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September 26, 2006 12:03 AM
Broken: Electronic billboard
Jade Wu submits a picture taken in Las Vegas, Nevada:
I saw a huge electronic billboard in Las Vegas was showing a Microsoft windows calculator.
Maybe the operator was asleep and didn't realize what was being shown in the sign.
Funny, I've seen plenty of BSoD's, Errors on screen, but nothing like the intentional mistake of using MSCalculator on a giant screen like that. This is broken. Don't even try to say that this is not broken. :D
-drivec
Maybe they're trying to say that you'll need a calculator to count all the money you're gonna win (or lose).
I've seen industrial control systems that have PCs that take electrical noise in through the keyboard, and it manifests itself as random key presses. since multimedia keyboards have a button for a web browser or calculator, these can be the keys 'hit' by the noise. I saw one machine that the noise 'hit' the power button on the pc all the time! that was broken! maybe in this case, someone bumped the keyboard, or they had some noise!
Lol, that's funny. I think the operator did fall asleep.
But don't even THINK about blaming this on Microsoft. It isn't Microsoft's fault if someone opened the calculator and forgot about it.
>But don't even THINK about
>blaming this on Microsoft. It
>isn't Microsoft's fault if
>someone opened the calculator
>and forgot about it.
Uhm... depends on how the calculator got there. Maybe it was a usability issue. Maybe it had something to do with Windows' crappy support for multiple monitors. Who knows.
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Haha...Microsoft is broken - period.
Posted by: chuichi at September 26, 2006 05:41 AM