TBH I didn’t know half of them error codes actually existed.
trying to work out if the 401 error cat is in Singapore or Japan – I think its JP as though similar signs exist in SG they would not just be in Chinese characters but also Malay and English, as even if the cats were meant to read them a cat tends to only understand the languages spoken by humans in its family or wider social group (and many do understand the words for food in more than one human language if their owners are multiligual) (other than 4-16 kinds of meow which are shared between most cats)
418 is valid (though thought up as a April fools joke). its not even as daft as it seems from a engineering POV as around the time it was thought of there were indeed actual coffee machines already being linked up to the Internet in various forms. At least one existed in (I think) Cambridge uni though it was fairly basic, may have just been a webcam pointed at a coffee maker (and possibly a liquid level sensor) – the idea being that those what worked in distant labs could check the level of coffee in it rather than walk some distance to find a empty machine (as there may be other nearer ways of obtaining coffee, albeit instant coffee.
What would be less sensible would be linking up a teapot – as tea would stand up less to this automated preparation of course be stewed and unpleasant, the only folk what would stand to drink it would probably be the British – they already invented a gadget to do this before computers, but it is less popular nowadays.
Teasmade – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iin contrast, IT and high tech workers in Asian nations (especially IN, CN, MY, SG) actually still have a proper British style tea break, complete with the tea urn of boiling water (although the Chinese make these nowadays) and the traditional “tea lady”. She is usually an older woman in her 60s onwards and often referred to as “Auntie” out of respect, this is also done as a way of keeping the older generation occupied and active which is good for their physical and mental health.
Many Chinese factories have staff canteens run by similar ladies who are not unlike our “dinner ladies” we had at school – for instance when the Chinese took over Longbridge they were apalled at the poor quality of food served up there and said “how can people be expected to make high quality motor cars when only having two poor quality sandwiches for lunch? Indians working in software companies still have their food delivered in tiffins
Even the very brainy professor types of the Eastern nations (a lot of them are women, in some cases more so than the West) often only use robots to prepare food and drink as a last resort (if there are way too many people to feed by traditional means). Hence why the Japanese and Koreans have not yet brought their planned “online kitchens” to market which they were going on about for 10 years.
However, just as this webpage contains a code so 茶
should display correctly (the Chinese characfer for tea) on most modern computers if someone did send a request for coffee to a online teapot, to avoid anything from disappointment and confusion to the whole thing boling dry and even overheating and setting its surroundings on fire, (this may also be why teasmades fell out of popularity) it would be better practice for the remote device to return code 418 (I’m a teapot),
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt
