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newsomewayne 9065 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 08-08-06, 08:05 AM (EST) "Note to the "geniuses"." Yo! Lambchop-boy. That flat thing in your lap ain't just a place to set your BK Stacker and french fries freedom fries (we are in Philly, you know). It also happens to be what we genuinely smart people call 'a com.pu.ter.' Not only is it good for downloading porn while in Treasure Hunter camp, it can also be used for things like, oh I don't know, FINDING EXACT DIRECTIONS TO A LOCATION YOU NEED TO GO TO. Just because "you know Philly" doesn't mean you know everything and everywhere. Even if you know you know or think you know or even think you want to know, wouldn't it be smart (I know, there's that word again) and/or prudent to just double check it with mapquest. I know they're not the sponser of the show, but I doubt their site is blocked, either. How long would that take? How hard is it to think of that? Morons. Handcrafted by RollDdice And I do wonder how much editing was done to make the competition look close at the end.   Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Subject     Author     Message Date     ID    RE: Note to the "geniuses". maroonclowns mom 08-08-06 1  RE: Note to the "geniuses". aquariaqueen 08-08-06 2    RE: Note to the "geniuses". newsomewayne 08-08-06 3  RE: Note to the "geniuses". Earl Colby Pottinger 08-08-06 4  RE: Note to the "geniuses". CantStandToLook 08-08-06 5    RE: Note to the "geniuses". newsomewayne 08-08-06 6        RE: Note to the "geniuses". Mayz 08-08-06 7            RE: Note to the "geniuses". CantStandToLook 08-08-06 8                RE: Note to the "geniuses". Mayz 08-09-06 9                RE: Note to the "geniuses". Earl Colby Pottinger 08-09-06 10                    RE: Note to the "geniuses". CantStandToLook 08-09-06 11                        RE: Note to the "geniuses". Earl Colby Pottinger 08-10-06 12                            RE: Note to the "geniuses". CantStandToLook 08-10-06 13                        RE: Note to the "geniuses". wantstorun 08-12-06 16                    RE: Note to the "geniuses". aquariaqueen 08-11-06 14                        RE: Note to the "geniuses". tvgeek401 08-11-06 15

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maroonclowns mom 1102 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Politically Incorrect Guest" 08-08-06, 09:47 AM (EST) 1. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." "Men" don`t need directions   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

aquariaqueen 2616 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Survivor-themed Cruise Spokesperson" 08-08-06, 11:19 AM (EST) 2. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." Lots of downfalls in AR is when people think they're familiar with an area.....   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

newsomewayne 9065 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 08-08-06, 11:31 AM (EST) 3. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." Oh Yeah. I know. When Lambchop boasted how much he knew the city at the beginning of the episode, I told DW, "Well I guess we know who gets eliminated in this episode." Handcrafted by RollDdice   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Earl Colby Pottinger 1803 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser" 08-08-06, 12:26 PM (EST) 4. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." I think it was close in the sense the final two teams recieved thier calls only after they openned the vault. However, I agree that it could be minutes not seconds between the two teams, the directors would not miss an chance like this to make it look closer in the final edit. The surprise on the Ex-CIA does not suggest they had been spend a long time (hours) trying to solve the key word, they think they did it in record time themselves.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

CantStandToLook 6254 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 08-08-06, 02:41 PM (EST) 5. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." What killed me and I'll have to go back and re-watch the episode, but one team stopped to ask a guy to look something up on the internet. HELLO, you have a laptop yourself with internet access and you're gonna stop and ask someone else to look something up for you. I want to think it was the southies or geniuses that did this.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

newsomewayne 9065 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 08-08-06, 03:33 PM (EST) 6. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." It was the Southies. I questioned this too, but I think they just asked if he knew and he did. But still, why not look up directions on your computer. Handcrafted by RollDdice   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Mayz 7 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "American Cancer Society Spokesperson" 08-08-06, 05:12 PM (EST) 7. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." I was thinking this too, but here is my theory - I bet that they can look up information and such that was downloaded from Ask.com, but my guess is that they don't have live internet capabilities anywhere they go. They would have to carry around a wireless thingy in their backpack, I think or something. Maybe i'm just not very computer savy - but that is my theory.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

CantStandToLook 6254 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 08-08-06, 05:39 PM (EST) 8. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." My guess is that everything that they need for the game is already loaded offline style on their laptops so they dont need live access to the web but I could be completely wrong. It never says implicitly that they only have access to ask.com but if they did, it would make sense as they wouldn't be able to access any other resource but would be sure to have everything they might need for the game.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Mayz 7 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "American Cancer Society Spokesperson" 08-09-06, 09:58 AM (EST) 9. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." Yep, that is what I meant, but you said it soo much better.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Earl Colby Pottinger 1803 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser" 08-09-06, 12:43 PM (EST) 10. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." Assuming that they can only access ASK.com - I checked. ASK.com also has a map service, they could have looked it up themselves. Also considering how much they are roaming I am sure that the show insured hot spots at each task location if not a wide (sat link?) area service. Suggests to me they need to do look-ups before jumping into a car and driving off. In fact I can see that as part of the game, do you wait a few minutes and access ASK.com or jump into the car and maybe lose your connection to look up info.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

CantStandToLook 6254 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 08-09-06, 01:04 PM (EST) 11. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." I understand your point and think maybe you misunderstood mine. I too believe either they were set up to ensure there would be wi-fi spots wherever the tasks were but my alternative belief was that maybe all the information they needed was already looaded into the machines via the ask.com engine. That may not be entirely feasible but if the sole purpose of the laptops was to help with clues and directions, they would have plenty of harddrive space for the producers to have loaded everything before they left for the first task. The producers already know what the clues are and the places that they will travel so it doesn't seem to hard to pre-load the laptops with the offline information they would have needed for the whole show. Does that make sense or am I grasping at straws?? Anyone, Bueller?? Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Earl Colby Pottinger 1803 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser" 08-10-06, 07:42 AM (EST) 12. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." The only problem (not saying you can't do it. Is that at present most search engines run on large clusters to process the questions. If you just use a browser offline functions then the players must use the 'EXACT' same question as the producers did. However, I just checked. Ask.com does have a PC computer based search engine. According to the FAQ all the index files are kept on the PC - no internet required. It uses the browser as it's interface so I assume it looks the same too! So yes, you are right! The producers if they want too could have the computers pre-load for off-line use with all the key info. Additionally, since they all come to the same stops at the end of each leg, there is a chance for the computers to be updated for the next leg only, thus preventing someone to spend time working on a clue three legs in advance. (ie, looking at the maps loaded to guess where they are going.)   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

CantStandToLook 6254 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 08-10-06, 09:27 AM (EST) 13. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." Thanks for doing the research that I am way too lazy to do myself. The offline engine makes the most sense for exactly the reasons you specified in your post. Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

wantstorun 20 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Got Milk? Spokesperson" 08-12-06, 09:10 PM (EST) 16. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." Didn't Air Force use the directions on Ask.com- I seem to remember they had their computer open and one of the Matt's was reading directions.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

aquariaqueen 2616 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Survivor-themed Cruise Spokesperson" 08-11-06, 01:43 PM (EST) 14. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." I would have searched Ask.com for Google!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

tvgeek401 1615 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Peanut Festival Grand Marshall" 08-11-06, 09:24 PM (EST) 15. "RE: Note to the "geniuses"." hehe. me, too. Google is the best.thing.ever.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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