Electronic notice boards are starting to become the norm at many London Underground stations. The benefits are obvious but there are times when a simple whiteboard and pen beats Microsoft Windows.
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Not a crash, but seeing the notification pop-up on your photo reminded me…
I was at the BFI IMAX for a showing of Avatar the other week (what an amazingly gorgeous film – have you seen it yet?) and the touch-screen credit-card collection machines were running Windows. I knew this, because down in the bottom-right of the screen, was a pop-up with the exceedingly helpful ‘you have unused desktop icons’ message, thus making the whole task bar visible.
Yeah, Avatar is cetainly a spectacle. I’d like to go a second time, actually.
So the IMAX card collection machines run Windows, too?
It’s amusing when the electronic advertising ‘posters’ on the Tube escalators crash – you can end up seeing the issue on all the screens.
Can’t help but notice a theme between the last two posts
You’re sharp tonight!
Probably someone in the IT dept who thought it would be a great idea to demonstrate to the public how “technologically engaged “their cmpy is.
I concur with you that sometimes, technology is not requried for everything. Having technology for the sake of technology takes the cake for me.
To be fair, updating the status of the Underground from a centralised control centre does make sense and obviously saves countless station staff from writing updates on whiteboards all the time. Having said that, I like seeing some real writing on a board at stations! For some reason the times of last trains are still normally written by hand at each station, even at places like Piccadilly Circus. How long will the whiteboards last, even at the smaller stations?