Joe Petviashvili

“ The authors, who work in the Psychology Department of North Carolina State University, crafted a set of four fake dialog boxes. All of them contained the following warning: "The instruction at '0x77f41d24 referenced memory at '0x595c2a4c.' The memory could more...

“MS-DOS served two purposes in Windows 95. * It served as the boot loader. * It acted as the 16-bit legacy device driver layer.”

It's possible we could render the ray traced Amiga juggler today in real time at close to 30 fps-- but barely.

once the launcher finished downloading the rest of the installer, it showed the following quite amusing message: "Download complete. You can now disconnect form the Internet"

perceived performance is more important than actual performance.

“Tom White, test manager for documents and printing in Microsoft's Windows Experience group, visited the Walling household on multiple occasions, figured out what was wrong, and ultimately got the printer to work.”

their voting software runs on top of Windows CE, and if a voter accidentally dragged his finger downward while touching “cast vote” on the screen, Windows CE interpreted this as a “drag and drop” command. The programmers hadn’t anticipated that more...

Windows has typically always been proud when something actually worked and thus displayed those little bubble messages. It's really quite a jarring experience when you go back and forth between Mac and PC often. You just presume it works on more...

“The double-click time is sort of the dialog unit of time.”