• Wonk (unregistered)

    Can haz real text.

  • (cs)

    I call bollocks on the motel. The text is all the way to the very edge. That doesn't look like a computer monitor at all. It's more like someone had a blue sign printed like that. (Or I wouldn't discount GIMPing it in.)

  • (cs)

    "Submit" is not an applicable method for some of the selected posts. Would you like to "Delete" them instead?

  • (cs)

    Is that a floodlight pointed up towards the sign?

  • (cs)

    Is that a real sign? Look photoshoped to me.

  • Dan (unregistered)

    That HP one is barely a WTF - really just an example of poor radio button labels.

  • (cs)

    Pigeon Forge really is hell. Did you know Dolly Parton has her own theme park there?

  • Nathan (unregistered)

    Bullshit on the monitor; corners are too neat.

  • (cs)

    I agree, the motel sign looks very fake.

  • (cs)

    Buy blank texts from Wendy's for $0.00 each Sell blank texts over the internet for $0.01 each (plus shipping and handling) infinite moneys In fact, I think I'll start right now " " U jelly?

  • Neville Flynn (unregistered)

    I think that sign is plausible enough. Think of all the edge-to-edge electronic displays you've probably seen before. Combine that with a brilliant blue background and it really pops out as if it were photoshopped.

    A problem has been to your perception

  • Callin (unregistered)

    I love the smell of Blank Text in the morning.

  • Xenon Xavior (unregistered) in reply to Shoruke
    Shoruke:
    Buy blank texts from Wendy's for $0.00 each Sell blank texts over the internet for $0.01 each (plus shipping and handling) infinite moneys In fact, I think I'll start right now " " U jelly?

    I've already tried this with McDonald's free smiles. The overhead on delivering so many smiles is just too high.

  • jdw (unregistered) in reply to Neville Flynn
    Neville Flynn:
    I think that sign is plausible enough. Think of all the edge-to-edge electronic displays you've probably seen before. Combine that with a brilliant blue background and it really pops out as if it were photoshopped.

    A problem has been to your perception

    I dunno. It's just a cropped BSoD. Makes me kinda suspicious.

  • AP² (unregistered) in reply to Shoruke
    Shoruke:
    Buy blank texts from Wendy's for $0.00 each Sell blank texts over the internet for $0.01 each (plus shipping and handling) infinite moneys In fact, I think I'll start right now " " U jelly?

    Well, you're cheaper than this guy.

  • (cs)

    I think the Avira AV one translates as "Up-down Up-down Up-down A B"

  • (cs) in reply to GoatRider
    GoatRider:
    I think the Avira AV one translates as "Up-down Up-down Up-down A B"
    Nice try, but that cheat code was actually Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Select Start.
  • jrh (unregistered) in reply to GoatRider

    The sign stuck me as fake too, I cant remember seeing a screen that displays all the way to the edge like that. And usually when something is zoomed way in that that it shows the top left, but I guess that could be the center of the screen.

    If it was shopped, at least they put the effort into having the wires go in front of the screen instead of disappearing "behind" it.

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    GoatRider:
    I think the Avira AV one translates as "Up-down Up-down Up-down A B"
    Nice try, but that cheat code was actually Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Select Start.

    YES! Go Contra! That game was/is AWSOME!

  • ÃÆâ€℠(unregistered)

    A problem has been to your computer... All your base are belong to us!

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    hoodaticus:
    GoatRider:
    I think the Avira AV one translates as "Up-down Up-down Up-down A B"
    Nice try, but that cheat code was actually Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Select Start.

    YES! Go Contra! That game was/is AWSOME!

    Oh, except it was A B A B, not B A B A... I'll let this one slide, but next slip-up and we'll have to suspend your geek membership card.

  • rd (unregistered) in reply to Wonk

    plz send me teh real textez.

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    C-Octothorpe:
    hoodaticus:
    GoatRider:
    I think the Avira AV one translates as "Up-down Up-down Up-down A B"
    Nice try, but that cheat code was actually Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Select Start.

    YES! Go Contra! That game was/is AWSOME!

    Oh, except it was A B A B, not B A B A... I'll let this one slide, but next slip-up and we'll have to suspend your geek membership card.

    According to Wikipedia: ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A

    You're ALL WRONG I tell you!

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe

    TRWTF is that Community Server won't let me delete this double post.

  • ÃÆâ€℠(unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    C-Octothorpe:
    hoodaticus:
    GoatRider:
    I think the Avira AV one translates as "Up-down Up-down Up-down A B"
    Nice try, but that cheat code was actually Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Select Start.

    YES! Go Contra! That game was/is AWSOME!

    Oh, except it was A B A B, not B A B A... I'll let this one slide, but next slip-up and we'll have to suspend your geek membership card.

    Educate yourself, dumbass.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to ÃÆâ€â„Â
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    C-Octothorpe:
    C-Octothorpe:
    hoodaticus:
    GoatRider:
    I think the Avira AV one translates as "Up-down Up-down Up-down A B"
    Nice try, but that cheat code was actually Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Select Start.

    YES! Go Contra! That game was/is AWSOME!

    Oh, except it was A B A B, not B A B A... I'll let this one slide, but next slip-up and we'll have to suspend your geek membership card.

    Educate yourself, dumbass.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code

    My god, you're right! How could I have not "educated" myself on something I haven't touched or thought about for about 20 years now... Geeze, I should just go kill myself...

    Psst, fuck off and lighten up douchebag.

  • BentFranklin (unregistered)

    Zooming into the motel pic very tightly reveals no evidence of 'shoppery. Those wires would be a real PIA to do and would look terrible up close.

    The actual error message is "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer."

    Why it's zoomed in so far is beyond me, but it's also consistent with the 8x5 font you sometimes see.

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to BentFranklin

    Zoomed in makes sense - these kind of displays have low resolutions - 128 pixels by 32 if you're lucky - they're designed to be readable from far away and big, rather than showing fine detail. It's not a TV hung outside, it's one of those large electronic billboard signs that do graphics and such.

    But I admit, it looks really fake. More pics would be nice.

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
    How could I have not "educated" myself on something I haven't touched or thought about for about 20 years now... Geeze, I should just go kill myself...
    Not yet, you haven't entered the code!
  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    C-Octothorpe:
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
    How could I have not "educated" myself on something I haven't touched or thought about for about 20 years now... Geeze, I should just go kill myself...
    Not yet, you haven't entered the code!

    ba-dum-chh!

    nice...

  • (cs) in reply to Worf
    Worf:
    Zoomed in makes sense - these kind of displays have low resolutions - 128 pixels by 32 if you're lucky - they're designed to be readable from far away and big, rather than showing fine detail. It's not a TV hung outside, it's one of those large electronic billboard signs that do graphics and such. But I admit, it looks really fake. More pics would be nice.
    It doesn't have to be a display. It could be a mis-printed sign, created by some shoddy sign printing software. Of course, to grab a BSOD it couldn't be running on the machine... I've got it! The sign-printing software runs on a specialized device that takes a VGA input from a splitter carrying the monitor output from the "working" computer. It crops a certain area out (which would normally be indicated by the companion software you use on the working computer) and prints that. So if you get a BSOD, it doesn't know and just prints what it gets. Additionally, the people using this software and the people hanging up the sign get paid too little to care about things that look wrong, so they follow the directions to the letter, and viola! A combined software and process WTF is born.
  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to jrh
    jrh:
    The sign stuck me as fake too, I cant remember seeing a screen that displays all the way to the edge like that. And usually when something is zoomed way in that that it shows the top left, but I guess that could be the center of the screen.

    If it was shopped, at least they put the effort into having the wires go in front of the screen instead of disappearing "behind" it.

    That is the top left:

    http://www.techerator.com/wp-content/uploads/hp-bsod.jpg

  • bronzdragon (unregistered) in reply to Shoruke

    Dear "the man",

    I have received one of your blank texts (enclosed here: "[ ]"), but I was dissatisfied with it's quality. I've since started manufacturing my own blank texts, and I plan on mass production very soon. Everyone will have all the blank text they would ever need, and you will have no-one to sell it to.

    Regards, your rival

  • (cs) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    Pigeon Forge really is hell. Did you know Dolly Parton has her own theme park there?

    Birdwatcher's paradise. Look at tits all day.

  • ÃÆâ€℠(unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    C-Octothorpe:
    C-Octothorpe:
    hoodaticus:
    GoatRider:
    I think the Avira AV one translates as "Up-down Up-down Up-down A B"
    Nice try, but that cheat code was actually Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Select Start.

    YES! Go Contra! That game was/is AWSOME!

    Oh, except it was A B A B, not B A B A... I'll let this one slide, but next slip-up and we'll have to suspend your geek membership card.

    Educate yourself, dumbass.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code

    My god, you're right! How could I have not "educated" myself on something I haven't touched or thought about for about 20 years now... Geeze, I should just go kill myself...

    Psst, fuck off and lighten up douchebag.

    I could've said the same about you when you miscorrected hoodaticus. Take that geek card and shove it

  • (cs) in reply to Zolcos
    Zolcos:
    Worf:
    Zoomed in makes sense - these kind of displays have low resolutions - 128 pixels by 32 if you're lucky - they're designed to be readable from far away and big, rather than showing fine detail. It's not a TV hung outside, it's one of those large electronic billboard signs that do graphics and such. But I admit, it looks really fake. More pics would be nice.
    It doesn't have to be a display. It could be a mis-printed sign, created by some shoddy sign printing software. Of course, to grab a BSOD it couldn't be running on the machine... I've got it! The sign-printing software runs on a specialized device that takes a VGA input from a splitter carrying the monitor output from the "working" computer. It crops a certain area out (which would normally be indicated by the companion software you use on the working computer) and prints that. So if you get a BSOD, it doesn't know and just prints what it gets. Additionally, the people using this software and the people hanging up the sign get paid too little to care about things that look wrong, so they follow the directions to the letter, and viola! A combined software and process WTF is born.

    How do you suddenly manage to get one of those stringed instruments a bit like a violin but bigger?

  • (cs)
    A problem has been to your computer

    Oh, it was just visiting? Well, that's fine.

    Edit: Also, the real WTF is still using Comodo after last month...

  • Tim (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    GoatRider:
    I think the Avira AV one translates as "Up-down Up-down Up-down A B"
    Nice try, but that cheat code was actually Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Select Start.

    It's actually just Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A

    The second B A is superfluous, Start starts the game, and Select is only for people who actually had friends to play with, as it selects 2 player mode.

  • Ralph (unregistered)

    That "can we have real text" line just screams Project Manager -- the most useless overrated selfimportant job on Earth! Their negative-value-add function is to tie up developers in endless meetings where they say "can we have" over and over when they really mean "would you do". Because Project Managers never do anything themselves.

    In fact I'm amazed one went so far as to figure out how to type their "can we have" question into the message area.

    Too bad while she (98.3% of them are female, and the rest are postop trannies) was there she didn't go ahead and put the "real text" there, since it is likely her job to gather that requirement. Not that they ever do.

    Useless, I tell you. Completely useless. Worse than useless. WTF.

  • Wonk (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    That "can we have real text" line just screams Project Manager -- the most useless overrated selfimportant job on Earth! Their negative-value-add function is to tie up developers in endless meetings where they say "can we have" over and over when they really mean "would you do". Because Project Managers never do anything themselves.

    In fact I'm amazed one went so far as to figure out how to type their "can we have" question into the message area.

    Too bad while she (98.3% of them are female, and the rest are postop trannies) was there she didn't go ahead and put the "real text" there, since it is likely her job to gather that requirement. Not that they ever do.

    Useless, I tell you. Completely useless. Worse than useless. WTF.

    So.... She didn't want to go out for coffee and sex, eh?

  • Ralph (unregistered)

    Nice try, but I don't even like coffee.

    And I haven't attempted sex with a postop trannie... but if I did, I'm sure all she would do is keep saying "So, when will you be done?" every 30 seconds or so.

  • (cs)
    "somehow I don't think 'disinfect' is close enough to 'report as false alert' to be a suitable replacement"

    I saw a "suitable" default like this once, years ago, when we still had to routinely defragment disks. Doing that was referred to as a "CONDENSE ALL". It was rahther slow, requiring 45 minutes, and the system was unusable for timesharing for the entire period.

    There was this other cool command you could use (I thought) to report free space on a volume. This is an approximation of my command sequence.

        > FREESPC 1
    FREESPC CAN ONLY BE USED ON A PRIVATE VOLUME.
    ASSUMING YOU MEANT "CONDENSE 1,ALL".

    [head bangs desk] ...and during the busy hour, too...

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Shoruke

    Does 4chan even invade thedailywtf? God dammit.

  • (cs) in reply to Neville Flynn
    Neville Flynn:
    A problem has been to your perception
    Well I just accidentally the whole thing anyway
  • (cs) in reply to bronzdragon
    bronzdragon:
    Dear "the man",

    I have received one of your blank texts (enclosed here: "[ ]"), but I was dissatisfied with it's quality. I've since started manufacturing my own blank texts, and I plan on mass production very soon. Everyone will have all the blank text they would ever need, and you will have no-one to sell it to.

    Regards, your rival

    ***CEASE AND DESIST NOTICE***

    My client observes that you are attempting to charge money for doing nothing, which has been a patented business method of my client's for some years now.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Does 4chan even invade thedailywtf? God dammit.
    We've had a little visitation or two but since we're generally pretty trollish too it only resulted in a no-score draw.
  • (cs) in reply to ÃÆâ€â„Â
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    Take that geek card and shove it

    I want this on a t-shirt.

    [image]

    (No offense to Inedo.)

  • Chuck (unregistered)

    This is an example of a witty, funny comment - can we have real text for go-live!

  • sage (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    implying we are not everywhere...

  • (cs)

    A problem has been to my computer... and lived to tell about it!

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