Sometimes even PSPs get the blues
By Peter Rojas 
posted May 11th 2005 9:01AM
posted May 11th 2005 9:01AM
Very, very rarely does a pic require no commentary. This is one of those rare instances.
[Thanks, Joey and Sandy]
posted May 11th 2005 9:01AM
Very, very rarely does a pic require no commentary. This is one of those rare instances.
[Thanks, Joey and Sandy]
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"would you want to be on a life support machine running Windows XP?
I wouldn't."
I wouldn't want to be on a life support running *any* commercial OS, Mac, *NIX, Windows... I want my life support machine to be running a custom OS that has as *few* lines of code as possible to limit the number of possible bugs so that *I* don't code.
When I want to play a game on a computer I use one of my windows machines. But I use mac for alot of my work not for gaming. But I also use my win box for a few programs for work. Right now my tv box is a Win2k machine. But I think im gonna get a mini mac to replace it. As for the right clicking. I do that all the time. people are ignorant.
The sad thing about this is everyone is blaming Windows for an error that is not from the OS. As poster 34 said, it is a PC Anywhere software.
So if anyone should be to blame, then it should be Symantec. More likely however, it was some stupid tech that was running the software on the display PC and left it running and it timed out or something. You could get the same problem if you ran VNC or SSH on your linux desktop or Mac desktop and the software happened to create a popup on timeout.
Things is Nintendo actually connect the DS up to screens this big - no reliance on windows at all!!
I used to work for a company manufacturing displays like this. The display is a LED with one red one green and one blue led making up each pixel. Depending on the distance the viewer is to the board the dot pitch is adjusted and thus the resolution. Overall the display is not very high resolution. To drive the board we used our own software that would play video files in an application like this. Our software ran on a windows machine but there was no way for an error message of any sort to be displayed in on the board. All of our competitors had similar software solutions. The computer would be connected to the board over fiber so distance wasn’t an issue. This is how all the big guys do it which leads me to believe this is either photoshoped or someone supplying the content decided to have some fun. Either way it’s not a “windows” problem.
It's amazing. All it has to do is play a simple video over and over, and Windows can't even get THAT right!
yeah...but does it have dead pixels?
I love how there's so much tension between mac and pc users that I could say pretty much anything at all and start a full fledged debate, even if everyone's had their say thousands of times already.
I'll just hate on macs a little to prove my point:
'when i use mac os machines they crash more often than my windows machines'
'mac is overpriced and narrowly supported'
'pcs are more customizable and work perfectly when properly configured'
'most businesses do not run on macs'
why? because in the real world people care less about cute looking designs and computer companies named after fruit and more about suppport, usability, scaleability, modularity, and overal cost of ownership.
That should start some serious conversation, and yes I do know its all been heard before. (I'll be back tomorrow to see the progress)
c'mon you mac lovers, start getting angry and take me to task for my mac hatin' ways
no.
for the record, for those who were commenting about both windows and mac being used to run train or life support systems, check the legal info. Both Apple and Microsoft both have paperwork that says they HEAVILY advise against using their system for such uses, and that they are not responsible if you are stupid enough to do so. I dunno bout linux, but I'd bet they'd have something like that.
Such important systems like that are usually completely custom built, meant to do one thing, one thing alone, and do it as near perfect as possible.
OMG j00 r sooo lame! macz rule i used to use PCs but now i never do cos windoze always crashed and it wasnt jsut because im too retarded not to download anything which tells me it's "free screensavers", no...
Im a mac fan but I also use PC so Im not even gonna bother getting angry about It cus I feel both apple and PC have there negatives and positives. I depend on both.
try poor code on the app maker's side.
John Eddy wrote:
"I wouldn't want to be on a life support running *any* commercial OS, Mac, *NIX, Windows... I want my life support machine to be running a custom OS that has as *few* lines of code as possible to limit the number of possible bugs so that *I* don't code."
Most medical devices use commercial Real Time OSes like QNX, VRTX, etc. Their simple designs allow rigorous testing and predictable behavior. You really don't want a medical instrument coded from the ground up, there just aren't enough engineers in the world that understand 'Hard Real Time'.
This may have been already posted, but...
Multiple video cards are not necessary to run the display. Just a very large monitor.
I'd create a very minimalistic, proprietary operating system to run this type of display. (I.E., an AVI Video Codec, SVGA [800*600*32] capable video card driver) Then again, the advertisers were probably rushed for time, and thus decided to fire up Windows Media Player instead.
I've seen this sort of thing before: www.windowscrash.com.
Its funny how this turned into a PC and MAC battle. I prefer PC just cuz it has more games but I use my MAC to play with my PS CS2. Both are awsome, so all ur girls just shut up and stop whining. Both PC and MAC can run that billboard, its the person that set it up screwed up.
The mac no longer has the bomb picture for errors. It's now a yellow triangle with a "!"
Wow, some people have a LOT of time on their hands to write such long explanations of things that have nothing to do w/ the actual post.
I'm on a Mac.
thats not a real PSP people. and thats windows NT