The first game for the PC that I remember playing with any regularity was called 7th Guest. It came out in 1993, though I doubt I played it when I was 9. It was a really creepy point and click puzzler. Here are the minimum requirements:
CPU Speed: 20 Mhz
RAM Required: 2 MB
Hard Disk Space: 10 MB
OS Version: 5.0 (I’m not entirely sure what Windows 5.0 is)
No video card needed.
As a comparison, here’s the specs of what originally came in my 6 year old Dell (9 years after 7th Guest came out).
CPU: 2.26 Ghz
RAM: 1 GB
Hard Disk Space: 40 GB
Video Card: 64 MB
Thanks to a math forum, I was able to get this answer:
“To use the simplest math, we’ll split up the 4380 hours into 2 hour intervals and assume (again, for the purpose of simplicity) that these 2 hour intervals are the only times you can enter and leave the bar. Each time you go, there is a 2189/2190 chance that he is not there.
After 5 times, you have a (2189/2190)^5, or a ~99.7718979% chance of never meeting him. This makes for a 0.2281021% chance of meeting him. This method is only fairly accurate, since I assumed your time in the bar is always exactly 2 hours, and I restricted your enter and exit times.”
Tom Morello (guitarist for Rage Against the Machine) is from one town over from my hometown. I don’t think he lives here anymore. He’s not in town often, but he is this week presumably because of Lollapalooza which is an hour from here. It still seems really rare.
Time spent in this bar per year by Morello = 2 hours.
Time spent in this bar per year by me = 10 hours.
There are 8760 total hours in a year. The bar isn’t open for half of those (let’s say): 4380 hours.
Morello is in the bar .00045% of the total possible time.
I was in the bar .0023% of the total possible time.
The chances of our times intersecting are…out of my calculatory abilities unfortunately.
Either way, Tom Morello and I were at the same bar last night. That’s probably cool enough.
Whatever happened to them? The only place they’re commonly used are in the X-Games and Central Park. When I see them, they look decidely 90’s. I wonder why; I always thought they were pretty handy as long as you get the shoe situation taken care of.
I mean, I wasn’t surprised to find out she released a Christian album some years ago. And I knew all the “UR So Gay”/”I Kissed a Girl” stuff was just publicity to get the record talked about.
But there was something I really enjoyed about her coming out (pun only) and kicking a few red states below the Bible Belt. And now it seems like she was batting for the other team (pun only) just a few years ago.
Seems like if her marketing team thought it would be popular, she’d be all over it. She is the textbook defintion of “selling out”.
I’m finding it hard to be angry at Perry though.
If she doesn’t make any of these albums with any convictions behind them, then she’s just out to take money from stupid bandwagoners. And I haven’t seen her claiming to be a serious artist anywhere.
One more item: the writing credits for “I Kissed a Girl” are split between four people. Perry is the last listed, but one of the other ones is Cathy Dennis who helped write songs for several other manufactered pop stars like the Spice Girls, Clay Aiken, S Club 7, and Kelly Clarkson. Another co-writer is Max Martin who helped write songs for yet other manufactured pop stars like Robyn, Britney, Backstreet Boys, and N’SYNC.
With these two Pop Gods involved, I wonder how much Perry was actually in the room for the creation of “her” big hit…
Watch out nerds, I’m coming for your jobs!
I was watching the first Diehard, which came out in 1988. It was strange to see how many technologies were being touted as advanced a mere 20 years ago. Cell phones (briefcase-sized), touch screen monitors (monochrome), TV in cars, and hacking computers seemed very impressive.
I wonder which technologies are commonplace in 2028. Terabyte harddrives certainly, but what about new things? Super HDTV? XBox 4200? Cell phone implants?
Guess who passed the first half of A+ exam!
The scoring was weird. There’s 100 questions. Some of them are not graded. I don’t know how many because they didn’t say. Scores range from 100 to 900. You need 675 to pass. I got 750. I have no idea what percentage that is.
Score of 900 = 100% of (100 questions - X)
where X is the unknown number of ungraded ones.
Score of 100 = 0% of (100 questions - X)
Score of 750 = screw this, I already passed the exam.
