"Who Wants To Own A Meg Of RAM"
- Answer 15 questions correctly, starting with "How
many bits in an 8-bit word" and work your way up to
reciting the last five license plates of cars owned by
Seymour Cray. Winners get one megabyte of RAM (8 bit
bytes), parity checked, at 120ns in discrete TTL
logic.
"Survivor: (Slashdor series)"
60 people (mostly men) are subscribed to a mailing
list. Except instead of being free form, it has a
group moderation feature a-la Slashdot. Instead of
getting mod'ed down to -1, you get voted off the list.
Who'll be the last poster standing? Immunity
challenges are replaced with being marked "insightful"
and mod'ed up to 5 on a post, while being able to bash
Jon Katz.
"Temptation Mailing List"
60 people (same group) are subscribed to a mailing
list, and all other access to other computers is cut
off. Can they stay on topic with the mailing list, or
will they all succumb to their darkest fears?
"MSN House"
Ooops. This was done already. Too bad WebVan has
gone out of business - now they are going to starve to
death.
"VAXyard Wars"
Build a machine capable of running a SETI work unit in
15 hours. You are limited to vintage hardware
(pre-1985) for this task. You can use anything you
can find in the hardware, including water cooling
equipment for overclocking the cranky of VAXes. Oh,
and you have to pedal a bicycle that you build
yourself to supply the electricity. Hard drives are
made out of old tires.
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Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 16:54:09 BST