Comments on: Access Denied

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:41 +0000

What scares me is that things are getting harder to turn off. First we lost the real power button to the back of the PC, and were fobbed off with an ineffectual one that asks the PC to begin the process of preparing to be politely powered down. Now on my Dell at work, it doesn't even turn it off, it prepares to reboot. You have to hold it down for twenty seconds to actually get it to shut down. How long before the power cable comes soldered in? When my MP3 player crashed, I had to leave it on all night to run the battery down to get it to sleep. It just glared with a blank white screen at the ceiling, all night. There aren't many circumstances when I need to turn either of these things off quickly to survive, but it's not the kind of design habit we want to get into before we finally add the seemingly innocuous Free Will chip to our Killer Deathbots With Killguns 3000.

By: Ade

Ade — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:06:52 +0000

Nice. Yeah, there should be a kind of "Do not fuck with me. At all." mode, that computers are permanently in.

Here's an interesting error I once received:
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By: Tentaculat

Tentaculat — Sun, 13 May 2007 08:47:14 +0000

It looks like you're running XP, so if you think that's bad I hope you never have to deal with the offspring. Vista is excruciatingly insolent and patronizing, and a reminder that computers will one day become the talking elevators of HHGTTG: "I go up," said the elevator, "or down." "Good, " said Zaphod, "we're going up." "Or down," the elevator reminded him. "Yeah, okay, up please." There was a moment of silence. "Down's very nice," suggested the elevator hopefully. "Oh yeah?" "Super." "Good," said Zaphod, "now will you take us up?" "May I ask you," inquired the elevator in its sweetest, most reasonable voice, "if you've considered all the possibilities that down might offer you?"

By: Dabs

Dabs — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:11:56 +0000

HATE.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 09 May 2007 01:22:19 +0000

Don't forget Left 4 Dead! It was a pretty good week.

By: Dabs

Dabs — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:24:53 +0000

Sounds like the application I've been waiting my whole PC-using life for - cheers Tom. In other news, I hate you for having played Episode Two and Team Fortress 2. Hate. And I've never even met you.