 Number 209 - October 2000 |
| Computer Haiku | |
| From the Internet - source unknown - April 2000 | |
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Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 24 -
Sony has announced its own computer operating system now available on
its hot new portable PC called the Vaio. Instead of producing the
cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft's Windows and DOS
Systems, Sony's chairman Asai Tawara said, "We intend to capture the
high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what has been, until
now, an operating system that
A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. Chaos reigns within. Stop, reflect, and reboot. Order shall return. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. With searching comes loss. The presence of absence. "June Sales.doc" not found. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. You step in the stream But the water has moved on. Page not found. Having been erased, The document you are seeking Must now be retyped. |
reflects Western cultural hegemony. For
example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error
messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry." The haiku messages are
just as informative as Microsoft's and they make you pause long enough
that you're able to fight the impulse to put a fist through the screen.
The chairman went on to give examples of the error messages:
You seek website? It cannot be located. Countless more exist. ABORTED effort: Close all that you have worked on You ask way too much. First snow, then silence. This thousand dollar screen dies So beautifully. Windows NT crashed. The Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky. But we never will. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. |
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