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shifuimam · Oct 30, 2008, 07:08 PM

Someone sent me this:

http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/rackanode/

It's a flash game on the basics of clustered supercomputing. It's also supremely addicting.

Just thought I'd share...

KeriVit · Oct 30, 2008, 08:50 PM

apparently i'm an idiot.

SSharon · Oct 30, 2008, 09:21 PM

Sadly all I have learned is how much flash sucks on the Mac.
I like the game, but flash just isn't very responsive on my machine.

shifuimam · Oct 30, 2008, 09:41 PM

That's what I've heard from other people...someone was playing that on a brand new 21" Intel iMac, and said it was slower than her Vista machine.

I can't get past level 10.

hookem2oo7 · Oct 30, 2008, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

I can't get past level 10.

ditto

turtle777 · Oct 30, 2008, 10:34 PM

Can't wait for Flash on the iPhone. It's gonna rock

-t

Laminar · Oct 31, 2008, 12:47 AM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

That's what I've heard from other people...someone was playing that on a brand new 21" Intel iMac, and said it was slower than her Vista machine.

I can't get past level 10.

They played it on a machine that doesn't exist? Impressive.

sek929 · Oct 31, 2008, 01:03 AM

I hear you can stretch the screen that extra inch.

Laminar · Oct 31, 2008, 01:06 AM

Two finger zoom.

Chuckit · Oct 31, 2008, 01:47 AM

Weird, it works fine on my PowerBook.

zro · Oct 31, 2008, 01:57 AM

I can think of three things wrong with the title of this thread.

Chuckit · Oct 31, 2008, 02:19 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Weird, it works fine on my PowerBook.

Ha, no sooner had I written that than I got to level 7 and it locked up my entire browser. Argh.

Big Mac · 02:33 AM

Yeah, this is cool. Unfortunately, I too started beach balling at level 7. Maybe an upgrade to Flash 10 will help.

moep · Oct 31, 2008, 03:37 AM

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Yeah, this is cool. Unfortunately, I too started beach balling at level 7. Maybe an upgrade to Flash 10 will help.

unfortunately not.

shifuimam · Oct 31, 2008, 07:56 AM

Time to pull out Boot Camp and get into Windows!

Chuckit · Oct 31, 2008, 10:44 AM

That's assuming we have said malware in our possession. And that we don't just go play Halo.

Dakar V · Oct 31, 2008, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

Time to pull out Boot Camp and get into Windows!

You may be overestimating the worth of this game.

osiris · Oct 31, 2008, 10:52 AM

Indeed. But it beats doing work.

Laminar · Oct 31, 2008, 11:04 AM

My Intel mini has no problems on level 7.

Dakar V · Oct 31, 2008, 11:08 AM

Your intel mini loves cock.

Laminar · Oct 31, 2008, 11:55 AM

It seems like once I hit level 7 the lifespan of the projects drops drastically.

shifuimam · Oct 31, 2008, 12:33 PM

Yeah. It makes it impossible to get much farther in the game.

I haven't figured out the secret yet. Someone got like 115,000 points. I want to know his secret.

The fact that he wrote the game might have something to do with that, I suppose.

olePigeon · Oct 31, 2008, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by SSharon

Sadly all I have learned is how much flash sucks on the Mac.
I like the game, but flash just isn't very responsive on my machine.

I was hoping that after Adobe bought Macromedia we'd see some improvements. Nope. Then I hoped that after Apple switch to Intel we'd see some improvements. Nope.

When it comes to flash, a 166MHz Windows 98 machine will run circles around a Quad Xeon running OS X.

Dakar V · Oct 31, 2008, 12:38 PM

Don't worry, it'll get optimized for a 64-bit Mac OS.

starman · Oct 31, 2008, 12:59 PM

Did they get rid of the debug code?

osiris · Oct 31, 2008, 01:12 PM

No, it's still beta.

sek929 · Oct 31, 2008, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

Two finger zoom.

Hey now, I don't need to know about what you do in private.

andi*pandi · Oct 31, 2008, 03:47 PM

that game is a PITA.

shifuimam · Oct 31, 2008, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar V

Your intel mini loves cock.

This is the best post of the day. Have a prize:

brassplayersrock² · 01:50 AM

I'll try again later when I don't have things to do.

grr:

Veltliner · Nov 2, 2008, 02:37 AM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

Someone sent me this:

http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/rackanode/

It's a flash game on the basics of clustered supercomputing. It's also supremely addicting.

Just thought I'd share...

Why is it, that after the confession "I want to share" nothing good shows up?

Because the human creature is egoistic.

Keeps the good secrets for itself, and shares the burdens.

Kerrigan · Nov 2, 2008, 03:16 AM

lol

brassplayersrock² · Nov 2, 2008, 03:17 AM

kerrigan, don't feed the troll please.

shifuimam · 03:38 AM

Originally Posted by Veltliner

Why is it, that after the confession "I want to share" nothing good shows up?

Because the human creature is egoistic.

Keeps the good secrets for itself, and shares the burdens.

Would you like me to share something juicier?

I'm a pre-op transvestite who managed to get out of Jonestown just before their final White Night of Doom™. I have five illegitimate children and once managed to steal forty thousand dollars from the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

I'm also the real Emissary. That Sisko is such a poser.

LegendaryPinkOx · Nov 2, 2008, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

I'm also the real Emissary. That Sisko is such a poser.

brassplayersrock² · Nov 2, 2008, 08:06 PM

YouTube - Rack-A-Node

Gankdawg · Nov 2, 2008, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by KeriVit

apparently i'm an idiot.

You're not the only one. Maybe I should read the directions. :sigh:

Veltliner · Nov 3, 2008, 03:41 AM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

kerrigan, don't feed the troll please.

I'm more for violins, so your brassplaying doesn't impress, and the power of two is pathetic.

You are the troll (at least as high as six pieces of cheese stapled on top of each other) who tries to stick his self-description to others for personal relief.

Congratulations!