Is it really asking too much

[Raist]

What is QQing? I am sure you don't mean crying because QQ is actually an old term coined during the age of early network play where it meant to ragequit because QQ exited the app. So is it too much to ask that people actually understand what they are staying and quit regurgitating misinformation?

The issues they have been having have been since the 'official release'. I have yet to see a single day where they haven't had any myriad of problems.

0.o so I'm not the only old fart in this game after all?

Oh the days of bulletin boards, and that annoying 14.4/28.8k squawk box. Good times.

[Knall]

0.o so I'm not the only old fart in this game after all?

Oh the days of bulletin boards, and that annoying 14.4/28.8k squawk box. Good times.

If it helps, I played my first online game with a 2400, I remember upgrading to a 9600 and thinking life was good.

[Raist]

If it helps, I played my first online game with a 2400, I remember upgrading to a 9600 and thinking life was good.

lol.. BAUD rate. Wonder how many here even know what that is. It was so much fun to walk into a government building and find old System/36 systems still lying around... the dreaded hard drives the size of a masonry block that couldn't even hold a single CD's worth of data. Seriously, they were complete with fan/heatsink and literally like 20 lbs or heavier. Oh, and the 8 inch floppies.... 1/4 tape reels.

The good old days, when you could actually get at the guts of your OS. This Win8 crap is driving me NUTS!!!

Sometimes I wonder if that isn't part of our problem with SE these last few years. All the younger script kiddies that have no "old school" skills, and just don't know how to think things through and plan properly for the exceptions that can come their way. I remember first watching guys do things in Eclipse, and I was like WTF?!! It was like automated coding? When the hell did that happen?

Man.. I feel really old now... time for some Irish Coffee, and back to work.

[Knall]

lol.. BAUD rate. Wonder how many here even know what that is. It was so much fun to walk into a government building and find old System/36 systems still lying around... the dreaded hard drives the size of a masonry block that couldn't even hold a single CD's worth of data. Seriously, they were complete with fan/heatsink and literally like 20 lbs or heavier. Oh, and the 8 inch floppies.... 1/4 tape reels.

The good old days, when you could actually get at the guts of your OS. This Win8 crap is driving me NUTS!!!

Sometimes I wonder if that isn't part of our problem with SE these last few years. All the younger script kiddies that have no "old school" skills, and just don't know how to think things through and plan properly for the exceptions that can come their way. I remember first watching guys do things in Eclipse, and I was like WTF?!! It was like automated coding? When the hell did that happen?

Man.. I feel really old now... time for some Irish Coffee, and back to work.

Not to hijack the thread but . . . do you remember making those 8.5" floppies double sided so you could skip out on the extra cost? I remember seeing people sticking them between book pages and freezing them up. As far as those giant drives I might actually have a few lying around for posterity somewhere, assuming my wife didn't toss them already. Remember when 'tape' drives came out to pc markets? by tape I mean cassette tape. I am not sure I actually EVER got one of those to actually WORK. You remember the 'turbo' button that came with the newer PC's? I remember someone pushed that once when I wasn't paying attention and it took AGES for a game to load and I was wondering WTF!?

That was back in the days of MUDS. I believe some of my old stomping grounds are still around, maybe I should go look while we have down time! Assuming I can still read.

-K