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So if she's knoc... up you are technically Doomed.
Does any one of em come with 320x200 display?
Running DOOM on a pregnancy test - YouTube
“A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn’t implement any of it.”
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Kent ran it on Monday: The Insider News[^]
And ... it's not running on it, it's a different processor and display, plus it's a video not the game. So ... it's "in the tester case@ - "running" is pushing it, really!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: And ... it's not running on it, it's a different processor and display, plus it's a video not the game. So ... it's "in the tester case@ - "running" is pushing it, really!
v2 of the demo actually was playing doom with a tiny BT keyboard. The swapped processor is supposedly equivalent to the one that the tester came with; except able to have a new firmware loaded on it vs having it's flash write feature fused off at the factory.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If it's positive, someone played with the BFG !!
I'd rather be phishing!
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I followed the evolution of this live on Twitter, Foon Turing is one crazy SOB.
GCS d--(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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The Avengers with Emma Peel was by far the best. Loved it.
Sad day. RIP.
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Also best Bond girl ever! ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I'm tempted to delete Bond from that sentence.
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She appeared in Theatre of Blood, a dark comedy in which Vincent Price played a Shakespearean actor who sets out to murder the critics who panned him, killing each of them by re-staging a death scene from one of Shakespeare's plays. The actors who played the critics were actually all renowned British Shakespearean actors. One of my all-time favourite films.
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Thank you - I need to hunt this one down. (Sounds like VP was typecast for a while - this sounds like the basic plot of Dr. Phibes as well, although that was killing via the curses of Egypt)
TTFN - Kent
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You will not be disappointed. A lot of good performances, especially VP, Diana Rigg, and Robert Morley.
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The Avengers opening titles - YouTube[^]
Oh I had a crush on her as a youngster, for sure. She was a killer in a cat suit!!
Or perhaps as a dominatrix. Style and Grace..and a Boot to the Face! - YouTube[^]
Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon the requisite contempt
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Majerus wrote: The Avengers opening titles - YouTube[^]
OMG!  This brings back memories. Is this the best opening titles (and theme tune) of any TV program? Ever!
Majerus wrote: Oh I had a crush on her as a youngster, for sure.
I think that goes for everyone. 
Majerus wrote: She was a killer in a cat suit!!
 The only character in a TV series, to come anywhere close since, is Killing Eve's Villanelle.
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One of those special pretty faces that you never tire of. And those cheekbones!
Up there with Julie Newmar (cat woman) in a catsuit.
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Someone brought me an old laptop to "clean up" because she wants to give it to a 3-year old grandchild, to keep her away from her "good" laptop. It's old, it's slow, there was nothing I was asked to salvage, so I figured the quickest way to get there was to blow everything away and just let a clean install of Windows take over the entire disk after deleting it all.
The first attempt to install went just fine. Then I let Windows 7 get and install any and all updates it could find. This is what the system came with, and even though I realize it's out of support, yada-yada, I figured it would probably be the best thing to reinstall on it. Anything newer would be even slower, not to mention no guarantee that any proprietary driver might not be available or work with 8/8.1/10/whatever else. At some point some update failed, and it spent countless hours rolling everything back. Next time around I told it to only install a subset of them, and do it all in smaller chunks (that generally seems to work better in my experience since, at this point in time, Win7 tries to get and install hundreds of updates...which might be just too much for it to try to handle all at once).
At some point it decided to run System Repair (not System Restore) on every startup, even though it could never find/fix any problem. I figured I'd try a different hard drive - I have plenty of spares I don't mind giving away. Long story short, I'm back in the same situation; System Repair comes up on its own on every reboot and, if I can eventually reach the login screen, the subsequent reboot starts the whole thing all over again.
While I'm ready to say the first hard drive's just gone way past its useful life (the manufacturing date printed on it says 2007), I have a harder time saying the same about the second, and I know I last used it to test various Linux distributions in another laptop and never had a problem with it.
I'm not sure if some unrelated hardware problem could manifest itself in this way. But I'm running out of patience and not quite willing to try a third hard drive, if only for the sake of trying.
Again, it's just an old laptop to be given to a 3-year old, so honestly, I've probably spent way more time on this than anyone ought to. I think this is gonna be one of those rare times I just tell her to trash it.
I had no point and no question. Just a semi-rant, I guess...
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dandy72 wrote: she wants to give it to a 3-year old grandchild
3? Get them an Etch A Sketch instead, I doubt they'll know the difference
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: I doubt they'll know the difference
My 3-year old grandson watches films and plays games on his tablet. He would definitely know the difference. His first question when he first brought it to our house: "Grandad, what's your wifi password?".
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Yeah...I think her expectation was that she might be able to set up some simple games on it to keep the kid occupied, but I have no idea what old game might still work on Win7, on a laptop that old.
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Everything that's equally old.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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True. But I suspect she's not the type who would've hung onto an installer so she can set it up again 10 years down the road. I'd expect her (and that'd be me being an optimist for her to go that far) to google for something, download it, and try to install it. And her googling would NOT be returning anything that has the same age as her laptop.
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Neat Trick for young kids.
The passwords should be the phone numbers they should always know!
Starting at 2, my daughter got her first computer (an old spare), I removed the WIN, ALT and other KEYS that cause problems.
By 5 she was doing a little home key practice
By 5th Grade she could type over 60 WPM!
Another good idea we used:
Practicing Touch Typing for 2-3 minutes (increasing over time), was the PENANCE she had to pay to PLAY!
Everything she was given, had a condition attached to it, like study time, reading time, math time.
She did her "WORK" first, and then had access to games, walks and drives...
The little snot learned to complete EVERYTHING in the first 1hr of the day, all summer, so she could have the rest of her day. LOL...
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