By Walt Hickey WoW Blizzard Entertainment has cut a new deal with Chinese gaming titan NetEase that will bring World of Warcraft back to China. Previously, the companies had a 14-year running arrangement where NetEase would distribute the game within China, but a failure to reach a new arrangement led to an acrimonious split in which lawsuits were hurled. China’s gaming market is the biggest in the world — revenues last year were up 13 percent to
I am rarely shocked by any of your stories, but the one about the floppies blew my mind--this is 2024!!! We have AI. My cell phone has a terabyte of memory, and yet a major city's transportation department is using (early) 1990s technology to operate?????????????
A friend who worked at a Department of Energy facility was doing a full search for a probably 1985-vintage tape drive to get a technical drawing off a tape so they could repair something. If memory serves, a lot of the nuclear weapons stuff is still on 8” floppies.
Gosh, I wonder if I can get a CMOS battery for my ancient 486 from them if I offer to swap a nearly pristine 5.25 floppy drive? But then, if I did that, we wouldn't be able to play that version of King's Quest. Decisions, decisions! :D
I am rarely shocked by any of your stories, but the one about the floppies blew my mind--this is 2024!!! We have AI. My cell phone has a terabyte of memory, and yet a major city's transportation department is using (early) 1990s technology to operate?????????????
That story about floppies and dialup-speed modems running the train system of a major metropolitan area is almost beyond belief in 2024!
A friend who worked at a Department of Energy facility was doing a full search for a probably 1985-vintage tape drive to get a technical drawing off a tape so they could repair something. If memory serves, a lot of the nuclear weapons stuff is still on 8” floppies.
Gosh, I wonder if I can get a CMOS battery for my ancient 486 from them if I offer to swap a nearly pristine 5.25 floppy drive? But then, if I did that, we wouldn't be able to play that version of King's Quest. Decisions, decisions! :D