Comments on: “I’m sorry… Our movie theater is controlled by the corporate office in Texas.” Huh?! http://www.charlesknutson.net/2007/03/31/im-sorry-our-movie-theater-is-controlled-by-the-corporate-office-in-texas-huh/ “It is impossible for a software organization to be saved in ignorance.” Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:34:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Ryan http://www.charlesknutson.net/2007/03/31/im-sorry-our-movie-theater-is-controlled-by-the-corporate-office-in-texas-huh/#comment-23 Ryan Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:22:59 +0000 http://www.charlesknutson.net/2007/03/31/im-sorry-our-movie-theater-is-controlled-by-the-corporate-office-in-texas-huh/#comment-23 This is still one of the most restarted things I've heard; thermostats that don't have a local temperature sensor?? What are these, space-age IP thermostats? Do they have their own static IPs? Are they controlled by a web browser? Still stupid. And who wants it to be 35 degrees inside even if it is 90 outside? I wanna know which chain this is, though I have a feeling I already do know. And doesn't the bandwidth required to run these displays cost more than it would to have a cheap local Win XP box running the thing? Or even a basic DVD or HD-DVD player? This is still one of the most restarted things I’ve heard; thermostats that don’t have a local temperature sensor?? What are these, space-age IP thermostats? Do they have their own static IPs? Are they controlled by a web browser? Still stupid. And who wants it to be 35 degrees inside even if it is 90 outside? I wanna know which chain this is, though I have a feeling I already do know. And doesn’t the bandwidth required to run these displays cost more than it would to have a cheap local Win XP box running the thing? Or even a basic DVD or HD-DVD player?

]]> By: Tony Pappas http://www.charlesknutson.net/2007/03/31/im-sorry-our-movie-theater-is-controlled-by-the-corporate-office-in-texas-huh/#comment-11 Tony Pappas Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:37:46 +0000 http://www.charlesknutson.net/2007/03/31/im-sorry-our-movie-theater-is-controlled-by-the-corporate-office-in-texas-huh/#comment-11 Reminds me of a time about 8 months ago, at the Hertz lot at DFW airport... All the flight information for the airport was displayed for Hertz' customer convenience on 3 very large plasma monitors, hung side by side. The display looked typically "airport-ish", with the arrival/departure times displayed... But displayed prominently, spread across all three monitors, in a 1-foot-high messagebox, on top of the flight information, was the message..."Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this process, memory requests for some applications may be denied. For more information, see Help." I told the people at the counter, and they said they had no idea that it was saying that, and even more important, no idea what to do or who to call. The display always just "worked." Pretty funny... Reminds me of a time about 8 months ago, at the Hertz lot at DFW airport…

All the flight information for the airport was displayed for Hertz’ customer convenience on 3 very large plasma monitors, hung side by side. The display looked typically “airport-ish”, with the arrival/departure times displayed…

But displayed prominently, spread across all three monitors, in a 1-foot-high messagebox, on top of the flight information, was the message…”Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this process, memory requests for some applications may be denied. For more information, see Help.”

I told the people at the counter, and they said they had no idea that it was saying that, and even more important, no idea what to do or who to call. The display always just “worked.” Pretty funny…

]]> By: Seth Nielson http://www.charlesknutson.net/2007/03/31/im-sorry-our-movie-theater-is-controlled-by-the-corporate-office-in-texas-huh/#comment-10 Seth Nielson Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:53:27 +0000 http://www.charlesknutson.net/2007/03/31/im-sorry-our-movie-theater-is-controlled-by-the-corporate-office-in-texas-huh/#comment-10 It was me all along, dr. K mu-ahh-ha-ha-ha-ha ( It was me all along, dr. K mu-ahh-ha-ha-ha-ha (

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