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Paul Kemner wrote: Man! it would be difficult to write a novel under those circumstances- you couldn't do any research.
Hell, I've done it with a typewriter, before the Internet existed. Back then we did research with...books.
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Yes, but I'm assuming that the isolated spot in New South Wales isn't across the street from a well-equipped public library. Probably worse for me, because I'm writing SF and fantasy, so I tend to need answers for odd questions that aren't in a standard encyclopedia. (What was the average current speed of the Nile, pre-Aswan Dam, and how long would it take a sternwheeler to get from Cairo to Dendara? - needed that for a steampunk story!)
The other half of it is that with the net, there will be one person who knows that the sail plan you used for that brigantine in your story wasn't used until 35 years later. And they'll write scathing reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, which everyone will 'like'.
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Ideal. You'd be living high in Perth or Brisbane in a couple of years. With cold beer.
And groupies.
And a house.
With cable. 
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Start a computer museum.
Joop Muis
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Probably you wouldn't really need Internet at all, life would be so beautiful there, simple and unstressful as it should be, without social networks and all that modern rubbish.
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Yes! 
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Sing out of tune.... 
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Play Wolf3d all day long!!
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You beat me to it, I was going to say Doom!
- Freedom is the right of all sentient beings -
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Holy crap, this was exactly what I was going to post.. My 486 tower I have in the bone pile actually still has all 6 chapters of Wolf3d and Spear of Destiny still installed. GENIUS! The Pentium tower has Doom 2 and Sim City.
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MechWarrior II! Kneecap 'em all!!!
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I'd get a job driving a truck, or operating heavy equipment, like I did in the before time.
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Leisure Suit Larry....and relax under the sun
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...compared to Sacha Barber. That guy is - and there's really no other way to say it - simply f*ckin amazing.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Agreed. He's the Chuck Norris of code.
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And what would that make me? 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
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'n'slash
I'd rather be phishing!
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If it is any consolation to you, I'm a just a hack, as well. We have our purpose in this world, too (saying this helps me sleep at night). 
...compared to Sacha and WPF. I have to give myself "some" credit.
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Do I detect a bromance going on here, John?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Nah, just publicly recognizing a better programmer.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Here's[^] a collection of vintage guitar catalogues for you.
Served with some matching pedals[^].
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Awesome!  +5
/ravi
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Wow, those are some beautiful guitars
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Ok, actually yesterday, but that's not important...
Got a new laptop... Lenovo Y50 with an i7... Seems like a nice rig so far, but it's also my first direct experience with Windows 8.1 (All of my other machines either run Win7, Ubuntu, or Android).
Now, I don't mind the start screen... I'm sure I'll get sick of it soon, but so far I haven't tried doing any serious work on that machine (It's mostly for vacations and LAN parties)... So I can tolerate it for now. It would be utterly useless if it was a desktop, but it's a laptop with a touch screen, so it has a slight purpose.
What REALLY bugs me, though... I'm in the middle of a game, putting the GPU through its paces, and an overlay comes up saying my machine has downloaded updates and will restart in 15 minutes. The only options I'm presented with are "Restart Now" and "Close"... So I hit Close and assume I can just reboot later...
Ten minutes later... There's that overlay again... 5 minutes left! Wait, I can't postpone it? This is when having the nearest hammer more than 15 feet away was fortunate.
So yeah... Windows 8.1... You'll restart when we TELL you to restart!
(I found you can manually create a specific registry key to disable this behavior... Starting the next time you reboot... So hopefully it won't happen again, or I might have to perform unlicensed surgery on the OS)
I'm sure I'll find more things I hate about it soon enough... But that's enough for one post.
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Is it compatible with Win7?
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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