[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Microsoft Surface Presentation Fail (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/20/2012 9:54:28 AM EDT
This poor bastard. 
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deja vu from another presentation that Bill Gates did and it got the blue screen of death iirc?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZQGRATlwA I remember watching that on my old Dell with 400Mhz. I love these flashbacks 
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| My iPad has frozen twice in six months, so I understand that errors happen. Hell the keyboard on the iPad thinks I hit the "m" key often when I am clearly hitting the space bar. Not very intelligent. Additionally, certain apps will hang up on their own, to include Safari. |
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Poor guy.... damn. Handled it ok, but could have made a point that it is not a production machine. Ignoring it makes it worse, don't you think? He's not talking to morans. People noticed. Not saying anything is worse than addressing it professionally. Agreed. I've been in the middle of a large demonstration when the application I was presenting took a major (and very visible) shit. The words "well that sucks" were out of my mouth before I even thought about what I was going to do. The laughter from the audience took all the pressure away and I restarted the app and continued on.
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You guys should have been around during the 80s. Every manufacturer was rushing to get their new workstation out and would demo it as soon as they thought they had a stable machine. Too bad video isn't available.
I think it was an HP rep who was going to demo their new workstation. In the presentation before the demo, he set something on the keyboard, which then started filling the input buffer. They forgot to put a limit on the number of characters on an input string, and it eventually took up all available memory and crashed the computer. It then hung on reboot, demo over. There was a industry leading IC design workstation manufacturer who was demoing their new design station. It was many times faster than the competition, and very user friendly. But they made a slight error in the OS. They forgot to protect it. During a major presentation, someone in the crowd asked to see a minor deviation from the canned demo. The deviation caused a write to disk, which overwrote the OS, which caused it to crash and without an OS, it was dead. The company filed for bankruptcy less than a year later. |
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Lol, right after he realizes its not working that look of "oh fuck" sets in The "I"m gonna be popular on Youtube, and not in a good way" look. Indeed. You can immediately tell he's thinking one thing but trying to talk about another and cover it. Not a fun place to be. |
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Poor guy.... damn. Handled it ok, but could have made a point that it is not a production machine. Ignoring it makes it worse, don't you think? He's not talking to morans. People noticed. Not saying anything is worse than addressing it professionally. Agreed. I've been in the middle of a large demonstration when the application I was presenting took a major (and very visible) shit. The words "well that sucks" were out of my mouth before I even thought about what I was going to do. The laughter from the audience took all the pressure away and I restarted the app and continued on. Wait...do...I...know...you? |
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Lol, here is an actual picture I took at a mall a few years ago
http://i47.tinypic.com/351aa82.jpg Speed lol... the world is such a weird place, I cannot intuitively tell if that's a real thing or not. Are there really coke machines with freaking computer screens on the face instead of a glass window??? |
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Poor guy.... damn. Handled it ok, but could have made a point that it is not a production machine. Ignoring it makes it worse, don't you think? He's not talking to morans. People noticed. Not saying anything is worse than addressing it professionally. Agreed. I've been in the middle of a large demonstration when the application I was presenting took a major (and very visible) shit. The words "well that sucks" were out of my mouth before I even thought about what I was going to do. The laughter from the audience took all the pressure away and I restarted the app and continued on. Wait...do...I...know...you? There were over a hundred people in the audience, so I guess it's possible.
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Quoted: Quoted: Lol, here is an actual picture I took at a mall a few years ago http://i47.tinypic.com/351aa82.jpg Speed lol... the world is such a weird place, I cannot intuitively tell if that's a real thing or not. Are there really coke machines with freaking computer screens on the face instead of a glass window??? There was at the Ross Park Mall outside of Pittsburgh a few years ago when I took that  I never saw it work; just blue screened the day I walked in. It was right inside the entrance to the left of Nordtstroms IIRC... Speed |
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Eh. He had a good excuse in that case. The WWDC keynotes are in a big auditorium and thousands of people using WiFi, both as base stations and as clients, in a small area. The RF environment is a horror story. I think they had a couple thousand SSIDs in range. |
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Quoted: Quoted: ~14 months in, never shut it off, and my ipad hasn't frozen once. Your lucky...I use mine all the time and it freezes twice a month usually. Yeah, the ones at work we use take a dump occasionally. They're also running on well-tested production software - and not a prototype running a new OS. |
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Knowing Jobs, while he sounds all funny, nice, and at ease in his mind he's filling out mental pink slips on that one. |
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Quoted: Knowing Jobs, while he sounds all funny, nice, and at ease in his mind he's filling out mental pink slips on that one. He was NOT happy. I wish I could find the Netboot failure. He was SO mad.
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Eh. He had a good excuse in that case. The WWDC keynotes are in a big auditorium and thousands of people using WiFi, both as base stations and as clients, in a small area. The RF environment is a horror story. I think they had a couple thousand SSIDs in range. This. I'm not an Apple apologist, but that wasn't an iPhone problem. It was a wireless network problem. I've been in large conferences like that, and you're right about the RF environment. He honestly would have been better off using the 3G connection. |
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Poor guy.... damn. Handled it ok, but could have made a point that it is not a production machine. Ignoring it makes it worse, don't you think? He's not talking to morans. People noticed. Not saying anything is worse than addressing it professionally. agreed |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Poor guy.... damn. Handled it ok, but could have made a point that it is not a production machine. Ignoring it makes it worse, don't you think? He's not talking to morans. People noticed. Not saying anything is worse than addressing it professionally. agreed Meh, cut the guy some slack...he panicked. Did you see the way he pranced over to the table? I'm thinking he might have already suffered a lot of ridicule in his life Speed |
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Quoted: Quoted: Eh. He had a good excuse in that case. The WWDC keynotes are in a big auditorium and thousands of people using WiFi, both as base stations and as clients, in a small area. The RF environment is a horror story. I think they had a couple thousand SSIDs in range. This. I'm not an Apple apologist, but that wasn't an iPhone problem. It was a wireless network problem. I've been in large conferences like that, and you're right about the RF environment. He honestly would have been better off using the 3G connection. I've been at Cellular Phone/Carrier trade shows and conferences, that were located in big steel buildings. Yup, no coverage for anyone there. |
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Funny, this thread wasn't about Apple until you posted 
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Eh. He had a good excuse in that case. The WWDC keynotes are in a big auditorium and thousands of people using WiFi, both as base stations and as clients, in a small area. The RF environment is a horror story. I think they had a couple thousand SSIDs in range. This. I'm not an Apple apologist, but that wasn't an iPhone problem. It was a wireless network problem. I've been in large conferences like that, and you're right about the RF environment. He honestly would have been better off using the 3G connection. This. |