EA Uses ASCII Billboard To Woo Rivals 91
Lard writes "According to Canada.com, videogame maker Electronic Arts has posted a billboard using ASCII character codes in order to poach programmers away from rival Radical Entertainment's Vancouver offices - 'the billboard is only about 100 metres from [Radical's] head office' and reads 'now hiring' using ASCII, alongside an EA Canada logo. You can check out a better image of the billboard here ."
should be easy enough... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:should be easy enough... (Score:5, Funny)
But what kind of weenie programmer would use decimal for cryin' out loud? Hex, baby, hex!
Oh well, at least the billboard didn't start with "Dim msg As String".
Re:should be easy enough... (Score:2, Funny)
Exactly! I found it a lot harder to read decimal rather than hex too.
They shouldda done it in EBCDIC just to confuse ppl
It was harder in Yorkshire (Score:5, Funny)
Programmers today! Whatever happened to binary? Why, in my day we were luck t' have ones OR zeros, and we had t' punch them in to little cards, in the snow! And when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
And you try and tell the young people of today that
Re:It was harder in Yorkshire (Score:1)
Back in my time we had only zeros!!
Re:should be easy enough... (Score:5, Funny)
Clippy: It looks like you're writeing a program....
My favorite (Score:2, Funny)
All my computer nerd friends think it's clever and everyone else cannot figure out why it says 10! lol
Re:My favorite (Score:2)
Re:My favorite (Score:1)
Nope. (Score:2)
1 = 1
10 = 2
11 = 3
100 = 4
101 = 5
and so on.
If you're running Windows open the calculator, choose scientific view, click the bin radio button (for binary) and type in 10. Then click dec (decimal) radio button and it will show you the related value (2).
Re:Nope. (Score:1)
EA's real statement (Score:2)
Watch for this... (Score:4, Funny)
I won't post the dotted binary address of goatse, I'm too nice.
Re:Watch for this... (Score:2)
If somebody mentions goatse, EOT (end of thread) immediatly and lots of bad karma, same goes for tubgirl and all the other pictures (even ASCII pictures, just to stay on topic here
Re:Watch for this... (Score:1)
oh you poms and your funny senses of humor and things...
Re:This shit is news? All it fucking says is tsark (Score:1)
ASCII: a language? (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks Joanne Blain. I never knew. One more thing added to my resume. Just the edge I needed in tumultuous times.
Re:ASCII: a language? (Score:2)
I suppose it would've been better if she said, with a lisp filter on the sentence- "ASCII is a super cool computer codification of the letters and numbers we hu-mans use to communicate with each other and our cool computer counter-parts. yessss. you see, 65 translates to one letter and 128 to another! seeeee! it is so exciting!"
yeah, that would've been better.
Re:ASCII: a language? (Score:3, Informative)
ASCII is nothing but a way of transscribing text written with symbols that we like to call letters into text written with symbols that we like to call numbers...
Deciphering that message (had it been a bit longer) is just as hard as dechipering a caesar-shift with a rotation of 13 (rot-13). ASCII is only a rotation of 65 for CAPITALS or 97 for minuscules.
So I can't see why people have any more trouble with this than any other direct marketing.
Re:ASCII: a language? (Score:1)
I agree, its lame (Score:2, Funny)
72 101 32 104 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:72 101 32 104 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:72 101 32 104 (Score:4, Funny)
Re: (Score:1)
Re:72 101 32 104 (Score:2)
Take a look at C++'s std::string for a good example. NULL terminated strings are really godawful performance hogs. Avoid them if at all possible.
Re:72 101 32 104 (Score:1)
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That's not what it reads.. (Score:4, Informative)
Actually, it doesn't read 'now hiring', it reads 'Now Hiring'.
Would've been funnier.. (Score:1, Funny)
01101000011101000111010001110000001110100010111
Compliments of http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php [nickciske.com].
I've seen this before (Score:5, Interesting)
I once saw an ad (during the dot bomb era) when a company was trying to hire Unix sysadmins, and it had a very very long command with echos and pipes and if you could decipher it then you could read who you could contact for a job interview.
Pretty clever I thought...
Re:I've seen this before (Score:1)
Reminds me of an old Western Union trick (Score:5, Interesting)
In the waiting room for the job interview, there would be a clicking sound - the sound of a sender repeating over and over "If you can understand this, go through the unmarked door" in Morse.
Folks who just sat there didn't get jobs as telegraph operators.
Should have made it const. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Should have made it const. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Should have made it const. (Score:1)
Re:Should have made it const. (Score:1)
Glad it's not ASCII art... (Score:2)
Think I'd get the job if (Score:1)
Inaccurate (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Inaccurate (Score:5, Funny)
Counter attack. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:translation? (Score:2)
Re:Counter attack. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Counter attack. (Score:1)
Re:Counter attack. (Score:1)
PS. I read that without looking up an ASCII chart.
Re:Counter attack. (Score:2)
--Hold down the Alt key and use the numeric keypad, type in the number and let go of Alt between numbers. Just don't enter any 13's or 10's in case some j0k3r puts in "format c:"
You know you're a programmer when... (Score:2, Funny)
At least, that was my first reaction.
Actually that was my *second* reaction. My first reaction was to click and drag to select the text so I could paste it into another window ("but what about the pole in front of the nul?").
After a few hours refactoring I determined that simply typing them in "manually" would get the job done. So I wrote a Ruby program that wou
Foolproof (Score:2, Funny)
No need for C... (Score:2)
perl -e "@values = (78,111,119,32,72,105,114,105,110,103); foreach $value (@values) { print chr ($value); }"
Re:No need for C... (Score:1)
for c in [78,111,119,32,72,105,114,105,110,103]: print chr(c),
Re:No need for C... (Score:2)
<?php foreach ( array(78,111,119,32,72,105,114,105,110,103) as $i) { print chr($i); } ?>
Re:No need for C... (Score:1)
Insatiable...urges (Score:1)