Mr. McFarland said the past year also brought growth to Web-based radio, but primitive efforts at television have not been particularly successful.
From his first primitive efforts in the early 1960's, mounting magnets on monitors to warp the electronic signal, to more recent multichannel projections of global events, he has tuned into video's processes and possibilities with keen insight, inventiveness and a wild sense of humor.
Twenty years ago, however, it was much easier to evade the system's primitive efforts to teacher-proof instruction.
Feynman also took charge of the project's primitive computing effort, using a hybrid of new calculating machines and human workers to try to process the vast amounts of numerical computation required by the project.
Lowe, who considered the original Softporn Adventure "a primitive, early effort", borrowed its basic structure and added a graphic game engine (Adventure Game Interpreter), improvised humor, and an on-screen protagonist, Larry Laffer.
Can we really trace our appreciation for joyful music to the evolutionary advantage that optimism provided primitive man in his efforts to pick up primitive women?
Hence those adaptations could not have been the result of animals' gliding from treetops in efforts at primitive flight, as some "voodoo paleontology" has suggested.
The resulting game was primitive, despite the best efforts of its programmer, Howard Scott Warshaw, who attended Saturday's excavation to explain to fans exactly why the game was so bad.
Their efforts, while primitive, are limited right now by funding and time.
But many analysts continued to say that if Libya had a weapons program at all, the effort was very primitive, and years from producing biological weapons.
