Wednesday, July 31, 2002

 
What the HELL does this MEAN?!? It doesn't even make any SENSE!!

Excel.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x300341b6" referenced memory at "0x650eeed8". The memory could not be "read".
Click on OK to terminate the program.
Click on CANCEL to debug the program.

As far as I can tell, "debug" apparently means "terminate". And this usually results in "curse words" and a "three-finger salute" [well, prefaced by a "one-finger" salute.] I'm used to Windows and DOS error messages being quite arcane and unintelligible, but this one takes the "cake".
posted by Tony 13:55

Tuesday, July 30, 2002

 
Granted, the ultimate result is a dead girl, a waste of a life, and I am by no means minimizing that, but check out this article about a girl in the Phillipines killed by a video game opponent [who lost.]
This is certainly relevant and interesting to the gaming community, but if this occurred in the US, the news would be all over that fact that it was allegedly related to a video game loss, and certainly had nothing to do with the fact that the killer was "using a homemade g". Come on now, what's the bigger issue, the fact that the catalyst was a game [actually, it was the teasing about the loss--apparently no one taught that kid how to be a good loser--or the girl how to be a good winner], or the fact that the shooter either bought, found, borrowed, or worst of all, MADE a HOMEMADE GUN....if he was oversensitive or unrealistic enough to shoot after a video game, it was only a matter of time until he would do it anyway, for some other reason or percieved slight.
posted by Tony 23:06