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Video director wasn't paying attention, or he'd have pulled that overlay off too fast to have gotten a picture of it. Unless it was the mixer itself that crashed, which is possible; a lot of that sort of equipment runs Windows under the hood. I know of one, in particular, that's probably not still in production, but is definitely still alive and well in the wild, that runs on NT4.
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Also, just noticed: Why is the URL for the article
http://thedailywtf.com/articles/mark-bowytz? Shouldn't it be something likehttp://thedailywtf.com/articles/bsod-could-go-all-the-way-this-year?Paging @mark_bowytz
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You mean that @mark_bowytz is TRWTF today?
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Possibly, but I'll blame it on Paula.
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Maybe he wants more respect...
He's posting all those WTFs and all he got was a lousy mug.
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... I'm no too sure about that....
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With Ed Balls losing his seat, we can replace Ed Balls Day with Mark Bowytz day
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He's got a sense of humour at least :smile:
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You'd have to with a name like Balls.
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Now that's not something that anyone expected!
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Intro blurb about @mark_bowytz. Blah blah blah…
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sadlfj alsdfjk alsdfjkl askjdf laskdjf laskdfjl aksdjflaskfj alkdjfalksdjlaksdjaklsjdalsdkjas
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Strange: Google translates sadlfj alsdfjk alsdfjkl askjdf laskdjf laskdfjl aksdjflaskfj alkdjfalksdjlaks-djaklsjdalsdkjas in Swedish to sadlfj alsdfjk alsdfjkl askjdf laskdjf laskdfjl aksdjflaskfj alkdjfalksdjlaks-djaklsjdalsdkjas in English.
But Google is nice to suggest that the Swedish spelling perhaps should be: sadlfj asdfjkl asdfjkl askjdf lskdjf laskdfjl aksdjflaskfj alkdjfalksdjlaks-djaklsjdalsdkjas. Makes sense.
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Isn't that the name of that Icelandic volcano that erupted a few years back?
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No; that was ajsldkhjfahdjfhjalsdhhkjahdkjlahfdjdhjklsahdjhlfajdhfjkahfjdhsfjahkjl ;)
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I love the way this "quote" is (automatically) hyphenated:
I wonder which dictionary they used.
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Wait a few hours for google to find us...
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TDWTF - making every imaginable term searchable on Google, one thread at a time.
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No, that was the Eyjafjallajökull - which is Icelandic by the way. A fine language that kept the good old Germanic þ, æ and ð.
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Google and Discourse don't play well together. Shocking, I know. I just searched for
jellypotato site:what.thedailywtf.com. The results will take you to the top of a thread that hasjellypotatoin it, but won't take you to the actual post.Admin
Hmm...it used to be better. Obviously google gets the non-js version, which is paginated. You used to go to that batch of posts, but it looks like it broke at some point. Necro'd a topic on meta.d:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-post-id-to-pagination-url-scheme-used-for-webcrawlers/21170/14?u=boomzilla
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It's easy. The giveaway is the total lack of umlauts and other marks in the quote. Though I can't really tell if TRWTF is if it's pure garbage text or if it's a real Swedish sentence in a font that just doesn't support diacriticals.
It's a little-known fact that the Swedish translation of "lorem ipsum" is "sädłj ålsdfjk âłšdfjkl āskjdf läskdjf lãškdfjl æksdjfłåskfj älkdjfålksddjlåkśdjäklsjdàlšdkjåß", but it just doesn't make any sense without the diacriticals.
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Show of hands, who here thinks we've had enough "Error: Success" pics? Yes, we all know errno=0 means success, and some calls give a non-success return status but don't set errno. Ha ha, that was funny the first hundred or so times, but I think it's earned a position as "Error'd Emeritus" now and can enjoy a well-deserved retirement.
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It's all about me. That's why.
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I thought that was Wednesday's article ...
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Well then, Welcome to Mark Week :smile:
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Give it a few hours, it will link back to this thread.
Edit: Hanzo'd
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How does one get a BSOD with a transparent background?
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Chroma key. Or possibly luma key.
Edit: To clarify, there are probably at least 4, and maybe as many as a half-dozen video sources active in that program. There is more than one way to mix them that would produce that result; this is a likely scenario. The left sidebar is one source
, possibly part of the background. (Although on closer look, I don't think so; it appears to be over the BSOD text.) The talking head isan opaque overlay overthe background. The "Cowboys Lost to Broncos" box is overlaid on top of that. The ESPN banner at the bottom may be part of the same source as the sidebar, or it may be a separate overlay; the marquee text is likely another overlay on top of that. The "Coming up" picture in the sidebar may also be a separate source. Finally, the BSOD is a full-screen transparent overlay that is above the main video and "Cowboys lost" overlay, buy below the sidebar overlay. The device that is connected to that overlay's input is what blue-screened.Why the director has a full-screen overlay active is, well, not TRWTF, but a WTF.On further thought, all of the overlays are probably full-screen, and chroma- or luma-keyed to be transparent everywhere except where they appear; that's a lot easier than trying to crop them to the desired area. The one the blue-screened is also supposed to be some small box somewhere on the screen.Admin
Ah yes, I kind of thought there was an hjalsdhhkja in there somewhere.
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Whoa, did not expect an explanation this detailed.
It's odd that the bluescreen background happened to match the key, though. Coincidence? Or is the key just a wide range? I'd expect a computer-generated video stream to use a single color for the key.
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You should have, note that he was the first to get: Viscount Pedantic Dickweed of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
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I would expect the source to put out a single color. However, the video mixer will generally accept a range (adjustable) around the key color (also adjustable; green and blue are most common, but any color that doesn't appear in the foreground can be used). BSOD-blue is pretty close to typical blue-screen-chroma-key-blue.
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More interesting is that, when I left the source language on "Detect", Google Translate decided that it was "Estonian".
If you really want a chuckle, try it and hit the speaker button in the translation box to hear it "pronounced" ;).
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It's even funnier if you hit the "Reverse" button and let it translate the "English" to Swedish and then hit the "Listen" button :smile:
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0,0,255 is probably a legit key color, since you're not likely to get that exact color from the video.
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Try it in French :laughing:
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They're not diacriticals. In Swedish, ‘å’ and ‘ä’ are entirely different letters than ‘a’, and ‘ö’ is different to ‘o’. They sort after ‘z’. (Danish and Norwegian are similar, but use ‘æ’ and ‘ø’ instead of ‘ä’ and ‘ö’.)
The more you know…<the more your head is full of irrelevant stuff!>
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Here is another one: Try listen to this swedish phrase in the translator: Maj nejm iss piter, aj kom fråm sviiden. aj lajk de dejly vat de fack
Sounds very swenglish
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Or, if you want to give your swedish a go, try to listen to this in english in the translator: Hei, ya hetar paiter, ya kommer froun sverje, ya gillar the daily what the fuck
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They are also sorted differently. Collation is non optional in Scandinavia. And the keyboard layout does not agree where to place the damn keys. This makes switching between Swedish and Danish a nightmare. All my æø And äö are fucked. I fortunately don't need to do that much currently.
http://www.3b-it.co.uk/technoshack/ancillary/images/Nordic_Layout.jpgEdit: above layout gets it fucking wrong 😢 Edit 2: pictures from 2 of my keyboards ImgurAdmin
Some years ago I was asked to review a Swedish school biology textbook to see if it was suitable for translating into English. For some reason I was delighted to discover that the Swedish for sludge was slam and that the device in a sewage plant that removed the sludge was called a slamskrapa. Obviously I'm easily amused.
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Reading the history of Iceland on Wikipedia, I note that the general rule of the Icelanders seems to have been to keep everything they could lay their hands on. So, no surprises there.
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Some people are also amused by the Swedish words infart and utfart- Don't know why though.
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It's pretty clear. I've never understood why Swedes insist that sadlfj alsdfjk alsd-fjkl askjdf laskdjf laskdfjl aksdjflaskfj alkdjfalksdjlaks-djaklsjdalsdkjas is even edible.
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Obviously you haven't tried it fried with reindeer moss.
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WTF is that key to the right of ??
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Where we unloaded the surplus accents n' shit? I don't think it has a name. I mainly use it for the pipe character I think.