The master code that would open the keyboxes and get you keys to anywhere in the casino was 654321. And people told each other all their passwords and such all the time.
Nice idea, but try to get anyone to agree on a format, when everyone wants to lock people in to their own proprietary format these days...
It is pretty amazing that they all agreed on CD...
That is an interesting story that I would like to read (how the recording and consumer tech industries all got into bed together to figure out the new format)...
It is true! Our Director gets everything he asks for and easily makes 1.5 million before bonus. Things he has that the company pays for: Cell phone, Blackberry, Laptop at work, Laptop for travelling (?!?), Imac on his desk at work, Imac on his desk at home, car lease, Lunch brought to his office everyday, car service EVERYWHERE, meals and drinks and all travel expensed, because of course it is ALL work related......
This also backs up my theory that the wealthy have way more time than those of us that have to do things like cook, wash our own laundry, take public transportation.......
Does it always have to come down to pimps and hos with you, megaditto? Every time I turn around its like pimp this, those hoes that. Every freaking analogy is its like when you x to a prostitute and then the pimp y's. The world is NOT a whorehouse, megaditto.
I saw the digg about this a few months ago, and thought I'd try it out too. We have a lot of laptops at work and sometimes people lose their laptop lock key. They finally realized they should buy locks with a grand master key, but I digress. I tried the bic pen AND the rolled up cardboard and couldn't pick it after trying for around 1/2 hour. There must be a little finesse that I am missing. I watched the video of a guy pick one in less than 30 secs. At any rate, I didn't find it easy and in fact failed to duplicate their effort.
Well, I was wondering how it works too, so I actually read TFA to discover, "Games are simply wrapped up in the Cider engine and they work on the Mac." And thats how it works ! Oh, that and the dynamic API linking thingy...
How about adding one of those red jewels from Logan's Run ? When the jewel starts flashing, you send it of to Carousel and it can Renew! Oh wait, they just died in Logan's Run too..
Wow, haven't been in any totally homogenous environments like that, it must be wierd. I work in a largely novell environment, and they are all novell certified dudes, but at least they aren't as closed minded as your guys. We of course have tons of macs as well, and a few unix servers running big DB's. The novell guys actually love hacking around. A few months ago one of them was excited to show me OSX running on his Dell (I showed him how I could crash it, harhar), we tried the boot camp thing on a Macbook Pro, and a couple of them have SUSE (still Novell loyal of course) desktops alongside their Wintels. I showed a few of our MCSE desktop guys how to boot a fritzed laptop with a Knoppix LiveCD, start a samba server and access it from my OS X box to rescue files before they reimaged it (the ONE TRUE WAY to fix a windows machine) and they could barely grasp it. In fact, they didn't even know what SMB was, and I had to repeat the demonstration a week later because "they forgot".
First a major chair throwing discussion on the PHP thread and now some serious front page Ballmer action. This is a sign from god about my million dollar idea posted earlier this morning on the PHP developer thread. If a third sign appears, I will seek immediate venture capital and donate half of the proceeds to revitalize the slashdot comment system.
teve Balmer threatened to start throwing chairs at him
I know this is veering hillariously off topic, but c'mon, what is there really to talk about on this thread? A million dollar idea for a new TV show has struck me and I need you guys to help me flesh it out.
Its about two grown men that are fabulously wealthy and yet still are each other's roommates. The catch is here is that both of these characters are based on well known media figures - Stever Ballmer and Bobby Knight, two guys we know aren't afraid to let the chair loose every now and then. The working title is, "Bobby and Ballmer", but we havent ruled out the runner ups: "Chair-iots of Ire", "Chairspray", and "Chair-Chuckers in the City" . Oh what crazy hijinks they will get involved in, AND, you know SOMEONE is going to get a chair upside the head every episode. Bobby may even choke a kid or two for comedic relief), and you know Steve will be "shooting from the lip" every chance he has. There is an opportunity for major wrestling tie-ins as well.
Can someone please explain the Oh noes meme to me, I must have missed that one between lol, internet and the never changing face of lindsey lohan. I must admit, it is one of the less cute utterances that I have ever heard. It scratches my brain like nails on a chalkboard. Thanks, Dave
Mac laptops always seem to have these fucked up problems./Hyperbole
I have a macbook pro. Nice Machine. So far nothing has come up but I use it pretty lightly. I have also had a Titanium (prone to hinge and case cracks), 12" Powerbook, Aluminum powerbook, Powerbook G3 Pismo (GREAT LAPTOP!), Powerbook G3 Wallstreet, and supported all models of apple laptop as my job. The bottom line is you get Applecare when you purchase a laptop and it will be covered during its useful lifetime. Anything surviving beyond that (3 years) is just bonus time. We have seen plenty of 8 year old (or more) mac laptops boot and run just fine. Someone hauls one in every now and then. I had a sony VAIO that practially fell apart in my hands after 3 years, we had a batch of HP laptops with docking stations that would stop working after a month (a clip would bend up), had a run of dells with bad hard drives, etc etc. At the end of the day, there are just as many hardware problems with PC's as Macs, but you get it repaired and its ok. If there were only 2 types of PC laptops (instead of 1001) you would see these kinds of stories about pc's too. Remember the Dell that blew up?
In the late 90's I started doing desktop support for macs, at the 8.6 - 9.0 era. I also supported NT and 98 desktops at the time. What I liked about OS 8-9 was how obvious everything was. There were extensions and preferences, just a few hidden files that you had to know about, and once you knew your way around it never got too complex to maintain. My 3 recurring problems then were AdobePS crapping out (delete prefs or reinstall), Quark Crashed (sigh), Desktop won't load (job stuck in desktop printer or font from the server added to suitcase usually). If we needed a more stable machine, we stripped unnecesary stuff and used it for one purpose (RIP, Audio Work, Video Work, etc). Of course there were the memory issues that could never be fixed, you just had to learn to save often and as editions. There was frequent filesystem corruption (caused usually by the crashes and forced restarts) that was the root of many problems. Oh yeah, security was crap too, good thing noone cared about pwning a mac back then. We still have a few running 9.2 as RIPs for a certain plotter, I never have to touch them.
I would have to escalate to a banana cream pie. Pine cones and rocks are off limits. Dirt Clods are acceptable projectiles. No stabbing with the stick, only swiping attacks. All water based weapons are acceptable. You must stay in bounds. If jailed you must always be touching the tree with a hand or foot. Climbing trees allowed. No head shots allowed. A Runner with the flag must display the flag. Go.
my password is Jabberwocky in its entiretly with underscores for spaces and numbers replacing all of the vowels, 1337 style, rot-13'd and backwards. Can't be TOO safe...
And on a side note, isn't the microsoft VisualStudio2005 banner freaking annoying ? Its the one that expands to a huge box when you mouse over it.
Slashdot Mirror
omg I really botched that one !
Take the money and RUN!
the "bubble" (and JCM) taught me that..
The master code that would open the keyboxes and get you keys to anywhere in the casino was 654321. And people told each other all their passwords and such all the time.
And that is how it all happened.
Nice idea, but try to get anyone to agree on a format, when everyone wants to lock people in to their own proprietary format these days...
It is pretty amazing that they all agreed on CD...
That is an interesting story that I would like to read (how the recording and consumer tech industries all got into bed together to figure out the new format)...
Nanu Nanu !
Luckily he just wants to play around with sailboats
It is true! Our Director gets everything he asks for and easily makes 1.5 million before bonus. Things he has that the company pays for: Cell phone, Blackberry, Laptop at work, Laptop for travelling (?!?), Imac on his desk at work, Imac on his desk at home, car lease, Lunch brought to his office everyday, car service EVERYWHERE, meals and drinks and all travel expensed, because of course it is ALL work related......
This also backs up my theory that the wealthy have way more time than those of us that have to do things like cook, wash our own laundry, take public transportation.......
Does it always have to come down to pimps and hos with you, megaditto? Every time I turn around
its like pimp this, those hoes that. Every freaking analogy is its like when you x to a prostitute and then the pimp
y's. The world is NOT a whorehouse, megaditto.
I saw the digg about this a few months ago, and thought I'd try it out too. We have a lot of laptops at work
and sometimes people lose their laptop lock key. They finally realized they should buy locks with a grand master key, but I digress.
I tried the bic pen AND the rolled up cardboard and couldn't pick it after trying for around 1/2 hour. There must
be a little finesse that I am missing. I watched the video of a guy pick one in less than 30 secs. At any rate, I didn't find it
easy and in fact failed to duplicate their effort.
thankfully fark photoshopped the guy today to mock him further.
How about a link for those of us too lazy to find it ourselves but not lazy enough to complain that there is no link ?
no its when that jumped the shark guy decided to make a career out of it.
I'm inventing my own game.... with blackjack... and hookers...
Well, I was wondering how it works too, so I actually read TFA to discover, "Games are simply wrapped up in the Cider engine and they work on the Mac."
And thats how it works !
Oh, that and the dynamic API linking thingy...
I'll take 2.
um, doesn't SLI mean you are hooking a few together already ?
How about adding one of those red jewels from Logan's Run ? When the jewel starts flashing, you send it of to Carousel and it can Renew!
Oh wait, they just died in Logan's Run too..
Wow, haven't been in any totally homogenous environments like that, it must be wierd.
I work in a largely novell environment, and they are all novell certified dudes, but at least they aren't as closed minded as your guys. We of course have tons of macs as well,
and a few unix servers running big DB's. The novell guys actually love hacking around. A few months ago one of them was excited to show me OSX running on his
Dell (I showed him how I could crash it, harhar), we tried the boot camp thing on a Macbook Pro, and a couple of them have SUSE (still Novell loyal of course) desktops alongside their Wintels.
I showed a few of our MCSE desktop guys how to boot a fritzed laptop with a Knoppix LiveCD, start a samba server and access it from my OS X box to rescue files before they
reimaged it (the ONE TRUE WAY to fix a windows machine) and they could barely grasp it. In fact, they didn't even know what SMB was, and I had to repeat the demonstration
a week later because "they forgot".
First a major chair throwing discussion on the PHP thread and now some serious front page Ballmer action. This is a sign from god about my million dollar idea
posted earlier this morning on the PHP developer thread. If a third sign appears,
I will seek immediate venture capital and donate half of the proceeds to revitalize the slashdot comment system.
teve Balmer threatened to start throwing chairs at him
I know this is veering hillariously off topic, but c'mon, what is there really to talk about on this thread?
A million dollar idea for a new TV show has struck me and I need you guys to help me flesh it out.
Its about two grown men that are fabulously wealthy and yet still are each other's roommates. The catch is here is that both of these characters are based on well known
media figures - Stever Ballmer and Bobby Knight, two guys we know aren't afraid to let the chair loose
every now and then. The working title is, "Bobby and Ballmer", but we havent ruled out the runner ups:
"Chair-iots of Ire", "Chairspray", and "Chair-Chuckers in the City" . Oh what crazy hijinks they will get involved
in, AND, you know SOMEONE is going to get a chair upside the head every episode. Bobby may even
choke a kid or two for comedic relief), and you know Steve will be "shooting from the lip" every chance
he has. There is an opportunity for major wrestling tie-ins as well.
Can someone please explain the Oh noes meme to me, I must have missed that one between lol, internet and the never changing face of lindsey lohan.
I must admit, it is one of the less cute utterances that I have ever heard. It scratches my brain like nails on a chalkboard.
Thanks,
Dave
Mac laptops always seem to have these fucked up problems. /Hyperbole
I have a macbook pro. Nice Machine. So far nothing has come up but I use it pretty lightly. I have also had a Titanium (prone to hinge and case cracks), 12" Powerbook, Aluminum powerbook, Powerbook G3 Pismo (GREAT LAPTOP!), Powerbook G3 Wallstreet, and supported all models of apple laptop as my job. The bottom line is you get Applecare when you purchase a laptop and it will be covered during its useful lifetime. Anything surviving beyond that (3 years) is just bonus time. We have seen plenty of 8 year old (or more) mac laptops boot and run just fine. Someone hauls one in every now and then. I had a sony VAIO that practially fell apart in my hands after 3 years, we had a batch of HP laptops with docking stations that would stop working after a month (a clip would bend up), had a run of dells with bad hard drives, etc etc. At the end of the day, there are just as many hardware problems with PC's as Macs, but you get it repaired and its ok. If there were only 2 types of PC laptops (instead of 1001) you would see these kinds of stories about pc's too. Remember the Dell that blew up?
In the late 90's I started doing desktop support for macs, at the 8.6 - 9.0 era. I also supported NT and 98 desktops at the time. What I liked about
OS 8-9 was how obvious everything was. There were extensions and preferences, just a few hidden files that you had to know about, and once you knew
your way around it never got too complex to maintain. My 3 recurring problems then were AdobePS crapping out (delete prefs or reinstall), Quark Crashed (sigh), Desktop won't load (job stuck in desktop printer or font from the server added to suitcase usually). If we needed a more stable machine, we stripped unnecesary stuff and used it for one purpose (RIP, Audio Work, Video Work, etc). Of course there were the memory issues that could never be fixed, you just had to learn to save often and as editions. There was frequent filesystem corruption (caused usually by the crashes and forced restarts) that was the root of many problems. Oh yeah, security was crap too, good thing noone cared about pwning a mac back then. We still have a few running 9.2 as RIPs for a certain plotter, I never have to touch them.
In other news, noone has any idea who you are either. Really. Your name doesn't even look familiar. (No, I'm not asking.)
Tell me where you are - so I can not go there.
Because you don't want to slip and fall on the drool puddle ?
I would have to escalate to a banana cream pie.
Pine cones and rocks are off limits. Dirt Clods
are acceptable projectiles. No stabbing with the
stick, only swiping attacks. All water based weapons are acceptable.
You must stay in bounds. If jailed you must always be touching the
tree with a hand or foot. Climbing trees allowed. No head shots allowed.
A Runner with the flag must display the flag. Go.
my password is Jabberwocky in its entiretly with underscores for spaces and numbers replacing all of the vowels, 1337 style, rot-13'd
and backwards. Can't be TOO safe...
And on a side note, isn't the microsoft VisualStudio2005 banner freaking annoying ? Its the one that expands to a huge box when you mouse over it.