Sometimes, if you're lucky, Windows will just restart itself without rebooting the system.
My brother suggests this: in the Exit Windows dialog box, choose Restart and hold down Shift as you choose OK. You should then find that only the GUI restarts. Of course this doesn't always work with hardware drivers, but it seems to work fine with application installations.
Actually, recording audio on a tape after program code was not uncommon. The Sinclair Spectrum for instance had pretty poor facilities for making music, but it was possible to listen to recorded music on the tape after a game had finished loading. Also, a French language tutorial bundled with my MSX (Toshiba HX-10) had, as I recall, properly-pronounced words recorded on the tape that could be played back in time to the text displayed on the screen.
Similiar techniques were used when CD-ROMs came along. The enhanced version of Loom, for instance, stores its speech and orchestral stereo soundtrack as CD audio, so you can use a CD player to hear the messages you missed in the game, and the beautiful music. (Unfortunately Linux and my CD-ROM drive won't acknowledge or play the audio track, despite identifying the CD as mixed-mode.)
The scrolling list in Internet Explorer 4's easter egg is encrypted using ROT13, as I found out by reading the source code. (Whoever wrote the code in that to stop the View Source command being available forgot that there's more than one way to open a menu.:-P)
I've not seen the movie all the way through, but the book clearly states what will happen "because of chaos theory":
Gennaro said, "Your paper concludes that Hammond's island is bound to fail?"
"Correct."
"Because of chaos theory?"
"Correct. To be more precise, because of the behavior of the system in phase space."
and then, after two pages of explanation of what chaos theory is,
"[...] So it turns out that this simple system of a pool ball on a table has unpredictable behaviour."
"Okay."
"And Hammond's project," Malcolm said, "is another apparently simple system -- animals within a zoo environment -- that will eventually show unpredictable behavior."
"You know this because of . .."
"Theory," Malcolm said."
"But hadn't you better see the island, to see what he's actually done?"
"No. That is quite unnecessary. The details don't matter. Theory tells me that the island will quickly proceed to behave in unpredictable fashion."
"And you're confident of your theory."
"Oh, yes," Malcolm said. "Totally confident." He sat back in the chair. "There is a problem with that island. It is an accident waiting to happen."
And so the island soon starts showing events not predicted in the original design, like the dinosaurs changing sex (they were engineered to be solely female) and breeding.
Nothing useful from AltaVista? You should try Google then - with just "when they took the" it found me these:
"... The Casolaro thing really got to me though because I remembered the quote about how when they took the Jews, I was silent, when they took the Gypsies I was silent, when they took the homosexuals, I said nothing, and when they came for me there was nobody left to speak for me...." (no longer on the Web, apparently)
and
"When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
Netscape and presumably other browsers respect the Content-Type header sent by the server, which is this case is text/plain. So Netscape downloads it as text, as instructed.
IE ignores the header and looks at the URL as if it were a filename with a n extension. If the extension is.html, it treats the file as html. If it doesn't understand an extension like.prc, it treats it as application/octet-stream.
Basically IE's non-compliant behaviour is masking a problem with the webserver's configuration. It's not really Netscape's fault. Point out the problem to the webmaster, and complain to Microsoft and the WSP.
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Hormel has actually seemed pretty quiet, even good natured, on this front for a long time [...]
Indeed, the datestamp on Hormel's page about this is Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:46:44 GMT – nearly three years ago!
Sometimes, if you're lucky, Windows will just restart itself without rebooting the system.
My brother suggests this: in the Exit Windows dialog box, choose Restart and hold down Shift as you choose OK. You should then find that only the GUI restarts. Of course this doesn't always work with hardware drivers, but it seems to work fine with application installations.
Funny you should say that: one of the puzzles in Zork Grand Inquistor is an IVR from Hell...
literally.
(Though ZGI's not a text adventure, I highly recommend it.)
|\/|onochrome has dozens more of these in one of the game files.
Actually, recording audio on a tape after program code was not uncommon. The Sinclair Spectrum for instance had pretty poor facilities for making music, but it was possible to listen to recorded music on the tape after a game had finished loading. Also, a French language tutorial bundled with my MSX (Toshiba HX-10) had, as I recall, properly-pronounced words recorded on the tape that could be played back in time to the text displayed on the screen.
Similiar techniques were used when CD-ROMs came along. The enhanced version of Loom, for instance, stores its speech and orchestral stereo soundtrack as CD audio, so you can use a CD player to hear the messages you missed in the game, and the beautiful music. (Unfortunately Linux and my CD-ROM drive won't acknowledge or play the audio track, despite identifying the CD as mixed-mode.)
This is mentioned in one chapter of the classic Gödel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid . The chapter has several easter eggs of its own, of course.
The scrolling list in Internet Explorer 4's easter egg is encrypted using ROT13, as I found out by reading the source code. (Whoever wrote the code in that to stop the View Source command being available forgot that there's more than one way to open a menu. :-P)
Not just "most Western nations" - in fact 191 countries have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The only countries that have not are Somalia (not having a government that can do it) and... the United States. Hmm.
I've not seen the movie all the way through, but the book clearly states what will happen "because of chaos theory":
and then, after two pages of explanation of what chaos theory is,
And so the island soon starts showing events not predicted in the original design, like the dinosaurs changing sex (they were engineered to be solely female) and breeding.
I agree, the pieces in Iagno are very nicely designed: it'd be nice to see them in a GNOME Go game.
Nothing useful from AltaVista? You should try Google then - with just "when they took the" it found me these:
..."
"... The Casolaro thing really got to me though because I remembered the quote about how when they took the Jews, I was silent, when they took the Gypsies I was silent, when they took the homosexuals, I said nothing, and when they came for me there was nobody left to speak for me.
(no longer on the Web, apparently)
and
"When they took the fourth amendment,
I was silent because I don't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment,
I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent.
When they took the second amendment,
I said nothing because I don't own a gun.
Now they've come for the first amendment,
and I can't say anything at all.
---- Tim Freeman "
at http://www.daft.com/~rab/liberty/quotes.txt
Netscape and presumably other browsers respect the Content-Type header sent by the server, which is this case is text/plain. So Netscape downloads it as text, as instructed.
.html, it treats the file as html. If it doesn't understand an extension like .prc, it treats it as application/octet-stream.
IE ignores the header and looks at the URL as if it were a filename with a n extension. If the extension is
Basically IE's non-compliant behaviour is masking a problem with the webserver's configuration. It's not really Netscape's fault. Point out the problem to the webmaster, and complain to Microsoft and the WSP.