He might have escaped the blue screen

I think he was more worried about escaping the blue shift (rimshot)

To think Marathon's entire plot was rendered irrelevant by a discovery a mere 4 years after it came out.

It became an alternative speculative world, more akin to steam-punk than reality, but still entertaining.

He might have escaped the blue screen

I think he was more worried about escaping the blue shift (rimshot)

To think Marathon's entire plot was rendered irrelevant by a discovery a mere 4 years after it came out.

He might have escaped the blue screen

I think he was more worried about escaping the blue shift (rimshot)

Uh…

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/fix-blue-screen-mac-3673541/

I was installing some game dev tools and needed to fix some permissions manually. I screwed up and I updated the permissions for EVERY file on the drive to have my user as the owner. As there are files that should only be owned by the system, I got the blue screen and thought I lost everything and was going to have to restore from a backup. Luckily it was an easy fix once I booted into recovery mode and was able to fix the perms.

Uh…

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/fix-blue-screen-mac-3673541/

I bought my first Mac in 1985 - a 512K (with double floppy drives!). I have used Macs continuously since then, and even worked for a couple of years as the IT guy for my department in grad school (mostly RS/6000s and SGI workstations, but probably a dozen Macs, too). I have NEVER seen that before.

You learn something new every day!

That was my first Mac, too. Complete with double floppy drives. Living large. Never saw a blue screen on a Mac either, although I have seen my share of sad faces.

Uh…

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/fix-blue-screen-mac-3673541/

I bought my first Mac in 1985 - a 512K (with double floppy drives!). I have used Macs continuously since then, and even worked for a couple of years as the IT guy for my department in grad school (mostly RS/6000s and SGI workstations, but probably a dozen Macs, too). I have NEVER seen that before.

You learn something new every day!

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/fix-blue-screen-mac-3673541/

That’s just because you’re getting old.

Everyone knows the real fun is in yelling at each other until we’re blue in the face.

I'm looking forward to the day when my hearing gets so bad that all I see is the blue. No sound at all.

Everyone knows the real fun is in yelling at each other until we’re blue in the face.

and the dull hum of a CRT monitor will start come into audio focus.

I'm sure by the time I'm that old, I probably won't be able to hear the 15734hz tone the monitors make anymore…

Heh, my tinnitus just started to make its presence known and it effectively masks higher frequencies to me. RIP childhood

and the dull hum of a CRT monitor will start come into audio focus.

I'm sure by the time I'm that old, I probably won't be able to hear the 15734hz tone the monitors make anymore…

However, when the cylons attack and wipe away all of our gaming data, the world will grieve and wonder if there was anything they could have done to avert this fate.

Meanwhile, the camera will zoom into a lonely bunker, pan through a series of tunnels, and the dull hum of a CRT monitor will start come into audio focus. A series of rhythmic clacking sounds as buttons are mashed add to the ambience. The camera pans to reveal stacks of cartridges and gaming systems, computers, windows 95 discs, apple IIes, and more are all perfectly preserved and catalogued on vast shelves.

A man, unshaven for weeks? years? grabs another game and its accompanying system off the shelf. He smiles in satisfaction for he had prepared for these days. Yet part of him grieves because he tried to warn them. The smile fades for a split second as he ponders his efforts. If only they had listened...

So yeah, depending on where your servers are, you can easily do this. That's not the case for materials for physical media unless they decide to stop using the usual products.

Today, everything in an optical disc, including the packaging, is recyclable.

More than worldwide shipping? Maybe, I don’t know. I think getting rid of the plastic waste is a good thing. Energy has the potential to be cheap, at least.

As an example, a lot of our power in Washington comes from dams and wind. In fact, one of Googles major servers are on the Columbia river, where I grew up, because wanted good cheap power.

So yeah, depending on where your servers are, you can easily do this. That's not the case for materials for physical media unless they decide to stop using the usual products.