Posts by Biobbs
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Hard News: The Minister's Brain Has Exploded, in reply to Roger Lacey,
I spotted him down at party central about 2pm surveying his domain and fending off tourists who wanted Ronnie Corbett’s autograph.
- with fork handles?
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Up Front: I'll Be in My Bunk, in reply to Deborah,
"I'll be in my bunk." Money shot at about 32 seconds.
Ahh, Firefly. Will we ever see your like again? Was there ever an aspect of the human condition for which you weren't relevant?
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Lilith __,
No, it was not! And I'm not convinced Lou Reed is talking about computer games, either.
Well if you want computer games...why didn't you say so?
The future never looked so old...
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Lilith __,
My first computer, in the early 80s, was a 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It had a whole 7 colours, and unlike it’s predecessor (the 1k, monochrome, ZX-81) was marketed as a games machine! It had no monitor, the keyboard and joystick connected to your TV.
Was it red?
http://www.muzu.tv/gb/loureed/my-red-joystick-music-video/22663/
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Rich Lock,
By far and away the best game of that generation was this.
Chucky can shove his egg where the sun don't shine... :)
Well... that's what I used to tell him to do regularly, when I was playing the game.
Always thought Wing Commander et al should really have been paying royalties to Elite.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Greville Whittle,
I still have a soft spot for the beeb and have a port of Chucky's Egg somewhere
I so loved Chucky's Egg! I wasted a lot of my life on that game- I'd've probably finished uni 6 months earlier if it wasn't for Chucky's Egg. And Frac. And that one where you have to run around the castle and avoid the baddies and the big spider.
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I'd never thought of using song lyrics for passwords... like that, I have about 20000 songs in my collection so probably won't run out soon.
It also amazed me how fast all the dozens of different micro-computer brands people had available in the early 80s collapsed into just two market dominants in so few years. My first experience with desk-top computers was when the lab I was in as a grad student chose these (see attachment) as their computer of choice for cutting-edge science, despite every other lab in the uni having Apple IIs at the time (our Prof was British to His Bootstraps and wasn't going to tolerate any of that American rubbish in his lab, eee laddie?). They were actually great little machines - easy to use, easy to program, easy to set up A to D converters on for logging instruments - better educational machines than the Apples, in fact. OK, 64 kB of memory was a bit of a problem, but it was still a revelation having these right on the desk compared to having to book time on the uni mainframe. I might be the only person on this forum who used one them?
Since then everywhere I've worked has been PC-oriented so there's never been any point in me trying to use anything else. When it came to doing anything grunty like running large experimental systems or modelling work, you always got so much more bang for your bucks with PC vs Apple-Mac in the 80s and 90s. Nowadays there's not much to choose between them. Of course we always had our VAX gurus, and the Unix and Linux folks as well.
VAX bods are the strangest people in the whole wide world. I swear, they are clear evidence for space aliens secretly living amongst us. But we always loved them dearly:-)
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Fooman,
Some media traction:
Reading through the comments on that article... Jesus wept. What have we become, a country of psychotic looneytarians? Just have to hang on to the knowledge (hope?) that people in the comments sections of Stuff articles are not representative of the NZ population as a whole.
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Another news item showing how Copenhagen got it right from the 70s onwards - and what ChCh might look like in five years' time if common sense prevails:
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to BenWilson,
This whole business of claiming there's something defective about the All Blacks because they haven't won the World Cup more than once is just silly. Most teams haven't even won it once. Only 2 teams have won it twice. The French have beaten the odds-on favorites (the All Blacks) twice in the World Cup, and yet never won it. In 95, the Wallabies didn't even make the semi-finals.
You and your relentlessly negative common sense, spoiling everyone else's masochism :-)
