• Ben Scott (unregistered)

    So, at the end of all the screen shots, there is an ad for a hotel, with the legend box "Festive Season Special". It took me a second to realize "Festive Season" was a real ad and not just another case of [[unexpanded variable]].

    Truth is stupider than fiction.

  • (cs) in reply to BlueXero
    BlueXero:
    Or you could all just use the metric system. Its so much easier. Means that you can deal on a base of 10.

    I count in hex, so neither work for me.

  • Mr Cranky (unregistered) in reply to KoosG
    KoosG:
    FWIW, that screen with the windows message is pretty damn big. Having been there... It's 25 m2 (or 75 square feet, as it's 15x15 ft)
    Ummm, WTF?
  • Mr Cranky (unregistered) in reply to NotAnEnglishMajor
    NotAnEnglishMajor:
    KoosG:
    FWIW, that screen with the windows message is pretty damn big. Having been there... It's 25 m2 (or 75 square feet, as it's 15x15 ft)

    Not much on arithmetic huh?

    1 square meter is roughly 3ft x 3ft = 9 sq feet.

    25 square meters = 25 x 9 = roughly 225 sq feet. Which is, oddly enough, the same as 15 x 15.

    -NotAn

    Not much on looking things up, or using Google math huh? 1 sq. meter is nearly 11 sq. feet, not so close to 9. And 25 sq. meters is about 269 sq. feet.

    OK, 1st time captcha poster: appellatio ... sounds like fun!

  • (cs)
  • M-T (unregistered)

    All your base are belongs to us

  • PleegWat (unregistered)

    On the big screen: I haven't seen the specific error, but if I'm not mistaking it's the traffic announcment screen. I've seen similar, smaller screens with an assortment of windows error boxes and blue screens either overlaying or replacing the normal screen contents. That besides the number of times the physical display was broken...

  • Jon (unregistered)

    In Terry Pratchett's [[Check out book title]] there is a night watch named [[Name]] who had learned their [[honor text]] by heart, but was too stupid to understand to replace all [[replace with English for "meta ord"]] so he said something like "I, left square bracket insert name right bracket solemly declare to ...."

    • Jon
  • Reggie (unregistered)

    I actually think it's friendlier than most. At least the message acknowleges that the programmer MIGHT have made a mistake.

    I've spent Monday and Tuesday dealing with mystery crashes in MS tools that state as a fact that dereferencing a null pointer is a direct result of -my- por coding. Which would be possible if I were coding. When it happens dragging a standard control from the MS toolbox to a blank form, I think MS should concede the possibility that they have a bug in -their- code.

  • (cs)

    I, for one, lean toward FILE_NOT FOUND.

  • (cs)

    i happen to like putting don't panic in front of error messages. It's rather comforting, and if it was good enough for HHGTTG then by god its good enough for software

  • (cs)

    Several years ago we had an app that kept throwing "Pure virtual function call" in production. Literally, that was all the box said, with an "OK" button, and then the app would exit. (If you don't know what a pure virtual function call is - it's a method that is defined on a base class but not implemented, which means a derived class MUST implement it. There are multiple levels of WTF involved if you manage to actually call a pure virtual function, as the compiler and the runtime should have both caught it...) Turns out it was some code deep in a Microsoft library that was freaked out by the fact that the production box was multi-proc. In the rare situation where both procs would fire a particular event at exactly the same time, it stomped all over itself, trashing function pointers all the way.

  • NickC (unregistered)

    The bigger the error the better.. [image]

  • Adam (unregistered)

    Please DO NOT use JPEG for screenshots. Use PNG instead. Thanks.

  • Saurabh Barjatiya (unregistered)

    Inherent assumption that first one is 'A'

  • Midnight Voyager (unregistered)

    Thank you for staying at [[resort name]]. As part of an optional test protocol, we are pleased to present an amusing fact. The device is now more valuable than the organs and combined income of everyone in [[subject hometown here]].

  • youSeemNaive( ) (unregistered) in reply to rd

    As a system designer I would like you to stop using software. You are the reason is is so costly, and very embodiment for the rational behind defensive programing.

  • BlackWolfe (unregistered) in reply to rd
    rd:
    As a software user, I tend to lean toward 'B'.

    Heck, as a developer I lean towards 'B' also.

  • kevin (unregistered) in reply to Salty
    Salty:
    NotAnEnglishMajor:
    KoosG:
    FWIW, that screen with the windows message is pretty damn big. Having been there... It's 25 m2 (or 75 square feet, as it's 15x15 ft)

    Not much on arithmetic huh?

    1 square meter is roughly 3ft x 3ft = 9 sq feet.

    25 square meters = 25 x 9 = roughly 225 sq feet. Which is, oddly enough, the same as 15 x 15.

    -NotAn

    Not much on rounding errors, are you?

    1 square meter is almost exactly 3.28 ft x 3.28 ft = 10.7584 sq ft

    10.7584 sq ft x 25 = 268.96 sq ft which, oddly enough, is no where near 225 ft.

    I'll bet you guys are fun at a party. And will die childless.

  • MaDeR (unregistered)

    What the fuck it is with these all spam messages? Maybe it is time to upgrading CAPTHA.

  • P.O.ed Techie (unregistered) in reply to rd

    As a former Tech Support, I'm leaning towards A as well.

    You'd be surprised how often "Is it plugged in?" is answered in the negative.

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