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>and shows ads/branding (for coffee) when it is idle. If there is ever an Office Space 2, I think this is a candidate for the new fax machine.
I think for the same reason that Fawlty Towers ended after one season, there should never be a sequel to Office Space. It’s too perfect. It could only go downhill.
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I think for the same reason that Fawlty Towers ended after one season, there should never be a sequel to Office Space. It’s too perfect. It could only go downhill.
Fawlty Towers ran for two series, but your point remains.
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A less humorous unusual status code is 451. Unfortunately, it probably should be used more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
I come from a country with rather _interesting_ views on what should be allowed online. 451 is used often enough that I've seen it in the wild more than once (and consider yourself lucky if you haven't encountered it...).
It's quaint, it's a joke about IoT devices before they were everywhere. I'm currently disappointed that the office has "upgraded" coffee machines and the new one has a permanent internet connection and shows ads/branding (for coffee) when it is idle.
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>and shows ads/branding (for coffee) when it is idle. If there is ever an Office Space 2, I think this is a candidate for the new fax machine.
I think for the same reason that Fawlty Towers ended after one season, there should never be a sequel to Office Space. It’s too perfect. It could only go downhill.
Office Space is great but the cubicles date it firmly in the 90s.
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A couple of years ago the gas pumps at station nearest to my place were replaced by devices with screens that play ads with sound - so far just touting discounts with their supermarket loyalty cards. They start when someone picks up the nozzle, and were annoyingly loud initially; the sound has been turned down a bit lately. (Well, there's another reason for me to be pleased with having traded one of the family cars f…
There are usually buttons next to pump screens and one will mute the sound. Just push them one by one.
For those who may not know, this comes from RFC 2324: ""Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) , The RFC was published 1 April 1998 (April Fool's Day). There's a long history of humorous RFCs published on 1 April. For example, RFC 1149 "IP over Avian Carriers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers List of Additional April Fool's RFCs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request…
For those who may not know, this comes from RFC 2324: ""Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) , The RFC was published 1 April 1998 (April Fool's Day). There's a long history of humorous RFCs published on 1 April. For example, RFC 1149 "IP over Avian Carriers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers List of Additional April Fool's RFCs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request…
I still love that people actually went through the effort to "implement" it.