...maybe people find or know about your easter egg, do every possible misuse of the application to try to find another, and something breaks somewhere...
Sometimes I need to break away from whatever project I'm working on and do something else before I go insane. Read/., read a forum, code something else - like an easter egg (something light, maybe silly) for said mind-numbing project.
I do something similar with salting passwords on my product. It appears plain text in the compiled code, but its not immediately obvious why my name appears there.
An easter egg is not something that is written inline with a product, it is a subroutine. A new thread. Completely stand-alone and non integral, simply built-in and called from within. It should only be accessible through a highly unlikely or "no reason to have done that" sequence of events.
If your application broke because of an easter egg, you did everything wrong. If your application is buggy it should never be because of the egg, even if the egg itself is buggy.
This looks easily reproducible. With a lave you could copy it. The key looks to be able to be entered in any rotation - and probably still uses tumblers just on 4 axis - bumpable
Back in High School, I found out that with the newfangled computer network you could see the files of any student or teacher at any school in the district. I told the Librarian, who said I should tell the IT whore about that and what happened? My school computer privileges were stripped for the rest of the year and I was suspended for a week.
They just might - ever watch the screens in SpinRite? Supposedly the graph screen shows an analog "strength" of the flux http://www.grc.com/srrecovery.htm
The 3 day rule isn't a hindrance. Just practice on your own drive to get the procedure down, then enter the contest and do it in (however long it took you with the working knowledge) time
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how about an impatient pedestrian continually tapping the button. allow the "hand" to appear for ~10 seconds - then go disco
Details? What was the egg, how was it found, what was the reaction, did it impede the product?
...maybe people find or know about your easter egg, do every possible misuse of the application to try to find another, and something breaks somewhere...
That is a benefit, unintended QA
That's only because its Java, had it been an executable such a game could take up 10K or less incl graphics
That's assuming you spend 110% of your in-office time on the project
When I got to the end of that game, I just HAD to copy the mp3 to my playlist.
Sometimes I need to break away from whatever project I'm working on and do something else before I go insane. Read /., read a forum, code something else - like an easter egg (something light, maybe silly) for said mind-numbing project.
I do something similar with salting passwords on my product. It appears plain text in the compiled code, but its not immediately obvious why my name appears there.
An easter egg is not something that is written inline with a product, it is a subroutine. A new thread. Completely stand-alone and non integral, simply built-in and called from within. It should only be accessible through a highly unlikely or "no reason to have done that" sequence of events.
If your application broke because of an easter egg, you did everything wrong. If your application is buggy it should never be because of the egg, even if the egg itself is buggy.
Yes, I want it to reverse current and shock me so my heart pulses out jingle bells! Whilst the readout shows vectored pine trees!!!
I am a robot. I do only as instructed. Beep beep. Bloop Bloop.
only stuff that appears in compiled code should count. Unless you are talking scripts
It's not even seamless. WTF?
move along...
Take *.computermovie and play back the computer closeups on a loop.
Have a gander into IEs4Linux
All that needs to be done is have (the maintainers of) IETab become aware of it...
Soldiers in the (first) 2 World Wars used to make radios out of rusted razors, a safety pin (a cat's whisker diode) and a coil of wire (to tune)
http://bizarrelabs.com/foxhole.htm
The only time I've ever had an LED go out on me without a resistor was when I was little and put one on a 9V.
This looks easily reproducible. With a lave you could copy it. The key looks to be able to be entered in any rotation - and probably still uses tumblers just on 4 axis - bumpable
No.
Back in High School, I found out that with the newfangled computer network you could see the files of any student or teacher at any school in the district. I told the Librarian, who said I should tell the IT whore about that and what happened? My school computer privileges were stripped for the rest of the year and I was suspended for a week.
They just might - ever watch the screens in SpinRite? Supposedly the graph screen shows an analog "strength" of the flux
http://www.grc.com/srrecovery.htm
The 3 day rule isn't a hindrance. Just practice on your own drive to get the procedure down, then enter the contest and do it in (however long it took you with the working knowledge) time
It's a 2GB key, which means it's not going to be better quality than DVD.
Only if you are keeping it in MP2 format. There have been many advances in video encodings/compression since the early 1990s
That's the exact logic I use for myself as a Californian regarding learning Spanish. Why bother?
Flamebait? Really? I need me some mod points to bump this and the parent to "Funny"