Kung introduced me to Ouverture Facile a little while back. Needless to say, there's nothing facile about this. After many hours of wrecking our brains, we finally got to level 48. The puzzles are getting harder, and the clues on the help forums are getting fewer. There are at least 61 levels, and I heard there are over 95 levels in the French version. Halfway there!
Two of the recent levels revolved around these keywords - "mouse" (plural) and "history" (0000). These words reminded me of a copy of the Oct 1996 edition of Popular Science I had found while rummaging through my basement. Their 1996 "What's NEW" section featured an (the only) awesome product from M$ - the rolley button mouse! For the unbeatable price of $79, you can get a wired, rolley on top, rolley on bottom, 2 button mouse!
10 years is a long time. To put things in perspective, from the same issue of Popular Science, the Computer for Gamers!
FOR SERIOUS PC GAMERS LOOKING for fast action, the Compaq Presario 8000 series offers 6 MB of RAM for graphics alone. The total memory ranges up to 32 MB and the hard drive is a whopping 3.8GB. Other speedy features: Intel processors blaze away at up to 200 MHz, a DSVD modem sends voice and data simultaneously... Price range from $2,500 to $3,200.Final interesting thing from this issue of PopSci is a small blurb about the advent of the digital versatile disc (DVD).
The new format for home video and computers is designed to deliver unheard of picture quality and storage capacity. [So true!] Well, kids, you can scratch DVD off your Christmas list. In all likelihood, the format won't make it onto store shelves until next year (1997). The big holdup? The pople who'll be supplying the software - namely the movie industry - want some type of data encryption to prevent unauthorized copying. [erm].
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1/22/2007 1:36 AM
Hey didn't realize you are writing here. That blurb about the super gamer pc is so amazing.