to stuff I use frequently into a desktop folder, which I keep open all the time. With the taskbar on the left side of the screen, it's easy to select the folder when I need to run one of the things in it, otherwise it's the Start button.
Back in the Usenet days, someone wrote up a Gauntlet FAQ. It was pretty interesting - If I remember right, the key to long play times was keeping your score low, because the game spawned food at a rate inversely proportional to your score.... Found it. Actually it's for Gauntlet 2. Dates to 1993.
I'd post the two parts of the FAQ as a journal entry, but Slashdot is giving me "Could not initialize the editor":-(.
There's a shareware game called "Gauntlet" (no relation to the dungeon arcade game) I like to play from time to time on my emulated Atari. I used to play it for hours, back in the olden days. Absolutely superb game. I wish I'd had the money to buy the full version, but I was always spending it on tabletop wargame/RPG stuff.
There are 4 people (aged from mid-30 to early 60s) in one of my D&D groups who are very into wresting for what sound like the same reasons - the characters and storylines.
Same here. Between 2002-2007 I bought a couple of PowerBooks, a hefty PowerMac, and a couple of iPods - but I'm finding Apple's policies these days to be rather objectionable, and have been avoiding them. While I do still occasionally recommend Apples to my non-technical friends and family, I'm less enthusiastic about it than I used to.
Don't try to frighten us with your nerd's ways. Your sad devotion to that ancient DDOS has not helped you conjure up the censored pr0n, or given you clairvoyance enough to find Cmdr Taco's hidden fortressNO CARRIER
On that topic, I joked last week that I was going to construct my ideal laptop out of a Mac mini, 24" LCD, Model M keyboard, car battery, and duct tape.:-)
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BA will also be there.
What about Niles and Daphne?
Obviously, he meant December, 7 A.D.
Yeah. I do enjoy watching some of the sports that I participate in myself (fencing and archery, mostly), but at least Tivo makes the advertising skippable but no less annoying.
Alien vs. Fredy Krueger vs. the Hobbit
Thanks for the link. I like reading stories of the Olden Dayes.
Hey, if it 'works' for politics...
Most addictive game I played on Amiga was Ralph Reed's BattleMech. Must have spent over 1,000 hours on that game alone
You're not alone :-).
Same with maps. I recall a former friend of mine buying a book that talked about the practice.
I maintain a clean desktop, too. My trick since the windows 95 days is to put shortcuts to stuff I use frequently into a desktop folder, which I keep open all the time. With the taskbar on the left side of the screen, it's easy to select the folder when I need to run one of the things in it, otherwise it's the Start button.
Back in the Usenet days, someone wrote up a Gauntlet FAQ. It was pretty interesting - If I remember right, the key to long play times was keeping your score low, because the game spawned food at a rate inversely proportional to your score. ... Found it. Actually it's for Gauntlet 2. Dates to 1993.
I'd post the two parts of the FAQ as a journal entry, but Slashdot is giving me "Could not initialize the editor" :-(.
There's a shareware game called "Gauntlet" (no relation to the dungeon arcade game) I like to play from time to time on my emulated Atari. I used to play it for hours, back in the olden days. Absolutely superb game. I wish I'd had the money to buy the full version, but I was always spending it on tabletop wargame/RPG stuff.
Heh, it even has a Wiki page now.
I'm imagining a Beowulf Cluster of mothers' basements...
There is a clear genealogy, and that even goes back into the 1960s with Multics.
Yeah - a while ago, I lost a day reading through the stuff on www.multicians.org. I remember this story, though, relevant to this Slashdot article.
Mein Paket-Sniffer hat keine Nase.
JP-7 is made of people!
Darth Ballmer: "I will make it legal."
There are 4 people (aged from mid-30 to early 60s) in one of my D&D groups who are very into wresting for what sound like the same reasons - the characters and storylines.
Same here. Between 2002-2007 I bought a couple of PowerBooks, a hefty PowerMac, and a couple of iPods - but I'm finding Apple's policies these days to be rather objectionable, and have been avoiding them. While I do still occasionally recommend Apples to my non-technical friends and family, I'm less enthusiastic about it than I used to.
Google controls everything...
That's only what they're making you believe!
Archer >>------> Target
If those 30,000 employees all work on print drivers, maybe we'll see them (the drivers) shrink to a reasonable size...
Don't try to frighten us with your nerd's ways. Your sad devotion to that ancient DDOS has not helped you conjure up the censored pr0n, or given you clairvoyance enough to find Cmdr Taco's hidden fortressNO CARRIER
My family had a couple of those when I was growing up - often, the channel would change when someone sneezed.
On that topic, I joked last week that I was going to construct my ideal laptop out of a Mac mini, 24" LCD, Model M keyboard, car battery, and duct tape. :-)
I know, right? I just wonder why they don't ever put other types of music on CD. Seems like an untapped market.
An untaped market, so to speak...