Well, you just have to not use the internet. Just like in the olden times…
I also have an old XP laptop stored away. Its only purpose: Talk to my old photo negative scanner whose software won’t run on more recent OS’s. Only communication with the outside world is by USB memory stick.
Yes, Orangina is definitly in another league. My first bottle of it practically ruined all other soft drinks for me, can’t stand them anymore. Besides certain kinds of sparkling mineral water it is practically the only carbonated stuff I drink once in a while. Oh, and I also like Bionade which is also not so sweet and slightly bitter tasting because of its malt basis. But Bionade is probably even harder to get than Orangina in most parts of the world…
I still have my old Lenovo X61T which is nearly as old. With maxed out RAM (4GB) and an SSD it is actually still quite usable (running Linux). I love its great keyboard, that’s the reason I kept it. At some time my kids discovered that it is still able to run Minetest at reduced settings and so it now is part of the occasional LAN-Party when friends are over. Opens my heart to see the old buddy right in the middle of action being used by a bunch of kids that are only slightly over half its age!
I couldn’t stop laughing when I heard this the first time at university. I still occasionally make a point to use the word in source code comments and stuff wherever it may fit. Love it! Nibble!
Remember playing this quite some time at a friends. But I think we played Wing Commander even more for some reason.
And way before that: Elite on a C64. That blow my mind at the time. Connected lines in 3D! Wow. And yes, I am old.
But my favorite of all time has to be Privateer II - The Darkening. Relatively open world with a cool background story and incredibly immersive with fitting prerendered cutscene visuals and lots of real actors doing the keyscenes.
Finally, I am not the only one! Feels good.
What a phantastic thread!
We have had linguistics, sociology, physics and now biology in the form of colour perception so far.
Cross domain discussions are great! :-)
Well in my case it’s more about where to draw the line between blue and green.
I can differentiate the colours but just still call things blue that my GF (and most of the rest of the world, apart from Japanese and the german dialect I grew up with as it seems) already calls green.
Yes, exactly.
E.g. in Germany I don’t have heard anyone using Indigo and Purpur as major colours but only in combination with blue : “Purpurblau” and “Indigoblau” describing certain forms of blue.
So only blue and violet in german rainbows. And ultraviolet because most of us are more engineer than poet nowadays ;-)
Interesting point.
And I am a little bit with the Japanese in this regard. At least my GF always complains that I am unable to correctly distinguish between green and blue ;-)
I’m confused…
Doesn’t a rainbow contain all colours by definition?
lf it is a region lock than even if you use a VPN you propably won’t be able to buy anything.
Unless you also happen to own a japanese credit card. And a shipping address in Japan for physical stuff.
(Sad European noices…)
Should have kept the original name though.
“Bierstadt” would have been awesome!
No, my fault, I only knew such stuff with real maps up to now.
E.g. a local natural park did something really similar, adding a bunch of plant and animal pictograms to their map as a mini game. You had to count how many you saw. Did really help to not letting the kids get bored during the hike.
And also there is geohashing which is kind of a “roll your destination” game…
Ok, so you don’t do actual hiking, now I think I get the basic idea!
I was propably confused by your “take it on next trip” remark…
Don’t quite get it…
Is it something like geohashing on a physical map?
What are the symbols for? (I guess you didn’t actually encounter 20 bears?)
Sieht gut aus. Wann Kinostart? Die Kühe und die Schaf-Kino-Szene sind phantastisch!
Jetzt wo ich drüber nachdenke, gab es da nicht auch vor kurzem einen Heidi Splatter-Film?
But that’s exactly the point.
E-Ink Displays would have been unable to explain for me from my thoroughly * informed * perspective as an HF and digital communications student.
Active displays in one form or another had been around for 50 years or so at that time. So have been practially all base technology concepts of the much mentioned smartphones. Nothing magical about an optimized version, just extrapolation.
But E-Ink? A * brand new * technology * without prior art * rapidly emerging from obscure theoretical concept to widespread use within just 15 years or so…
I am actually still a little bit awed each time I switch on one of those…
l can think of one magic-technology that appeared during my lifetime:
E-Ink-Readers.
I mean, script suddenly appearing out of thin air on flat, solid surfaces? WTF?
I even studied enginering in the early 90’s and would not have been able to come up with a technological explaination if I had encountered one of those back then…
Anybody watched the video? What’s the verdict?