How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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Too, too trueI remember the days (adjusts pullover, inhales pipe, looks smug) when 32Mbyte was a respectable size for a hard disc.
Computing power pretty much doubles every 18 months (Moore's law). So why the hell I should *ever* wait for my computer to do something is beyond me.
Vista and Office 2007 - they are both sh*te. And yes, I am running SP1. Using a database in Access 2007 yesterday, trying to re-size fields, it wouldn't let me. Out of memory. On a 2 Gig machine. 2 Gig for the love of God - an unthinkable amount. Damn sure on a 386 running Access 2 it would have let me do that. But not on a machine that's theoretically hundreds of times faster, on a software release that should also be BETTER not PRETTIER.
I love computers - as they give me my income - but by Christ they should be so much better now than they are.
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I_Was_Mordred, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 15:33,
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