Posted on 04/03/2020 10:54:58 AM PDT by dayglored
This season's colours are blue, white and bork
Bork!Bork!Bork! Chicago! A town famed for what some might regard as a jumped-up quiche masquerading as pizza and home of the first skyscraper. Could there be a better venue for today's bork?
We like Chicago, although we're less keen on the landing approach to the city's O'Hare airport, which left this hack feeling a tad poorly on one occasion as Boeing's finest tumbled through the turbulence.
Also unwell, and snapped by a Register reader, is this example of digital signage, caught borking in the window of LOFT, a women's clothing emporium. Sadly, a jaunt to the Windy City isn't on the cards at the moment, but we reckon that the store in question is located at 150 W Roosevelt Road.
LOFT itself recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, having been launched in 1998, and has 650 stores and outlets over North America. The brand has its roots in the Ann Taylor chain of clothing stores, which itself dates back to 1954. As such, the apparel slinger for ladies has been somewhat of a fixture in American life for some time.
As, to be honest, has a good old-fashioned BSOD.
Americans, and indeed the global village, have enjoyed screens of purest blue for a good few decades, despite the odd incursion by Doctor Watson every now and again.
While BSOD-themed blankets, throws, cushions and T-shirts have long been a thing, we can but applaud its arrival upon a screen normally used to encourage Chicago's purchasers of female fashion to splash the dollars on new apparel.
Unless, of course, the retailer is dumping the florals for a distinctly edgier NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL emblazoned across the front of this season's outfits. Or maybe everyone's favourite: crash dump.
Seen some software struggling, or a bit of hardware throwing a wobbly where it probably shouldn't? The Register is waiting to hear from you. ®
“jumped-up quiche masquerading as pizza” Thems fightin words.
Maybe someone who knows what this is could provide a one-sentence summary. I’m curious
A windows haiku:
The blue screen of death
Microsoft has crashed again
No one hears your screams
Summary:
“I can’t write so here are 800 incohesive words.”
My digital signs have done that a few times. One even was a road sign heading onto the property. That’s why I keep lots of spares handy.
Exactly. Chicago deep dish pizza is the evolution of that flatbread thin-crust abomination into an art form.
I do enjoy a good haiku. If you don’t mind too much, I changed your last line.
The blue screen of death
Microsoft has crashed again
Bill Gates doesn’t care
"Unfortunately, I am also disgusted. This is incoherent dribble! This is a total redo and I'm assuming I need it right away."
LOL. TEOTWAWKI. ESAD. SHTF. BLOAT. And the list goes on. The latest one to pierce the netosphere is GOAT -- Greatest Of All Time.
GMAB. Give Me A Break.
$100 says they’re running Windows 7 or earlier.
Here is a typical headline and foreword from today's pages:
Tech tracker Tile testifies in Congress: Apple's geolocation nagging is so not fair
Alleges anticompetitive behaviour in the walled garden. There's no party like a third party, eh?
That's an easy win. I'd guess 7 in general, but I've also seen public BSODs of Vista and XP.
IRQ is an interrupt request. This is either a driver issue or, less likely, failed hardware.
I’d bet a week’s salary that it’s a Windows 7 machine, or if it’s not, it’s Windows 10 on very old hardware. This is more common than seen. Large format video display hardware is VERY expensive, and many organizations just don’t want to upgrade. This leaves them either sitting on dead or dying platforms or using all sorts of adapters to make connections, relying on poorly-supported third party drivers or programs.
The most annoying writing style I have ever seen...
I thought it was me.
Huh, in this age of acronym speaking, I thought that stood for Give Me A Beer
The article was nearly unreadable.
He was probably drunk when he wrote it. :-)
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