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>I guess I just don't agree with the author of the article that this is a bad thing. The people working there can't fix the issue so for next days/weeks this b

>I guess I just don't agree with the author of the article that this is a bad thing. The people working there can't fix the issue so for next days/weeks this bugs can repeat. What kind of complex tech is there you can't train someone to fast forward a movie? It could be some DRM protected computer that plays the movie and you need special keys to do anything more then plug it out and back in.

jonny_eh 7y ago
It sounded like the reboot worked but people didn't want to sit through the first half hour again.
- simion314 7y ago
  Yes. so the future is that evrthung will be automated and all employees will at best know how to unplug and plug back the systems. If the computer would say you don't exist or you can't do X there will be nobody to help you, like in the article it was earlier on first page, if your name is Dick then bad luck for you. there is no human you can contact that has the power to help you buy or do whatever you need.
dwild 7y ago
> The people working there can't fix the issue so for next days/weeks this bugs can repeat. They probably have a technician on call which can answer before the next day, but not instantly during an issue. The most likely issue is a part that broke, you really expect movie theaters to stock parts for everything and always having someone able to replace them? Your ideal movie theater would bankrupt quite fast. Instead the chain may have a stock for many theaters (or a contract to get replacement quick) and a technician able to go from one to another quickly (or again, a contract for this). > What kind of complex tech is there you can't train someone to fast forward a movie? It's not clear from the article whether he did wait enough or just abandonned once they got the movie back on. I frequently go see movies, so I have seen many technical issues and they always were able to fast foward. No technical issues are alike and them figuring it out is clearly always a struggle, so it's rarely quick to fix.
- simion314 7y ago
  >The most likely issue is a part that broke, you really expect movie theaters to stock parts for everything and always having someone able to replace them? >I frequently go see movies, so I have seen many technical issues That sucks that this happens frequently.
  - dwild 7y ago
    > That sucks that this happens frequently. Never said it happens frequently, I see in average 50 movies a year and I have been doing this for the past 6 years. It's just the good old Murphy's law. There's so much software engineer here, it's weird that it's not a concept that we are aware of. In my whole life I probably got 5 issues in a movie, they weren't able to fix it only once, and the manager told me there was a burnt smell in the projection room, so I guess it was the good old magic smoke that escaped.

jonny_eh 7y ago

It sounded like the reboot worked but people didn't want to sit through the first half hour again.

simion314 7y ago
Yes. so the future is that evrthung will be automated and all employees will at best know how to unplug and plug back the systems. If the computer would say you don't exist or you can't do X there will be nobody to help you, like in the article it was earlier on first page, if your name is Dick then bad luck for you. there is no human you can contact that has the power to help you buy or do whatever you need.

dwild 7y ago

> The people working there can't fix the issue so for next days/weeks this bugs can repeat. They probably have a technician on call which can answer before the next day, but not instantly during an issue. The most likely issue is a part that broke, you really expect movie theaters to stock parts for everything and always having someone able to replace them? Your ideal movie theater would bankrupt quite fast. Instead the chain may have a stock for many theaters (or a contract to get replacement quick) and a technician able to go from one to another quickly (or again, a contract for this). > What kind of complex tech is there you can't train someone to fast forward a movie? It's not clear from the article whether he did wait enough or just abandonned once they got the movie back on. I frequently go see movies, so I have seen many technical issues and they always were able to fast foward. No technical issues are alike and them figuring it out is clearly always a struggle, so it's rarely quick to fix.

simion314 7y ago
>The most likely issue is a part that broke, you really expect movie theaters to stock parts for everything and always having someone able to replace them? >I frequently go see movies, so I have seen many technical issues That sucks that this happens frequently.
- dwild 7y ago
  > That sucks that this happens frequently. Never said it happens frequently, I see in average 50 movies a year and I have been doing this for the past 6 years. It's just the good old Murphy's law. There's so much software engineer here, it's weird that it's not a concept that we are aware of. In my whole life I probably got 5 issues in a movie, they weren't able to fix it only once, and the manager told me there was a burnt smell in the projection room, so I guess it was the good old magic smoke that escaped.