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by zandorg 17y ago
Fighting Fantasy (very vivid, huge fantasy world) or Interplanetary Spy (a classic for the most silly ways to die, like getting trapped in a prison bubble on the outside of a ship for the rest of your life...).
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by zandorg 17y ago
Is it true that when an Internet company stops growing, people jump to the newest big-growth company (for reasons of stock options)? Like Microsoft to Google, and Google to whoever ?
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by zandorg 17y ago
Lulu.com. A one-off 794 page volume costs £20 a copy and postage (though irrelevant when ordering in bulk) is about £6. It scales in that 794 pages costs little more than 250, except the limit is 800 (a paperback's limit is I think 500) The
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by zandorg 17y ago
Except for that whole 'was a crack dealer' thing...
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by zandorg 17y ago
I recently was compiling my old stories (I've written fiction since I was 7), to go in a book. Some of the stories were typed or printed in a courier font, and I either used OCR software or typed it in by hand. Some were on a hard drive bac
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by zandorg 17y ago
I got a A5 and A6 spiral hardback-bound notebook from Wilkos in the UK. Each with durable paper, 100 pages, about 70 pence (about 1 dollar).
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by zandorg 17y ago
I have bad memories of my Sharp MZ-700. The problem? For one, the display wasn't bitmapped, it had a fixed character display with just 2 256-letter fonts. Any game had to make good use of these fonts - like Angband. Further, there were virt
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by zandorg 17y ago
Oh I have a great anecdote about my Sharp MZ-700. I got into the habit of loading up games then entering the debug console and poking in random points in memory. As they say: It's ROM, you can't break it! But I broke it! I rebooted and foun
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by zandorg 17y ago
I was overjoyed to find a director's commentary for amongst my favourite films ever: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, on the DVD. One thing I said in 1998 is that I wish they had a device to erase movies like Ferris Bueller from your memory so you
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by zandorg 17y ago
My thoughts exactly. Pain doesn't have to last forever, especially not mental illnesses with cures. They should no doubt be an exception in any potential law. It's not "will they suffer for years", it's the same reason they banned capital p
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by zandorg 17y ago
On a trip to Thailand in 2003 with friends, in Bangkok, my baggage was lost but after 4 hours or so, it turned up and I went to collect it.
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by zandorg 17y ago
I recently needed 256MB more memory, having only 512MB. I could put a new memory stick in my laptop (this is a problem because either it's 2 256MB cards, or it might short out, as it did when I tried to upgrade the RAM months ago). My solut
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This article reads like a parody: +“I am a very viable number,” she said. +The guard, um, encouraged Brad Stone and me to treat Ms. Bartz with respect. “She’s my girl.” (???) Not to mention them not mentioning trashing Geocities
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by zandorg 17y ago
Or just use archive.py in libgmail (it asks for username, password, then you select 'all' folders).
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Or 'Doctor' DOS!
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by zandorg 17y ago
Does this come with an emulator for Windows, so you can test it without a GPU?
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I bought an item (an audio connector) from Ebay and when I got it, it was clear it was from Maplin (like Radio Shack in the UK). But it was cheaper than Maplin, and a great buy, and I respect him for beating Maplin on postage (and they do c
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by zandorg 17y ago
I thought it was the other guy who founded it? Didn't Ev come in later on?
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by zandorg 17y ago
This is an ideal time for me to post my recent blog post... "The Grad from HP" I remember, in my first year at University, I went to a talk in the business school, where a guy, a graduate from this University who was giving a talk to us, to
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by zandorg 17y ago
I was in the top set for Maths and English, but in 5th (eg, 5th worst out of 6) set for French. I just couldn't be bothered to practise memorising the words. The wierd thing is that I can remember foreign names with NO trouble. French nam
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by zandorg 17y ago
Why break 1 when you can have 2 at twice the price? [John Hurt in Contact]
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by zandorg 17y ago
I got the sprucing message too, but it wasn't clear by the time it said (7.20).
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Yup, it took me over 30 minutes to get it to work with an Ebay item I just bought. I was worried it had been hacked. Funnily enough, I checked their RSS feed for what's going on, and it told nothing. Then I checked twitter.com/paypal and th
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by zandorg 17y ago
"Recruited from Novell" Shouldn't that be 'rescued'?
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by zandorg 17y ago
I agree. The reason Doug had to wait for a GUI was that microcomputers weren't fast enough to implement them. Although I imagine the Amiga and Mac brought him some money (patent was 1970, assume 17 years to bring 1987), I agree with you tha
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The guy (Doug Englebart) who invented and patented the mouse saw it expire a few years before the GUI explosion. Does this make sense? Cringely says it takes 20 years for technology to come to the fore. Patents are 17 (?) years or so. Is th
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by zandorg 17y ago
I wrote my own sprintf handler which checks string length and truncates if necessary. unsigned long lsprintf(unsigned long max_length,char [asterisk]dest,char [asterisk]fmt, ...) char buffer[1024]; lsprintf(1024,buffer,format); Slightly ove
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by zandorg 17y ago
The film Wargames was set in Portland, and I've always wanted to see if the arcade is still around.
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You mean 40 years?
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by zandorg 17y ago
But even so, being a Professor is earned by hard academic work, and not connections.

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