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[Elephant Parade]

If that number is more-or-less accurate, your grandpa needs a hobby.

It might be a bit low, actually. He played something like 25,000 games on that computer, with ~15 losses. Most of those losses were me, too.

[IronTomato]

If that number is more-or-less accurate, your grandpa needs a hobby.

It might be a bit low, actually. He played something like 25,000 games on that computer, with ~15 losses. Most of those losses were me, too.

Your grandpa seems like he'd fit in on this forum pretty well.

Also Kaijyuu, it seems like solitaire is his hobby. c:

[10ebbor10]

That or windows needs to improve their game systems.

[Lagslayer]

9x9x9 cube solve. 12 minutes and 4 seconds at 10x time acceleration (ish)
And he broke the thing halfway through.

7x7x7 solve in just under four minutes. This one broke partway through as well.

Try solving a 1000x1000x1000 cube.

[Bauglir]

9x9x9 cube solve. 12 minutes and 4 seconds at 10x time acceleration (ish)
And he broke the thing halfway through.

7x7x7 solve in just under four minutes. This one broke partway through as well.

Try solving a 1000x1000x1000 cube.

Note to self: Cubes are not an effective encryption scheme.

[LordSlowpoke]

9x9x9 cube solve. 12 minutes and 4 seconds at 10x time acceleration (ish)
And he broke the thing halfway through.

7x7x7 solve in just under four minutes. This one broke partway through as well.

Try solving a 1000x1000x1000 cube.

Note to self: Cubes are not an effective encryption scheme.

1000³ took a day. You can store the same information on one side of the cube and make it a 100000³ one, which will be far harder to break.

Would be a good basis for an already honor system, like encrypted IRC messages.

[kaijyuu]

Like beating Freecell?

Also Kaijyuu, it seems like solitaire is his hobby. c:

If he has the same passion for it that the rubik's cube dude mentioned here does, then sure.

Maybe I'm being presumptuous but most people I know who play the same simple games over and over again are extremely bored.

[MagmaMcFry]

9x9x9 cube solve. 12 minutes and 4 seconds at 10x time acceleration (ish)
And he broke the thing halfway through.

7x7x7 solve in just under four minutes. This one broke partway through as well.

Try solving a 1000x1000x1000 cube.

Looks more like a 50x50x50 cube to me, also it looks like it was just scrambled and recorded in reverse.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Legit cube vids will have a bunch of clocks and people walking by on the sidewalk and water slowly dripping into a graduated cylinder and a cat covered in yogurt cleaning itself. Otherwise how do you know it's not just playing in reverse?

[Frumple]

Not entirely sure if actually anger, but it's either this thread or the terrified one. Closer to exasperation, so... here. All I really have to say is nonexistent gods save me from the untrained who "know what they're doing".

I'm pretty sure I just came close to touching a live house wire, and even closer to having to call an ambulance for an electrocuted elderly person. They know what they're doing, though. Can't convince 'em to wait for someone who actually knows what the hell they're doing.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

This person doesn't know about the Internet, right? That's just trouble waiting to happen.

"Look, I found a website that turns my pointer into a kitten! So precious. But I need help closing all these boxes. Maybe if you plug in your mouse too?"

[Frumple]

... not knowing about the internet isn't going to get you electrocuted, nor should it be involving live household wiring. Probably. Hopefully. _{for the love of all that's holy if your grandparent is taking apart household wiring to install the internet stop them. Unless they're actually a certified electrician/etc. Maybe then, too.}

No, there's issues with the breaker box and/or wiring in this house at th'mo, and grandfather got it in his head it was a good idea to remove a (Presumably! No one who would actually know was here.) dead/useless wire leading into said box. Which he did, and shanghaied me into helping (or rather, I got out and helped because if he had done it alone he might not have survived ). Wire's out, but it turns out the thing we were yanking out was apparently attached to the box the whole time, when he had thought it wasn't and, well. May have just lucked out a bit. I don't know. I know not wiring et al.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I was saying if he's a brave tinkerer without technical expertise maybe surfing the net isn't such a great plan

So, did you guys turn off all the breakers in the breaker box first? I don't know how you're supposed to stay safe when dealing with wires leading into the box from the street.

[MagmaMcFry]

Legit cube vids will have a bunch of clocks and people walking by on the sidewalk and water slowly dripping into a graduated cylinder and a cat covered in yogurt cleaning itself. Otherwise how do you know it's not just playing in reverse?

I know that the linked video was playing in reverse because it is quite impossible to electronically solve a 50x50x50 cube in the manner displayed in the video without taking almost forever, also the fact that an average scrambled 50x50x50 cube would take over 6000 moves to complete even with the optimal solution (as opposed to the ~300 moves shown in the video).

[MaximumZero]

Stupid cars, constantly needing maintenance.