Comment On Sponsor Appreciation, Banzai Bouncer, Untraditional Data Rack, & More

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//Rumen:

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Well, that was informative, wasn't it!

Was just trying to beat out the 'FIST/FRIST/FIRST!' and 'embedded system blah blah blah.....' comments

The dial code for india is 91, which is not unusual on embedded platforms with no file system.

Those fish look tasty. I likes em feisty

"I can't say I was surprised to see that I'm now being charged a fee for being charged fees," writes Lincoln, "and with the wierd alignment, I have to wonder if they're saving room for the FEE FEE FEE."

You think that's weird? There are some people who think weird is spelled "wierd!"

It is fairly common during the protracted negotiations between studios, agents and actors for poster positioning to get mangled. Maybe winona and mickey couldnt agree who got better billing so they compromised?

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Steve the Cynic:

//Rumen:

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Well, that was informative, wasn't it!

Seriously, though, the mislabelled actors thing happens far more often than you'd expect. Here it is more egregious than sometimes occurs, because of the male/female confusion, but that's the only thing that even points it in the direction of being a WTF.

The Walmart thing is just silly. No only are the kids obviously not connected in any way with the slide, but if you look carefully you see that despite the careful inclusion of shadows, the slide is not actually on the grass in question.

Or maybe I'm wrong.

The FEE FEE reminds me of going to a bank many moons ago, say about 200 moons, and being given a form to apply to be given a form to apply for a loan. Yes, a Loan Application Form Application Form.

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Warren:

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No, no, no. You don't scan the printout. You take a photograph of it (on a wooden table) and then scan that.

"Fee fees" are quite common nowadays at least in Finland. Many companies have adopted the practice of adding to the total an extra invoicing cost.
"You bought from us? Well, you'll have to pay for that. Not the price of the item -- well, that too -- but the price of buying from us to begin with. It costs 10 EUR".

"You want the kitchen sink too?"

Re: the playtoy.

Actually, what you have there is one of the work of one of the most skilled HyperPhotoshop artists in all the worlds. The kids are actually playing on one of these:




That you can see so much of the cube on our plane of existence is a testament to Walmart's Exo-Art department!

Those must be tigerfish.

Poster placement is typically done for artistic reasons, while there are contractual considerations for the order of the names.

powerlord:

"I can't say I was surprised to see that I'm now being charged a fee for being charged fees," writes Lincoln, "and with the wierd alignment, I have to wonder if they're saving room for the FEE FEE FEE."

You think that's weird? There are some people who think weird is spelled "wierd!"

I thought it was wiered, like the river near where I grew up

Bisqwit:

"Fee fees" are quite common nowadays at least in Finland. Many companies have adopted the practice of adding to the total an extra invoicing cost.
"You bought from us? Well, you'll have to pay for that. Not the price of the item -- well, that too -- but the price of buying from us to begin with. It costs 10 EUR".

"You want the kitchen sink too?"

In the UK we have "Booking fees".
If you buy a ticket for a movie or a concert, they charge you extra for buying the ticket.

SR:

powerlord:

"I can't say I was surprised to see that I'm now being charged a fee for being charged fees," writes Lincoln, "and with the wierd alignment, I have to wonder if they're saving room for the FEE FEE FEE."

You think that's weird? There are some people who think weird is spelled "wierd!"

I thought it was wiered, like the river near where I grew up

That's just hweird.

I live near that Glasgow shop, and I have to say, I am always in there, checking out their vibrant offers.

The green box in the Ruislip Lido picture is an electricity substation / junction box which explains the "danger of death" signage. Somehow, I doubt that the pool operator got permission from the electricity supply company to put a sign on their property. So it is the pool sign, not the danger of death sign, that is in the wrong place.

Alan:

It is fairly common during the protracted negotiations between studios, agents and actors for poster positioning to get mangled. Maybe winona and mickey couldnt agree who got better billing so they compromised?

Not to mention that the woman on the picture is *NOT* Winona Ryder, that is actually Amber Heard.

SCB:

Bisqwit:

"Fee fees" are quite common nowadays at least in Finland. Many companies have adopted the practice of adding to the total an extra invoicing cost.
"You bought from us? Well, you'll have to pay for that. Not the price of the item -- well, that too -- but the price of buying from us to begin with. It costs 10 EUR".

"You want the kitchen sink too?"

In the UK we have "Booking fees".
If you buy a ticket for a movie or a concert, they charge you extra for buying the ticket.

Technically it is a brokerage fee. The booking agent from which you buy the ticket (e.g. Ticketmaster, a name USians might know) charges you a fee to support their operation. In effect, you pay them (up to a point) because they do the legwork / negotiation / whatever to have all[*] the concerts from all[*] the venues on one listing.

[*] For suitable values of "all".

If you could buy directly from the venues, you could save the booking fee. Well, in theory anyway.

Similar things occur in travel booking. Firms like RailEurope charge money for taking bookings, and you pay it because they can arrange more complicated things than "I want to take Eurostar from London to Paris", and they know how to navigate the twisty-passaged maze of ticket options. It is worth six quid to talk to the nice man on the phone, ask questions, and receive an envelope with all the tickets you need in a nice bundle. If you just want to take Eurostar from London to Paris, you buy it directly from Eurostar.

Moviegoer:

Alan:

It is fairly common during the protracted negotiations between studios, agents and actors for poster positioning to get mangled. Maybe winona and mickey couldnt agree who got better billing so they compromised?

Not to mention that the woman on the picture is *NOT* Winona Ryder, that is actually Amber Heard.

So Billy Bob Thornton and Kim Basinger play themselves, Mickey Rourke plays Winona Ryder, and Amber Heard plays Mickey Rourke? Now I'm really confused.

Bisqwit:

"Fee fees" are quite common nowadays at least in Finland.

That reminds me of Ryanair. Scumbag assholes.

"spotted this rather untraditional use for a 42U data cabinet."

Why what do you use yours for, seems perfectly normal to me.

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Well obviously the 42U cabinet is where they store the micro chips and dips.

What?

Steve the Cynic:

SCB:

Bisqwit:

"Fee fees" are quite common nowadays at least in Finland. Many companies have adopted the practice of adding to the total an extra invoicing cost.
"You bought from us? Well, you'll have to pay for that. Not the price of the item -- well, that too -- but the price of buying from us to begin with. It costs 10 EUR".

"You want the kitchen sink too?"

In the UK we have "Booking fees".
If you buy a ticket for a movie or a concert, they charge you extra for buying the ticket.

Technically it is a brokerage fee. The booking agent from which you buy the ticket (e.g. Ticketmaster, a name USians might know) charges you a fee to support their operation. In effect, you pay them (up to a point) because they do the legwork / negotiation / whatever to have all[*] the concerts from all[*] the venues on one listing.

[*] For suitable values of "all".

True, except my local theatre (name suppressed to protect the guilty) charges a £2 "booking fee" on its own tickets sold directly from its own box office.

SCB:

Bisqwit:

"Fee fees" are quite common nowadays at least in Finland. Many companies have adopted the practice of adding to the total an extra invoicing cost.
"You bought from us? Well, you'll have to pay for that. Not the price of the item -- well, that too -- but the price of buying from us to begin with. It costs 10 EUR".

"You want the kitchen sink too?"

In the UK we have "Booking fees".
If you buy a ticket for a movie or a concert, they charge you extra for buying the ticket.

Same in Belgium. Sometimes, the "reservation fee" and postage add up to more than the price of a ticket.

The company practically has a monopoly for Internet sales. Alternatively, you can obtain concert tickets through some record stores, but they also charge a reservation fee.

Buying tickets beforehand used to cost less than buying at the day of the concert, but this discount is negated by the extra costs.

I'm almost certain they used "Kid" Pix 4 and not PhotoShop on that.

Steve the Cynic:

Technically it is a brokerage fee. The booking agent from which you buy the ticket (e.g. Ticketmaster, a name USians might know) charges you a fee to support their operation. In effect, you pay them (up to a point) because they do the legwork / negotiation / whatever to have all[*] the concerts from all[*] the venues on one listing.

[*] For suitable values of "all".

I got a good laugh out of Ticketmaster a couple of weeks ago. In addition to their "convenience" fee, not only did they want to charge me from printing my own tickets on my own printer with my own paper and ink, they wanted to charge me more for printing my own tickets than for having Ticketmaster print them, have somebody put them in an envelope and mail them to me. How much sense does that make?

Steve the Cynic:

The Walmart thing is just silly. No only are the kids obviously not connected in any way with the slide, but if you look carefully you see that despite the careful inclusion of shadows, the slide is not actually on the grass in question.

Also, they pasted a boy making punching motions on top of another boy making punching motions.

Steve the Cynic:

Technically it is a brokerage fee. The booking agent from which you buy the ticket (e.g. Ticketmaster, a name USians might know) charges you a fee to support their operation.

Usians, eh? I'm in Ukia right now, but next time I'm in Usia I'll be sure to ask about Ticketmaster.

"I can't say I was surprised to see that I'm now being charged a fee for being charged fees," writes Lincoln, "and with the wierd alignment, I have to wonder if they're saving room for the FEE FEE FEE."

The FEE FEE FEE only applies when the seller needs to get a french poodle neutered.

"I can't say I was surprised to see that I'm now being charged a fee for being charged fees," writes Lincoln, "and with the wierd alignment, I have to wonder if they're saving room for the FEE FEE FEE."

The FEE FEE FEE only applies when the seller needs to get a french poodle neutered.

operagost:

I'm in Ukia right now...

I knew a dude from Ukiah. Since it such a small town, maybe you know him?

Yes, the two boys photoshopped on top of each other on top of everything else is just priceless, whoever did this wasn't even trying. Unless he was trying to push the limit of poor advertisement.

I like the dad outside the bouncy house, pounding on the side saying "Quiet you damn kids!!!"

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I think I know what happened with the bouncy house! Someone turned on all of the layers before saving the document. If you look at most of the positions on the floor inside the house where the FLYING CHILDREN are standing, they actually make sense for the perspectives used. The two-boys-on-top-of-each-other thing was probably a case of "I can't decide which little boy I like more", so both layers were in the document, but only one was supposed to be visible.

Re: the Walmart pic

I was wondering why they didn't just take a picture or two of real kids playing on their product, but then I read this priceless review from WalMart's site: "The picture you see must be computer enhanced because my one year old is almost too big for this sad, misadvertised product."

I guess now we know why it was shopped.

They also don't photoshop the Banzai Bouncer in-scale.

The actual think is probably like 5' high, making the dad in the picture about 3'8", and the kids about 1'6", so it's a great toy, if your kids have been through the shrink-o-ray.

SCB:

Bisqwit:

"Fee fees" are quite common nowadays at least in Finland. Many companies have adopted the practice of adding to the total an extra invoicing cost.
"You bought from us? Well, you'll have to pay for that. Not the price of the item -- well, that too -- but the price of buying from us to begin with. It costs 10 EUR".

"You want the kitchen sink too?"

In the UK we have "Booking fees".
If you buy a ticket for a movie or a concert, they charge you extra for buying the ticket.

In the original Mass Effect, you had to purchase licenses from different manufacturers for the supply guy on your ship, so that he could get weapons and armor from those manufacturers.

But, as the guy explains, it's the manufacturers who sell the licenses. You're paying a manufacturer for permission to buy things from them.

Miguel LIES! Fish don't go grr! fish go m00!

I didn't know that you could use vi to edit the info on your credit card.

Even if that costs a "fee fee", i think it is a convincing argument in the great emacs/vi editor-wars.

Hm, but i guess that
$ vi visa
works only on VISA cards and for American Express you have to type:
$ emacs amex

Steve the Cynic:

The FEE FEE reminds me of going to a bank many moons ago, say about 200 moons, and being given a form to apply to be given a form to apply for a loan. Yes, a Loan Application Form Application Form.

Well, you see, the government made it illegal for banks to discriminate against loan applicants on the basis of things like, say, inability to repay the loan. So they're just trying to make sure only qualified people can apply for the loan in the first place!

Design Pattern:

I didn't know that you could use vi to edit the info on your credit card.

Even if that costs a "fee fee", i think it is a convincing argument in the great emacs/vi editor-wars.

Hm, but i guess that
$ vi visa
works only on VISA cards and for American Express you have to type:
$ emacs amex

Had to look this up: For Mastercard you need to install a GNU util:
$ mc mastercard
http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/FAQ

Usher:

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Microsoft won't sell me a copy of Word for Linux, you insensitive clod!

Hey, I recognize that server rack! We had to sell it cheap because we couldn't prove it was Y2K compliant.

Warren:

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You forgot to say "its easy!" Everything computer related must be marketed as easy, even if it is as complicated as a Rubik's cube with 10 sides.

We actually do have a fish making the 'Grr' sound.

We call it 'Knurr' (meaning ~ 'Grr').

'The name 'Knurr' is because it makes a marked murmured sound using contractions in the swim bladder if it feels threatened.'

So this is clearly not a WTF.

The English wiki article doesn't contain any information of value, so use gtranslate on this if you care about it.
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knurr

Haha! I walk past that EULA HOTEL (in San Francisco) all the time. Always got a good chuckle out of it.