In a former life, I used to work for a sweatshop that called itself a PR firm. In the mid-90s, I was an administrative assistant who was eager to get into the IT industry. The penny-pinching management saw this as a way to get rid of the consultant they used to manage their unix system that ran their contact management database. They called this system their "mainframe," with the utmost sincerity. When I finally got my opportunity to help out with the system administration, image my surprise that they were running 30 dumb text terminals off of a 486 50Mhz, with 50 Mb RAM. And they wondered why it was sluggish from time to time...
I'm still in the first 1/3 of Morrowind, and enjoying it. I actually find the enormity of the game freeing--I'm gonna be playing this sucker so long, I don't feel any need to upgrade to an XBox 360 (or bigger PC) to take on Oblivion. By the time I "finish" Morrowind, Oblivion's going to be in the discount bin, or on the Platinum list.
It's kind of like the Everlasting Gobstopper of video games.
Figures that something better is introduced at the same price, just a couple of weeks after my wife just got me a GBA SP for my birthday. Oh well--she took advantage of a special package that included Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for only $10 more. So...
This was an upgrade from an original GBA SP, so *anything* was going to be an improvement.
I have the same problem. I'm going to go in for a sleep study, but until then, I rotate alarms. For me, it seems that after a while, I will get used to an alarm's sound and learn to ignore it. After selecting a new alarm sound (alarm clock beep, radio, palm pilot alarm, cel phone alarm) every 2-3 weeks, I wake up faster. Also, having something that lights up or vibrates helps, too.
There was also a version for the PC, back in the early 90s. The last time I read anything about it, it was being sold in a bundle with a few productivity apps, and you could even download a free version. I might have to look for that, now that I have a couple of older PCs to play with...
I had probably one of the last FORTRAN classes at my junior college in 1988. After I got over the initial syntax adjustment, I got along OK with it. I do remember the last project for the class, I spent 4+ hours looking for my last bug in the program. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't compile. I almost started laughing like a madman when I realized that on one line, instead of a "'", I had typed a "`".
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In a former life, I used to work for a sweatshop that called itself a PR firm. In the mid-90s, I was an administrative assistant who was eager to get into the IT industry. The penny-pinching management saw this as a way to get rid of the consultant they used to manage their unix system that ran their contact management database. They called this system their "mainframe," with the utmost sincerity. When I finally got my opportunity to help out with the system administration, image my surprise that they were running 30 dumb text terminals off of a 486 50Mhz, with 50 Mb RAM. And they wondered why it was sluggish from time to time...
I'm still in the first 1/3 of Morrowind, and enjoying it. I actually find the enormity of the game freeing--I'm gonna be playing this sucker so long, I don't feel any need to upgrade to an XBox 360 (or bigger PC) to take on Oblivion. By the time I "finish" Morrowind, Oblivion's going to be in the discount bin, or on the Platinum list.
It's kind of like the Everlasting Gobstopper of video games.
Figures that something better is introduced at the same price, just a couple of weeks after my wife just got me a GBA SP for my birthday. Oh well--she took advantage of a special package that included Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for only $10 more. So...
This was an upgrade from an original GBA SP, so *anything* was going to be an improvement.
I have the same problem. I'm going to go in for a sleep study, but until then, I rotate alarms. For me, it seems that after a while, I will get used to an alarm's sound and learn to ignore it. After selecting a new alarm sound (alarm clock beep, radio, palm pilot alarm, cel phone alarm) every 2-3 weeks, I wake up faster. Also, having something that lights up or vibrates helps, too.
There was also a version for the PC, back in the early 90s. The last time I read anything about it, it was being sold in a bundle with a few productivity apps, and you could even download a free version. I might have to look for that, now that I have a couple of older PCs to play with...
I had probably one of the last FORTRAN classes at my junior college in 1988. After I got over the initial syntax adjustment, I got along OK with it. I do remember the last project for the class, I spent 4+ hours looking for my last bug in the program. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't compile. I almost started laughing like a madman when I realized that on one line, instead of a "'", I had typed a "`".
I think the black helicopters are flying a liiiiittle too close to this one. BTW, you misspelled "Waco" in your paranoid ranting.