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Spy227X

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Re: Playing DF at work.
« Reply #90 on: February 11, 2013, 08:19:40 pm »

Wait... Xboxes?
Tell us about the 720.
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Re: Playing DF at work.
« Reply #91 on: February 11, 2013, 11:00:07 pm »

Everyone guesses he's a tester. Or a super-secret-spy-type guy.
In the first case, the xboxes make sense as a testing tool, but the knowledge of cryptology does not. And "being able to get a job anywhere" does not fit the job profile.
In the latter, the knowledge makes sense, but the xboxes are a stretch. Again, being basically guaranteed a job does not fit the job profile.

I'm more inclined to think programmer/developer. "Eggheads", as they have previously been called in this thread, are in high demand, to develop new hardware, and software, and find new applications for existing foundations. I know Microsoft likes to keep all the best and worst information about new xbox games locked up as tightly as possible and only allow what they want to show off to leak before release. Going so far as to make advertisements with absolutely no game-play or cutscenes in them - most of what they do show is climatic events from a different viewpoint, or things about the world, using a completely different cinematography method then the game (I'm pretty certain they do this, but not 100% sure). They even try their best to keep the companies working on games for them from leaking any info before release.

That would certainly explain the security. And the xboxes. And the cockiness of being able to land any job he wants. And if he's a developer, whether hardware or software or both, he's most certainly had some experience with various forms of programming, including encryption. So being a developer makes a lot of sense.

And if he's not able to call enough shots to bring in some other entertainment, he's certainly not management or a project head. So I'd say he was hired to figure out how to do things, not dream up new things for others to figure out. So he's a doer, not a dreamer, but definitely skilled.
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Re: Playing DF at work.
« Reply #92 on: February 12, 2013, 05:00:00 pm »

Upload the entire folder to Google Drive...
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did someone say this already?
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« Reply #93 on: February 15, 2013, 05:11:28 pm »

Everyone guesses he's a tester. Or a super-secret-spy-type guy.
In the first case, the xboxes make sense as a testing tool, but the knowledge of cryptology does not. And "being able to get a job anywhere" does not fit the job profile.
In the latter, the knowledge makes sense, but the xboxes are a stretch. Again, being basically guaranteed a job does not fit the job profile.

I'm more inclined to think programmer/developer. "Eggheads", as they have previously been called in this thread, are in high demand, to develop new hardware, and software, and find new applications for existing foundations. I know Microsoft likes to keep all the best and worst information about new xbox games locked up as tightly as possible and only allow what they want to show off to leak before release. Going so far as to make advertisements with absolutely no game-play or cutscenes in them - most of what they do show is climatic events from a different viewpoint, or things about the world, using a completely different cinematography method then the game (I'm pretty certain they do this, but not 100% sure). They even try their best to keep the companies working on games for them from leaking any info before release.

That would certainly explain the security. And the xboxes. And the cockiness of being able to land any job he wants. And if he's a developer, whether hardware or software or both, he's most certainly had some experience with various forms of programming, including encryption. So being a developer makes a lot of sense.

And if he's not able to call enough shots to bring in some other entertainment, he's certainly not management or a project head. So I'd say he was hired to figure out how to do things, not dream up new things for others to figure out. So he's a doer, not a dreamer, but definitely skilled.
Awwww, gunna make me blush.
On an added note, computers here at work have access to sky drive.
Just add the files to it at home, bingo bongo, Df at work.
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Re: Playing DF at work.
« Reply #94 on: February 15, 2013, 05:13:09 pm »

Wait... Xboxes?
Tell us about the 720.
Switch to a new console.
From everything I have heard through the grapevine about the "720" as everyone has taken to calling it.
Its going to be graphicly superior to any console on the current market, but with all the new "features" its pretty much taking a step into the wrong direction in my personal opinion.
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Re: Playing DF at work.
« Reply #95 on: February 15, 2013, 05:23:44 pm »

On an added note, computers here at work have access to sky drive.
Just add the files to it at home, bingo bongo, Df at work.
So much for "security." :P
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« Reply #96 on: February 15, 2013, 05:50:45 pm »

On an added note, computers here at work have access to sky drive.
Just add the files to it at home, bingo bongo, Df at work.
So much for "security." :P
Pretty much, Using microsoft technology to bypass microsoft security.
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Re: Playing DF at work.
« Reply #97 on: February 16, 2013, 12:08:32 am »

On an added note, computers here at work have access to sky drive.
Just add the files to it at home, bingo bongo, Df at work.
So much for "security." :P
Pretty much, Using microsoft technology to bypass microsoft security.
The ultimate irony. :D
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Re: Playing DF at work.
« Reply #98 on: February 16, 2013, 12:18:24 pm »

Nobody considered the possibility of this being a troll thread?
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Re: Playing DF at work.
« Reply #99 on: February 16, 2013, 12:22:11 pm »

A super-secret troll thread.
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« Reply #100 on: February 16, 2013, 12:38:23 pm »

Nobody considered the possibility of this being a troll thread?

Nobody considered everyone posting in this thread being a troll?
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« Reply #101 on: February 16, 2013, 05:55:48 pm »

Nobody considered the possibility of this being a troll thread?

Nobody considered everyone posting in this thread being a troll?
Trolls trolling trolls.

And no, I can assure you. Not a troll. I have facebook for that.
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Re: Playing DF at work.
« Reply #102 on: February 16, 2013, 06:24:37 pm »

Nobody considered the possibility of this being a troll thread?
A troll? For doing nothing aggravating or provocative?
You mean 'a liar', right?
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Re: Playing DF at work.
« Reply #103 on: February 16, 2013, 07:57:02 pm »

Unless you're testing some superfamous and superexpensive games, like BF4...
Ewww. Do people still play those games?
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