Microsoft's Bugs (was Microsoft's XBox 360)

Post by **Dust** » 13 Jul 2007 00:45

http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=8 ... =site-marq

That's going to be expensive...

Jinxo · Post by **Jinxo** » 18 Jul 2007 13:08

Expensive most certainly but even with this announcement the Xbox 360 division of Microsoft is still expected to make a profit and thats not even factoring the projected sales revenue of Halo 3 into it all.

What do you expect though if you put the DVD tray over the heat sync and use 3rd party businesses for component supply.

All 3 of the Next Gen Game consoles have design flaws. The 360 with the heat problem, the Wii with the controller wrist attachment and the PS3, well it may not have any apart from the huge impact on your bank account and Sonys as they cant sell enough.

I hate Macs but tbh they seem to be the only system built properly.

Post by **Dust** » 21 Aug 2007 15:26

And microsofts windows...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276304?

Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes.

Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1.

Post by **Dust** » 24 Aug 2007 00:56

And steering wheels...

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/syste ... trofit.htm

(yes, I really do not like ms...)

Post by **Dust** » 27 Aug 2007 02:27

Yes... I found an other thing MS screwed up...

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41842
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=702
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=724

Apparently your network transfer speed gets reduced when you play an MP3...

Post by **Dust** » 25 Sep 2007 13:12

Excel Bug

A1: 850 * 77.1 = 100000
A2: A1 + 1 = 100001
A3: A1 - 1 = 65534
A4: A1*2 = 131070
A5: A1/1 = 100000

Weird :)

Stormwern · Post by **Stormwern** » 25 Sep 2007 14:14

850*77.1=65535=2^16-1, which is the highest possible value of a 16bit positive variable. Some programmers would rather die, not to mention getting bugs, than use two bytes extra memory. ><

Post by **Dust** » 25 Sep 2007 14:24

Well... obviously 65535 (0xffff) is shown as 100000. And if you add 1 to it you get 65536 (0x10000) which is shown as 100001. So something very weird happens...

If they would just use two bytes, it would show 0.

Esoteric · Post by **Esoteric** » 25 Sep 2007 15:02

omfg are you guys from outerspace ???

Stormwern · Post by **Stormwern** » 25 Sep 2007 15:05

Any bug still there after twelve years of patches is bound to be weird, just saying the cause is probably overflow-related.

Post by **Dust** » 25 Sep 2007 15:07

Apparently the bug is new in Excel 2007, and was not in the earlier versions.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » 25 Sep 2007 15:13

Optimisation probably causing overflow.

Post by **Dust** » 04 Dec 2007 18:29

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/03 ... h_outrage/

The title of this article is "Microsoft's sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children". Well, from my own experience with chat bots I can say: they really do have no manners.

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