• (cs) in reply to notme
    notme:
    progrmmerrr:
    1. This 2. Is 3. Not 4. ... 5. Slashdot !

    1. This

    2. Is

    3. Sparta!

    • No,

    • I'm

    • Sparta

    • ...

    • Cus!

  • Maj najm (unregistered) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    The link is printed on iPaper, you PC-using fools!
    Ooh, iPaper. that would be the smackintosh improvement of epaper. With touchscreen capabilities!

    Imagine the possibilities for pr0n on that one!

  • phexitol (unregistered) in reply to MMSS

    I've actually had dreams where this concept works - it would be quite awesome, needless to say :)

  • Shakje (unregistered)

    iPaper - lets you right things with the new iPen, both cost £300. You can write on the paper with a different pen but when an update is sent out it'll burst into flames.

  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to Opie
    Opie:
    DJ Beret:
    The display has 8 digit spaces, so it should be able to display a 24-bit (or even a 26-bit) integer, right? Or does the "Int" stand for "Internal" Error?

    Why does the size of the display have to have anything to do with what kind of numbers the system is handling?

    My screen has 4800 sub-pixels by 1200 pixels. Therefore, assuming a character takes up a 5x5 area, it should be able to handle numbers with 230400 digits natively. The windows calculator won't even calculate numbers that large. 10^230400 = "invalid input for function"

    The first rule you'll need to learn in the business world: What would seem to make sense is meaningless to PHBs.

    Or alternatively you could do the maths, work out the highest decimal number that an 8 digit display could show, and work out how many binary digits it would take to display that.

    Then you could easily cast your mind back to the days when our pocket calculators all had 7-segment LCD displays (with just enough digits to show "5318008" or "710.77345") and remember that when your calculation came to a higher number than could be displayed on screen, all you got displayed was "Err" (or similar for different manufacturers) and quite possibly the same thing's happening here, and DJ Beret should be forgiven?

    Its more than likely that the program's throwing an out of range type error after checking whether the current jackpot is within the range it's possible to display on the board (personally instead of throwing an error up I'd have shown "99999999" or similar, but that's why this is a WTF).

  • alexgieg (unregistered) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    The link is printed on iPaper, you PC-using fools!
    Google Paper actually.
  • modo (unregistered)

    If Mac users right-click on the link they can open it in a new Mac-book air that floats onto their desk. Oh wait... They don't have right-click :(

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to progrmmerrr
    progrmmerrr (-1 Troll):
    1. This 2. Is 3. Not 4. ... 5. Slashdot !

    You must be new here.

  • (cs) in reply to MMSS
    MMSS:
    I don't see the issue... what happens when they click their finger over the link?

    The user's room is filled with a violent cacophony of 330 midi music files playing in disharmony, of course.

  • irquista (unregistered)

    Not technically an error - but the system would not return the correct result in this instance....

    About 10 years ago I used to work with a highstreet bookmaker. We used a very basic computerised system for working out the winnings on the more complicated bets.

    The system would get very slow when working out anything approaching a million pounds. But at anything over £4million the system would gracefully exit with the message "You should emigrate"

  • smeagol_s (unregistered) in reply to MMSS

    You must scan the paper to PDF, than the link will be active. Every mac user would come up with this idea.

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