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I found that salami at a Polish market here in Michigan. It seemed pricey, but looked so good. After I ate some I thought I should have bought much more as the market is 50 miles away. It changed my view of salami.
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Phew!! When I saw the word lunacy, I thought this was going to be a political rant....
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© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Quote: I'd go for a salami-backed cryptocurrency I don't think so. But bacon backed currency - Now that's a different matter!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Bacon and salami seem like different denominations of the same currency. Greasymeatcoin.
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With extremely rare (and short-lived) exceptions, lunacy is always at its maximal value.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Use a fine cheese or wine in place of salami. It is a better hedge against inflation
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A timely topic, but only because of something in Insider News.
Has anyone ever made an easter egg in one of their programs? I always want to do it but never have enough creativity (or time) to actually make one.
Although, I still think I need to create a kill switch in every program I make.
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Actually, when I worked at CompuServe, that was documented in the forums. We had our own Easter Eggs and that was part of the relief of putting in long hours.
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We used to have a "snake" game in one of our html view (it was removed eons ago).
A kill switch is stupid and probably illegal in most places.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: A kill switch is stupid and probably illegal in most places.
Why would an application need a kill switch? Is your application that unstable that you need to kill it before it over heats and interferes with the space time continuum?
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Maximilien wrote: A kill switch is stupid It's awesome and fun. And yes, probably illegal.
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As long as it's in the contract that the software will stop working if you don't pay then it's legal.
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I disagree. If you have well-behaved customers they are entirely unnecessary. I had some friends who formed a company that made a ticketing system for ski resorts and their lifts. It had an automatic kill switch that tripped if they did not disable it and they were going to disable it when they were paid. They weren't paid and it tripped. It brought the lifts to a screeching halt for a few hours until the owner decided to pay the bill. One could call that ransom-ware. I and they consider it to be subscription-ware and that resort's subscription had expired after the trial period had elapsed.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: subscription-ware
That's going to be my go-to term for any service that removes the products that you've previously paid for if you stop paying - And used extremely negatively
-= Reelix =-
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I don't know where you got the idea that products previously paid for were removed. That is NOT subscription-ware at all. In my friend's case, their software just stopped working and that was because it wasn't paid for. Nothing was removed.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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SeanChupas wrote: Has anyone ever made an easter egg in one of their programs?
Yes. One is sitting under your nose.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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...no, that is my moustache!
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Just the same for me like Rusty.
Nothing under my nose except for a moustache.
Please reveal thy eggs for us.
It is Easter Eve after all.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Thanks for this. Even I left a message there 4 years back(Which I don't even remember)
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This is way before your time, but some friends and I at General Dynamics wrote test software for missile systems. One of the programs had a hardware platform that included a programmable voltage source with multiple independent outputs. When a part failed the testing, the program connected the oscilloscope to the PVS in X-Y mode, causing the scope to show a pig running across the screen. It also used the onboard speaker (remember those?) to make a squealing noise. QA was not amused.
Will Rogers never met me.
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At the place I worked between 2004 and 2009, one of my colleagues dared me to put a TicTacToe game in the software -- given that I had already written a TicTacToe game in an internal system. Fortunately, I didn't have the time to do it.
What I did do (and I may have mentioned before) was to write a Westminster Chimes Windows Service which ran on the database server -- until the admin was nearly pulling his hair out trying to determine which system as failing, apparently the server room was too noisy to recognize the tune.
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Yes. Support incidents are rated at which P level they're at. P1 being the most urgent. Someone started calling it a Pineapple 1. So the Easter egg I put in is that when the program is an an error state it shows a little pineapple as part of the message.
Previously someone at another company put in a 'AE-35' error for network issues.
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SeanChupas wrote: Has anyone ever made an easter egg in one of their programs? Yes, I put a bee in a MFC application, many years ago.
The application became unresposive while showing such a bee moving randomly.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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