Only two things are infinite...

 Was traversing through some very complicated code today. Insane mess of programming patterns multiplied by object-oriented ego. Its like a fucking zebra. Some parts are brutally complicated and others are just silly. Like this:



    protected function callbackExists($names = array())
    {
        $exists = array();
        foreach($names as $name)
        {
            $return = (bool)$this->getCallBack($name);
            if($return)
            {
                $exists[] = $return;
            }
        }
        if($exists)
        {
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

Seriously, if I had a dollar every time I see "if (X) return true; else return false;" idiom...

Red Planet (2000). Producers ran $100 short.

Just watched the subj movie. The plot is cheesy and technical details in film are laughable, but that is not why I write this.

It is, yes you guessed it right, another example of a bad Russian language in a Hollywood film. I know, i know. You are probably tired hearing my complaints on the topic but this one is REALLY outrageous.

As the story evolves, the crew is stranded on a planet with no means to go home except for old Russian mineral probe, which was unable to return to Earth automatically, but can be kick-started manually. And on the way to their only hope of survival crew members go in jokes of how this vessel is crap because it was made by silly "russky". (Jokes on them, plan worked, happy ending, bitches).

What really pisses me, is that producers of the film can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on CGI, and fail to invest $100 to language-proof one of the main plot devices. This level of negligence is staggering.

Starting with the audio interface of the probe's control system (WTF is this doing there anyway? The probe is designed to be unmanned) that speaks in horrendous 3rd generation emigrant accent. And ending with unreadable text strings on screen that are composed of random letters, some of them even are not in a Russian alphabet.

 

 And  where they got words right, they put them upside-down, like at the green button below.

 

When stupid is funny.

 Look what I found in my mail box today!