{"id":1555,"date":"2007-07-11T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T23:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2007-10-06T07:17:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T10:17:47","slug":"you-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":"You, bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> get a kick out of hardware bugs: unexpected (but consistent) behaviour in normal electronic devices. Maybe electronic devices were a bit more foolproof back in the early 80s, basically because they probably had a couple of simple transistors that were easy to program. Nowadays, everything seems to come with (some sort of) operating system.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My very first MD Player (Sony, I can&#8217;t remember the modelnumber, but it&#8217;s not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minidisc.org\/equipment_browser.html\">listed here<\/a>, and it was one of the very first models released in Europe) had such a crappy &#8216;randomizer&#8217; that I could predict which track it was going to play next. Now, I know that writing a good randomizer is a true art, but I wonder if Sony&#8217;s engineers were in a time crunch to get the first players out.\n<\/li>\n<li>My DVD player (which does run some kind of custom OS) goes in complete lock-down mode whenever there&#8217;s an unreadable disk in it. I expect the player to say &#8216;Uh-Oh. I can&#8217;t read this&#8217; and then barf at me.\n<\/li>\n<li>My laptop&#8217;s fan is running on high whenever the computer comes out of hibernation. It does not quit. This can be quite funny when it&#8217;s running on batteries. The only way to get it to stop is to restart the computer.\n<\/li>\n<li>Pressing the snooze button on my alarm-clock always seems to turn on the radio (naturally, it has a button for that too and it&#8217;s called &#8216;Radio On&#8217;). The worst part is that there&#8217;s no way turn the radio off after that, except for pulling the plug.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe we should go back to &#8216;Made in Taiwan&#8217; devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a kick out of hardware bugs: unexpected (but consistent) behaviour in normal electronic devices. Maybe electronic devices were a bit more foolproof back in the early 80s, basically because they probably had a couple of simple transistors that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}