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It doesn't _have_ to suck,

Yes, it does. The requirement that you focus in one plane on an image purporting to be in another is the problem. If you are young, it damages your ability to see properly, if you are old, and especially if you have had a job where estimating your position in space is important (driver, horse rider, athlete) then the mental stress is a killer (half hour exposure gives two day headache).

I am not a driver, horse rider or athlete but I had a poor experience for an additional reason: the refresh rate was too low. Whenever the camera panned the image became all stuttery. With regular film the huge amount of motion blur at 24/30fps doesn't cause me to see stuttering. With 3d I see a series of rapidly flashing flip-book style still images. This was with movies in the theatre, "RealD" and IMAX.

This could have been compensated for by bumping up the frame rate (48, 60, 120fps). However, this is much more expensive to post-process (more frames) and on still scenes creates the "soap opera effect".

I am not most people. I can see the 60hz flicker of LED christmas lights in my peripheral vision, most others do not. I could spot the single frame easter egg in the Alias opening credits, most others do not. Yet this makes me not want to see movies in 3d. (Star Trek "3", Avatar, Star Wars 7, Tron Legacy, etc.).

All these are technical problems that could have been overcome (glasses-less 3D and adaptive FPS) 3D could have worked for the majority of the population. Most people are not full-time drivers, horse riders or athletes after all.

I recently picked up a used HP 54600B oscilloscope and whilst searching for the manual came across a "three finger salute" that launches a fully playable version of tetris [ http://www.eeggs.com/items/392... ]. I wonder how many hardware engineering hours were spent "debugging" hardware during the 90's with one of these. I also wonder how this slipped through code reviews.

In MacOS 7.5, drag and drop the "secret about box" text snippet to the trash, and get a waving MacOS flag. Wind direction and force is controlled by mouse position.

http://www.eeggs.com/items/545...

A browser is significantly more capable than ms word even if it began with humble origins.

I'm not sure about that, granted this is excel, although Word has it share of fun and games too.

A browser is significantly more capable than ms word even if it began with humble origins.

I'm not sure about that, granted this is excel, although Word has it share of fun and games too.

Because man is fallible? There has never been an OS that is bug free

The Mac Classic contained an entire System 6 Boot Disk in ROM, and everyone knows that System 6 is perfect.

Terminator, The Easter Egg - Good CPU Performance

During the first showing of The Terminator they already showed the source code, or disassembled and re-commented source code for Apple ][ DOS 3.3! While nice this is a wee bit late.

As a hardcore 6502 programmer who wrote successful apple ][ assembly language video games in that era it was quite funny seeing Apple Dos 3.3 Listings, likely from the amazing book Beneath Apple Dos, on the big screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgb763elfok
http://www.pagetable.com/docs/terminator/00-37-19.jpg
http://www.pagetable.com/docs/terminator/01-23-13.jpg
http://www.eeggs.com/images/items/3290.full.jpg

If the refactor is done properly I don't think the OpenCL acceleration would be necessary.

They are going to need it for the flight simulator function.

What was the final resolution of your "bear-bylon 5" teddy bear duel with Peter David?

As someone who's used word perfect, it phasing out isn't exactly a huge loss for the world...
The only thing i liked better about them was the desktop icon. The reason MS Word won in the end, especially, was because it had freaking pinball.

> Microsoft being unaware for thw last few years that hundreds of computers are
> infected with a 20 MB spyware pack bearing a security certifice of their own? Come on...

Don't laugh. Microsoft Excel 97 had an "Easter Egg" flight simulator game hidden in the code. http://eeggs.com/items/718.html

Apt-get is magical. It has Super Cow Powers. ;^)

{869DADA0-42A0-1069-A2E7-08002B30309D} - Windows 95 easter egg

Okay, so that probably doesn't work anymore... but it's certainly not new.

Finally a use for is_computer_on_fire()

http://www.eeggs.com/items/15121.html

Also, stay the hell away from any of my games--I mean spreadsheets.

What's the difference?

You might as well complain that it doesn't include a flight simulator.

Exel 97 had one, so why not?

Correction: it was WAIT 6502, x
http://www.eeggs.com/items/12571.html

Does "zzzz" get you sex?

Microsoft Spell Check Easter Eggs.

TFA mentions Easter eggs rather than house rules. Easter eggs just can't be what they were before; the internet makes it too easy to learn everything about a game. There's no way the new Zelda will have a secret room that nobody knows about for years, but ~10 years went by before I found out about the secret room in Zelda for SNES. You just can't have secrets like that in popular games anymore.

I found that room once, by accident. Of course, my wallet was full at the time. It was incredibly frustrating, being unable to find the room ever again. Having no witness made me look like a lunatic or a liar.

Surely lots of people make house rules to certain games, no? And isn't that a game "you weren't intended to play?"

My buddy and I still play the 17-year-old Super Mario Kart regularly, but the game's evolved with a ton of house rules. Some exampes:
1 - If you get a ghost, you have to either steal the opponent's current item or the very next one, but you can't just hold onto it waiting for a red shell.
2 - If you get a banana, you can yell "GAME!" and the other player has to stop. Then you position yourself, and try to hit him by throwing the banana.
3 - If you have one hit left, your opponent has all three, and you get a green shell...

This wasn't the game the designers necessarily had in mind, but it's the game we like. Ghosts are too powerful. Bananas are too boring. So we tweak the rules.

TFA mentions Easter eggs rather than house rules. Easter eggs just can't be what they were before; the internet makes it too easy to learn everything about a game. There's no way the new Zelda will have a secret room that nobody knows about for years, but ~10 years went by before I found out about the secret room in Zelda for SNES. You just can't have secrets like that in popular games anymore.

and don't get me started on what some people use Excel for!

For improving their pilot skills: http://www.eeggs.com/items/718.html

and don't get me started on what some people use Excel for!

For improving their pilot skills: http://www.eeggs.com/items/718.html

If you were to play the CD as you were to play a music CD, you would find that the 8th track is a Morse Code signal. This signal, once translated, spells, "L-Y-M-E-R-E-G-I-S" There is a town on the south England coast named "Lyme Regis." Start a recon flight to the area of that town (you may want to find it on a map of England first) and fly low along the beach keeping a sharp look out. Keep looking and you will eventually find a flying saucer landed on the beach and two aliens sitting in lounge chairs!! You should also be able to faintly hear some strange 50's music coming from their radio! Too funny, and a brilliant idea for an egg!

source: http://www.eeggs.com/items/20664.html

The HP Oscilloscopes used in my EE Circuits lab had a hidden Tetris game. It was a great way to have the Lab TA give you a funny look.

http://www.eeggs.com/items/28801.html

uggh what a horrible spam submission is this a domain squatters site ?
loads of adverts and 1 eegg on each single page, desperate for revenue much? ill be glad when adblock finishes these domains off for good, no value at all.

anyway http://eeggs.com/ is the source where they have cut and pasted their content from

I fail to see the difference between this game and a word processor.

Not the most ringing endorsement for the game. Of course, confusing a spreadsheet program with a flight sim is a little more understandable.

You are wrong: the most important feature is the ability to display Tetris blocks.

We actually have those HP scopes at my University, I can't imagine how much time wouldn't have been wasted without this feature.

"Personally, I find it a bit hard to believe that a civilization is smart enough to travel interstellar distances but too stupid to use basic camouflage"

Oh believe me, they are quite good.

doesn't anyone remember the old Excel easter egg with the flight simulator in it?

http://www.eeggs.com/

There is actually a flight simulator in Excel, see this previous comment (or skip right to the page)

So that's it, Excel is actually a 3d programming environment. The Excel 97 flight simulator then was a demo. http://www.eeggs.com/items/718.html

Nothing new - this has been going on for quite some time. I remember when I was in high school (~10 yrs ago) there were "(school district)sucks.com" sites set up which included defaced pictures of the faculty. I know I used to get the teachers angry by playing "Word 97 Pinball." Others got in trouble for hacking the school's networks, or viewing online pornography.

Perhaps these problems mean it's time to get rid of the computers and concentrate on the three R's again?

And is not afraid to go against the labels' will, e.g. see the history behind an eastern egg on the "Broken" album:

They(tvt)wanted a more commercial album and insisted on producers doing his next album. When Trent refused, they told him his album would never get made nor released and denied studio time. The entire Broken album in turn was recorded and written almost entirely while on tour for Pretty Hate Machine. Trent even talks about how they would mix it in hotel rooms,on computers, and hide the names of the song and material with saved names like "pussyfuck".

Well on SGI-IRIX of course it did for a long time.

http://www.eeggs.com/items/521.html

Yes, it may have been a while, but this is NOT the first time someone has taken a picture of 3 people and embedded it as an easter egg. Once again, MS is following the crowd.

http://www.eeggs.com/items/26468.html

For those click weary, it is about the Tandy Color Computer 2, and the famous deveoplers picture. Now this was in the computer and you had to hold down certain keys, etc... but still it look very familiure to the "security" picture.

http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/picture1 7588.aspx

BTW, that small makes it an easter egg if you ask me... As the average person would not beable to look for that "SECURITY" check when purchasing the software. Really, nice try MS.. You've been egged, just accept the joke and move on.

Just buy an old SGI O2 (if you're going to do analog only) or Octane (if you want SPDIF in). They're practically free (there was a Craigslist post with 6 Octanes for $120 in SoCal within the last two weeks), they're made for audio, and to be honest, Irix is light years ahead of Linux when it comes to a rational and sane interface for configuring the audio hardware. Plus, the mixer (called 'audiopanel' in Irix) goes to 11

in BeOS, there were some creative kernel system calls. My favorite was to check is_computer_on_fire() http://www.eeggs.com/items/15121.html

You know, the infamous ones like "We made Amiga, they fucked it up", referring to Commodore management. All too true...

On occasional levels in Quake III Arena, you can see the Icon of Sin from Doom II on the walls as decorations. The Icon of Sin was the boss you had to destroy at the end of Doom II.

Oh you're right, sorry. It's been a long time. I remember seeing in PCFriendly, and it showed a white rabbit. Lots of info on the web, including this:
http://www.eeggs.com/items/9422.html

Enter Burn-House-to-Ground mode after [ 30 ] minutes of inactivity

Try to connect to home through your VPN and get computer on fire instead of printer on fire

recutting Memento?

Done.

recutting Memento?

Done.

The 500, while still a cool box, wasn't a great technological leap forward. It was merely a mass-marketing-wrapped version of the 1000. (And Commodore poorly mass-marketed it!) As the easter egg hidden inside one of the later versions of Workbench said: "We made Amiga, they [Commodore] f*cked it up".

That would've been "printer on fire". Here ya go: http://www.eeggs.com/items/1037.html

The 500, while still a cool box, wasn't a great technological leap forward. It was merely a mass-marketing-wrapped version of the 1000. (And Commodore poorly mass-marketed it!) As the easter egg hidden inside one of the later versions of Workbench said: "We made Amiga, they [Commodore] f*cked it up".

If they wanted to glorify Commodore in this list, a better representation might have been the Pet. That was probably the pinnacle of Commodore's technological achievements.

http://www.eeggs.com/items/37085.html

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.