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GPL IS A HORRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT

John Walla

GPL IS A HORRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT

by John Walla » Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:00:00

On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 23:03:00 GMT, "Mike Laskey"


>Did you say this is "fun"?  Did you miss school the day they covered that
>particular word from the dictionary?!! ;-)

Different culture Mike - people up here think that San Marino scoring
after 10 seconds is way more fun than the seven England banged in
shortly afterwards. We like penalty shootouts involving certain
Germanic nations and cricket is only fun as a vehicle for certain
beverage oriented nations to demonstrate their superiority.

Things falling into the "not fun" category are, in no particular
order, traffic jams on the M25, rental cars braking down, trying to
keep up with you on unfamiliar country roads(!), ladies with
moustaches and Hearts end of season form.

Yeah, I think I've got a pretty good handle on the usage of "fun" :-)

Cheers!
John

Mike Laske

GPL IS A HORRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT

by Mike Laske » Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:00:00

John,

hahaha!  Ladies with moustaches.  Yes.  Give me a call some time and I'll
tell you a story about that!

As for trying to keep up with me on unfamiliar country roads, what, are you
talking about?  Were you having difficulty back there, John?! <g>

Mike.

ps.  cricket is never fun.

Mike Laske

GPL IS A HORRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT

by Mike Laske » Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:00:00

Sure, I enjoy reading some of the posts here, but at the end of the day,
generally there are better things to be doing instead of posting messages.
However, I am involved in a big way in implementing our global company's
email system so it's probably no wonder that having spent yet another 12
hour day working on messaging that I don't feel too enthused when I get
home!

Mike.

Mike Laske

GPL IS A HORRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT

by Mike Laske » Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:00:00

Richard,

On a scale of 1 to Never, it's probably closer to Never :-)

Mike.

Byron Forbe

GPL IS A HORRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT

by Byron Forbe » Sat, 25 Apr 1998 04:00:00


> John,

> hahaha!  Ladies with moustaches.  Yes.  Give me a call some time and I'll
> tell you a story about that!

> As for trying to keep up with me on unfamiliar country roads, what, are you
> talking about?  Were you having difficulty back there, John?! <g>

> Mike.

> ps.  cricket is never fun.

   Well, I must say I'm not a big fan of cricket (even though my uncle
played for Australia - sin!), but I must sympathise with you poor
pommy's of late. Abysmal! :) And what's the world coming to with these
***y Paki's?
John Walla

GPL IS A HORRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT

by John Walla » Sat, 25 Apr 1998 04:00:00



Hey - isn't a "pom" an Englishman? If so then I should call you a Kiwi
:-)

Cheers!
John

Mike Laske

GPL IS A HORRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT

by Mike Laske » Sat, 25 Apr 1998 04:00:00

Still, could be worse.  John's had a load of Russian nuclear waste dumped
on his door-step today.  Nice one! ;-)

Mike.

Byron Forbe

GPL IS A HORRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT

by Byron Forbe » Sun, 26 Apr 1998 04:00:00




> >   Well, I must say I'm not a big fan of cricket (even though my uncle
> >played for Australia - sin!), but I must sympathise with you poor
> >pommy's of late. Abysmal! :) And what's the world coming to with these
> >***y Paki's?

> Hey - isn't a "pom" an Englishman? If so then I should call you a Kiwi
> :-)

   Well, they're no good at cricket either! LOL. I little presumptuous
of me to assume someone with the ".uk" on the end of their email address
was a pom. So let me have another guess. Scottish?
Maps

GPL IS A HORRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT

by Maps » Sun, 26 Apr 1998 04:00:00

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 01:33:00 -0700, "Marc J. Nelson"



>> What, you mean that this ISN'T a demo of the final version?  Oh my
>> god, what good is it?  I mean, really, releasing something just to get
>> positive feedback and work out some of the kinks?  ;-)

>How dare they, eh?!

Well, I am glad they release stuff early for us, but for god sake, why
the hell does GPL dial my freakin' modem every time I launch it, then,
once connected, crash (sometimes crashing my whole computer)? I have a
new Dell 300 with 64 meg RAM... Quake2, N2, ICR2... none of these
crashes it. But this little GPL devil weeds it's way in an I am
actually getting afraid to mess with it anymore!

One time I did get it not to dial the modem (I don't know how)- I will
say that while the scenery looked good, but the framerate has a *very*
long way to go, and I, for one, can do without the pretend arms and so
forth- I just want a sim.


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