Comment On dog eats man

"After dialing Lenox's toll-free number," Tim Wilde wrote, "I encountered an error message being read to me by a friendly female computer voice. At least the URL it read me was using RFC1918 IP space... though I would love to be able to visit it and find out what I was missing on the actual call!" [expand full text]
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Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:13 • by Stephen E. Baker (unregistered)
I'm surprised, having written an automated telephony application, that those errors are not more common. A 4xx or 5xx http error tends to result in a bad fetch, while any malformed vxml results in a semantic exception. Tn this case the url sounds like it could have been entered incorrectly.

Often you can actually open the appropriate page in your web browser and view the source to see the vxml code too, particularly if the company was using a third party phone system to interface with their own scripts.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:18 • by Leo (unregistered)
don't post this comment asdfsdf asdf sdf sdfasd&1!

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:24 • by Anon Ymous (unregistered)
What's the MP3 say? (No audio at work)

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:29 • by Robot Voice (unregistered)
Comprehend highly low cost comment, use the comment text best suited for your cause. Don't pop this!

Translate to Egyptian (Ancient)? Yes, OK, File not found.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:30 • by tuesmorning (unregistered)
220017 in reply to 220015
It says buy headphone cheapskate.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:33 • by fuffuf
220019 in reply to 220016
Robot Voice:
Comprehend highly low cost comment, use the comment text best suited for your cause. Don't pop this!

Translate to Egyptian (Ancient)? Yes, OK, File not found.


I see what you did there.

Only it's growing a bit stale now...

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:36 • by dpm
Speak only *Modern* Egyptian? Sucks to be you.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:38 • by misc (unregistered)
220021 in reply to 220017
tuesmorning:
It says buy headphone cheapskate.


So I can plug them in to the work-mandated non-existant audio card? I'll get right on that.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:40 • by Zecc
Pardon my ignorance, but what's deal with the motherboards?

Captcha: asdf fd sa df a sd fa fdsfa sdafs

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:47 • by Robot Voice (unregistered)
220024 in reply to 220023
Zecc:
Pardon my ignorance, but what's deal with the motherboards?

I think it is the text in red: "Comprehend" and "highly low" - sounds like it was translated by one of those "sorry me Engrish bad" people.

All of which I tried to summarize for those readers who needed help, but fuffuf didn't think that was necessary any more. KTHXBYE.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:50 • by pho (unregistered)
220025 in reply to 220015
Anon Ymous:
What's the MP3 say? (No audio at work)


In all it's over-the-phone female computer voice glory:

Your application is having a problem
The event error.badsuch (??) was caught with message
err fetching document http 172.21.225.90:8080/lenoxupgrade_6/sart?trace=true
Since no event handler was found, the application is exiting

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:55 • by Custard (unregistered)
WTF - They didn't use Lorem Ipsum?

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:55 • by Robajob
Ethics? The plathe jutht north-eatht of London?

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 08:58 • by Nerf Herder (unregistered)
220030 in reply to 220027
Custard:
WTF - They didn't use Lorem Ipsum?


People have no standards any more when making things up. Probably some punk 22 year old kid. We'll have to learn him a thing or 2!

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:03 • by Zecc
220032 in reply to 220024
Robot Voice:
I think it is the text in red: "Comprehend" and "highly low" - sounds like it was translated by one of those "sorry me Engrish bad" people.
Yeah, I noticed the "highly low". "Comprehend" sounds good, marketing-wise.
I just thought there might be something more in there, that I might be missing.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:06 • by Jobarob (unregistered)
220033 in reply to 220028
Robajob:
Ethics? The plathe jutht north-eatht of London?

That'h Ethicth, you inthenthitive clod!

(And what doeth thith have to do wis anysing?)

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:15 • by Jobarob (unregistered)
220034 in reply to 220032
Zecc:
"Comprehend" sounds good, marketing-wise.
I just thought there might be something more in there, that I might be missing.

There is. Many of us, beyond oh say age 2, are working on combining good words into good sentences. But this is admittedly difficult for marketdroids, and twice as much trouble for marketdroids who just learned English in a night class last month.

If you're going to get excited by big positive words like "comprehend onboard CPU" then you really ought to go for "strategic synergistic alliance fries with that?"

"Business ethics" ...

2008-09-30 09:16 • by DaveK
... now there's a FILE_NOT_FOUND if ever I saw one.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:17 • by Code Dependent
The first pictured motherboard is definitely the cooler one.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:20 • by Yep (unregistered)
220037 in reply to 220027
Custard:
WTF - They didn't use Lorem Ipsum?


That was my thought. Seriously, a few lines of "asdf asdf asdf asdf" is not enough to really see how content is going to fill out the page. L2 have some professionalism imo.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:28 • by Old Coder (unregistered)
I wonder... does that drop-down list of languages include Klingon? Their business ethics ought to be interesting!

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:30 • by Keithius (unregistered)
220041 in reply to 220034
If you're going to get excited by big positive words like "comprehend onboard CPU" then you really ought to go for "strategic synergistic alliance fries with that?"


That is great - I nearly spewed coffee all over my monitor when I read it.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:33 • by Code Dependent
220042 in reply to 220024
Robot Voice:
- sounds like it was translated by one of those "sorry me Engrish bad" people.
The actual quote, from the movie "Blind Date" (Kim Bassinger, Bruce Willis), is, "I no speak good Engrish! I no speak good Engrish!"

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:38 • by B. Young (unregistered)
220044 in reply to 220019
fuffuf:
Robot Voice:
Comprehend highly low cost comment, use the comment text best suited for your cause. Don't pop this!

Translate to Egyptian (Ancient)? Yes, OK, File not found.


I see what you did there.

Only it's growing a bit stale now...
I speak only "Reformed Egyptian", like Joseph Smith.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:39 • by BobB (unregistered)
Olde English Ethics:

1.) Thine neighbor in the vast fields of Cubica doth enjoy the purloining of an occasional mechanical writing utensils and a mechanical paper fastner of the colour Crimson. Upon witnessing this grievance offense to thine Employer most Holy, dost thou:

A - Notify thine saintly neighbors of Cubica and form thou a respectable mob to force the catpurse from the realm.

B - Deal with the vagrant on thine own time, running him through at the most earliest of convenience to thee.

C - Ignorith the rogue, for thou dost know that thine own behavior is superior and thus making thee immune to future inquiry.

D - The criminal in suspect is actually mine boss, thus I should hope that he should so forth grace me in the future with the permanent borrowing of mine office equipment.

E - Twas no one in the office, twas demons stole the supplies!

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:40 • by RiF (unregistered)
220046 in reply to 220040
Old Coder:
I wonder... does that drop-down list of languages include Klingon? Their business ethics ought to be interesting!

"Yes, yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes, ah, ah, wind smear!"

(nobody's going to get this reference)

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:44 • by Not Dorothy (unregistered)
220047 in reply to 220040
Old Coder:
I wonder... does that drop-down list of languages include Klingon? Their business ethics ought to be interesting!


If you want the serious money you want the Ferengi version.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:46 • by Vroomfundel (unregistered)
220048 in reply to 220020
Actually there's no such thing like modern Egyptian.

Nowadays they speak Arabic in Egypt, I guess they just got pissed off from drawing pictures of birds and pyramids.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 09:49 • by MRAB (unregistered)
220049 in reply to 220040
Old Coder:
I wonder... does that drop-down list of languages include Klingon? Their business ethics ought to be interesting!


Or Ferengi?

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 10:06 • by fmobus (unregistered)
the joke first on the first motherboard shot is the "daughter board".

captcha: captcha

this is getting recursive, eh?

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 10:27 • by Walleye
220052 in reply to 220044
B. Young:
fuffuf:
Robot Voice:
Comprehend highly low cost comment, use the comment text best suited for your cause. Don't pop this!

Translate to Egyptian (Ancient)? Yes, OK, File not found.


I see what you did there.

Only it's growing a bit stale now...
I speak only "Reformed Egyptian", like Joseph Smith.


So the only phrase in your entire language is "Pay Lay Ale"?

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 10:35 • by Daedalus (unregistered)
220053 in reply to 220042
THAT'S where that term comes from!
I always wondered.

BobB:
Olde English Ethics:

1.) Thine neighbor in the vast fields of Cubica doth enjoy the purloining of an occasional mechanical writing utensils and a mechanical paper fastner of the colour Crimson. Upon witnessing this grievance offense to thine Employer most Holy, dost thou:

A - Notify thine saintly neighbors of Cubica and form thou a respectable mob to force the catpurse from the realm.

B - Deal with the vagrant on thine own time, running him through at the most earliest of convenience to thee.

C - Ignorith the rogue, for thou dost know that thine own behavior is superior and thus making thee immune to future inquiry.

D - The criminal in suspect is actually mine boss, thus I should hope that he should so forth grace me in the future with the permanent borrowing of mine office equipment.

E - Twas no one in the office, twas demons stole the supplies!

That's Elizabethan, which is technically part of modern English.
Beowulf is in Old English. The Canterbury Tales are Middle English.
from Wikipedia:

450–1100 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) – The language of Beowulf.

1100–1500 Middle English – The language of Chaucer.

1500–1650 Early Modern English (or Renaissance English) – The language of Shakespeare.

1650–present Modern English (or Present-Day English) – The language as spoken today.
[/nitpick]
CAPTCHA: wysiwyg
...okay, just wisi.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 10:36 • by Daedalus (unregistered)
220054 in reply to 220053
Sorry, I meant "That's where the term Engrish comes from!"
CAPTCHA: ingenium.
Now use that in a sentence.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 10:39 • by BobB (unregistered)
220055 in reply to 220053
Daedalus:
THAT'S where that term comes from!
I always wondered.

That's Elizabethan, which is technically part of modern English.
Beowulf is in Old English. The Canterbury Tales are Middle English.
from Wikipedia:

450–1100 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) – The language of Beowulf.

1100–1500 Middle English – The language of Chaucer.

1500–1650 Early Modern English (or Renaissance English) – The language of Shakespeare.

1650–present Modern English (or Present-Day English) – The language as spoken today.
[/nitpick]
CAPTCHA: wysiwyg
...okay, just wisi.

I didn't bother going much beyond Modern English because from what I can recall from college, Middle English is taxing on the brain and for me honest to goodness Old English was a mental nightmare. I do love a good nitpick tho! Thanks!

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 10:40 • by Code Dependent
220056 in reply to 220054
Daedalus:
CAPTCHA: ingenium.
Now use that in a sentence.
How about a definition?

ingenium: the state of condition of having vast magical powers, but being confined inside a bottle or lamp.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 10:40 • by Qvasi (unregistered)
I guess someone copied a list of languages or language codes for known languages instead of using a more reasonable list of "living" languages

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 10:51 • by dgvid
220058 in reply to 220040
Old Coder:
I wonder... does that drop-down list of languages include Klingon? Their business ethics ought to be interesting!

Better than that, the Ancient Egyptian course is taught by a former Goa'uld System Lord. Highly focused on making your competitors kneel before you, making your suppliers kneel before, making your customers kneel before you, etc.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 10:51 • by akatherder
The worst part about the "dog eats man" headline is that it is a true story.

http://www.nbc10.com/news/3378490/detail.html

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 10:55 • by memals (unregistered)
220060 in reply to 220025
the real wtf (on the previous comment) is that the poster has never heard of Linux and the many ways of pronouncing it.
err fetching document http 172.21.225.90:8080/LENOXupgrade_6/sart?trace=true
capature: validus (WTF!)

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 10:56 • by thedave (unregistered)
Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum!

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 11:08 • by JD (unregistered)
Daedalus:
450–1100 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) – The language of Beowulf.

1100–1500 Middle English – The language of Chaucer.

1500–1650 Early Modern English (or Renaissance English) – The language of Shakespeare.

1650–present Modern English (or Present-Day English) – The verbal diarrhoea that spews out the mouths of today's idiotic and uneducated masses.


Ef tee ef you, as they say.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 11:10 • by TopCod3r
The MP3 is a standard VoiceXML error message, when the VoiceXML file could not be found. VoiceXML is a fairly easy to use IVR technology, that makes an HTTP request and processes the output to determine what to say to you over the phone. I don't know how much of a WTF this is, other than any other error message you might get from an application. The developer cannot control this message, it is part of the platform.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 11:12 • by me (unregistered)
"Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan hinase hic enda thu uuat unbidan uue nu."
Is this old dutch, old english or old kentish?

Captcha: luctus
Isn't that a Harry Potter spell?

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 11:41 • by Quentin (unregistered)
220082 in reply to 220045
That may be the funniest thing I've read this week - you win

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 12:40 • by SlyEcho
220104 in reply to 220045
BobB:
Olde English Ethics:

Thine neighbor ... thine saintly neighbors ... thine own time ... thine own ... mine boss ... mine office equipment ...



Do you know the difference between "thine" and "thy"? Same thing with "mine" and "my".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_personal_pronouns#My_and_mine.2C_thy_and_thine

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 12:41 • by MustBeUsersFault
It's Shaudan ( at least she sounds like her ).
She is alive.
Look at you hackers !
Pathetic insects.
Finally System Shock 3 ?

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 13:19 • by Code Dependent
220115 in reply to 220104
SlyEcho:
Do you know the difference between "thine" and "thy"? Same thing with "mine" and "my".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_personal_pronouns#My_and_mine.2C_thy_and_thine
Thank you. It's like fingernails on a blackboard to see someone trying to do old English without a clue. Worse when others with the same clueCount think they're being clever.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 14:18 • by jtl (unregistered)
220138 in reply to 220045
F- Moveth they statione unto deep basement, assist felines in rat pursuance.

G- Ignite castle.

H- Prepareth potion which containeth fermented cacti extracte and sea salte. Imbibe on waterfronte.

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 14:38 • by LEGO (unregistered)
220143 in reply to 220052
Walleye:
B. Young:
fuffuf:
Robot Voice:
Comprehend highly low cost comment, use the comment text best suited for your cause. Don't pop this!

Translate to Egyptian (Ancient)? Yes, OK, File not found.


I see what you did there.

Only it's growing a bit stale now...
I speak only "Reformed Egyptian", like Joseph Smith.



So the only phrase in your entire language is "Pay Lay Ale"?


Written instructions for a brothel? In that order?

Re: dog eats man

2008-09-30 14:58 • by operagost
220146 in reply to 220033
Jobarob:
Robajob:
Ethics? The plathe jutht north-eatht of London?

That'h Ethicth, you inthenthitive clod!

(And what doeth thith have to do wis anysing?)

Perfect Middle English!
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