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Domino Day '02 Ends with a New World Record
Bobson writes "It took 89 people 8 weeks to set up 4000000(4e6) domino pieces for an attempted World Record. The last piece was set at 21:00 CET(Central European Time) by a Backstreet Boy. Jim somebody... Anyhow said piece started of over 90 minutes of an amazing domino avalanche show. It is one of the top hacking feats I've had the privilege to witness. This time Live on TV. I hope tapes (dvds) of it become available.
They even had time delays of more than 5min each, built into the system to allow for advertising intermissions. Some parts of the installation didn't quite work, but overall it was worth seeing. The final tally came to 3847295 pieces fallen. It ended less than an hour ago and you should have seen it."
Wow! First post! This never happens to me!
And it still hasn't, little buddy.
I'd hate to be the one tasked with counting all the fallen dominoes...
;)
Does anyone have the rundown on how many people and how many weeks that took?
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
considering how the careers of the manufactured bands are going downhill, maybe it was fitting that a backstreet boy placed the final piece.
wish they had placed some of the artists and knocked them down too. that would have been more fun.
Why do I have a feeling Jamie Kellner, CEO of Turner Broadasting, had a hand in making them put commercial breaks in falling dominos.
and still no one cared
Why: To beat the Japanese, of course!
... 9/11 ....
*sings* Where were you... when they built the domino ladder to heaven...
- I am made of meat.
4000000 dominos: $400000
Travel expenses for 89 people to Germany: $60000
28480 minimum wage man hours spent setting up dominos: $146672
Renting a Backstreet Boy for 90 minutes: $5000
Realizing you're thirty, a virgin, and still live in your parents basement: Priceless
Becausw english is an utterly ugly language or as my (french) grandmother uses to say:
Spanish is like singing, french is like talking, german is like spitting and english is like vomiting.
Greetings,
Rince
What the hell is Polish then? Trying to regurgitate your intestines?
They were not even synchronized with the little pendulum breaks. That was so stupid you missed 5 minutes of dominos and then had to watch that damn pendulum for 5 other minutes. They tried to fill that time as best as they could but still it would have been much better to use the same breaks as the others.
Other than that, the show was amazing!
True warriors use the Klingon Google
"They even had time delays of more than 5min each, built into the system to allow for advertising intermissions."
Exactly, afterall they have to put atleast something worth watching in the show.
What's under yellowstone?
>110 comments and no one posted the reason why dominos are so important in a true geek's life.
Don't forget to think different.
I was half expecting it to read the largest nuclear chain reaction of the world in that successfully ran off. Up to the last second it remained exciting until those in the stands and everything from miles around was reduced to a fine dust.
On the plus side there would be one less backstreet boy.
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Ok, next time i see her i tell her that an anonymous coward on slashdot thinks she's an idiot.
Just because English is derived from a beautiful language doesn't mean that it is still beautiful itself. But it's anyway a matter of taste. British English sounds very nice to me but when i hear Dubya talk...
Rince
And then thought that someone else here needed to know. Listen, Bob- that's not a very good distinction. There's got to be a self help group out there for people like you.
I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.
The biggest domino effect was the release of Windows 95 - all those PCs falling like flies over the 24hour period, horrors!
The person who sent this story is making a lame attempt to sound scientific.
British English sounds very nice to me but when i hear Dubya talk...
Sure, but what does his speaking have to do with English?
If you replace the dominos with embedded linux systems and hold it concurrently with defcon you could have a contest to see who could hack the most systems before they fell down.
I got root on all your d0mino3z!
Cue the beowulf cluster jokes now.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
10^2 times with 10^0 participants, eh?
It just horrible enought it took place in my town here in the netherelands....
...trying to get us back at #1 of education country.....
Judging by that, the Domino record is probably easier to attain. You know you have a long, hard road to education when you can't even spell the name of your own nation.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
The bummer part was when some dude who got whacked in the crotch won the grand prize for the show.
That guy always won. Every single week. That show should've been called "Takin' It In The Nuts."
I got more rhymes than Jamaica got Mangoes.
"one of the top hacking feats" can never be executed by a backstreet boy. it's just impossible.
Just raise the taxes on crack.