Bcoffman Gray Ghost Prowler Junkie Posts: 2418 From: Marshall,Mo.65340 Registered: DEC 2002
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posted 11-28-2005 12:56 PM
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. These are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, powerful, insight through extreme brevity. Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan.------------------- The web site you are seeking cannot be located, but countless more exist. ------------------- Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. ------------------- Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. ------------------- Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. (My personal favorite.) ------------------- Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. ------------------- Your file was so big. It might be very useful; But now it is gone. ------------------- Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. ------------------- A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. ------------------- Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. ------------------- You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here. ------------------- Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, but we never will. ------------------- Having been erased, the document you're seeking must now be retyped. ------------------- Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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