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Pregnancy Quotes Racial Rumors Radio & TV Religion Risquè Business Science September 11 Sports Travel Weddings Submit A Rumor error 404 haiku Go Go Home Fact Check Computers Internet Haiku Error Messages Haiku Error Messages Japanese software replaces Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry. David Mikkelson From the Archive Share - - Claim: haiku software Japanese software replaces Microsoft error messages with haiku poetry. Status: False. Example: [Collected via e-mail, 1998] In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each poem has only three lines, 17 syllables: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third. Haikus are
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used to communicate a timeless message often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity — the essence of Zen: Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. The Web site you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. First snow, then silence. This thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully. With searching comes loss And the presence of absence: "My Novel" not found. The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao-until You bring fresh toner. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone. Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here.
, including the names of the authors of all the individual haiku. Not long after they first came out, in February 1998, email versions started circulating. At first they were just unattributed lists of the haiku, but after a while people started embellishing them with the UL that Sony had created these for funny haiku their Vaio operating system. [My thanks to Chris Wesling for providing this attribution information] Sony has announced its own haiku generator computer operating system now available on its Vaio PC. Instead of producing the cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft's Windows and DOS systems, Sony's chairman Asai Tawara said,
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"We intend to capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what has been, until now, an operating system that reflects Western cultural hegemony. For example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry." The http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/haiku.asp chairman went on to give examples of Sony's new error messages: A file that big? . . . It might be very useful . . . But now it is gone. You seek a Web site . . . It cannot be located . . . Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within . . . Stop, reflect, and reboot . . . Order shall return. Aborted effort . . . Close all that you have worked on . . . You ask way too much. Yesterday it worked . . . Today it is https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/haiku.htm not working . . . Windows is like that. First snow, then silence . . . This thousand dollar screen dies . . . So beautifully. With searching comes loss . . . The presence of absence . . . "JuneSales.doc" not found. The Tao that is seen . . . Is not the true Tao . . . Until you bring fresh toner. Windows NT crashed . . . The Blue Screen of Death . . . No one hears your screams. Stay the patient course . . . Of little worth is your ire . . . The network is down. A crash reduces . . . Your expensive computer . . . To a simple stone. Three things are certain . . . Death, taxes, and lost data . . . Guess which has occurred. You step in the stream . . . But the water has moved on . . . Page not found. Out of memory . . . We wish to hold the whole sky, . . . But we never will. Having been erased, . . . The documents you are seeking . . . Must now be retyped. Serious error . . . All shortcuts have disappeared . . . Screen. Mind. Both are blank. The computer haiku messages are just as informative as Microsoft's and they make you pause just long enough that you're able to fight the impulse to put a fist through the screen. And I found some more in the same vein at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~eleanorb/funnies/computer.text Everything is gone . . . Your life's work has been destroyed . . . Squeeze trigger (yes/no)? Seeing my great fa