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Are you really a Geek? EDIT: The "Answer" is up

Author:  da_foz [ Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Are you really a Geek? EDIT: The "Answer" is up

"So, I was walking around campus the other day and I saw a Volkswagen beetle whos licence plate was 'feature'."






That is the one statement geek test. Please don't give it away if you have seen it before. I'll post the answer in a couple of days for those who don't get it. I got it from slashdot a while back.

Author:  Maverick [ Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:09 pm ]
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what am i supposed to be looking at here?

Author:  jonos [ Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:20 pm ]
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its probably a riddle or soemthing.

Author:  da_foz [ Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:26 pm ]
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Maverick wrote:
what am i supposed to be looking at here?


Yes, it is a riddle or something. You are not a geek. The first line is "the statement".

Author:  Martin [ Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:11 pm ]
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Fuck I give up.

Author:  da_foz [ Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:42 pm ]
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Darkness wrote:
**** I give up.


LOL, you will just have to wait a bit then. I'll try to remember to post the hidden meaning before I go out of town this weekend (leaving Friday morning).

Author:  rizzix [ Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:46 pm ]
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"feature" ?

Author:  Martin [ Thu Mar 04, 2004 3:03 pm ]
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After about an hour of searching on google I *think* I get it. I have way too much time on my hands.

Author:  da_foz [ Thu Mar 04, 2004 3:07 pm ]
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Darkness wrote:
After about an hour of searching on google I *think* I get it. I have way too much time on my hands.


Wow.

I just don't have anything else to say to that.

I will post the 'answer' late tonight or tomorrow morning.

Author:  da_foz [ Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Are you really a Geek? Look in here to find out

da_foz wrote:
"So, I was walking around campus the other day and I saw a Volkswagen beetle whos licence plate was 'feature'."





Its a feature, not a bug.



The funny thing is that I was looking around the Spam forum and the 'answer' is one of the quotes in the quote thread.

Author:  Tony [ Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:01 am ]
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da_foz wrote:
Its a feature, not a bug.


Laughing it's funny, but I had to think for a while even after you gave the answer Confused I don't think I would have ever gotten this one on my own Thinking

Author:  jonos [ Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:51 am ]
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i still didn't get it until i thought it over in metal shop (which is an awesome course), and because of it i almost messed up my threading.

Author:  Paul [ Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:59 pm ]
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da_foz wrote:
da_foz wrote:
"So, I was walking around campus the other day and I saw a Volkswagen beetle whos licence plate was 'feature'."





Its a feature, not a bug.



The funny thing is that I was looking around the Spam forum and the 'answer' is one of the quotes in the quote thread.

I still don't get it, I would like to know the answer, and the above is all you posted...
are you telling us to look in spam?
BTW Check my post number

Author:  jonos [ Sat Mar 06, 2004 12:14 am ]
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evil evil evil!!!!!! paul in the devil reincarnated. everyone run for your lives...

Author:  Mazer [ Sat Mar 06, 2004 8:10 am ]
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Paul Bian wrote:
I still don't get it, I would like to know the answer, and the above is all you posted...
are you telling us to look in spam?

A Volkswagen Beetle is sometimes called a bug. If you make, say a game for example, and someone plays it a finds something really weird in it that probably shouldn't happen, what would you do? Clearly you aren't going to admit you made a mistake, and instead will cover it up, claiming that it is a feature of the game and not a bug.
As another example, if you are making a Galaxian type game and every once in a while you see a red line flash across the screen (when it clearly shouldn't be happening), you might try saying something like "That's just the invisible boss shooting at you."
Paul Bian wrote:
BTW Check my post number

No, you check mine.

Author:  Martin [ Sat Mar 06, 2004 6:05 pm ]
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Haha, finally! Yeah...that was pretty funny. Now we're all graduated nerds.

Oh yeah...here are some bits.

Author:  Martin [ Sat Mar 06, 2004 6:06 pm ]
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Haha, the forum censors n-e-r-d.

Author:  Dan [ Sat Mar 06, 2004 6:59 pm ]
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Darkness wrote:
Haha, the forum censors n-e-r-d.


ya thats b/c of thous old mass spamers who justed posted nerd over and over.

Author:  Cervantes [ Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:14 pm ]
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heheheh i was the one who posted it in quotes and I didn't get it until you told us.

but how is that a geek test?!

Author:  da_foz [ Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:00 pm ]
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Cervantes wrote:
heheheh i was the one who posted it in quotes and I didn't get it until you told us.

but how is that a geek test?!


Just to see if you can make the connection. Bugs and features. Most of my profs got it right away while most of my friends did not get on their own.

Author:  da_foz [ Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:01 pm ]
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Darkness wrote:
Haha, finally! Yeah...that was pretty funny. Now we're all graduated ****s.

Oh yeah...here are some bits.


Thanks.

N e r d s eh. lol, I was tring to figure out what you put there that got censored. F or S did not make sense.

Author:  the_short1 [ Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:23 pm ]
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hahah,,,nothign like that slashdot site... ...anyways.....i failed the geek test... cool deal..


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