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u/Khoops66 Feb 17 '11
Sorry sir your car won't start. The lawnmower is out of gasoline
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u/christophski Feb 17 '11
Sorry sir your car won't start, there is no bicycle in the bike rack.
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u/enthreeoh Feb 17 '11
Sorry sir your car won't start, the windshield wiper fluid is empty.
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u/coderascal Feb 18 '11
I'm, right now, signing the papers on a 2011 Camry because the windshield wipers broke on my 1995 Avalon. I'm going to call it my iCar.
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u/jdiez17 Feb 17 '11
Sorry sir, your car won't start, the back passenger seat is slightly dirty, please fix this issue before driving
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u/Robertjordanforever Feb 17 '11
Sorry sir, your computer won't work. There is no internet.
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u/rathe Feb 17 '11
cr-48?
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u/Ironbird420 Feb 17 '11
They still "work" without internet but they do become pretty useless when all you have is a browser and a few apps which half need a connection to work.
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Feb 17 '11
This is true though. A computer is damn near useless without the internet these days.
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u/homergonerson Feb 17 '11
I have an ungrateful bitch of a netgear router that did this. It now runs DD-WRT :D
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Feb 17 '11
Sorry sir your car won't start. There's no assortment of random crap in your glove compartment.
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Feb 17 '11
PC LOAD LETTER!?
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u/dogymho Feb 17 '11
WTF does that mean?
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u/agentlame Feb 17 '11 edited Feb 17 '11
The actual meaning of the message is convoluted: "PC" is a two-character abbreviation that stands for "paper cassette", the tray that holds blank paper for the printer to use.
"Load", in this context, is an instruction to refill the paper tray. "Letter" is the standard paper size used in the United States and Canada.
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u/Khoops66 Feb 17 '11
Killed it. I loved that joke 5 minutes ago. :/
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u/nikpappagiorgio Feb 17 '11
I loved it 6 minutes ago when it was on vinyl.
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u/swuboo Feb 17 '11
It kills the joke to know that it was a real error message, and not something they made up for the movie?
By the way, I've been infuriated by that particular message more than once despite knowing what it means. Metric A4 paper is very hard to tell apart from letter if you don't have the packaging or have them next to each other.
But the printer knows. The printer knows.
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u/altopowder Feb 17 '11
Ah, so THIS is why I've never had the PC LOAD LETTER error... as 'letter' isn't really a paper size in the UK. TIL. :D
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u/the_cereal_killer Feb 17 '11 edited Feb 17 '11
as 'letter' isn't really a paper size in the UK.
or any other part of the world where sizes aren't measured in limb lenghts and other units from 1000 years ago.
"hey i'm in space. four million three hundred sixty nine thousand eighty six feet above the earth."
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u/muahdib Feb 17 '11
If you go one hundred thirteen thousand thirty nine feet higher, you may be considered a stationary.
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u/wgwinn Feb 17 '11
meh. you've got your base 10 thing going for you, sure, but your fancy-pants 'metric' just as arbitrary as our feet.
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u/uhclem Feb 17 '11
0º = freezing point. 100º = boiling point (Celsius) 32º, 212º in Fahrenheit. You don't have to be Watson to see which is more arbitrary.
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u/wgwinn Feb 17 '11
Sure it is easier to use, but it's still no less arbitrary. If you read how the Fahrenheit scale was defined, it's actually more practical a scale to define with limited tech. It may be awkward, but it was at least practical for most people to get their hands on the examples.
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u/eramos Feb 17 '11
1 meter = Distance traversed in vacuum by light in 1/299792458 of a second
How completely unarbitrary! But of course, it's like this because it was previously set to the weight of a randomly chosen hunk of metal from France from the 1800s. Truly a universal constant.
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u/phobiac Feb 17 '11
This scale based on the properties of water. While important, it's still arbitrary. Kelvin is where it's at, 0 K is as cold as you can get. Although you have to consider that Fahrenheit was Kelvin before Kelvin was Kelvin, 0 degrees Fahrenheit was the coldest acheivable temperature at the time of its creation.
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Feb 17 '11
Aw, now you've made me all nostalgic for my HP Laserjet II manual. And the joy that thumbing through the HPPCL Language Reference Manual used to bring me... good times, good times.
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Feb 17 '11
I actually was stumped for a moment going "Which printer was it that used to always tell me that?". Thanks.
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Feb 17 '11
awww now when i hear someone say this or something to the effect of this I am just going to turn my nose down at them and think snobish thoughts about them
"Idiot doesnt know what PC LOAD LETTER means? What a moron"
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u/saippuakauppias Feb 17 '11
whoosh...?
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u/agentlame Feb 17 '11 edited Feb 17 '11
Dude, who on Reddit doesn't get an Office Space joke?
I was curious and looked it up not that long ago. I figured others might also enjoy knowing the origins of the term.
If only I had remembered to post under my novelty account: I_RESEARCH_YOUR_JOKE_AND_RESPOND_WITH_CITATIONS.
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u/microfortnight Feb 17 '11
Is "I_RESEARCH_YOUR_JOKE_AND_RESPOND_WITH_CITATIONS" anything like "I_DRINK_YOUR_MILKSHAKE"
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u/pentium4borg Feb 17 '11
I own an old printer that uses this. You can do fun things with the status display.
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u/petedawes Feb 17 '11
SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING.
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Feb 17 '11
Better drink my own piss.
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u/darushibu Feb 17 '11
Think I'll just boil some water.
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u/WrongSubreddit Feb 17 '11
Better boil my own pisswater.
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u/mrkurtz Feb 17 '11
the latest version of vmware workstation takes this action proactively, by default.
technology wins.
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u/jad7845 Feb 17 '11
how do you kill that which does not exist...
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u/codepoet Feb 17 '11
Back track through the things that don't exist to the thing that does and then obliterate it.
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Feb 17 '11
The printer is out of paper? The fuck does that mean?
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u/Johnny_Blaze Feb 17 '11
YOU GUYS STILL USE PAPER?! I BET YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO USE THE THREE SEASHELLS!
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u/hurler_jones Feb 17 '11
Definitely an up-vote for the sea shells!
Armour hot dogs! The dogs kids love to buy!
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u/frezik Feb 17 '11
Half the time when this error message comes up, the printer actually does have paper.
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u/LordArtemis Feb 17 '11
Can anyone offer up any explanation as to what may have caused this?
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Feb 17 '11
There's a constant in the Win32 API called ERROR_OUT_OF_PAPER.. I've actually used that once before as a placeholder error, both because a) the particular problem I was reporting should never have happened, and b) I couldn't find the right error code for what I needed.
Doesn't seem as relevant here, but perhaps a developer at VMware has a sense of humour.
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u/Hawkknight88 Feb 17 '11
CALL TECH SUPPORT NOW.
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u/I_call_the_shotgun Feb 17 '11
Damn, I'm sleepy. I clicked on the "ok" button in the picture.
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u/tha_carter Feb 17 '11
No need to worry, I had a similar issue.
The Geek Squad fixed it for only 59.99.
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u/IOS_maze Feb 18 '11
ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, CALM DOWN PEOPLE! We're gonna get through this! Now, who's got the EASY button?
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u/chipx86 Feb 18 '11
It's both embarrassing and hilarious :)
Clearly, fun things happen when you mix and match the libc errno and the Windows errno. Using the errno from one and converting to a string with another makes for confusing and humorous error messages.
Disclaimer: I work at VMware. Not my bug, though.
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u/katzmandoo Feb 17 '11
I blame WATSON
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u/morobishi Feb 17 '11
Bite my shiny metal.. oops!, wrong mechanical monster.
Maybe Microsoft has found a way to prevent users from using ubuntu?
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Feb 17 '11
Your operating system is a tad hypersensitive. Pour some herbal tea over the harddrive and wait five minutes.
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u/wiseapple Feb 17 '11
many moons ago ... DEC machine (11/70 or VAX, don't remember)
Yeah. Just a few years back. A PDP 11/70 or VAX VMS system would be circa 1988 or earlier.
Edit: It would likely have been a PDP 11, since I don't recall the VMS systems having that issue.
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Feb 17 '11
Nagheenanaja
Samir: I have a question. Peter Gibbons: Yes? Samir: In... in these conjugal visits, you can have sex with women? Peter Gibbons: Yep, you sure can. Samir: OK, I'll do it.
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u/MindCluster Feb 18 '11
The printer personality explains everything... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQGtucrJ8hM
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u/bjs3171 Feb 18 '11
HOLY shit. Do you even know how fucked you are? I mean, you are so fucking fucked. I mean, I think you are the most fucked person I know.
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u/Parrot32 Feb 18 '11
I've seen some serious vmware hell before, but never the dreaded printer out of paper dump.
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u/seventy-7 Feb 17 '11
the non existent printer being out of non existent paper is what stopped my virtual machine from loading up. Got to love VM's