Imagine an Upside Down world where a vastly inferior OS went on to dominate... Stranger Things have happened Microsoft disappointed fans today by revealing that its Windows 1 teasing was not a precursor to another open-sourcing, but just a marketing tie-in. Now available in the Microsoft Store, the Windows 1.11 app is, as many suspected, just a bit of fun. Sadly, the thing doesn't manage to skin Windows 10 in something a little more …
Networking was pretty easy if you had an NE2000 compatible card. Also IPX.exe for DOS.
After much sodding around with DOS drivers for various cards, I realised it was just easier to take the NE2000 path of least resistance, and I could get away with just ipx.exe in my autoexec.bat - didn't even need a driver in config.sys!
Yes, I got other cards working, for myself and for others, but people were wont to tinker with their startup files to optimise base RAM, and things would get missed.
Goodness, the inhabitants of such a cursed place would probably allow a voracious corporation to take over their computers with a hideous mish-mash of ancient operating system and GUI, held together with spit and duct tape.
Thankfully this didn't happen because Apple realised they could make more money by selling toys to hipsters.
Netflix, however, has rated the show "15".
Be aware there be R/NC-17 Ratings ..... for PsychotICQ Nymphs and Satyrs ..... Saints&Sinners@COSMICPlay.
That's an Interesting Engagement ... and whether as Virgin or Vastly Experienced is the Perfect Question to Ponder and Wonder for To Be Real. .... in Your New Virtual World ....... Immaculate Being.
And with Simple Instructions to Follow in Future AIdVentures.
What more does One Need to Seed, Feed and Provide for Almighty Holy Scriptures?
A little something XSSXXXX Special for Microsoft to Host for Assured Delivery would Create ......... well, CHAOS with Insane Command and LOVE Control is surely not disputed Heaven Sent? Or do you Prefer IT be Fake News Too?
That's a Quantum Leap Jump for Bill to Acknowledge and Submit and Surrender to for the EMPowering Glory of Certain Victory. Can you imagine what that can deliver you?
If you can think of anything IT can't, let us know here, for there be Others More than a Tad Interested in the Root Cause of Such Immaculate Doubt.
cc DARPA/IARPA Type Defence Units/Cyber Warriors
Good to see you back in fine form, giving us acolytes something to think about, if only for a little while. ..... Pirate Dave
Cheers, Pirate Dave. Such positive encouragement is awesomely empowering, even when if only for a little while would surely be considered as tantamount to accepting epic failure as the best a man can get in a field which is constantly unpredictably overflowing with success and opportunity.
Does not everyone think about everything all of the time? Or are we to be led to believe there are prepared pigeon holes available to restrict and/or block further free future thought?
Don't be banking and betting on that being a rewarding viable option in any present time, nor in any future space either to boot.
"Does not everyone think about everything all of the time? Or are we to be led to believe there are prepared pigeon holes available to restrict and/or block further free future thought?"
The great koans are the vehicles to enlightenment, but are not the journey itself. The Master can't choose which the students remember or comprehend, yet that is no reflection on the Master himself.
The great koans are the vehicles to enlightenment, but are not the journey itself. .... Pirate Dave
Indeed is that so whenever portals have to be negotiated and entered into first before flights of fancy can take virtual root and fly blissfully high of any and all futile distractions.
You just can't have any Old Tom, SMARTR Dick or Haphazard Harry set loose UnAIded in Heavenly Treasure Chests for such is Guaranteed to Deliver Disasters rather than Input Dream Outcomes.
Utterly pontless gobbledygook.Welcome back amanfromMars 1, i thought you had quit the site! .... Christopher Rogers
And that makes Perfect Sense Surely, Christopher Rogers. It is certainly not in any shape of phorm or positive inclination, utterly pointless gobbledygook. That I can definitely assure you.
Does not everyone think about everything all of the time? Or are we to be led to believe there are prepared pigeon holes available to restrict and/or block further free future thought?
As Carl Sagan said; It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Ahh 11, the top secret military mkultra mind control project, and undoubtedly grandmaster racehorse in grand projects and bankers betting game ultra alien evolved hybrid genetically modified experimentation with rivers of nasal congestion and coca c ola product placement ap len ty :-)
The truth is far stranger than such fictional things, as reserved for research projects, and so v iet intervention for real is IT not?
Great programming it must be said with N et flix leading the way in downstreaming and future is now air to view cable free entertainment.
As a Linuxian I will cheerfully admit the *BSDs are the techies' choice; but compared to Linux as a Unimog that just does whatever is possibly needed and is simple to operate, they are the equivalent of build-your-own kit-cars, where you too with less money but a lot of work can have your own race-car.
Apple is a luxury sedan, great for [ graphic ] touring, less so for hauling trees out of a ditch; and the winner, Windows is an ingenious and not cheap to buy nor run contraption fashioned of a dozen bicycles lashed together and powered by a garden-mower engine. The people behind it rival organised crime for business ethics.
Naturally Windows won.
I'm sorry, Windows was more like the Ford T or the VW Beetle. It worked, it was widely available, it was cheap enough, and most people knew how to drive it, and you could easily find someone to repair it.
As for the business ethics - it's not that Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. are better.... it looks a Silicon Valley issue.
@AC
Nope. That would be giving Windows too much credit, because both vehicles, especially the Beetle, are super-reliable and simple - the Beetle has even been called "the most hackable car"[1].
Windows is exactly like those shitty Korean Hyundai and Kia econoboxes - parts are available and cheap, et al, but are as stable in crashes as a wafer, and when they incorporate electronics, things quickly become a mess (think the Windows Registry).
@Claverhouse
Apple isn't like a luxury sedan. And by luxury sedan, I mean the older ones, built to a standard, not to a price.
Apple in the present day is more like Genesis (the Hyundai attempt at copying Toyota's Lexus and Honda's Acura)[2]. Inflated price tag, no innovation, no build quality (think impossible-to-repair sticky butterfly keyboards), and complex computer gee-whiz that only begs to fail and have you kneeling at the (Genius Bar / dealership) altar. And proprietary interfaces.
[1]https://hackaday.com/2016/05/03/volkswagen-beetle-the-most-hackable-car/
[2] Upon further reflection, this equally applies to many, if not most modern "luxury" cars, but Genesis is still the poster child.
Are these ickier elements related somehow to excessive in-show advertising?
Never watched the show, so I don't know who it really it, but it seems all the news about I have read about it in the last weeks are about gimmickier and gimmickier marketing stunts, and not about the show itself...
It's safe to say that there's a lot of product placement in this series although it's all dressed up in cool, retro, nostalgic 80's attire.
I don't mind it so much - it gives (a Brit) me more insight into American culture - e.g. a song by Eels that I've liked for years has the lyric 'the kid in the mall works at hotdog on a stick' - thanks to Stranger Things 3 I now finally know what that is! (It looks a bit gross and extremely unhealthy).
The "ew" factor referenced in the article definitely refers to gross-out moments involving the slimy innards of various species of mammal and not so much to the advertising IMO
I could spend my entire life just googling lyrics by obscure artists :-D
There's stuff I don't mind not knowing, but it's always a nice feeling too put two and two together when something else offers an explanation quite by chance.
Which is a "product placement" itself - these shows are built not to say or tell something new, but just to sell well. And the "nostalgia effect" is one way to achieve it. Add some horror topping which is so fashionable now and you're done.
Hotdogs on a stick are not just a US thing, we have them in NZ as well. You can get hotdogs or saveloys on a stick, battered and deep fried at most chippies down under, standard fare.
Very popular at fairs and the like as easy to eat whilst wandering about, it has a stick. Very practical food. No expanded polystyrene box and plastic fork required. The sausage is your protein and fat, the batter your carbs and the tomato sauce one of your five a day. No point trying to count the number I ate growing up. Chips to accompany are optional.
" Chips to accompany are optional."
Stick in one hand, box/plate of chips in the other - how do you actually eat a chip?
Reminds me of the English Electric "social etiquette" course for new middle managers. A formidable European lady would teach the finer points. The memorable one was how to shake hands with the Managing Director - while holding your plate and a cup/saucer of tea.
I'm not sure if that quote is real, if MS really did make DOS incompatible with 1 2 3 then people would have not upgraded or switched to PC-DOS or DR-DOS (or whatever DR-DOS was called before being called DR-DOS).
I think I was still messing about with BBC acorns at that time, but I do know Windows 3.11 wouldn't run on top of DR-DOS...
"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
I watched the new season in a day, and I'm not a big fan. 1985 was obviously better in Britain, musically at least and better monsters. It was okay. I played D&D back then (but I didn't wear shorts). Windows 3.11 was the best it ever got.
I just made myself ill -vomit, pus and blood ill - trying to binge watch 'Too Old To Die Young' . I think I'm on episode 8 but I fell asleep so I may have to rewind when I'm better. The first episode is 133 minutes long, and could have been 33 minutes. I'm thinking the series is meant to be a high art take on the corrupt cop story, but it comes across as slow TV interspersed with sudden violence. Each episode is like a bad movie, some worse than others, but I'm guessing that is deliberate and it might piece together by the end.
They all start with a page of warnings - "Strong Sexual Content", "Graphic Violence", "Brief Nudity", et cetera, but there is no warning about how slow it goes, or that the "Brief Nudity" will be an old gangster being murdered.
30 Rock Quote-
Jenna:
Don't cry for me, Tartine. I've had a full life. Oh, the things I've seen. The first Clinton administration. The Nagano Olympics. Microsoft Windows '95. But I'm 41 now. Time to die.
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