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9 Responses to “The Power of Java?”

1. 1 Brendan
   Jul 28th, 2007 at 08:26

   Very likely the same person who came up with:

   - Keyboard error – press F1 to continue (because we all have special F1 keys) – If you can read this, windows has successfully installed your printer (on a printed test-page, no less)

   .. and so on. Just like warning messages, even the obscure ones, are evidently because the event actually happened (like keeping knives out of children, for example).

   There is a moron born every minute, never forget that.

2. 2 Carsten Ringe
   Jul 28th, 2007 at 09:13

   I think, it’s a random marketing guy picking random pieces of sentences to fill the empty space on an installation dialog. Maybe he wants to force some feedback with it, because actually nobody reads this stuff – we all know it’s nonsense. ;-)

3. 3 Bjorn
   Jul 29th, 2007 at 09:56

   Agreed, it’s trash, but at least Sun has realised that Java needs marketing. Remember back when it had programmer art, Swing GUIs? Java is now only mildly awful (before it was completely awful)

4. 4 Lesley
   Jul 29th, 2007 at 20:03

   I noticed that the other day when I was upgrading my Java. It made me laugh a lot. :)

5. 5 Kate
   Jul 30th, 2007 at 05:01

   Good point

6. 6 Robert
   Jul 30th, 2007 at 11:41

   hey, why hire a copywriter when you can hire a busty blonde to make all the guys in the office drool. ;)

7. 7 Michael
   Jul 30th, 2007 at 11:45

   Why indeed!

8. 8 crf
   Jul 30th, 2007 at 19:12

   If you read these comments you will experience the experience of reading about reading these comments.

9. 9 Alastair McKinstry
   Aug 1st, 2007 at 20:40

   “No keyboard detected – press a key to continue”.

   Did you know that if you had a serial port console connected, and hence it made
   sense to continue, you actually could press a key to continue?

   The error is not as non-sensical as it first appears.

   Regards
   Alastair