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Microsoft's Bugs (was Microsoft's XBox 360)
Posted: 13 Jul 2007 00:45
by Dust
Posted: 18 Jul 2007 13:08
by Jinxo
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.
Posted: 21 Aug 2007 15:26
by Dust
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.
Posted: 24 Aug 2007 00:56
by Dust
And steering wheels...
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/syste ... trofit.htm
(yes, I really do not like ms...)
Posted: 27 Aug 2007 02:27
by Dust
Posted: 25 Sep 2007 13:12
by Dust
Excel Bug
A1: 850 * 77.1 = 100000
A2: A1 + 1 = 100001
A3: A1 - 1 = 65534
A4: A1*2 = 131070
A5: A1/1 = 100000
Weird :)
Posted: 25 Sep 2007 14:14
by Stormwern
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. ><
Posted: 25 Sep 2007 14:24
by Dust
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.
Posted: 25 Sep 2007 15:02
by Esoteric
omfg are you guys from outerspace ???
Posted: 25 Sep 2007 15:05
by Stormwern
Any bug still there after twelve years of patches is bound to be weird, just saying the cause is probably overflow-related.
Posted: 25 Sep 2007 15:07
by Dust
Apparently the bug is new in Excel 2007, and was not in the earlier versions.
Posted: 25 Sep 2007 15:13
by Damocles
Optimisation probably causing overflow.
Posted: 04 Dec 2007 18:29
by Dust
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.
