So, about two weeks ago someone told me that apparently most lifts have a "priority" mode built in. According to him, if you press the button of the floor you want to go to simultaneously with the door-closing button, the lift won't stop at any intervening floors, even if someone called the lift to them earlier.
I was quite incredulous about it, as you can imagine, but since I have been doing this and always got to my floor of destination without stops. Now of course this could be a coincidence, but I was wondering if anyone heard about it at all.
It's a common belief with children, but it is untrue.
I never heard it before.
Quote from: Martinus on April 03, 2010, 07:36:19 AM
I never heard it before.
Perhaps you were not adequately exposed to elevators in your youth? Did you live somewhere with few elevators?
Quote from: Neil on April 03, 2010, 07:39:09 AM
Quote from: Martinus on April 03, 2010, 07:36:19 AM
I never heard it before.
Perhaps you were not adequately exposed to elevators in your youth? Did you live somewhere with few elevators?
I am extremely disappointed you did not make a joke about how backwards Poland is.
I've heard of it before.
From what I hear it only works with certain brands of lift.
However, in the same cool little technology stories vein there's the one about coke vending machines having a combination to press to go into debug mode- this one definitely works. Unfortunately there's just crap like changing language and that in there though, getting free drinks can only be done from the inside.
And on lifts- what the hell is it with mainland Europe and those unsafe, single door lifts?
I've never seen one in Britain but they're all over elsewhere I've been.
Quote from: Faeelin on April 03, 2010, 09:23:26 AM
Quote from: Neil on April 03, 2010, 07:39:09 AM
Quote from: Martinus on April 03, 2010, 07:36:19 AM
I never heard it before.
Perhaps you were not adequately exposed to elevators in your youth? Did you live somewhere with few elevators?
I am extremely disappointed you did not make a joke about how backwards Poland is.
A lack of elevators isn't necessarily backwards. It could be that he lived somewhere within Poland where they built low, as the local commissar had declared that no building could be built higher than the local statue of Lenin.
Besides, I prefer to mock Marti based on his homosexuality, not on his Russian background. There really wasn't a good gay joke to be made. I could have said something like 'You would have heard about this if it had involved elevating yourself onto some cock', but that just sounds retarded.
There is a Yakov Smirnoff joke that could be told, but I'll hold off.
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Definitely works in my work building. I actually posted that here 4-5 years ago.
Quote from: derspiess on April 03, 2010, 11:54:36 AM
Definitely works in my work building. I actually posted that here 4-5 years ago.
you are such a fucking liar spicy, we weren't even "here" 4-5 years ago!
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 05:53:51 PM
Quote from: derspiess on April 03, 2010, 11:54:36 AM
Definitely works in my work building. I actually posted that here 4-5 years ago.
you are such a fucking liar spicy, we weren't even "here" 4-5 years ago!
PAWNED
Quote from: Jaron on April 03, 2010, 06:01:54 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 05:53:51 PM
Quote from: derspiess on April 03, 2010, 11:54:36 AM
Definitely works in my work building. I actually posted that here 4-5 years ago.
you are such a fucking liar spicy, we weren't even "here" 4-5 years ago!
PAWNED
I wonder how much you can get for pawning a derspeiss? :huh:
Quote from: Barrister on April 03, 2010, 06:11:16 PM
Quote from: Jaron on April 03, 2010, 06:01:54 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 05:53:51 PM
Quote from: derspiess on April 03, 2010, 11:54:36 AM
Definitely works in my work building. I actually posted that here 4-5 years ago.
you are such a fucking liar spicy, we weren't even "here" 4-5 years ago!
PAWNED
I wonder how much you can get for pawning a derspeiss? :huh:
Nothing, if Derspeiss was referring to Languish as a forum, rather than Languish as a location on a particular server etc. Languish is at least 8 or 9 years old, I am certain.
:frusty:
Yes aggie the languish forums were started about 8 years ago, with the 7th anniversary of the large exodus on the 11th of this month.
You are wrong. Languish is about 7 years old, maybe just a tad bit older.
Quote from: Agelastus on April 03, 2010, 06:13:53 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 03, 2010, 06:11:16 PM
Quote from: Jaron on April 03, 2010, 06:01:54 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 05:53:51 PM
Quote from: derspiess on April 03, 2010, 11:54:36 AM
Definitely works in my work building. I actually posted that here 4-5 years ago.
you are such a fucking liar spicy, we weren't even "here" 4-5 years ago!
PAWNED
I wonder how much you can get for pawning a derspeiss? :huh:
Nothing, if Derspeiss was referring to Languish as a forum, rather than Languish as a location on a particular server etc. Languish is at least 8 or 9 years old, I am certain.
:frusty:
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:16:07 PM
:frusty:
*snort*
Sometimes they make you just want to reach through their monitors and punch them in the nuts, eh?
katmai = PRAWNT
I think I missed the joke.
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 03, 2010, 06:22:25 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:16:07 PM
:frusty:
*snort*
Sometimes they make you just want to reach through their monitors and punch them in the nuts, eh?
Which is why I have The List.
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:27:19 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 03, 2010, 06:22:25 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:16:07 PM
:frusty:
*snort*
Sometimes they make you just want to reach through their monitors and punch them in the nuts, eh?
Which is why I have The List.
Am I on The List? :)
You are on the double secret list.
I have multiple lists.
I have a lisp. :(
I never noticed it.
Now Jaron on the other hand.
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:36:39 PM
I never noticed it.
Now Jaron on the other hand.
:lol:
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:18:04 PM
Yes aggie the languish forums were started about 8 years ago, with the 7th anniversary of the large exodus on the 11th of this month.
Should I be worried that you remember the date with such seeming precision? :D
Anyway, I missed the original exodus by a couple of months, so forgive me for it not sticking in my mind so precisely; I saw the aftermath of the clusterfuck that Iraq made of EUOT when I logged in on a whim after a year or so of absence. I stopped posting on Paradox after a couple of months in my new job of the time, as I recall, as my free time got less and less.
April 11th was already a bad anniversary for me, so it is an easy date to remember.
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:42:47 PM
April 11th was already a bad anniversary for me, so it is an easy date to remember.
That's when you crossed the 400 lb mark in '92.
Quote from: The Brain on April 03, 2010, 06:51:57 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:42:47 PM
April 11th was already a bad anniversary for me, so it is an easy date to remember.
That's when you crossed the 400 lb mark in '92.
Never even been close to 300, so no.
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:54:05 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 03, 2010, 06:51:57 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:42:47 PM
April 11th was already a bad anniversary for me, so it is an easy date to remember.
That's when you crossed the 400 lb mark in '92.
Never even been close to 300, so no.
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Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:54:05 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 03, 2010, 06:51:57 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:42:47 PM
April 11th was already a bad anniversary for me, so it is an easy date to remember.
That's when you crossed the 400 lb mark in '92.
Never even been close to 300, so no.
You've never been close to weighing
only 300 pounds?
Quote from: grumbler on April 03, 2010, 07:08:03 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:54:05 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 03, 2010, 06:51:57 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:42:47 PM
April 11th was already a bad anniversary for me, so it is an easy date to remember.
That's when you crossed the 400 lb mark in '92.
Never even been close to 300, so no.
You've never been close to weighing only 300 pounds?
See brainiac that was a funny reply.
And no April 11th is anniversary of family member being murdered.
Jackasses
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 07:13:06 PM
And no April 11th is anniversary of family member being murdered.
Jackasses
:Embarrass:
My extremely belated condolences. :(
No need for embarressed emote, I don't think i have ever told anyone from here.
And thanks A.
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:27:19 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 03, 2010, 06:22:25 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:16:07 PM
:frusty:
*snort*
Sometimes they make you just want to reach through their monitors and punch them in the nuts, eh?
Which is why I have The List.
I have several lists. They differ in how far I would go to see posters on different lists dead.
I don't want anyone here dead. Even the likes of lettow and Neil derserve only a punch in the nuts.
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 07:26:56 PM
I don't want anyone here dead. Even the likes of lettow and Neil derserve only a punch in the nuts.
You're insufficiently mighty.
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:18:04 PM
Yes aggie the languish forums were started about 8 years ago, with the 7th anniversary of the large exodus on the 11th of this month.
God I'm old. I joined Languish a little later, but it was still 2003. I've been on Languish for almost as long as I was in high school and college combined. :bleeding:
Quote from: Neil on April 03, 2010, 08:50:59 PM
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 07:26:56 PM
I don't want anyone here dead. Even the likes of lettow and Neil derserve only a punch in the nuts.
You're insufficiently mighty.
:D
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 06:18:04 PM
Yes aggie the languish forums were started about 8 years ago, with the 7th anniversary of the large exodus on the 11th of this month.
Anyone want to give the new guy a history lesson? Did something specific happen on the 11th or did everyone just agree to leave at the same time?
From what I remember it was date that P'dox banned all threads about Iraq war on the OT forum.
As a group of folks had joined here in feb when languish(the member) advertised the forum as it was originally set up for mod of eu II, he was more than welcoming to the rest of us coming by and talking about anything as you have seen.
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 10:24:25 PM
From what I remember it was date that P'dox banned all threads about Iraq war on the OT forum.
As a group of folks had joined here in feb when languish(the member) advertised the forum as it was originally set up for mod of eu II, he was more than welcoming to the rest of us coming by and talking about anything as you have seen.
The Kewee forum was around for a very long time, but I think it died in the last server migration.
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 07:13:06 PM
And no April 11th is anniversary of family member being murdered.
Jackasses
:console:
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 07:13:06 PM
And no April 11th is anniversary of family member being murdered.
Jackasses
:console:
Quote from: katmai on April 03, 2010, 07:13:06 PM
And no April 11th is anniversary of family member being murdered.
Jackasses
:o
I'm so sorry :console:
I now realize why I never told you all.
But thanks guys, the killer was caught and tried, will never be free again.
April 11th is the exs bday. Sure as hell ain't celebrating that this year either. :P
Quote from: katmai on April 04, 2010, 02:45:37 AM
I now realize why I never told you all.
But thanks guys, the killer was caught and tried, will never be free again.
:punk:
The system works!
I like our anniversary. :)
I have no idea about priority mode, don't usually use elevators.
Quote from: Martinus on April 03, 2010, 07:33:41 AM
So, about two weeks ago someone told me that apparently most lifts have a "priority" mode built in. According to him, if you press the button of the floor you want to go to simultaneously with the door-closing button, the lift won't stop at any intervening floors, even if someone called the lift to them earlier.
I was quite incredulous about it, as you can imagine, but since I have been doing this and always got to my floor of destination without stops. Now of course this could be a coincidence, but I was wondering if anyone heard about it at all.
Am I understanding the post? Martinus tried out the priority mode for two weeks, and it always worked, but is now asking us if priority mode exists?
Quote from: alfred russel on April 05, 2010, 12:45:40 PM
Quote from: Martinus on April 03, 2010, 07:33:41 AM
So, about two weeks ago someone told me that apparently most lifts have a "priority" mode built in. According to him, if you press the button of the floor you want to go to simultaneously with the door-closing button, the lift won't stop at any intervening floors, even if someone called the lift to them earlier.
I was quite incredulous about it, as you can imagine, but since I have been doing this and always got to my floor of destination without stops. Now of course this could be a coincidence, but I was wondering if anyone heard about it at all.
Am I understanding the post? Martinus tried out the priority mode for two weeks, and it always worked, but is now asking us if priority mode exists?
Could be a coincidence.
So far I'm 1 for 1 at work. When I did the sequence that Marti described, the door immediately closed, and the elevator went past the floors in the middle without chiming as it usually does. Could be a coincidence, but I'll perform many more tries.
One thing I realized is that there may be a bias in people's samples of this trick. I imagine that people would be trying this only when they're alone, to avoid strange looks, and that's the most likely time when no one else needs an elevator.
Quote from: DGuller on April 05, 2010, 01:57:06 PM
So far I'm 1 for 1 at work. When I did the sequence that Marti described, the door immediately closed, and the elevator went past the floors in the middle without chiming as it usually does. Could be a coincidence, but I'll perform many more tries.
One thing I realized is that there may be a bias in people's samples of this trick. I imagine that people would be trying this only when they're alone, to avoid strange looks, and that's the most likely time when no one else needs an elevator.
Now I understand why I didn't understand the need for a thread. If you are going from floor 1 to floor 3, why not just press 2 and 3, with 3 using the lift priority trick.
I figured that is what Martinus was trying.
In psychology this is called "Magical thinking".
Quote from: alfred russel on April 05, 2010, 02:06:46 PM
Now I understand why I didn't understand the need for a thread. If you are going from floor 1 to floor 3, why not just press 2 and 3, with 3 using the lift priority trick.
I figured that is what Martinus was trying.
What's the point of pressing 2? The express trick may be real, but may not be programmed to override the previous floor selections. The point of this trick is that if you're going from floor 1 to floor 20, you will be doing it in one motion, rather than stopping on the way to your floor to pick up some jerks in the middle.
Quote from: DGuller on April 05, 2010, 01:57:06 PM
So far I'm 1 for 1 at work. When I did the sequence that Marti described, the door immediately closed, and the elevator went past the floors in the middle without chiming as it usually does. Could be a coincidence, but I'll perform many more tries.
One thing I realized is that there may be a bias in people's samples of this trick. I imagine that people would be trying this only when they're alone, to avoid strange looks, and that's the most likely time when no one else needs an elevator.
True.
Someone should just try a simple scientific experiment.
Get a friend to wait at floor 2 whilst you start on the ground floor and try try to go up to 4, via phone tell him when to press the call lift button and see if it stops for him,
Quote from: DGuller on April 05, 2010, 02:17:23 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on April 05, 2010, 02:06:46 PM
Now I understand why I didn't understand the need for a thread. If you are going from floor 1 to floor 3, why not just press 2 and 3, with 3 using the lift priority trick.
I figured that is what Martinus was trying.
What's the point of pressing 2? The express trick may be real, but may not be programmed to override the previous floor selections. The point of this trick is that if you're going from floor 1 to floor 20, you will be doing it in one motion, rather than stopping on the way to your floor to pick up some jerks in the middle.
To see if it works? If I'm a cop needing to get to floor 20 quickly, I'd not only want to avoid skipping picking up new people, but also letting out people pressing intermediate floors. If there is an override, my guess is it would override everything.
I guess it wouldn't hurt to try, but if it fails, that doesn't say much.
Quote from: alfred russel on April 05, 2010, 02:30:30 PM
To see if it works? If I'm a cop needing to get to floor 20 quickly, I'd not only want to avoid skipping picking up new people, but also letting out people pressing intermediate floors. If there is an override, my guess is it would override everything.
Cops and firemen have keys that activate the express mode (and lock out all other calls until the key is taken out).
I am trying to think of what anyone would imagine to be the motive for an elevator company to implement this feature, and failing. Those of you believe in this, can you explain why you would think an elevator manufacturer would pay to include this feature?
Quote from: DGuller on April 05, 2010, 02:34:22 PM
I guess it wouldn't hurt to try, but if it fails, that doesn't say much.
I just tried it and it failed.
I'm 5 for 5 today. :yeah: Two of those times I didn't even press the door close button.
Quote from: grumbler on April 05, 2010, 02:38:26 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on April 05, 2010, 02:30:30 PM
To see if it works? If I'm a cop needing to get to floor 20 quickly, I'd not only want to avoid skipping picking up new people, but also letting out people pressing intermediate floors. If there is an override, my guess is it would override everything.
Cops and firemen have keys that activate the express mode (and lock out all other calls until the key is taken out).
I am trying to think of what anyone would imagine to be the motive for an elevator company to implement this feature, and failing. Those of you believe in this, can you explain why you would think an elevator manufacturer would pay to include this feature?
Feature?
I have a new experiment. When on an elevator sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" while doing a dance and see if that prevents the elevator from stopping.
Quote from: Razgovory on April 05, 2010, 03:16:27 PM
I have a new experiment. When on an elevator sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" while doing a dance and see if that prevents the elevator from stopping.
Doesn't work, it stopped after 10 minutes.
Quote from: DGuller on April 05, 2010, 03:21:26 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 05, 2010, 03:16:27 PM
I have a new experiment. When on an elevator sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" while doing a dance and see if that prevents the elevator from stopping.
Doesn't work, it stopped after 10 minutes.
New Experiment. Do people get on the elevator when you are singing and dancing or do they just wait for the next one?
I like to pass gas while the elevator door is shut and it is in motion.
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 05, 2010, 05:03:46 PM
I like to pass gas while the elevator door is shut and it is in motion.
That'll teach'em.
I don't think I have told this here, if I have tough crap I think it is funny.
I was working in an office building; I was on the top floor so when the empty elevator showed up I knew it was going down so I jumped right in and hit the button for the ground floor. Just as the doors closed I realized that someone had left behind the worst smelling fart ever. Needless to say the elevator went down one floor where three of the hottest gals in the building get on, with me alone in an elevator smelling like I had shit my pants. I tried to explain, I don't think they believed me. :Embarrass:
Quote from: sbr on April 05, 2010, 05:33:13 PM
I don't think I have told this here, if I have tough crap I think it is funny.
I was working in an office building; I was on the top floor so when the empty elevator showed up I knew it was going down so I jumped right in and hit the button for the ground floor. Just as the doors closed I realized that someone had left behind the worst smelling fart ever. Needless to say the elevator went down one floor where three of the hottest gals in the building get on, with me alone in an elevator smelling like I had shit my pants. I tried to explain, I don't think they believed me. :Embarrass:
:lol:
I like to leave farts that stick to areas. I never signed the landmine ban.
Somehow I'm guessing if you tried this in an 50 story building it's not gonna work.
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on April 05, 2010, 06:07:04 PM
Somehow I'm guessing if you tried this in an 50 story building it's not gonna work.
Why is the mechanics of passing gas different at high altitudes?
Less atmospheric pressure, the stink dissipates much quicker.
Quote from: alfred russel on April 05, 2010, 02:30:30 PM
To see if it works? If I'm a cop needing to get to floor 20 quickly, I'd not only want to avoid skipping picking up new people, but also letting out people pressing intermediate floors. If there is an override, my guess is it would override everything.
Emergency services doesn't use "override codes." They get a key for the control panel that switches it into an "emergency" mode.
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on April 05, 2010, 06:07:04 PM
Somehow I'm guessing if you tried this in an 50 story building it's not gonna work.
I tried it today in the 63 story building I live in at the moment and it didn't work.
Living in a 63 story building? :o
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 06, 2010, 01:51:43 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on April 05, 2010, 02:30:30 PM
To see if it works? If I'm a cop needing to get to floor 20 quickly, I'd not only want to avoid skipping picking up new people, but also letting out people pressing intermediate floors. If there is an override, my guess is it would override everything.
Emergency services doesn't use "override codes." They get a key for the control panel that switches it into an "emergency" mode.
That sounds pretty time consuming to use.
Quote from: alfred russel on April 05, 2010, 12:45:40 PM
Quote from: Martinus on April 03, 2010, 07:33:41 AM
So, about two weeks ago someone told me that apparently most lifts have a "priority" mode built in. According to him, if you press the button of the floor you want to go to simultaneously with the door-closing button, the lift won't stop at any intervening floors, even if someone called the lift to them earlier.
I was quite incredulous about it, as you can imagine, but since I have been doing this and always got to my floor of destination without stops. Now of course this could be a coincidence, but I was wondering if anyone heard about it at all.
Am I understanding the post? Martinus tried out the priority mode for two weeks, and it always worked, but is now asking us if priority mode exists?
A hypothesis ("priority mode exists") cannot be proven by observation, it can only be disproven. So far I have been unable to disprove it, but that does not mean "it works".
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 06, 2010, 01:51:43 AM
Emergency services doesn't use "override codes." They get a key for the control panel that switches it into an "emergency" mode.
Man, I wish I'd said that.
Quote from: Tyr on April 06, 2010, 06:34:04 AM
Living in a 63 story building? :o
I live in the left big building in this picture. I only live in the 11th story though. In the meantime they have built more skyscrapers around it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sail_@_Marina_Bay
Apparently it's one of the ten highest residential buildings on earth...
Zanza's world is brave and new.
I work in a building where even pressing the buttons regularly is no guarantee you'll get there without the engineer having to come round and rescue you. And it's only a four-storey building.
Quote from: Zanza on April 06, 2010, 07:02:54 AM
Quote from: Tyr on April 06, 2010, 06:34:04 AM
Living in a 63 story building? :o
I live in the left big building in this picture. I only live in the 11th story though. In the meantime they have built more skyscrapers around it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sail_@_Marina_Bay
Apparently it's one of the ten highest residential buildings on earth...
Wow, you're a pretty worldly man. I bet no places measure up to New Jersey, though.
In May I'll go back to live in a 1960s three story suburb building in Germany. :P I liked Hoboken actually, so my image of New Jersey is not bad.
Quote from: Martinus on April 06, 2010, 06:39:23 AM
A hypothesis ("priority mode exists") cannot be proven by observation, it can only be disproven. So far I have been unable to disprove it, but that does not mean "it works".
The version of the priority mode I had heard included it would override both people wanting to get onto the elevator and those already in it. I figured you had heard the same version, but apparently not.
Quote from: Tyr on April 06, 2010, 06:34:04 AM
Living in a 63 story building? :o
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 06, 2010, 01:51:43 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on April 05, 2010, 02:30:30 PM
To see if it works? If I'm a cop needing to get to floor 20 quickly, I'd not only want to avoid skipping picking up new people, but also letting out people pressing intermediate floors. If there is an override, my guess is it would override everything.
Emergency services doesn't use "override codes." They get a key for the control panel that switches it into an "emergency" mode.
That sounds pretty time consuming to use.
How can it be time consuming? They have a key, they put it into the key slot then turn the key. It is as time consuming as the ignition on your car.
Quote from: alfred russel on April 06, 2010, 08:20:36 AM
The version of the priority mode I had heard included it would override both people wanting to get onto the elevator and those already in it. I figured you had heard the same version, but apparently not.
The way it works in my building is that it will override all stops except:
*for floor buttons pushed by someone inside the elevator (which is nice since it won't piss off people already on the elevator)
*if the door closes before you have pressed your button combination
I don't have much reason to use it these days since I am on the 5th floor, but when I was on the 14th floor I used it all the time. I do it out of habit when I have to go up to our 15th floor for a meeting.
For reference, the elevator manufacturer is Dover. IIRC, Dover & Otis elevators tend to work for this more ofteh than others.
I have yet to work out how the three elevators in our office building are coordinated. From ground level it's 9 floors up, two floors down.
Often in the mornings, waiting at ground level, one elevator will be on 2nd floor, going to the 8th to pick someone up, while a different elevator comes down empty from 7th floor for you. Meanwhile, the third one will hang motionless on 5th floor for no apparent reason. Not to mention several elevators passing you when you're on a middle floor but not stopping on their way up or down (and no, we don't have an override feature).
I have come to the conclusion that OTIS is a branch of Sirius Cybernetics.
Quote from: Zanza on April 06, 2010, 08:17:38 AM
In May I'll go back to live in a 1960s three story suburb building in Germany. :P I liked Hoboken actually, so my image of New Jersey is not bad.
Damn, I didn't realize we lived within half an hour of each other, by walking. :ph34r:
Quote from: DGuller on April 03, 2010, 09:08:04 PMGod I'm old. I joined Languish a little later, but it was still 2003. I've been on Languish for almost as long as I was in high school and college combined. :bleeding:
Which was more educational?
Quote from: Jacob on April 06, 2010, 04:54:27 PM
Quote from: DGuller on April 03, 2010, 09:08:04 PMGod I'm old. I joined Languish a little later, but it was still 2003. I've been on Languish for almost as long as I was in high school and college combined. :bleeding:
Which was more educational?
Obvioulsy college, but oddly enough, Languish can be very educational. The main reason I keep coming is that often there are discussions started that make you think, and often serve as a launching point for reading up on the subject.