• Dave (unregistered) in reply to Kuba
    Kuba:
    toth:
    Not a WTF. On an embedded platform there is no filesystem, so a program is required to nobulate as soon as possible.
    I don't get people who really don't get the no-WTF embedded story. A couple years ago I've interfaced a little Z8 Encore! 8 pin MCU to a serial LCD from a Nokia phone. It rotated through a few static bitmaps, it was just for the kick of it. The way I got the bitmaps in there was by adding a bunch of XPM files into the project. This is on a device with 512 bytes of RAM and methinks 4 kb of EEPROM for code.

    I guess some people just don't get stuff that's outside of their experience.

    Actually this is a fairly standard failure mode of Dells and comes from their preinstall/imaging/recovery software. So it's not an embedded system, it's a 3GHz Core2 with 4GB of RAM and 500GB of disk space. It's a cromulent way for Dell to say "You're screwed and need new hardware (not just a reinstall, replacement hardware). Hope you had backups. Thankyou for choosing Dell".

  • chyro (unregistered)

    There were joysticks with force feedback, even mice, so why not a touchscreen?

  • (cs)

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  • madmonkeyman (unregistered)

    Nobulate? WTF! Intarwebs says "no" - brain spins wildly outta control

  • iToad (unregistered) in reply to Steve the Cynic
    Steve the Cynic:
    Dach chi ddim yn deall Cymraeg? Nid Cymro go iawn ydych chi, te.

    Do not call up that which you cannot put back down.

  • (cs)

    <null> describes exactly how I feel when I enter Starbucks Fortunately, I leave full of Java with no exceptions.

  • Nob (unregistered)

    Let me have a stab at a pun for such cutting edge technology.....

    nope can't think of anything. Sorry.

  • The Wanderer (unregistered) in reply to TheWhy
    TheWhy:
    I think I know the reason for the odd messagebox. The programmer probably through it was a string that had been split over two lines rather than a message and an accompanying caption. 
    int msgboxID = MessageBox(
        NULL,
        (LPCWSTR)L"Installation was successful. Would you like to ",
        (LPCWSTR)L"Install as a Windows Service",
        MB_ICONQUESTION | MB_OKCANCEL
    );

    And of course the question mark is being left out - the box is a question after all, and there's a pretty big and awesome question mark coming along with it.

    This seems to be pretty much exactly what happened, except that the phrasing was a little different (no surprise) and there was a question mark; see

    http://www.jarvana.com/jarvana/view/org/jvnet/hudson/main/hudson-core/1.323/hudson-core-1.323-javadoc.jar!/hudson/lifecycle/Messages.html

    and

    http://d.hatena.ne.jp/nagasama/20090405/1238942829

    (which includes what looks like it might be the actual source code behind that error message).

  • (cs)

    Someone at that game's development team must have been a fan of Douglas Adams.

  • (cs)

    What i find most disturbing about the hudson screenshot, is not the error message... It's the title of the window behind it... "Hudson slave agent". That's über disturbing! What kind of business are those guys into anyway? :D

  • heatsink (unregistered)

    That's some fancy bleeding edge touch screen technology.

  • Rebecca (unregistered) in reply to Studley
    Studley:
    [in Aussie accent] That's not a monitor. THIS is a monitor!

    if you were a real australian, you'd know that's a spoon.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Trying to convince people to switch to C#? So you want people to switch to a language that is just as lousy as VB?

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    The real WTF is that this guy thought C# was a good language to switch to.

  • leWaffle (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    I know, it looks to be really cutting edge.

  • Fred Ching Rutherford (unregistered)

    These are amazing, now I know where to send my screenshots.

    My favorite so far from personal experience was the error message, "this is not to the hotdog time," from a project that will remain nameless.

  • Andy (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    You could say it's the.. Cutting Edge

  • nythrix (unregistered)

    19-inch touch scream.

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