Tell me about it, even just the mention of The Bards Tale makes me go dewey-eyed as I fondly recall reams of squared paper so as to map every location. What a wonderful wonderful game that was.
I still play many older games, even now; especially Monkey Island, Waxworks and the like.
They obviously haven't updated that bit of their site yet! The 125MB increase only went live this month, and I can assure you it's still there. I've emailed them to let them know that it needs updating...
Why people still use systems like hotmail, where you have to try a billion different combinations before getting a semi-rememberable username, crap storage and crap facilities is beyond me.
I've been using myway.com for ages now, 125mb of storage (more than enough for me), and (most useful to myself) the ability to access other pop accounts (really, really handy for when I'm away from home and need to check my home/work email).
It's also free, has no ads, no pop-ups and is super-quick.
(I'm not affiliated with it in any way, I just love it to bits)
Bejeesus, some of those titles are so innocuous it's unbelievable! Stone Temple Pilots for god's sake? Live? And Rage Against The Machine hardly promotes violence against women etc, more a left-wing political opinion, akin to Michael Moore but in a bitter, heavy guitar (and slightly childish, angst ridden) way.
God, if you're going to ban anything, get rid of the insipid boy band tripe corrupting kids today! Get them to learn a decent taste in music!
And that show is just the funnier (and the more brilliant) for having him in it. His voice is possibly one of the most distinctive on modern TV.
"Yeah, I know"
I made exactly the same mistake, and found mt email account completely jammed with spam. Fortunately, even though valid, I am able to put anything before the "@", so filtered it out that way. That was aeons ago, and I still see spam coming through from it.
To be honest, I doubt there are many private users who would actually go out and spend the vast amount that Adobe asks for Photoshop -it's blatantly marketed at professional users, graphic designers etc, not your average user with a 3.2mpx digital camera and a mouse.
I bet all of those users that have pirated it have hardly even scraped the surface of what it can do, but even though they could just use Paint Shop Pro (or even, in some cases, going by the "quality" of their images - Paint), they continue to use it because they can say "I did this in Photoshop".
I can't say that I'll ever go out and spend 300 gbp or more on a single piece of software, after all if it's going to cost me that much, I want it to be a part of my daily life, and therefore the company can pay for it (DevStudio springs to mind). However, I do buy games etc, I don't want to see them bugger off to the console platform.
As a long devout Commodore user, who had made his way through multiple C64s, and a huge array of Amigas, I find it almost criminal to view this new site. What next, are they going to release an "A-a-a-a-a-a-amiga"? (in the style of the ebay scam Powerbook thing). Not only is the grammar on that site shockingly bad, but the only thing on there that has ANY resemblence to the Commodore brand is a crappy joystick with 30 games that no-one would want to play. Where's Wizball? Where's The Last Ninja?
So, basically, they are attempting to wipe out all of Commodore's history post-C64, and jumping straight to MP3. Why? Because they don't have the rights to the Amiga (thank god). Want to see what's happening with that little flagship? Go here - a darn sight more interesting than that little bandwagon of naffness.
I find it really depressing when some company buys a legacy name (such as Infrogrames did with Atari) and begins peddling merchanidise using that name, hoping for the retro-cool aura surrounding it to bring it sales.
Wow , took a look at that site, and it's all pretty freaky. However, I don't believe a word of it - The Mad Cow thing lets it all down for me! It's someone 'aving a larf!
He surely can't have been the only one to predict the Y2K issue, however he was probably one of the only people, back then, that actually cared. I constantly hear the argument "ah well, they'll not be using it in x years time, so we can forget about that; it's not an issue".
Well, it was! Now, what happens when the number of seconds since 1970 rolls over the maximum digit for an int?
I'm with you there. I'm 100 % satisfied with MyWay, absolutely fantastic web mail client (which allows me to check my pop mail from wherever in the world I happen to be). No spam, no banners, just great.
Erm... me? I use Windows, and I've never been a fan of Unix, Linux or any of the other varieties. Why bother using Wine? Why use something to emulate software that you so despise?
I really don't see the point. I'd like to see the code, but I'd only really be interested depending on the app.
Well, hate to be completely facetious, but "Britain" refers to Britain, and the UK refers to the UK. The UK includes Northern Ireland, Britain does not.
It also depends on the scale in which progress happened. The plough didn't change in many many centuries, and changes to it were progressive and slow. Same with many many technologies, but computing was so fast, and expansive, changing the way everything (including your "Mix" stations) operates. Nothing in the history of human kind has required such a constant learning curve, and such a dramatic upheaval of life as we know it. And this is not important enough to be put on display?
Who cares that my grand mother can still remember the days when the Panasonic factory was just fields? The timescale is irrelevant. Look at car museums, they're hardly THAT much older (add an extra 50 years), and yet they are massively popular. Why? Because they're sexy, computers aren't (especially old ones like the Commodore PET). Does this mean they are any less important? No. However, in my opinion, they should be showed in a correct, and informative context. I don't want to see some ancient mainframe system without seeing the impact of what it actually did. I want to see how these things have made our lives better (or worse). I want to see the impact they've had on the world. I don't want to see a room full of beige TVs.
I agree with most of what you said, but do think Sydney could possibly cover it, after all, there's more people living on top of each other here than in most places I have ever seen!
However, there'd always be a lack of interest unless it was put in the context of something - for example how computing changed manfacturing, how it changed the war, how it changed home entertainment etc, rather than just a random collection of bits of plastic and chipsets.
Pretty much the same is happening in the UK with Bletchley Park, with no government funding these museums are dying away. Perhaps it's because they are deemed as modern history (after all, computing has only really taken off in the last 60 years), or because the majority of the public just don't understand anything beyond their TV remote control, but it's a shame nonetheless. Bletchley should be relabelled as something "non-geeky", and the Australian one should be merged with a larger industrial museum, after all, these are the machines that took the Industrial Age onto the Information Age...
No no, you misunderstand, I was simply reacting against the original poster. He was referencing those who use electric cars as "traitors", and also referenced himslef as a SUV driver (as far as I am aware, not many of these have 1.3 litre engines!). The craters reference was with regard to his original comment, referring to the damage left behind by nuclear reactors.
You will also note I mentioned progress AND change, why do these have to be mutually exclusive. Does one not forgo the other? I personally welcome it.
As far as the UK and windfarms is concerned, I agree, there's been little done to bring it in, in the past, and I welcome the changes they are making. However, politically, it is causing havoc in the areas where they are installed. I don;t see the problem with it myself.
As for SUVs destroying the trails etc, they probably are, but I've been hiking all around this place and have yet to see one beeping me out of the way. However, through the main streets of Sydney you can hear and smell them a mile off. They are unnecessary (and notice I am not just referencing the USA here, I'm not a xenophobe) - just like the four-wheel drives that idle around suburbia in the UK. The analogy with reading on a computer doesn't make sense - I read on a computer because the material is easily searchable etc etc. How does taking the kids to school in a V8 compare to taking the kids to school in a 1.3 Micra? You'll get there in the same amount of time.
And I never switch my engine off in traffic jams unless I've been sat in the same spot for yonks, and am running low on fuel - do you know how much that stuff costs us??!
Finally, I disagree with you on the target demographic for the small 1 seater electric car. I think it is purposefully aimed for inner cities, where short ranges are the norm, but heavy traffic is hard to navigate. Just look at the Mercedes owned Smart car, and how popular it is in bigger cities in Europe (I know it's not electric, but it still meets the same market).
Unless your a bird, insect or pollinating plant. Then wind farms are a very bad thing indeed.
Why? Because they produce energy without physically burning anything? Or is it because they change the skyline? (Not that I mind, I'd rather have the graceful spinning of blades than the cancerous cloud of a coal/oil based plant)
Firstly, there are other ways of generating electricity, and massive measures are being put in place for this in the UK (wind farms, for a start). Not a bad thing.
If people are not educated about the nastiness of fossil fuel burning, then we might as well just give up now.
Secondly, your SUVs etc ARE damaging to the environment. Your "small" gasoline engines are far larger than they actually need to be. Why on earth do you need a five litre V8 to take the kids to school? Basically, you don't. All of this crap being pumped out in inner-cities makes it difficult to breath, which is where research into other methods (even hybrid methods) is a boon, and should only ever be welcomed.
But people who actually, unfathomably, look at other people who welcome progress and change as "traitors" will never listen. I'd like to see you drive your V8 around those craters when the fuels run out.
Fire the market researchers! Why didn't they learn, right back from this - The Sinclair C5. It failed then, so why don't they learn that people don't want to ride around in something that makes them look like a fool?
Now, if they follow the examples set by manufacturers such as Toyota, where they make hybrid, dual fuel cars (gas/electric) that switch fuel type depending on the usage, we'll get to the point where we can effectively use less damaging energy sources. We're getting there, slowly, but this just isn't it.
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That gamespot article is marvellous. Thanks!
Tell me about it, even just the mention of The Bards Tale makes me go dewey-eyed as I fondly recall reams of squared paper so as to map every location. What a wonderful wonderful game that was. I still play many older games, even now; especially Monkey Island, Waxworks and the like.
So, if I wear my laptop bag over my shoulder, am I almost infringing this "patent"?
These ridiculous patents not only make the patent offices look inane, but also somehow lessen the validity of genuine ones.
*lol*
They obviously haven't updated that bit of their site yet! The 125MB increase only went live this month, and I can assure you it's still there. I've emailed them to let them know that it needs updating...
(And it really IS a good deal!)
Why people still use systems like hotmail, where you have to try a billion different combinations before getting a semi-rememberable username, crap storage and crap facilities is beyond me.
I've been using myway.com for ages now, 125mb of storage (more than enough for me), and (most useful to myself) the ability to access other pop accounts (really, really handy for when I'm away from home and need to check my home/work email).
It's also free, has no ads, no pop-ups and is super-quick.
(I'm not affiliated with it in any way, I just love it to bits)
Bejeesus, some of those titles are so innocuous it's unbelievable! Stone Temple Pilots for god's sake? Live? And Rage Against The Machine hardly promotes violence against women etc, more a left-wing political opinion, akin to Michael Moore but in a bitter, heavy guitar (and slightly childish, angst ridden) way.
God, if you're going to ban anything, get rid of the insipid boy band tripe corrupting kids today! Get them to learn a decent taste in music!
Hopefully she'll explode as she bursts into a manic frenzy of "cos we want to! cos we want to!"
The new ones have been designed by Segway*
*note - not actually true
And that show is just the funnier (and the more brilliant) for having him in it. His voice is possibly one of the most distinctive on modern TV. "Yeah, I know"
I made exactly the same mistake, and found mt email account completely jammed with spam. Fortunately, even though valid, I am able to put anything before the "@", so filtered it out that way. That was aeons ago, and I still see spam coming through from it.
To be honest, I doubt there are many private users who would actually go out and spend the vast amount that Adobe asks for Photoshop -it's blatantly marketed at professional users, graphic designers etc, not your average user with a 3.2mpx digital camera and a mouse.
I bet all of those users that have pirated it have hardly even scraped the surface of what it can do, but even though they could just use Paint Shop Pro (or even, in some cases, going by the "quality" of their images - Paint), they continue to use it because they can say "I did this in Photoshop".
I can't say that I'll ever go out and spend 300 gbp or more on a single piece of software, after all if it's going to cost me that much, I want it to be a part of my daily life, and therefore the company can pay for it (DevStudio springs to mind). However, I do buy games etc, I don't want to see them bugger off to the console platform.
In IE 6 I get: http://www.enterthere.com.au/rd/404.html
As a long devout Commodore user, who had made his way through multiple C64s, and a huge array of Amigas, I find it almost criminal to view this new site. What next, are they going to release an "A-a-a-a-a-a-amiga"? (in the style of the ebay scam Powerbook thing). Not only is the grammar on that site shockingly bad, but the only thing on there that has ANY resemblence to the Commodore brand is a crappy joystick with 30 games that no-one would want to play. Where's Wizball? Where's The Last Ninja?
So, basically, they are attempting to wipe out all of Commodore's history post-C64, and jumping straight to MP3. Why? Because they don't have the rights to the Amiga (thank god). Want to see what's happening with that little flagship? Go here - a darn sight more interesting than that little bandwagon of naffness.
I find it really depressing when some company buys a legacy name (such as Infrogrames did with Atari) and begins peddling merchanidise using that name, hoping for the retro-cool aura surrounding it to bring it sales.
Wow , took a look at that site, and it's all pretty freaky. However, I don't believe a word of it - The Mad Cow thing lets it all down for me! It's someone 'aving a larf!
He surely can't have been the only one to predict the Y2K issue, however he was probably one of the only people, back then, that actually cared. I constantly hear the argument "ah well, they'll not be using it in x years time, so we can forget about that; it's not an issue".
Well, it was! Now, what happens when the number of seconds since 1970 rolls over the maximum digit for an int?
I'm with you there. I'm 100 % satisfied with MyWay, absolutely fantastic web mail client (which allows me to check my pop mail from wherever in the world I happen to be). No spam, no banners, just great.
Erm... me? I use Windows, and I've never been a fan of Unix, Linux or any of the other varieties. Why bother using Wine? Why use something to emulate software that you so despise?
I really don't see the point. I'd like to see the code, but I'd only really be interested depending on the app.
Well, hate to be completely facetious, but "Britain" refers to Britain, and the UK refers to the UK. The UK includes Northern Ireland, Britain does not.
It also depends on the scale in which progress happened. The plough didn't change in many many centuries, and changes to it were progressive and slow. Same with many many technologies, but computing was so fast, and expansive, changing the way everything (including your "Mix" stations) operates. Nothing in the history of human kind has required such a constant learning curve, and such a dramatic upheaval of life as we know it. And this is not important enough to be put on display?
Who cares that my grand mother can still remember the days when the Panasonic factory was just fields? The timescale is irrelevant. Look at car museums, they're hardly THAT much older (add an extra 50 years), and yet they are massively popular. Why? Because they're sexy, computers aren't (especially old ones like the Commodore PET). Does this mean they are any less important? No. However, in my opinion, they should be showed in a correct, and informative context. I don't want to see some ancient mainframe system without seeing the impact of what it actually did. I want to see how these things have made our lives better (or worse). I want to see the impact they've had on the world. I don't want to see a room full of beige TVs.
I agree with most of what you said, but do think Sydney could possibly cover it, after all, there's more people living on top of each other here than in most places I have ever seen!
However, there'd always be a lack of interest unless it was put in the context of something - for example how computing changed manfacturing, how it changed the war, how it changed home entertainment etc, rather than just a random collection of bits of plastic and chipsets.
Pretty much the same is happening in the UK with Bletchley Park, with no government funding these museums are dying away. Perhaps it's because they are deemed as modern history (after all, computing has only really taken off in the last 60 years), or because the majority of the public just don't understand anything beyond their TV remote control, but it's a shame nonetheless. Bletchley should be relabelled as something "non-geeky", and the Australian one should be merged with a larger industrial museum, after all, these are the machines that took the Industrial Age onto the Information Age...
No no, you misunderstand, I was simply reacting against the original poster. He was referencing those who use electric cars as "traitors", and also referenced himslef as a SUV driver (as far as I am aware, not many of these have 1.3 litre engines!). The craters reference was with regard to his original comment, referring to the damage left behind by nuclear reactors.
You will also note I mentioned progress AND change, why do these have to be mutually exclusive. Does one not forgo the other? I personally welcome it.
As far as the UK and windfarms is concerned, I agree, there's been little done to bring it in, in the past, and I welcome the changes they are making. However, politically, it is causing havoc in the areas where they are installed. I don;t see the problem with it myself.
As for SUVs destroying the trails etc, they probably are, but I've been hiking all around this place and have yet to see one beeping me out of the way. However, through the main streets of Sydney you can hear and smell them a mile off. They are unnecessary (and notice I am not just referencing the USA here, I'm not a xenophobe) - just like the four-wheel drives that idle around suburbia in the UK. The analogy with reading on a computer doesn't make sense - I read on a computer because the material is easily searchable etc etc. How does taking the kids to school in a V8 compare to taking the kids to school in a 1.3 Micra? You'll get there in the same amount of time.
And I never switch my engine off in traffic jams unless I've been sat in the same spot for yonks, and am running low on fuel - do you know how much that stuff costs us??!
Finally, I disagree with you on the target demographic for the small 1 seater electric car. I think it is purposefully aimed for inner cities, where short ranges are the norm, but heavy traffic is hard to navigate. Just look at the Mercedes owned Smart car, and how popular it is in bigger cities in Europe (I know it's not electric, but it still meets the same market).
Unless your a bird, insect or pollinating plant. Then wind farms are a very bad thing indeed.
Why? Because they produce energy without physically burning anything? Or is it because they change the skyline? (Not that I mind, I'd rather have the graceful spinning of blades than the cancerous cloud of a coal/oil based plant)
Firstly, there are other ways of generating electricity, and massive measures are being put in place for this in the UK (wind farms, for a start). Not a bad thing.
If people are not educated about the nastiness of fossil fuel burning, then we might as well just give up now.
Secondly, your SUVs etc ARE damaging to the environment. Your "small" gasoline engines are far larger than they actually need to be. Why on earth do you need a five litre V8 to take the kids to school? Basically, you don't. All of this crap being pumped out in inner-cities makes it difficult to breath, which is where research into other methods (even hybrid methods) is a boon, and should only ever be welcomed.
But people who actually, unfathomably, look at other people who welcome progress and change as "traitors" will never listen. I'd like to see you drive your V8 around those craters when the fuels run out.
Fire the market researchers! Why didn't they learn, right back from this - The Sinclair C5. It failed then, so why don't they learn that people don't want to ride around in something that makes them look like a fool?
Now, if they follow the examples set by manufacturers such as Toyota, where they make hybrid, dual fuel cars (gas/electric) that switch fuel type depending on the usage, we'll get to the point where we can effectively use less damaging energy sources. We're getting there, slowly, but this just isn't it.