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Is that XP? It looks more like Windows 98, which is even more bewildering.
And frist.
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No, it's definitely Windows XP or probably 2003. 9x and 2000 had the older 16-color start button icon, and all later versions lacked Active Desktop.
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I can't ever remember seeing windows in a movie theater; it seems like a bad experience.
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Ah, active desktop. How I miss thee.
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I don’t particularly want the contents of my refrigerator monitored on the internet, but I guess I’m just being naive, since there’s a record of all the food I buy anyway. And if I wanted to watch movies on a computer screen, why would I go out to a theater with a noisy, contagious audience, sticky floors, and overpriced unhealthy snacks to do it?
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I'm curious why they call that fridge "Bespoke" when it's clearly already built and sitting on the floor. I guess you can order one in a different color, but that's really stretching the definition.
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The door panels are changeable. It says underneath.
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Why would they have specified the number of children as 2-1 or 4-3 (i.e. backwards)?
Oh, of course: it's "amurrican" date formatting.
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Jesus, Windows XP... I never expected that cinemas are that broke.
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I'd be more worried about a fridge/freezer that promises "Non-stop entertainment". Be very afraid.
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There's a whole lot of old tech embedded in every industry. XP probably still runs half the ATMs in the USA.
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When Oppenheimer came out, and they showed off the 11 miles of film that needs to be run through the projector, they also showed that part of it is controlled by a Palm m130. They never bothered to make a new version of the software so when the PalmPilot eventually broke, all they could do was replace it with an emulated version.
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I see what you did here. Pure gold :-)
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Not just the USA or NA, but I have seen plenty of posts from places in Europe, South Africa, India, and Asia also showing XP (usually Embedded edition.)
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Outdated stuff like this also drives the displays in our trams, including frequent errors like the one shown...
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another example of how that date format makes 'perfect sense'
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I have seen Vista running a virtual machine running a large supermarket chain self-checkout, so behold.
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What folks tend to forget about embedded systems is the workloads aren't changing for decades at a time. So as long as the hardware runs, the existing hardware, OS & application software are fine.
That happy stable situation doesn't apply to the everchanging and ever-expanding workloads on our own phones, tablets, laptops, or desktops. Nor to the server infrastructure they connect to. All that stuff is continually renewed and replaced.
Most of us are employed in this latter world, not the former one. All that turbulence needs devs. All that stasis does not. Or at least not to the same extent.
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Old embedded systems usually only give errors like that when hardware causes corruption, as they're otherwise stable. On the other hand, the number of Win10/11 BSoDs and other errors I've encountered on various screens seems to be increasing.
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Beverage Center (tm)? Luckily, I only get my libation from the Beverage Left.
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If its not broke, why replace it?
How often do you replace your; Fridge, Washer, Dryer or Dishwasher?
Currently, the age of the average car in the US is 12yo, that has a lot more wear than white goods. Projector setups would be industrial so I would expect them to last triple that.
The average fridge is 15yo....which makes the smart fridge/freezer look like maybe not so smart.....