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Steve was foreshadowing the standard MB_OKCANCEL dialog box abuse which was to come:

    Cancel the Transaction which is In Progress

    [OK]               [Cancel]


On a similar note.

While watching twitch just now, firefox informed me that adobe macromedia is running an unresponsive script. Of course the video playback was fine, so I selected continue and kept watching. It did it again in a minute, of course the video was again fine. I clicked stop script out of curiosity and flash crashed.


Oh I've seen so many instances of this... I have music players "crashing" on me that kept playing music up until I confirmed the error message. I recall even having a game that was playable up until I confirmed the message that it apparently died.




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