Comment On The Littering ATM

I think it's safe to assume that "the video game/hardware that costs $2499 in the first place" is a very large TV, which could certainly be considered "video game hardware". Or perhaps it's a laptop. Either way, not really much of a WTF.

It's also quite easy to spend 2500 GBP on a decent gaming pc (classed as video game hardware?)

As for the ATM, a judge in Ireland fined AIB (Allied Irish Banks) for littering after a litter warden counted every slip he found outside an ATM. They don't give them to you automatically anymore.

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I think that year field is great. It allows you to enter your year of birth as a riddle, for those who are coy about giving it away.

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I work at kohls and it is pretty clear that it was supposed to be 24.99 but someone made a typo.

Now if you really want to find wtf's just look around for all the signs in the wrong place and the fact that the sale changes 3 times a week with virtually every sign changing (3000+ signs and around 5 people working 5 hours...) and that people actually fall for it and are like oh its on sale i have to buy it now...

Its always on sale... 50% off is the regular price for the vast majority of things in the store (electronics and name brand things like nike are about all that you can't find 50% off regularly but even they are typically 20% off)

Note that the ATM is printing ascii character 33..127, while 127 is usually a non-printable - and it does look funny, four bars?

John:

I work at kohls and it is pretty clear that it was supposed to be 24.99 but someone made a typo.

But 24.99 was already in the list!

Actually, the 500 character year field is for folks who believe in reincarnation to list their 100 or so latest years of birth.

Who would assume that four digits for the year are enough anyway? Everyone remembers the Y2K-problem, right?

The $2499 is for the newest phone from Apple!!

Sometime within the past 6 months, photos of incorrect prices in a store stopped being funny.

500 characters is a little small. What if I want to enter each digit of my birth year in its 64bit floating point approximation?

Whoevar:

Who would assume that four digits for the year are enough anyway? Everyone remembers the Y2K-problem, right?

Yup - so if you are a programmer in the year 9999 i have only one bit of advice - learn cobol...

Shawn:

Sometime within the past 6 months, photos of incorrect prices in a store stopped being funny.

I also think electronic signs or displays with a Windows error message are starting to become unfunny. None of those this time, but I'm just sayin'...

Some cash machine in like, Bumsville, Idaho spits out $300 into the street...

Anon:

Perhaps the 500 character limit on the year field is for those who like to put in the year in words.

"The year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and seventy five", for example.

Or for those who like to put the year into lyrics!

In the year of thirty-nine
Assembled here the volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen
And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day
Sailed across the milky seas
Never looked back never feared never cried

ParkinT:

The $2499 is for the newest phone from Apple!!

That was yesterday, now it's $300 cheaper.
...
Oops, it's past 9:00 am, it's now obsolete and you have to get the newer model.

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Anon:

Perhaps the 500 character limit on the year field is for those who like to put in the year in words.

"The year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and seventy five", for example.

Yeah, but imagine being the programmer who has to write the code to parse that crap.

BTW, if that ATM gives out receipts automatically, then the real WTF is that there's not a paper recycling bin next to it.

Mess with the best, die like the rest.

I could see a Virtual On machine, or somesuch running $2499. Maybe a vintage pac-man cabinet?

Just sayin', this isn't exactly a cheap hobby.

I was born in the fifth year of the reign of the thirty-seventh president of the United States of America, he who was disgraced by acts of espionage and sabotage against his fellow Americans. [311]

"Test Prt Cnt: 703"

The test is designed to determine precisely which of paper or ink runs out first! (.... no not FRIST)

Charles Manson:

Shawn:

Sometime within the past 6 months, photos of incorrect prices in a store stopped being funny.

I also think electronic signs or displays with a Windows error message are starting to become unfunny. None of those this time, but I'm just sayin'...

Yep. Also dialog boxes that say: "this shouldn't have happened" / "the impossible happened" / "an error occurred - how to handle?" get boring pretty quickly.

Or maybe the programmer was just lazy, and only used a 500-character long textbox for every questions in the survey?

Charles Manson:

Shawn:

Sometime within the past 6 months, photos of incorrect prices in a store stopped being funny.

I also think electronic signs or displays with a Windows error message are starting to become unfunny. None of those this time, but I'm just sayin'...

I managed to display a slight smile when I saw one of those at a railway station recently, but I couldn't be bothered to dig up my camera out of my pocket and take a picture... (If they're really big, they might be smirkworthy, though)

time0ut:

500 characters is a little small. What if I want to enter each digit of my birth year in its 64bit floating point approximation?

They are all whole numbers right, within the range a 64bit fp number can handle?
So not floating point tomfoolary will be applied.

RiptoR:

Or maybe the programmer was just lazy, and only used a 500-character long textbox for every questions in the survey?

Really? You think? I don't think anybody here has thought of that - you must be some kind of genious.

pecus:

time0ut:

500 characters is a little small. What if I want to enter each digit of my birth year in its 64bit floating point approximation?

They are all whole numbers right, within the range a 64bit fp number can handle?
So not floating point tomfoolary will be applied.

Are you splitting hairs on my characterization of 64 bit floating point representation of integers (within the range of a double precision fp) as approximations?

It always comes out as the year 0

amischiefr:

Anon:

Perhaps the 500 character limit on the year field is for those who like to put in the year in words.

"The year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and seventy five", for example.

Yeah, but imagine being the programmer who has to write the code to parse that crap.

Nothing PROLOG can't handle.

I find it rather self-centered and ignorant to assume everyone who logs on to your website is from a universe as young as yours.

>The Impossible happened!

To avoid the immediate implosion of the universe, please tell God about this problem.

Send/Don't send...

Mirar:

Note that the ATM is printing ascii character 33..127, while 127 is usually a non-printable - and it does look funny, four bars?

Also, apparently, the printer (or something in the system, anyway) is made by a Korean company-- it prints ₩ instead of \.

(Yes, I notice the most pointless things, I know...)

I was born in 4 P.A. (Pre Atomic).

-Harrow.

Instead of writing the year in that field, you are encouraged to describe the year instead.

"It was the year that AT&T was broken up into 22 subsidiary companies, Wayne Gretzky scored 92 goals (setting the all-time NHL record), and Nabisco unveiled the invention of the double-stuffed Oreo."

Paper decomposes fast; so I don't see why anyone would complain about it. Would you worry about a bunch of leaves from a tree lying there?

(I'm not sure about thermal paper though)

codeman38:

(Yes, I notice the most pointless things, I know...)

I noticed it too ;-)

I know that ATM. It's outside the University Memorial Center of the University of Colorado at Boulder. :^)

That reminds me of this gem about the Great State of Texas

Alan:

Whoevar:

Who would assume that four digits for the year are enough anyway? Everyone remembers the Y2K-problem, right?

Yup - so if you are a programmer in the year 9999 i have only one bit of advice - learn cobol...

Nah, it aint gonna happen again, everyone will be prepared this time. As proof, I give you RFC2550.

Inno:

"Test Prt Cnt: 703"

The test is designed to determine precisely which of paper or ink runs out first! (.... no not FRIST)

No ink to run out of: pretty much all ATMs use thermal paper.

IByte:

Charles Manson:

Shawn:

Sometime within the past 6 months, photos of incorrect prices in a store stopped being funny.

I also think electronic signs or displays with a Windows error message are starting to become unfunny. None of those this time, but I'm just sayin'...

I managed to display a slight smile when I saw one of those at a railway station recently, but I couldn't be bothered to dig up my camera out of my pocket and take a picture... (If they're really big, they might be smirkworthy, though)

I agree that they need something really interesting to be worth bothering with, but I don't think size is it. We've already seen them on Times Square billboards, after all. I think it's gotta be something unusual... like, it's on a screen in the Space Shuttle's cockpit, or something else that we've never seen before.

Don't forget that some civilizations have a different way of measuring time than the western world.