Posts by magickmark

Re: Bureaucracy: Infocom text adventure

Bugger beat me to it!!!

But to add to this you can get a copy here:

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/bureaucracy-a9

And on Gethub here:

https://github.com/historicalsource/bureaucracy

Re: Old school

Well lets not get into the whole thing about punch cards!!

Re: "This is the book the government does not want you to read."

NEVER EVER READ A BOOK, TERRIBLE TERRIBLE BOOK!

D. Trump

There corrected it for you !!

Re: Teletext Holidays

Would have been cool it it had sung "Daisy, Daisy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hchUl3QlJZE

Re: Dear Moderator

hummmm, I can see your post. Try posting your "something interesting" and see what happens.

Re: As Bones would say.. or Scotty

I canna dowit' Capt'n... its just nooo possible!!!

I canna change the laws of physics, Captain! A've got to have thirty minutes .. ta groove in

I've giv'n her all she's got captain, an' I canna give her no more

I dannae thik she can take any more, Captain!

Any man who could perform such a feat, I wo'd na dare disappoint.

Also occurs to me this is in San Francisco, Starfleet's Headquarters!

Obligatory Douglas Adams quote... Again!!

Just posted this elsewhere but seems appropriate for here as well!!!

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.

Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."

The obligatory Douglas Adams quote

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.

Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."

Re: Oh Oh Oh

"Harrison was sued for plagiarism over 'My Sweet Lord' due to its similarity to the Ronnie Mack song "He's So Fine", the 1963 hit for the Chiffons.

I don't know that it was fair that Harrison lost, (I think he lost?), but I prefer the meaningless original."

He was but there is more, the publishing company that was suing he went bust, because of the case. Harrison's lawyer, Allen Klein, who had been defending him, brought the company including the copyright to "He's So Fine" and with it all litigation claims.

In litigation the Judge was so disgusted with Klein's behavior quashed the fine that had been given and awarded Harrison the the right to "He's So Fine" as well.

It is a bit more complex than that and there is a good write up on wikipedia!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sweet_Lord

Re: Glitches

"but I do know Windows 3.11 wouldn't run on top of DR-DOS..."

True but your could run Digital Research's "GEM" GUI, I remember it being on some of the early Amstrad PC's .

I recall were I worked at the time we had some Amstrads with DR-DOS and GEM and we also had some BBC Model B's. When we wanted to upgrade the BBC's we told our supplier we wanted more Amstrads with GEM but what we were supplied with were some PC's (cant remember the make now, possibly Olivetti) and they had MS-DOS (v2?) and Windows v1 if I recall. We'd never heard of it and we were told that it was just like GEM.

So there were two options:

MS-DOS => MS-Windows

RD-DOS => DR GEM

At this stage of the game Digital Research seemed to be giving M$ a run for the their money, at least in the UK .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Environment_Manager

Re: OMG

I take exception to that!!! And get of my grass!!! :)

Re: Things are getting heated

Icy what you did there!

Apparently you'd need a small Stanley Kubrick as well...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1095607/NASA-moon-landing-hoax-stanley-kubrick-film-apollo-11-nasa-moon-landing-fake

Re: None of your beeswax, said Guerrero

ahh but you need to factor in the death rate..

Drones: about 8 weeks

Workers: 5-6 weeks in the summer or 5-6 months in the winter

Queen: 1-2 years

I'll let you work out the algorithm :D

Remember to feed the small dog the cheese sandwich on the way out !!

Re: me no understand

I-- I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was, 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbO5h8Ctfs8

Re: Japan

ahhhh - The land of the rising moon!!

Who micro-manages the micro-managers?

My poor Latin would suggest "Quis minutus-administro quod minutus -administrator" but happy to stand corrected of course!

Gotta have faith

One of the best definitions of faith that I have ever seen is:

"Choosing to believe in that which you know cannot be true"

Or in the words of the late great DNA:

"I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

My tuppence worth

And (allegedly) factory fitted spyware sending your data right back to china.gov central

Re: Exam question.

You beat me to it!!

I had exactly the same paper on a course many years ago when I were a lad and new to IT/Training/Support.

Hate to say it but I was the only person in the class of about 10 or so who did actually read it all the way through.

The other fun exercise we did was trying to tell someone how to strike a match from a closed box on a table between us with the person striking the match only doing exactly what you told them. And of course the instructor on the course had ensured that every box was upside down!!

"But it's all done in the best possible taste" - Cupid Stunt aka Kenny Everett

Re: They should ask Torvalds to rename git.

@Jake

"We should instead use "slide in" and "slide out"."

I find the above offensive due to the sexual connotations and the implied inference of male dominance over a female partner!!

Having said that I'm fucked as to what we would call it but then that's not my problem!!!

Re: Generations...

I was born 31 Dec 1963 as the New Year bells were starting to ring (yes really!!) so I'm either the last of the Boomers or the first of the Gen X or maybe some weird Gen X Boomer?

Re: Is it likely

@Solarflare

This...

"The researchers plan to investigate third-party libraries on iOS next to see what slurping may be taking place there."

Lets see what they come up with.