Cruel and unusual IT fail upstages Megan Fox. Transformers: Windows in disguise There is a reminder to check your outputs in today's edition of signage sileage as the actor Megan Fox finds herself upstaged by Microsoft Windows. Snapped by Register reader Michael Wainwright, the huge example of a Windows dialog showing up where it isn't wanted can be found in Manchester. It was, according to Wainwright, " …
In an era where alerts abound and computers have never been under so much scrutiny, it is really surprising to see that public ad panels basically have no controlling software that decides whether or not everything is working fine before throwing an image on screen.
You'd think that ad agencies would prefer to ensure that their Windows box was able to function before activating the public panel.
Well, apparently they don't give two hoots about that.
That made me smile (in a tangential kind of way).
I just bought an indoor security camera (TP-Link), and I noticed in the Q&A on Amazon someone boasting that they used it outdoors with no problem because 'it is under cover where the rain can't get at it'.
Some people haven't heard of 'moisture'.
Because Windows techies are a cheap, abundant and renewable resource. In these conditions, companies are going head-on for the cheapest. Nobody is looking to hire a skilled Windows specialist when you can get entry-level ones a dozen for a penny. To make things worse, MS platforms are becoming more and more intelligent and automated that you no longer need skilled people to operate them. Worst, MS is trying to do the same with Linux too.
We've all idly forgotten what screen it is we're controllingsharing on video conference.
Indeed, while happily browsing some pron* on one screen and quickly reacting to a request to please share that other screen. And in the heat of the moment sharing the wrong screen...
*No, it wasn't. It was just some online tabloid, might have been El Reg itself.
A decade ago I was working at a security industry exhibition at the NEC.
Samsung had a huge hi-def screen that took up most of the rear wall of the hall. The engineer had just finished configuring it and decided he'd definitely earned a little R&R, so he settled down to watch some adult entertainment on his laptop, forgetting he was still hooked up to the huge video wall...
Apropos of nothing and a bit off the thread topic, I recently learned the old Commodore 128 could do dual screen out of the box, no hardware mods. Apparently the 40 and 80 column modes used two independent video sub-systems with separate outputs and it was possible to run both at the same time just from clever software.
Hopefully some enterprising soul invents something like - oh I'm reaching here...
... Like some giant, paper poster you can stick to the board instead.
You could even pay a fellow to remove / put up a new one as and when a new client pays
Nah, will never happen. B0rk is here to stay.
Anyway, going back to reading my Kindle. Be pretty cool to have a hardware version of my fav reads though...
The best use of a giant screen was a guy that setup a projector at night for his kids on the opposite building, and a showdown of Street Fighter 2.
Chun Li and E. Honda ducking it out in a 200 ft. screen looked epic.
The audio, fortunately, didn´t match the size and distance of the "screen" and could not be heard on the footage.
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