This is a bug: http://www.ent.iastate.edu/images/hemiptera/stinkbug/brown_stink_bug_adult.jpg Atleast for people who gets outside. - or well.. thats what I'm told :)
On 13 October 2010 15:51, Iain Buclaw <[email protected]> wrote: > == Quote from Nick Sabalausky ([email protected])'s article > > "Lutger" <[email protected]> wrote in message > > news:[email protected]... > > > > > > Note that bugs may actually be wanted behavior. One such case is > uniform > > > function call syntax on arrays, which started life as a compiler bug. > > > Afterwards, the spec was changed and thus the bug was solved. > > > > > Wanted behavior that you didn't know you wanted :) Funny how bugs will > > occasionally inspire features. > > Legend has it that combos in fighting games started out as a bug in the > > original Street Fighter 2 (it would let you perform a new move while you > > were already in the middle of certain other moves.) The "coin boxes with > > multiple coins" in the original Super Mario Bros were added because an > early > > bug did that and it turned out to be fun. Happened to me once to: a > > game-like demo I made for a hobbyist embedded system (Hydra) has a faked > 3D > > effect which I only thought to put in because an early bug in my > rendering > > code resulted in a similar (but less polished) 3D-like effect. > > In case somebody hasn't already realised the distinction. > http://faux-rebonds.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/bug_vs_feature.gif > > > -- // Yours sincerely // Emil 'Skeen' Madsen
