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Uh uh. Computers were for work. Spreadsheets, databases, programming.

So you played Flight Sim, Magic 8 Ball, and Pinball, eh?

Yeah, I'm in electronics, so I used to play a lot of Tetris and Bugs.

Think of it as having some hidden Easter Eggs or a game.
Perhaps It'll come back with something interesting if you listen to things like Joe Wecker - DeCSS Song or Wierd Al Yakovic - Windows 95 Sucks

Could anyone else care about what you listen to?

If your collection is really Da BOMB, it'll include
JJ Walker - DYNOMITE!
Simon and Garfunkle BRIDGE Over Troubled Water
Moody Blues - TUESDAY AFTERNOON
The Vogues - FIVE O'CLOCK World

Loom, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle... That liberated the player to walk up to dangerous pirates and insult them to their faces and know that however embarrassing the consequences, it would never be fatal to the game.

That isn't completly true, you could die in Secrets of Monkey Island(tm).
Here is a howto from eeggs.com and a screenshot from http://mywebpages.comcast.net/paulsuth/somipage.ht ml

Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) - Wizard of Oz Synchronization

Don't worry, I'm sure Superman will save us! Or not.

You mean like Excel 95?

Perhaps the best gaming easter eggs aren't in games at all. The Excel flight simulator is an old favorite of mine.

1. Hold Left-Shift, Left-Alt, Right-Shift and right-alt

2. Press any of the F keys and get a message!

3. To get a rude message toward Commodore, do this

4. Hold down the same as step 1 and hold down an f key

5. Insert a disk and you get the message " We made the amiga... "

6. Take the disk out and you get " And Commodore Fucked it up! "

I have experienced some crashed with my nokia phones (do not blame me, I got them for free). Bugs in firmwares and stuff are also to blame, like this cute little Sony Ericsson bug: here

I thought of this first, but he doesn't speak in an Austrian accent, at least not in episodes I've seen.

for those of you who didn't get that joke.

Or you could play Doom inside Excel 95, without any special download whatsoever. Er almost.

There was a Monty Python Album with 3 groves.

http://www.eeggs.com/items/2874.html

Seems odd he wouldn't get paid his due, considering the cameos he's made in Marvel movies.

Correct me if I'm wrong here.

Seems odd he wouldn't get paid his due, considering the cameos he's made in Marvel movies.

Correct me if I'm wrong here.

Seems odd he wouldn't get paid his due, considering the cameos he's made in Marvel movies.

Correct me if I'm wrong here.

Isn't the point of an Easter eggs that it is hidden?!?!
Some thing that is put in by one of the programmers as a joke
Like the "I wish Bill Gates was dead" easteregg in Word'97 Or Doom 3 - PDA Spam Egg http://www.eeggs.com/items/43260.html/ Or URL:http://faqs.ign.com/articles/544/544857p1.html /.
Or the WinXP Windows XP -shut down unexpectantly http://www.eeggs.com/items/37518.html/

Dam blood kids growing up on Win2K and XP., want everything now and it be all graphical. Never saw a command line in there live, or if so only in games is enter the GOD or ammo cheats......

"NIPPLES!! I HAVE NO NIPPLES!!!" -- Happy Noodle Boy

Isn't the point of an Easter eggs that it is hidden?!?!
Some thing that is put in by one of the programmers as a joke
Like the "I wish Bill Gates was dead" easteregg in Word'97 Or Doom 3 - PDA Spam Egg http://www.eeggs.com/items/43260.html/ Or URL:http://faqs.ign.com/articles/544/544857p1.html /.
Or the WinXP Windows XP -shut down unexpectantly http://www.eeggs.com/items/37518.html/

Dam blood kids growing up on Win2K and XP., want everything now and it be all graphical. Never saw a command line in there live, or if so only in games is enter the GOD or ammo cheats......

"NIPPLES!! I HAVE NO NIPPLES!!!" -- Happy Noodle Boy

Clicky and learn, friend.

Random text to avoid lameness filter. Rob Malda is a sexy man. I wish he didn't marry Kathleen Fent so I could offer my manslot to him upon every waking moment.

So Deepz0ne has his name 9 times on every machine running XP. 72 bytes per machine, he must be taking up a several gigabytes across the globe, very impressive. I don't think there are many names buried in Windows now since Microsoft banned easter eggs. Bar Wes Cherry who appears to have his name in every release with Solitaire.

DeltaMi-1=aSigman=1Di(n)(SigmajEC(i)Fij(n-1)+Fexti (n-1))

Ever seen the face in this song ?
http://www.eeggs.com/items/34824.html

Then point out that, instead of running an Easter Egg and Taxi across your screen, if you were dealing with a E-ballot box, it could have brought up a screen allowing you to modify the vote count.

This cannot be tested for after delivery because, no matter what testing regime you come up with and execute, I can come up with an easter egg that will be missed by that regime. (This actually fits the mathematical definition of 'infinite').

Question:
Should we be willing to bet our democracy on the hope that nobody would pay to do what is provably possible? More importantly: should we place our nation, states and municipalities at the mercy of the people who would be willing to engage in such a usurpation of democracy?

I know they're going with Kirk but wouldn't it be funny if he played the tyrant from Sea Quest DSV, instead of Kirk? Anyone who saw this episode will know what I mean... he was terrible in it with a fake accent and all the Shatner pomp and circumstance.

But seriously, I would much rather see Spock again.

Heh

While speaking of movies and underwater drilling - The Abyss, anyone?

Imagine how much DVD-Audio and SACD cost, especially as they have to accommodate existing players and feature backwards compatibility.

Accommodating existing players? Most DVD Audio titles I've looked at include a backward compatibility track for use with DVD Video players.

Oh, you meant backwards compatibility. You mean like the alleged "Satan move through our voices" in the song "Snowblind" by Styx?

Instead of a ring, you could play this messed up thing that Weird Al put at the end of Off the Deep End...

The best easter egg in a car I think is this one. Have not found the hidden launch control on my 10 year old rustbucket, though. I am taking apart the digital clock this weekend to find it.

I definitely second this recommendation. IMO, one of the best scanners ever made. I have a newer usb HP scanner that doesn't even come close to the speed of this thing. They just don't make bulky, well built quality scanners like the 4C anymore.

And for the record, you aren't limited to only 4 software applications for scanning (at least in Windows, any application will work if it uses TWAIN). Perhaps you were referring to the document feeder having limited software compatibility?

(Off topic, but amusing nonetheless if you didn't know, there's an easter egg that's quite humorous..)

you do it like this and it works on a lot of HP's older scanners..

I'm just waiting/hoping for the day when Microsoft creates a PDF on a Mac that does a MS Office vs. ViM comparison.

Then those stupid emacs lovers will finally have to shove it. Of course, ViM doesn't have a version of Tetris for ViM (like emacs) or a fucking flight sim nested in it (Like Excel).

Come to think of it, Open Office doesn't have a flight sim nested in it either. Shouldn't this be in the PDF? This some serious ROI here...

This has already been mentioned below, but I dug up the link and I think it deserves its own thread: LINK

One of the labs at my University has the infamous Tetris oscilloscopes. Hoo mamma, when I discovered that little "feature" I was one happy camper.

You must be forgetting the fast-paced, finely tuned, ultra-realistic bloatware that is Microsoft Word 97. Yeah, that's right, a pinball game somehow slipped into the release of Word 97... oops.

You would presumably place a copyright trap in your database.

Map makers, form companies, and the like are known to insert intentional errors in their maps in order to prevent somebody who has copied their information from claiming that the information was gathered independently.

...leaked Half-Life 2 source code is present in Linux operating system

Lest we forget the gaming goodies hidden in Microsoft Excel (here, here), and Word (here)?

...leaked Half-Life 2 source code is present in Linux operating system

Lest we forget the gaming goodies hidden in Microsoft Excel (here, here), and Word (here)?

...leaked Half-Life 2 source code is present in Linux operating system

Lest we forget the gaming goodies hidden in Microsoft Excel (here, here), and Word (here)?

AFAIK, Microsoft is one of the leading makers of 'undocumented features' in the industry.

Pun intended.

Here you go.

Weren't those software easter eggs pranks too ? If you end up keying in some combinations of keystrokes, you might see totally unexpected funny/interesiting stuff on your screen.

Did you miss out on this post and all the replies?

i hear this argument a lot, the whole, "why should i give out my code for free?" thing. doesn't anybody do anything for the love of doing it rather than the love of money anymore?

take for example the model of the USS Enterprise in the smithsonian (unfortunately the only link i can find relating to it is here) . from what i remember, that guy spent 6 long years making this huge, minutely detailed replica of the USS Enterprise, and donated it to the smithsonian. donated!

it received national attention and is probably visited by several hundred people every day. as an engineer, i can respect that: bored engineers need to work their hands and minds, and man, if people can marvel in our creations at the end, that's fucking awesome.

i doubt that guy gets any money for what he made. i doubt he really wants any. it's a beautiful replica that isn't otherwise languishing in a shrink-wrapped box gathering dust in some closet.. it's not a project that was scrapped halfway through because of some manager's whims or economic constraints. it's the product of a lot of love, attention, and imagination.

Random question: Was that the same Jefferies for whom the (in)famous Jefferies tubes are named?

It is indeed. Google has more.

i saw this link on fark recently. as was so perfectly stated at that time, i can't believe anyone decided that DVDA (DVD-Audio) would be a good acronym for... well for anything at all. sorry, that acronym is tained for all time.

Take a look around http://www.eeggs.com.

What the egg is.

Exactly how to reproduce the egg.

What hardware/software versions does it work on?

Many of the eggs on the site are simply not eggs. Read the comments in the following egg to see how many people show the egg to be false, but yet the non-egg continue to stay posted:

http://www.eeggs.com/items/16200.html

The webmaster even admits it for this one:

http://www.eeggs.com/items/22634.html

Here is the same exact egg, listed twice (also try reading the comments for some highly intellectual discussion):

http://www.eeggs.com/tree/1243.html

I think the site sucks, because it doing a less than half-ass job. It's not worth doing if you're not going to at least _try_ to do it right.

What the egg is.

Exactly how to reproduce the egg.

What hardware/software versions does it work on?

Many of the eggs on the site are simply not eggs. Read the comments in the following egg to see how many people show the egg to be false, but yet the non-egg continue to stay posted:

http://www.eeggs.com/items/16200.html

The webmaster even admits it for this one:

http://www.eeggs.com/items/22634.html

Here is the same exact egg, listed twice (also try reading the comments for some highly intellectual discussion):

http://www.eeggs.com/tree/1243.html

I think the site sucks, because it doing a less than half-ass job. It's not worth doing if you're not going to at least _try_ to do it right.

What the egg is.

Exactly how to reproduce the egg.

What hardware/software versions does it work on?

Many of the eggs on the site are simply not eggs. Read the comments in the following egg to see how many people show the egg to be false, but yet the non-egg continue to stay posted:

http://www.eeggs.com/items/16200.html

The webmaster even admits it for this one:

http://www.eeggs.com/items/22634.html

Here is the same exact egg, listed twice (also try reading the comments for some highly intellectual discussion):

http://www.eeggs.com/tree/1243.html

I think the site sucks, because it doing a less than half-ass job. It's not worth doing if you're not going to at least _try_ to do it right.

What the egg is.

Exactly how to reproduce the egg.

What hardware/software versions does it work on?

Many of the eggs on the site are simply not eggs. Read the comments in the following egg to see how many people show the egg to be false, but yet the non-egg continue to stay posted:

http://www.eeggs.com/items/16200.html

The webmaster even admits it for this one:

http://www.eeggs.com/items/22634.html

Here is the same exact egg, listed twice (also try reading the comments for some highly intellectual discussion):

http://www.eeggs.com/tree/1243.html

I think the site sucks, because it doing a less than half-ass job. It's not worth doing if you're not going to at least _try_ to do it right.

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