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I'm not sure about going bananas, but I think you must be like me:
I'm not suffering from insanity, I'm enjoying every minute of it!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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They usually get diagnosed with plantain fasciitis.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Software Zen: delete this;
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Only to doctors who can stand pudding up with them.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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figured they would split to get second and third opinions
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Only on sundaes
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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This is some wonderful stuff 
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This post[^] made me realize - the time to download an ISO around here is usually longer than the interval between power outages (Google it if you don't know what those are).
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Hah! You're lucky!
Back in the day we had dial-up, which crashed out if somebody else in the house lifted the phone ... or the wind was blowing ... or the stars were out of alignment.
I bought a copy of Half-Life back then, only to find it was this new-fangled "Steam app" thingy, and it wouldn't run until Steam had updated itself each time (do note that Half-Life was not an online game). Since it took considerably longer than the average "time to die" of dial up to download the steam update - and no, it didn't resume - I never got to play the game at all ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I had, probably still have somewhere, Half Life as I recall you didn't need to dial up, I didn't have a modem then. It was a bu**** never finished it...
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No, you didn't need dial up for H-L, you need it for Steam. And H-L wouldn't run until Steam was up to date ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If memory serves it had a version of Steam that it was happy with...
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It must have. It's been decades, so I might be fuzzy on the details, but I remember installing the game from CD and playing it, without ever having gone online.
That said, I might have downloaded patches from elsewhere, burnt them on CD and brought them home to install from there. But I don't recall Steam being part of the vocabulary back then.
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I seem to remember that, A CD nothing more... you wanted a game you went to the shops handed over money and got media! Imagine telling kids in the futre you had Monkey island on 8 5.25 discs, 4 1.44 & 1 CDRom!.. 
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glennPattonWork wrote: you wanted a game you went to the shops handed over money and got media
That's still how I roll. No media? No purchase.
Mind you, I hardly play games anymore - but always make an exception for whatever becomes latest installment of the GTA franchise.
Although by now, it's had so many patches I'm not sure there's a single file that came from one of the eight DVDs that still matches what's on the hard drive.
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In a way you're right, we couldn't afford a computer (and didn't need one either) back when dial-up was the only connection available.
And steam was what we got when we boiled drinking water to kill the contaminants. 
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Member 14331076 wrote: steam was what we got when we boiled drinking water
We couldn't afford to boil water.
There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You had a shoebox? You were lucky!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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We were so poor when I was young I had to build the house I was born in.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Did you get thrashed wit broken bottle ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Well, we would set a pan of Boone's Farm wine out at night so it would freeze and we could pour off the 180 proof flavored alcohol. 
Plus, it was a contest every morning to see who would get up first to warm up the terlet seat after the 20 below (Fahrenheit) nights. 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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OriginalGriff wrote: no, it didn't resume - I never got to play the game at all ...
I had that very problem with po... eh, educational material!!!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Back in the day when I would fix computers for the wife's friends, one of her managers brought me his kid's system and a new video card so he could play WoW. One of their problems was that the patch for the game was something like 2.5GB and they didn't have broadband...so they used my bandwidth to enable a teenager to play games. I was supposed to get a free meal out of the deal but that never happened...wife wound up firing him soon after for improper cash handling. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Second quarter tie? (4,2,5)
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Thought I had it with "Draw a blank" but I drew a blank
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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